“The Android smartphone operating system is a very important asset for Google Inc, but it is not critical, the company’s chief executive officer said in courtroom testimony,” Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic report for Reuters.
“Google CEO Larry Page took the stand for a second day on Wednesday in a high-stakes legal dispute with Oracle Corp over smartphone technology,” Levine and Oreskovic report. “Under questioning from Oracle’s lawyer, Page said Android was very important, but disputed the notion that it was critical.”
MacDailyNews Take: Surely that little admission will make the settlers even more comfortable with their pretend iPhones.
Levine and Oreskovic report, “The Google co-founder, dressed in a gray suit and wearing a tie, said that the Internet search giant moved to create its own smartphone software seven years ago because the technology at the time made it difficult for consumers to use its online services on mobile phones. ‘We’d been really frustrated in getting our technology out to people,’ Page said.”
MacDailyNews Take: You had it already, dummy. You were on the winning team. There was no need for you to cobble together your own pickup team and start cheating.
When, if ever, will you realize that you’re not even in the same league?
Levine and Oreskovic report, “Asked if he could cite an example of a company besides Google that uses Java’s application programming interface technologies but had not taken a license from Sun or Oracle, Page said he ‘was not an expert’ on the matter… Page also said he was not aware of Google’s policies on the copying of the intellectual property of other companies. However, he said Google did nothing wrong. ‘We were very careful about what information we used and what we did not use,’ Page said.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: In the interest of finally making Larry Page aware: Here is what Android looked like several months after Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone, but before Google could fully rev up their photocopiers and switch from trying to clone BlackBerry phones to knocking off iPhones.
“Google’s going to rue the day they got greedy by deciding to try to work against Apple instead of with them.” – MacDailyNews Take, March 09, 2010
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Sounds like he’s preparing to lose, so he can say they didn’t really care about it anyway.
+1 Prophetic
Saving his own face while throwing Android and its staff to the wolves. Great CEO behavior. 😛
Page also said he was not aware of Google’s policies on the copying of the intellectual property of other companies. However, he said Google did nothing wrong. ‘We were very careful about what information we used and what we did not use,’ Page said.”
And this guy is the CEO? They gotta be kidding.
Exactly.
By saying Google did nothing “wrong” that could mean Google didn’t make any mistakes in writing the code. It’s like a thief saying: “I didn’t do anything during WRONG in the robbery. It went off perfectly.”
Also, by Google saying: “We were very careful about what information we used and what we did not use.” Again, it could mean that Google only selected the coding that Google needed and nothing extraneous or superfluous.
Me thinks Mr. Page speaks with forked tongue.
Sounds like
I did not know the school had a policy on plagiarizing. I was very careful what information i used and didn’t use from someone else’s book report.
Same as
I was careful what I stole and did not steal
Regasrding the MacDailyNewsTake:
It’s not important that they worked with Apple. It’s important that they didn’t sterol from Apple (or Oracle, as the case may be). It’s hard to believe that this case has me actually pulling for Larry Ellison
Oh man, that is a classic for the Autocorrect Hall of Oopsy!
“Page also said he was not aware of Google’s policies on the copying of the intellectual property of other companies”
… and I didn’t think to take the ten minutes required to find out what our “copying policies” are before appearing before this court – I am basically like a, you know, slacker CEO, ya know?
I’m sure business customers will be heartened to hear that the Android phones their sales people carry are not deemed critical by the OS vendor.
The word google make me sick.
The word google means ‘baby vomit.’
:-Q*******
‘DAMN! Take the baby away before he googles on me!!!’ 😥
Projectile googling.
Apple should just end this and install an ‘ad block’ extension in mobile Safari. That would shut Google up pretty quick.
Even Chrome is webkit from Apple. What a lame, shame.
This case continues to get interesting…. Since when does it matter if something is important to your business or not as it relates to if you stole the IP or not?
Seems to me if you stole the IP, copied it, did not license it and generated, and continue to generate, income from it, you owe someone for that. Every device that uses Andriod is now on the table. Oracle takes out Google, Google does not protect its Android hardware manufactures, Oracle goes after hardware manufactures. Mind you this does not only include mobile devices, it could easily require hardware fees for any type of consumer or commercial device that uses Android.
Then the question… does Oracle go after well known App developers that use Android? I don’t know what the limitations are and how far the violation of IP can go. Or does Oracle look at the entire Android eco system and assess a fee to Google to cover all hardware and software to date with some amount per device going forward?
If it’s not vital, then just gut the Java APIs and source code from Android. What’s the big deal, Larry? Or you could just “pull a Google” and send Android to the same watery grave as Google Wave, Buzz, Dodgeball, etc. By your own admission, it’s not like you’re making any money off it. So what’s the problem?
He is steal something important from someone he admire, then deem is as unimportant for him. What kind of man is he?
It sounds like Larry is about as adept at giving honest testimony as Bill Gates was.
I watched Eric T. Mole LIE to a US Senate committee last summer. Deceit runs in the family. 😯
Asked if he could cite an example of a company besides Google that uses Java’s application programming interface technologies but had not taken a license from Sun or Oracle…
That USED to be the case with Microsoft and their excremental J++ ripoff programming language but OOPS! Microsoft got their ass sued off by Sun Microsystems, the inventors of Java. You were around then Larry, weren’t you. Apparently, learning from history is too difficult a concept for you, isn’t it Larry. 😛
No more biznizz as usual for Larry and his pirate crew. Arr! A pirate’s life be hard me hearties!
“All we did was Google ‘iPhone’ and ‘Oracle’. The result was Android. What’s the harm in that?”