Comments on: HTC to ‘reevaluate’ S3 Graphics buyout after failed ITC attack vs. Apple

By: Scott in Japan

Scott in Japan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:17:07 +0000

Pitiful!

By: Jubei

Jubei — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:18:31 +0000

GOOD for you HTC! Haha

By: yow

yow — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:24:02 +0000

$300MM for a preliminary win over 3 patents in the ITC? Good grief.

Would it really get them that much leverage over AAPL in one market (a key market, admittedly — the US) — ?

I wonder what the kill fee is for this deal — certainly not something obscene like GOOG’s kill fee for MMI ($2.5B, I think). Paying the kill fee for HTC will be the best course for them (least amount of money wasted).

By: maccam

maccam — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:24:09 +0000

Your comment is juvenile and useless.

By: OpenMinde

OpenMinde — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:51:55 +0000

Those Samsung and HTC monkeys. Idiot. But then what can you expect out of monkey? Yellow banana?

By: KenC

KenC — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:43:38 +0000

Next thing they’ll buy Kodak instead, because their CEO thinks he can extort $1B from Apple and RIM.

By: iGads

iGads — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:41:43 +0000

I hope S3 had a back-out clause.

If so, that’s easy money.

Haha

By: surfslasher

surfslasher — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:34:15 +0000

the HTC board to their lawyers: “You are FIRED!”

By: disposableidentity

disposableidentity — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:23:03 +0000

Ouch. That $300,000,000 is going to take a lot of phone sales to off-set.

The corporate lawyers who endorsed the purchase have got to be feeling the heat.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:07:56 +0000

HTC’s implementation of Android isn’t the utter and complete iOS rip off that Samsung’s is. Out of the two the need to copy is most definitely not with HTC.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:57:39 +0000

HTC and Samsung, the need to copy must run very deep. They can’t seem to face a world that says you can’t copy and reap the benefits.