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On their last foot now...
âFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.â
--Mahatma Gandhi
Apple's HTC patent lawsuit is a bluff
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| Apple has good reasons to fear Android. In
| the three months from December to February,
| Android's US smartphone subscriber share
| shot up from 2.8 percent to 7.1 percent.
| Worldwide, in 2009, Android smartphone
| market share -- based on sales -- rose from
| 0.5 percent to 3.9 percent, according to
| Gartner (The first Android phone, the T-
| Mobile G1, shipped in late 2008). Last
| month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt asserted
| that 60,000 Android handsets are shipping
| by the day.
|
| All this circles back to my claim that the
| patent lawsuit is a bluff. My reasoning:
|
| 1) Apple chose HTC, not Google. There is no
| immediate risk to any patent claims against
| HTC. Since the real claims are against
| Google, Apple may find the court -- or even
| the ITC -- reluctant to rule against an
| Android licensee in good faith. There is
| perceived risk, but none in the short term,
| which is long enough for a united Android
| front to do market damage against iPhone --
| particularly in emerging markets.
|
| 2) Apple filed against HTC and not other
| licensees. Apple had its chance to take on
| Android licensees, choosing instead to go
| after one.
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http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apples-HTC-patent-lawsuit-is-a-bluff/1268597261
Google's Open Web vs Apple's vendor lock-in
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| Who will win the battle? I think it will be
| a couple of years in the making. However,
| there is a reason that Eric Schmidt left
| Appleâs board of directors last year. There
| is a reason that Google is pushing into
| countless new markets and bringing products
| into widespread beta as quickly as
| possible. Google and Apple both know: he
| who controls the screen controls the Web
| (and all of the money that entails). I have
| to say that Iâm rooting for Googleâs open
| approach that welcomes a wide array of
| hardware and software. Vendor lock-in isnât
| good for consumers, content providers, or
| developers. Appleâs HTC lawsuit was the
| first shot across the bow. Whatâs next? And
| when will Google take the gloves off?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1821
Apple is Open Source's sworn enemy
http://www.techeye.net/mobile/apple-is-open-sources-sworn-enemy
Open Source Developers Pick Android Over iPhone
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3870986/Open+Source+Developers+Pick+Android+Over+iPhone.htm
What Is the Top Mobile Platform for Open Source Developers?
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| Mobile platforms like Apple's iPhone and
| Google's Android have become a key focus
| for open source developers. And the trend
| is only increasing, though new research has
| found that over the course of the last
| year, there has been a shift in which
| mobile platform has the most open source
| development activity.
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http://www.developer.com/features/article.php/3870906/What-Is-the-Top-Mobile-Platform-for-Open-Source-Developers.htm
Open source developers ditch iPhone for Android
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| A new report has shown Googleâs Android
| platform is enticing open source developers
| away from creating apps on the iPhone.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/621532/open-source-developers-ditch-iphone-for-android
Is Microsoft About to Declare Patent War on Linux?
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| Microsoft's comments on happenings outside
| its immediate product portfolio are rare,
| and all the more valuable when they do
| appear. Here's one from Horacio Gutierrez,
| âCorporate Vice President and Deputy
| General Counselâ, entitled âApple v. HTC: A
| Step Along the Path of Addressing IP Rights
| in Smartphones.â
|
| By now, all the alarm bells should be going
| off: this is from Microsoft's top
| intellectual monopoly bloke, writing about
| one of the most surprising and potentially
| disruptive lawsuits in the world of
| technology â and one that doesn't even
| involve Microsoft directly. Why on earth is
| he doing it? Answer: because Microsoft has
| something very important to communicate.
|
| [...]
|
| Translated: smartphones are mostly about
| the kind of software that Microsoft
| produces; we have lots of patents in this
| area, and we are going to collect much more
| in this area â if necessary, through
| lawsuits (âcontinued activityâ) of the kind
| Apple is bringing.
|
| The question, of course, is against whom
| will Microsoft be bringing those lawsuits?
| And the answer, presumably, is everyone
| that makes smartphone software stacks,
| since these computer-like technologies will
| doubtless overlap with some of the
| doubtless broad and obvious patents that
| Microsoft will claim to have.
|
| Some companies, used to these kind of
| games, will simply cross-license stuff if
| they have a big enough portfolio of
| similarly obvious patents. Others will just
| cough up some dosh to get Microsoft off
| their backs. But amidst all these
| conventional players, there is one very
| unconventional one: Linux, in its various
| mobile incarnations.
|
| Taking legal action against *all* companies
| producing software stacks for smartphones
| would allow Microsoft to claim with some
| semblance of plausibility that it was not
| specifically targeting Linux this time
| (unlike its previous sabre-rattling
| statements about patent infringement that
| were specifically aimed at Linux). But the
| net effect would be that Linux would be the
| chief victim of such an approach, since any
| companies using it in their smartphones are
| likely to end up doing deals with Microsoft
| â and hence implicitly accepting its claims
| â whatever the open source community might
| think or want. It would be like Novell's
| pact with Microsoft, writ large and much
| worse.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2860&blogid=14
Microsoft's twits resort to racketeering. It shows that they are losing.
Recent:
QA with Matt Asay: How Linux is Beating Apple and Much More
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| Asay: I'm not sure this is the right
| question, as Linux already competes with and
| beats Apple in a huge array of devices. Linux
| spans everything from HPC to embedded devices
| and everything in between. Apple cannot
| compete with that. Could you build a
| supercomputer using Mac hardware? Sure, but
| you'd be mortgaging your house to do so and
| even then, the Mac would likely lose.
|
| Of course, Apple doesn't want to compete in
| such markets. It's famously focused and opts
| to do a few things very well, like its iPhone
| and laptops.
|
| Can Linux compete in these markets? Yes. Of
| course it can. Look at Android as perhaps the
| best example of effectively competing with
| Apple in mobile. Apparently Apple agrees
| with me, as its patent infringement suit
| against HTC is almost certainly a shot over
| Google's bow, as The New York Times recently
| suggested. Apple is worried. And it should
| be.
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http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185:jennifer-cloer/293844:qa-with-matt-asay-how-linux-is-beating-apple-and-much-more-
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