“HTC Corp has begun testing new phone models that work around technology cited in a patent lawsuit won by arch-rival Apple Inc, and HTC’s chief executive voiced optimism over the company’s ability to meet challenging market conditions,” Clare Jim reports for Reuters.
“Speaking to media at the company’s Taiwan headquarters on Wednesday alongside Google Inc’s senior vice president of mobile, Andy Rubin, CEO Peter Chou said that the company would be working with Google to protect itself from ‘unfair’ means to stop innovation,” Jim reports. “‘This industry should not allow one company use its powerful weapon to stop other innovation and take it all…this is not fair,’ Chou said, declining to elaborate on how the company would protect itself.”
MacDailyNews Note: “Unfair” is stealing another company’s innovations in order to line your own pockets, you greedy hypocrite.
Steve Jobs on Android: “It’s a stolen product.”
“The patent suit between HTC and Apple was widely seen as a proxy for a larger fight between Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iOS. Android phones dominate Apple in the Asia-Pacific region,” Jim reports. “The result, in which HTC was found to have infringed one of four patents Apple had centered its case on, leaves the way open for both camps to continue their competition in the courts.”
MacDailyNews Note: Ever notice how the thieves’ only real recourse is to scream “innovation?” Microsoft did it for years trying to protect their upside-down and backwards Mac OS knockoff. Now Google and those stuck loading Android into their pretend iPhones are doing it.
Chou expressed optimism [about HTC’s future], ‘There are a lot of challenges, always…what I’m confident about is that HTC has good people and a strong team, talented. At the same time we have a great partner to do this together.’ A devout Christian, he added: ‘Let God decide what’s the best.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: #7: Thou shalt not steal. Repent, sinner, or God has likely already decided HTC’s fate.
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Why do people think they have to proclaim to the world their religious delusions? I guess if it all turns out ok for Android it was because of god’s love for that OS.
The truly devout have read their bibles…
Matthew 6: “5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”
nice
HTC, being Chinese (ethnically), are more likely to be Buddhists.
May they be reincarnated as something despicable.
Hmm… smells a bit like the time MS ripped off Apple’s Quicktime code via having Apple’s partner, Canyon, to develop a video driver that would provide similar performance to QuickTime and accelerate Microsoft’s Video for Windows.
Apple investigated and found that Microsoft had simply stolen code from QuickTime in order to compete with QuickTime.
Google copies iPhone ‘look & feel’ to compete with Apple and releases Android. Just like Billy did with Windows.
No wonder Steve was so pissed; another trusted ‘partner’ rips off Apple IP to release a competing OS to run on commoditized hardware.
So ‘innovative’.
Hope HTC reviews ALL patents awarded to Apple’s iPhone, otherwise, we’ll find ourselves bck here reading the same story and writing the same post replies.
Oh, and btw, Chou *has* to feign incredulity over the decision.
Without a ‘proper’ OS, what else is HTC’s ‘smartphone’ but a nice, shiny paperweight? Everything that the iPhone wannabes have is tied up to Android or MS. Period. No OS, no ‘smartphone’. That’s it. That’s all they’ve got.
So, expect to hear a lot more ‘caterwauling’ from companies like HTC.
It’s gonna get interesting as Apple continues to defend its IP.
“to protect itself from ‘unfair’ means to stop innovation,””
Translation:
“to enable itself from “fair” means to stop copying”
They fail to see how Apple is HELPING HTC and Google by showing all what they (Apple) have created. This will allow Google and Android partners to see a problem and providing the kick in the arse to innovate. Other wise they will continue to sleep until Apple or another company adds a new feature. The should be thanking Apple for bulldozing them into the future.
”A devout Christian, he added: ‘Let God decide what’s the best.”
He already did – iOS!
“This industry should not allow one company use its powerful weapon to stop other innovation and take it all…this is not fair”
Copying someone’s IP as determined by a judge does NOT qualify as “innovation”.
In a Universe of multi billion galaxies, does anyone really believe God gives a rat’s ass about an Android knockoff???
WTH! You can’t say the name of the God if your products OS is stolen. You are i d i o t! You must be smoking good stuff huh!
Here, Here! Right on the money MDN, and as usual an inciteful and accurate assessment of HTC and others. ‘Thieves will never prosper’.