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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 10:45 AM EDT |
...a better stategy for Apple would be to pour all the money they've been
spending on lawyers into LTE research. Then they could simultaneously:
1. Contribute to the progress of communications technology
2. Acquire standards-essential patents on future communications technologies
3. ...um...profit?
In the meantime their reality-distortion field should allow them to keep
charging inflated prices...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 12:01 PM EDT |
You are misstating or misunderstanding the situation.
Apple is not trying to cross-license. They want to use their patents to prevent
others from making phones that compete in their market segment.
This is decidedly evil. There is a good argument cross-licensing
standards-essential patents helps advance the state of the art, and benefits all
of the contributors in the industry. Instead Apple wants to use developments of
others at no or minimal cost, while preventing them from selling devices that
might infringe on Apple's patents.
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| Authored by: yacc on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 10:20 PM EDT |
Well, they could have started contributing to mobile
standards.
Oh wait, that would mean investing hugely in serious R&D.
Not some feel good touchy UI stuff, no serious engineering.
Actually, they could have just not gone thermonuclear on
players long in the field.
Basically, they do nothing to advance the hard stuff, and
now they claim that because it's a standard they are
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