People love to paint Apple as the big bad patent bully but they have paid more in patent settlements then all these other companies put together. Apparently they're allowed to violate but Android gets a free pass because, you know, "open".
"[S]ection 271(c) applies only to offers for sale, sales, and importation, but Google does not sell, offer to sell, or import Android or Android SDK. [...] The ordinary meaning of 'sale' requires transfer of ownership for a price. [...] Android and Android SDK are offered free of charge to anyone who wishes to download them off the Internet, however, and there is no evidence that Google ever receives any consideration in return. That undisputed fact precludes a finding of contributory infringement."
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/oracle-v-google-upda...