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To: iggyl who wrote (12339)	11/8/2011 10:42:12 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

That because it is the truth. Apple is nothing but a greedy money hungry POS.... should be eradicated from the face of the earth like the disgusting vermin that they are....

To: iggyl who wrote (12339)	11/8/2011 10:47:40 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Apple Won't "Make Billions" Off Android, May Even Pay Google 11/07/2011 @ 10:55PM \|9,303 views David CourseyContributor forbes.com I hate to rain on so many other bloggers’ parades, but Nigam Arora’s post “ Apple to Make Billions On Google’s Android” strikes me as highly speculative at best and downright wrong at worst. Arora’s premise is that Apple owns so many important patents — some of which he lists — that anyone building an Android phone is going to end up paying Apple for the privilege. In fact, Android handset manufacturers are already paying patent royalties to Microsoft, so why not Apple, too? And yes, over time, this could end up adding billions to Apple revenue. But how much might Apple have to pay Google for its patents? How much of these billions will Apple get to keep? Not mentioned in the Arora Equation is Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, widely thought to be priced based on Motorola’s 24,500 patents rather than its Android handset business. As a hardware manufacturer, post-merger, Google could end up paying Apple or vice versa. Apple and Motorola are already in court over patent conflicts. (Here is a completely dissenting view — that Motorola’s patents are worthless and Google really wants to be in the handset business.) In a story about the merger, Forbes’ Elizabeth Woyke interviewed Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown. Solutions is the half of Motorola — the two-way radio business — that Google didn’t purchase. According to Woyke’s story: The deal will give Google — and the many companies that produce devices based on its Android mobile platform — access to Motorola Mobility’s 24,000 patents. The common interpretation of the swap is that the patents will help Google and its Android partners defend themselves against lawsuits from competitors like Apple and Microsoft. Motorola Mobility, in turn, will gain financial stability from being part of Google. Brown appeared to agree with that view. “Mobility’s attractiveness to Google was primarily patent-driven,” he said. “The combination makes great sense.” Those patents, however, haven’t been enough to forstall Microsoft’s patent claims against Motorola. However, while Microsoft does not make handsets, Apple does, potentially placing Apple in Motorola’s IP crosshairs. I don’t consider myself a patent expert and maybe Arora’s right, but it is much too early to predict how the Android/Microsoft/Apple patent wars will end. It looks like billions will change hands, but in what directions and with what offsetting payments, we just don’t know.