http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Not to talk politics, but that was a mistake. Corporations aren't individuals, even though they may be comprised of them. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Definitely looks like Apple doesn't think the iPhone will be in a good position in the coming years without going nuclear like this.

Either way, this ends REAL bad for Apple. Either market % wise or PR.
]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Your assumptions that a business entity has the ability to "grow up" are interesting but incorrect. A living being is capable of maturing, corporations are not. Profit and revenue are all that matter to any and all business entities even though the eat or be eaten mentality is very humanistic.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
I didn't say these things, re-read, previous poster, I tagged on to make a tangential point, partially playing devil's advocate because someone said similar to what you are saying. I'm saying every day we give them more rights, add to that lobbyists and what we get is companies chalk full of lawyers and a broken patent system that the courts are more likely than ever to uphold...Please, I understand plenty what a company is since, Finance major, Econ minor, former corporate lackey. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
I recall that about corporations as well. I wish I had time to play, but I'm at work and am way behind, so no anti-capitalism tirade from me today, but I will say, Apple's filing seems to have plausibility. If HTC does concede their infringement, I wonder what would happen to my Touch Pro2.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Yeah you go girl, give them over a $1,000 for you laptop and then give them the finger by putting another OS on it. How moronic!]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Yeah, because I wasn't even remotely joking? You must work for the US patent office.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
I can only hope I get my HD2 before something truly stupid happens.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
The broad based US patents will kill innovation in software. The US is a ridiculously litigious society. On the one hand US has a system of antitrust suits for monopolies (even if the companies got to that position on the basis of innovation), on the other, they allow such ridiculously broad based patents to restrict competition and enable monopolies.

I wonder if software would have been better of with just Copyright protection rather than the anti-innovation, anti-competitive patent restrictions?]]>Mar 2nd 2010 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Here's to a new "Only on an iPhone." commercial.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
"iPhone. Because you have no other choice."]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Even though the patents infringe upon what HTC has already been doing.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
This just further lends to the crediblity of Apple being afraid. They are trying to shut out all competition thru their gross misuse of the patent system.

So...let me get this right.
Microsoft gets hit by anti-trust suits for basically being the better business and learning the right moves.
Google gets hit because they "alienate competition from THEIR search engine"

Yet Apple are suing people for patents they not all have even been used, and wants to bar said phones from the US market, so only ONE phone can have that feature.

Hmm...yeah. That sounds like plenty a fair business going on here. =\]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Anti-trust legislation was passed under the guise of a system which consumers would be able to use to protest anti-competitive practices. In the roughly 100 years that anti-trust legislation has been on the books, this has never occurred - suits are always levied by a less-successful (read: less innovative/productive/efficient) competitor looking to handicap its primary rival. Plus, it's the biggest source of corporatismic hypocrisy, as evidenced over and over again: as much as a company moans about the unfairness of an anti-trust suit levied against it, it chomps at the bit to levy one of its own if it suits its interests.

I should qualify my statement by saying that I do not believe that corporations can "be evil" for very long on their own; consumers would punish them appropriately through reduced demand. Instead, they require collusion with government to get away with these sorts of shenanigans.]]>Mar 19th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/I have to say that I'm not surprised by this.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Apple Revenue: US$42.91 billion (2009)
Google Revenue: US$23.651 billion (2009)

Apple Total Assets: $47.50 billion (2009)
Google Total Assets: US$40.497 billion (2009)

Apple Equity: US$31.64 billion (2009)
Google Equity: US$36.004 billion (2009)

.. Yup this fight will be pretty much toe-toe]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/If apple takes this course its going to be Google, HTC, Microsoft everyone HTC makes phones for vs Apple. I mean Google and Microsoft stand to lose a lot when their best phone designer breaks bank. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Yeah you have to wonder why Apple is suing HTC and not Google maybe it’s because they don’t want to completely destroy the relationship or maybe it’s because HTC won’t be able to afford the same calibre of lawyer as Google?

Personally I think Apple is going for the all American company V random Taiwanese KIRF monger angle. I mean what are the chances that the judge has heard of HTC?
]]>Mar 2nd 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Isn't it not so much Google or Android but the skin that HTC custom made to put over Android? Android itself (from the single unit ive seen) doesn't look like iPhone at all, but (the pictures) I've seen of HTC's skin may be another story entirely.

Apple hasn't called the N1 have they or the Droid or LG or Samsung. It's HTC. I reckon it's the custom implementation.. and that is post iPhone.

Who knows, we will find out in a few years, let's just hope every fourth article isn't about this until then. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/That's cause senseUI is better than Apple's UI...]]>Mar 3rd 2010 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
It'll be interesting to see how this gets played out.

HTC, REPRESENT.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Keep up the stellar work. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Are you like, Nilay with a different screen name?
Or have you been living under a rock for the last oh, 6 months?]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Tech blogging is a commodity now, its how different sites set them selves apart from the press release regurgitating herd. ]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
It's really disappointing to see a company which claims to love 'innovation' make such an accusation. Apple frequently has success standing on the shoulders of giants]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Even worse... they have this tirant attitude of only approving what they feel is the "best experience" for the "end-user".... what a poker face!! now i feel guilty for being overly excited about the original iPhone announcement.... +1 to Android +1 to HTC +1 to Google]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/
Or else Apple would have bitten off more than they can chew hahahaha.....]]>Mar 2nd 2010 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-specifically-going-after-android-in-htc-lawsuit/Mar 2nd 2010 12:33PM