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Comment by rogerchucker | Hacker News Reader

This "if not Apple someone else would have done it" argument is the biggest pile of horseshit Apple apologists have been spewing since these lawsuits started. Do we see similar search lawsuits started by Google against Bing? Or against Duckduckgo?

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  > Do we see similar search lawsuits started by Google
  > against Bing?

What it has to do with search? As for mobile—there were numerous spider-web type graphs showing who is suing whom. You can actually see the lawsuit started (again) by Motorola agains Apple. Motorola is now owned by Google, if you missed that bit of information. Ultimately there are no good guys and no bad guys—it all boils down to the stupidity of patent systems and who you like more.

I think his argument is that Google has a big pile of patents in search and distributed systems, but isn't using any of them offensively. So, the whole argument that it's okay to act unethically (but legally) because someone else is bound to rings especially hollow here. As for the rest of your comment, it's a disingenuous argument that's been thoroughly debunked, so I won't bother wasting the time or keystrokes on it.

Google is just anouther company that thinks its shit dont stink. No different from any other in my opinion. So why dont you have a look through this and consider what you are really saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google

Lot's of Google employees on hn, doesn't surprise me at all when certain stories/comments get upvoted and downvoted.

You know Google isn't the first search engine, right ?

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