“The Taiwanese company, the world’s largest maker of smartphones that use Google’s Android mobile operating system, including the Nexus One, has been building mobile devices including smartphones for 13 years, ‘and so HTC is not only a mobile technology innovator, [we] also hold a large number of patents,’ the company said in a filing to the Taiwan Stock Exchange,” Nystedt reports.
MacDailyNews Take: A “large number of patents” that aren’t the ones in question. Some defense.
Nystedt continues, “HTC will work with the US justice system to protect its own innovations and rights, it said, adding that it does not believe the Apple lawsuit poses a threat to its business in the short-term.”
MacDailyNews Take: And long-term?
Nystedt continues, “Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit Tuesday in the US against HTC, claiming that the Taiwanese company is infringing 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The immediate impact of the suit was to send HTC stock down 2%, or NT$6.5, to close at NT$323.5 (NZ$14.50) on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Apple’s filing includes smartphones from HTC that use Google’s Android OS as well as some that run Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: HTC, like Microsoft, doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “innovation” or what it means to “innovate.” If HTC were “innovators,” they’d create their own OS, not use a half-assed knockoff from a creepy mole who used to slink around Apple’s boardroom when he wasn’t trying to hush up at least one of his reputed extra-marital affairs.
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