Motorola vs. Apple: Apple may no longer sell iPhone 3 and 4 in Germany
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1. Fuck Apple, they deserve it for trying to use patents themselves. All they do is make overpriced pretty black plastic toys, there’s nothing remotely innovative about selling jewellery to metrosexual fanboys.
2. Patents are fundamentally broken. They should all be thrown out, and miraculously everyone will rush to build great products with razor-thin margins.
3. INAL, but <<Insert two paragraphs of dense legal opinions>>.
4. Apple is innovative and deserves its patents, these people are just leeches and trolls.
Not a very neutral reproduction of a hypothetical comment! I would even say that it is suggestive.
More seriously, rather than trying to only throw obvious ones out I would suggest applicants submit a bounty on each patent to be paid out when prior art is discovered. Or returned after 5 years. The patent office can then charge a small fee to compare prior art to a patent or patent application and it becomes expensive and pointless to submit most dumb patents without costing the taxpayers anything.
It is my understanding that the prenup prohibits MMI from settling existing suits or initiating new suits without MMI's future mother-in-law sending blessings.
Thus, there is ample opportunity for calling Google "evil."
In response, we may expect prayer rugs to be turned toward Mountain View.
The build cost for an iPhone 4s is roughly $190. The device retails for $649.
That is hardly razor thin.
It’s a debate, it’s a complicated situation with a lot of hypotheses to toss around. I was just trying to find a risible straw-man comment to share.
The first sentence is independent from the rest. See below:
>4. Apple is innovative and deserves its patents, these people are just leeches and trolls.
That might be true, but that implies Motorola isn't inventive and doesn't deserve it's own patents. There has been a lot of innovation into packing such advanced technology into a palm sized device that Apple had nothing whatsoever to do with, but is leveraging. If Motorola is a leech, then so is Apple.
By firing the first salvo, they have needlessly stirred the hornet's nest.
A: Maybe because Apple has so much money, patent lawsuits cannot threaten them too much, but they have a chance at badly damaging the competition, who might run out of money.
When you have all the money, and only 3% of the patents, you've made an extreme miscalculation in starting a patent war.
Motorola Mobility is by far the patent king in that realm. Apple is stupid for starting a war that they could lose tens of billions over long term. It was a fit of rage by Jobs that caused them to start firing salvos. Not his finest decision making.
> Apple’s emailed response to paidContent also indicates that it will be appealing the decision
In the end the little guys would win so I'm all for it but this whole saga so far is a great example of starting a fire without having the ability to put it out once it gets out of control.
Compete in the marketplace on excellence of product and service. And like them or hate them, if Apple would just stick to that they'd be winners all around, these lawsuits might just backfire.
Source: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/0,1518,813264,00.html
(The linked article has been updated to reflect that as well)
Apple always won by playing their own game. Now they are playing the game of, "if we can't beat them on the merit of our products, we'll sue them out of existence." It turns out that other companies have been playing this game for decades and are much better at it.
> if we can't beat them on the merit of our products
That said, this particular game started a while ago.
The tiers aren't as important to their success as people make them out to be.