Google suggested last week ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-android.html?> ) that everything Android is under a coordinated attack. The evidence is that Apple and Microsoft are colluding to bid up patent portfolios to several times their face value which prevents Google from gaining ownership of any patents that could be used to defend Android.
It could be a very interesting anti-trust proceeding since the evidence is all out there in plain sight. -- rec -- On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoa! I knew Apple was after Google for its Java architecture, but now the > Samsung Tab for UI: > > http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16416 > > > I'll be a bit unpopular here and say, Yes, it really does look like Samsung > did very little original work here .. after all they're a hardware outfit > doing little more than cosmetic "branding". > > But it's based on Android, so shouldn't Google be the target? I suppose it > is, but Samsung is getting the brunt of it all. > > This is going to be quite a battle .. looking at the article's image, the > average consumer would have assumed it was a nice, smaller sized addition to > the iDevice line. > > In the phone world, I know Google has a "standard UI" and that most handset > manufacturers mess with it to be their own (often making a mess of things > and wasting your battery for you!). It seems Android phones have not had > this level of patent threat from Apple. The OS is certainly not an > infringement. But I guess the UI and look-alike design is under attack. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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