Why Apple is suing every Android manufacturer in sight

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8 points·ryandvm··5 comments

This does not make sense. Windows has been the dominant operating system on PCs for a very long time, but Apple never sued PC manufacturers for it. The reason is simple: Microsoft never blatantly copied OS X to the same extent that certain Android manufacturers (cough Samsung) copy iOS and the iPhone.

Well they weren't in the position to fight either. From Jobs biography, he wanted to, but he knew he couldn't survive long enough for the big payoff against Microsoft

“If we kept up our lawsuits, a few years from now we could win a billion-dollar patent suit. You know it, and I know it. But Apple’s not going to survive that long if we’re at war. I know that. So let’s figure out how to settle this right away. All I need is a commitment that Microsoft will keep developing for the Mac and an investment by Microsoft in Apple so it has a stake in our success." —Jobs quote from the bio quoted from the Forbes article about the situation

You are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...

This is not even remotely true.

There are a lot of Android manufacturers who Apple isn't suing right now. If you want to talk about a company that IS then let's talk about Microsoft which has licenses from nearly all of them. But then again Microsoft just doesn't generate as many page views as it used to.

Apple isn't suing Google directly over Android. Why? Mutually assured litigation hell. Apple likely isn't suing a lot of companies because those companies have a strong enough set of patents to cause real damage to Apple if they fought back.

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