“Steve Jobs’ legacy at Apple Inc. goes well beyond cool gadgets, a thriving retail chain and a media content empire,” David Sarno reports for The Chicago Tribune. “He also launched the company’s all-out legal war on Google Inc.”
“The campaign is rooted in Jobs’ belief that Google and mobile device manufacturers that use its Android software copied key design and technology features from Apple’s iPhone and iPad,” Sarno reports. “‘I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this,’ Jobs told author Walter Isaacson for his recently released biography. ‘I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product.'”
“Victories by Apple would enable it to extract hefty ransoms from any phone-maker that uses Apple-like technology, or to force its rivals to water down or remove popular features from their smartphones, including screens that respond to multiple finger touches, the graphical display of text messages, and the way users send email and browse the Internet,” Sarno reports. “That type of technological rollback, analysts and patent attorneys say, could demolish much of Google’s recent success in the $160 billion smartphone market, and give Apple an unparalleled advantage in the industry.”
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“That type of technological rollback, analysts and patent attorneys say, could demolish much of Google’s recent success in the $160 billion smartphone market, and give Apple an unparalleled advantage in the industry.”
Now that would be nice to see.
Do you trust the guy you meet for the first time who’s first words out of his mouth are “trust me!”? Of course not!
Now, what about the company that has as it’s motto “Don’t be evil”?
motto?, its more of a suggestion
Google’s succes in the smart phone industry involves simply giving away its operating system to anyone who will use it. The use of its search engine on phones barely breaks even with the cost of development/copying google puts into it’s OS. Sucess in number of give aways is not a measure of business success.
Schmidt, your days are numbered
“They’ll have to compete with lower-priced devices with essentially the same features coming out of China and other places.”
Been there. Done that.
That “could demolish much of Google’s recent success in the $160 billion smartphone market, and give Apple an unparalleled advantage in the industry.”
You mean when you innovate rather than just copy, you are suppose to get an unparalleled advantage?!?!?
Click bate rule #1 . . .
It doesn’t matter that Steve Jobs is dead, find some way to get his name in the story as many times as you can!
“…force its rivals to water down or remove popular features …”
Or just innovate your own fucking features. Google is always talking about how innovative they can be. How about they show some of that innovation instead of just blowing smoke.