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| Authored by: gnuadam on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 08:29 PM EDT |
| Just look at the kindle fire. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 09:01 PM EDT |
I'm looking at my Android device, a Motorolla phone, and I have a hard time
finding an add. Not in the google-provided mail client, not in the
google-provided maps and navigation program. Even the searches done from the
google-provided search tool are light-weight, and addless. So where is Google's
even indirect revenue from this device? I cannot see it.
Android was all about responding to their worries about the walled gardens being
built by Apple et.al. in the mobile space. They could lock out Google from
participating, let alone competing. This control would be less viable if there
are other options, and Android provides consumers with a whole lot of options.
So Android is about nothing more - and nothing less - than the continued
viability of Google's business model in the mobile space. And with the mobile
space rapidly taking over, this is about their entire future.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 01:35 AM EDT |
Universities get compensation. Private teachers get compensation. It was
always my impression that I could teach a course on 3d animation
without licensing the various patented techniques. Even if get paid for it
and even if the course is specifically about the patented techniques. It
would turn the whole concept of patents on its head if teaching their
contents in any form was infringement. And that's what Google does:
teach building a smartphone OS. Except that their expectation of
compensation is much more indirect and much less related to any
patents than that of the private teacher who specifically offers a course
'State of the art 3d animation techniques'. And what about a book 'the
most important patented smartphone technologies' Can I not sell this
book without obtaining licenses even though I am directly profiting from
selling the information from the patents (let's assume I'm using my own
words rather than copy from the application texts)?
The whole point of patents is to increase knowledge and the granted
monopoly has always been restricted to applications of that knowledge
rather than the teaching.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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