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Big Android versus M$ and Apple fight

LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
edited 2011-08-06 11:28 in General Discussion
It appears that M$ and Apple think they can buy market control via a legal battle.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/faster-forward/post/google-microsoft-apple-in-an-organized-campaign-against-android/2011/08/04/gIQATu2ztI_blog.html

Of course, the customer suffers. When are these guys going to be subject to Anit-trust laws?

Comments

  • Paul Sr.Paul Sr. Posts: 435
    edited 2011-08-04 09:28
    Just another chapter in "Let's watch the Greedy Ba$tards take over and destroy America"........
  • bill190bill190 Posts: 769
    edited 2011-08-05 06:58
    So let's follow this through...

    Say M$ successfully wrecks Android via strong arm tactics...

    Who are they going to tick off? A lot of very young consumers!

    And how will all those young consumers feel about buying M$ products in the future?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-08-05 07:10
    Some of us old consumers have never bought MS products for exactly this kind of reason.
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited 2011-08-05 07:19
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    Of course, the customer suffers. When are these guys going to be subject to Anit-trust laws?

    Laws only have power if someone is willing or rich enough to enforce them. So if a legal battle is going to take 3 years then a company is only going to fight it if it is financially viable.
  • Paul Sr.Paul Sr. Posts: 435
    edited 2011-08-05 09:04
    Chuckz wrote: »
    Laws only have power if someone is willing or rich enough to enforce them. So if a legal battle is going to take 3 years then a company is only going to fight it if it is financially viable.

    And in this case, the "someone rich enough" are the ones responsible for it!!
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited 2011-08-05 09:08
    Paul Sr. wrote: »
    And in this case, the "someone rich enough" are the ones responsible for it!!

    A rich company could get the Justice Department to look into it but its like when I called my member of congress and they said, "We don't work for free."
  • RossHRossH Posts: 5,519
    edited 2011-08-05 20:23
    Chuckz wrote: »
    A rich company could get the Justice Department to look into it but its like when I called my member of congress and they said, "We don't work for free."

    LOL! You're so lucky in the US - you have the best politicians money can buy!

    Ross.
  • wjsteelewjsteele Posts: 697
    edited 2011-08-06 11:28
    So, you do realize that Google is just blowing smoke, right? MS called Google up first to see if they wanted to go jointly in on those old patents. Google declined. That doesn't sound to me like MS is ganging up on anyone... they're simply trying to cover their rears against these same patents. If Google had joined Apple and MS, then all three of them would own the patents in question and the legal battles over these very same patents would never exist.

    A patent owner MUST defend the patents, otherwise their investments (whether financial or intellectual) would be wasted, plain and simple. If Google's OS is violating those patents, then they have the right to sue them. (I'm not defending the valadity of software patents... that's a whole different argument... but I am defending the patent system as a whole.)

    It seems to me that Google made a stupid mistake not going in with the others on the purchase.

    Bill
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