Jason Kincaid · Top Commenter · New York, New York
I don't think this really provides a clear path. One of the greatest things about Android (and the reason why I like it so much) is that as a free OS, it also allows smaller companies to do whatever they want with it.
At this point that hasn't happened much yet, but it's very early days — it's only a matter of time til we see startups and other companies manipulating Android to power all sorts of different devices for an array of use-cases. If every Android device had a $15 kickback to Microsoft associated with it, it would hamper this sort of innovation.
Reply · 28 · · September 28 at 11:58am
Krzysztof Pasich · Top Commenter · Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach
Google should have not used patented technology like Java. With some serious R&D google would have been able to create truly free OS, but google took shortcut and copied some technology instead.
Reply · 54 · · September 28 at 12:22pm
Robbie Burns · Top Commenter · Kokomo High School South Campus
With the new direction of the patent war there will be no more small companies that do anything innovative in the tech field. I'm not blaming Microsoft, they didn't fire the first shot, and to compete with the other big dogs you have to follow suit, but it's out of hand and killing any hope of innovation. Instead you have big companies that would rather release a recycled version of their old device with a new number and a couple new hardware upgrades and sue anyone trying to do more than that.
If I wanted to run out and start a company in any part of the mobile field I have no chance. If my idea sucks I go under. If it's innovative I'll be snuffed out by the big companies, not because I did anything wrong, but because I wouldn't have the resources to even fight back. One of the mobile giants would run in and cry foul about my design having a toolbar or clock or whatever the hell is accepted as someone's IP these days and I would be done. I don't think the future of the mobile market, tablet market, or even the web are very promising anymore.
Reply · 31 · · September 28 at 12:24pm
Alvaro Osvaldo López-García · Top Commenter · Benemèrita Universidad Autònoma de Puebla
Krzysztof Pasich a truly free OS (aka Linux) also has patent issues, so try again
Reply · 12 · · September 28 at 12:25pm
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Jimmy Bouma-Holtrop · Top Commenter · Huntington
You know, we all call this stuff "entertaining" but after a while it really just gets depressing. I know everyone feels the need to "protect" their "IP" (and/or "sue anyone they think they can get some money out of") but it just starts to make all parties involved look petty and rude and, to me, just shows how badly we need SOME KIND of patent reform. I don't know enough about the system to know what kind, but I do know that what's happening now is just freaking ridiculous. And this "arms race" all the big companies seem to be engaging in to deter their peers isn't the answer, it's the biggest symptom of the problem.
/thus ends my ranty 2 cents.
Reply · 18 · · September 28 at 12:04pm
Waly Kerkeboom · Top Commenter · Verkoopklaar at Albert Heijn 1402
Obama passed a major patent reform bill. Microsoft supported it.
Reply · 4 · · September 28 at 12:10pm
Eduard Dobre · Top Commenter · UniCredit
IP is crap. We don't need this. It will only halt innovation...damn! I hate Microsoft for doing this...then again..if it were Apple, they'd probably try to ban every Android device out there....wait, they're doing that already.... :)
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 12:19pm
Rurik Bradbury · Top Commenter · New York, New York
Waly Kerkeboom Sadly it wasn't major, it was inconsequential.
Reply · 2 · · September 28 at 12:27pm
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Aditya Lingampally · University of Minnesota
I'm rooting so hard for you to become relevant again in the consumer space microsoft. fire ballmer, keep innovating, and get yourself a visionary like steve jobs.
Reply · 12 · · September 28 at 12:00pm
Andy Carr · Top Commenter · Ivy Tech Community College
Yes. Yes. 100%. Absolutely. Could not agree more.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 12:27pm
Rurik Bradbury · Top Commenter · New York, New York
Let me post the job ad now: "Wanted: unique visionary genius like Steve Jobs to become our CEO" [waits for qualified applicants...]
Reply · 6 · · September 28 at 12:29pm
Seth Moon · Courtesy Clerk at Fry's Food and Drug
am rooting so hard on my android device with CM7... lol
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Caleb White · Saint Martin's University
This is hilarious. I love it.
Reply · 12 · · September 28 at 11:56am
Alvaro Osvaldo López-García · Top Commenter · Benemèrita Universidad Autònoma de Puebla
I would rather say this is part 2 of the soap opera: Patents killing Android.
*eating popcorn*
Reply · 4 · · September 28 at 12:09pm
Oh no, my G-mail is dead
Let me boil it down to you in 10 words : Microsoft's head of PR can't even speak proper English.
Reply · 9 · · September 28 at 12:09pm
Waly Kerkeboom · Top Commenter · Verkoopklaar at Albert Heijn 1402
Oooo he made a typo, on twitter no less. What an uneducated caveman.
Reply · 17 · · September 28 at 12:11pm
Oh no, my G-mail is dead
Yeah, cuz' PR hacks never proofread their statements before firing them out. It speaks TONS of what Microsoft is trying to do with this issue: FUD, petty statements on Twitter and baseless arguments.
Why doesn't MG ask what are the actual infringing patents instead of posting screenshots of tweets a 12 year old could write ? We care about the ISSUES, not the form.
Substance vs. form, issues vs. talking points. Open vs. closes. Your choice.
Reply · 4 · · September 28 at 12:15pm
Waly Kerkeboom · Top Commenter · Verkoopklaar at Albert Heijn 1402
Oh no, my G-mail is dead I forgot PR people are robots, therefor, not allowed to make mistakes. My sincerest apologies.
Reply · 6 · · September 28 at 12:17pm
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Robbie Burns · Top Commenter · Kokomo High School South Campus
I think the biggest problem is that Microsoft can't innovate anything. To avoid dying, they rely on stupid bullshit. Take, for example, the Zune. Now I imagine that the design of the Zune went something like the time Homer Simpson was in charge of designing a car for his brother's auto company. He sat in a room and shouted out random cool features and then asked for them all to be piled together. So in the end, like with the Zune, we were left with a huge, clunky pile of shit that had everyone going, "What the fuck is this?"
Reply · 8 · · September 28 at 12:31pm
Justin Hassler · Top Commenter · Washington, District of Columbia
Are you insinuating that Android innovated at anything? Obviously, it didn't or none of this would be happening.
Reply · 13 · · September 28 at 12:49pm
Francisco Javier Lopez · Top Commenter · Zendesk Admin at Versata
Wow Robbie. You obviously have no idea what your talking about and your speaking of ignorance about technology in general. I know is cool now a days to talk GEEK but is another to sound foolish and proclaim a company like Microsoft does not innovate.
Whats your idea of innovation? I am really curious to know.
Reply · 10 · · September 28 at 1:35pm
Iggy Pup · Top Commenter · Customer Book Purchasing Facilitator at GARRISON & GARRISON BOOKS
Justin Hassler, That's unfair. Just because Google recklessly copied many things in creating Android doesn't mean Android is entirely devoid of innovation. As an example, there's . . . wait, it'll come to me in a minute.
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John Keir · Huntsville, Alabama
I just think it's funny that Google thought they could get away with stealing from other people (Apple, Microsoft, etc.), while selling the hardware manufacturers the bologna line that their platform was "free". It's "free", right? Google just rakes in billions from everyone elses "free" innovations and thinks that's perfectly ok.
I wonder what Google's reaction would be if someone copied their search algorithm and put up a site identical to theirs, except named "Doogle". I mean we've already seen enough of their crying about Bing "apeing" their results, so I can only imagine...
Google: "Don't be evil... unless you're us, in which case it's totally acceptable to be completely, utterly, unfathomably evil".
Reply · 5 · · September 28 at 2:17pm
Jeff Panikar · Los Angeles, California
Do you even know what you are talking about?
Reply · · Friday at 10:19am
Francisco Javier Lopez · Top Commenter · Zendesk Admin at Versata
What makes this post a success is not the waaah. Is the cash finger and his facial expression :) well done M.G , well done.
Reply · 5 · · September 28 at 1:37pm
Tom Yu · The University of Texas at Austin
"doesn’t this provide a clear path forward?"
No
Reply · 4 · · September 28 at 11:59am
Brian Lovett · Colorado Springs, Colorado
I personally distrust Microsoft AND Google equally. Google's PR department is just better at spinning things to make them sound like the poor underdog in each of these situations. Last I checked, Google was one of the most powerful corporations the planet has ever seen. I can't feel bad for them when they partake in the games just as much as the other big players.
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 1:04pm
Lee Gibbons · London, Ontario
Not sure why anyone would cheer this stuff on. In the end lawyers get paid and we as consumers end up paying for it.
They do this patent dance and pass money from company to company and we pay for it. But instead we cheer away for these legal shenanigans because we dislike company X or really like their competitor company Y.
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 1:57pm
Joshua Kronengold · Hunter College
Absolutely. The only people cheering are the ones who don't realize how much companies being able to "patent" new reformulations of 1+1=2 adds an extra cost on all of us.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 2:46pm
James Nobles · Top Commenter · Portland, Oregon
DO NOT sully the good name of Johnny Cash by associating him in any way with these ass clowns. Please find another image...
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 2:07pm
Zeshan Amjad
If Android violates Microsoft's patents, why are they suing OEMs and not Google?
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 12:09pm
Bojan Gutic · Texas Christian University
Because they know Google isn't dumb enough to cave in and agree to pay.
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 12:11pm
Diganta Sarkar · Top Commenter · Works at Expedia
Microsoft violates a lot of Google patents too ... especially in search and mobile ...
Reply · 4 · · September 28 at 12:15pm
Justin Hassler · Top Commenter · Washington, District of Columbia
Bojan Gutic - or how about because Google isn't selling Android?
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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton · Imperial College
ok - what this dickweed Shaw hasn't understood is that Patent Law allows individual (or individual entities such as corporations) to create copies of patented inventions, in order that the individual may create further improvements and thus patent them.
the implications are that it is NOT GOOGLE WHO MUST QUOTES PAY UP QUOTES. why is that? it is because it is NOT GOOGLE WHO ARE SELLING PRODUCT. google supply the *source code*! they don't supply products *with* the source code - google doesn't even supply product with binaries *made* from that source code.
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Reply · 1 · · Friday at 9:56am
Frank Guillen · Top Commenter · Graphic Designer at VDi Estudio
Google has a real mess, Andy Rubin worked at Apple, now Apple claimed that Android was created at Apple by Rubin, a patent used on Android was created by the team where Rubin worked, but Microsoft is in the same situation; after leaving Apple Rubin founded Danger Inc., do you know who bought Danger Inc? You've guessed, Microsoft, so maybe the patents that Microsoft is enforcing against Android partners are those created by Rubin and his team at Danger Inc. This is a complete mess, Google is not in the winning side this time and buying Motorola's ancient patents won't help Android and its partners.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 6:41pm
Will Paccione · Top Commenter · Owner at WSI Internet Consulting
Haha: "God I love this stuff." You do MG?
So funny you never commented on the fact that Verizon and now T-Mobile have now backed Samsung against Apple. Funny how TechCrunch's top Apple fanboy is silent on that issue and would rather point the spotlight somewhere else.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 3:23pm
Eric Jensen
Gee, two large Android sellers are backing a major Android OEM in a court case that threatens Android's continued market presence.
I have never heard of such selfless self service in a legal setting before. /s
OF COURSE middlemen are going to back the continued market presence of a major wholesaler of theirs.
Reply · · September 28 at 5:04pm
Will Paccione · Top Commenter · Owner at WSI Internet Consulting
Eric Jensen Read my comment again- I wasn't questioning that. I was questioning why someone who "loves this suff" so much, and blogs everything Apple forgot to write a post about it.
Reply · · September 28 at 5:29pm
Alnisa Allgood · Madison, Wisconsin
Possibly because no one from Apple has taken to Twitter or Facebook and said, "Bring it" in which someone from Google would reply, "Oh… I'm bringing it." and Microsoft would jump in and say, "O' It's brought!" Then the Microsoft lawyer would attempt to DM Steve Ballmer, but instead @reply and say, "You mean bought. Bought Steve. We bought the god d*mn patents! Jesus, we just spoke 2 minutes ago."
Reply · 1 · · September 29 at 12:07pm
Pritam Sharma
who cares about innovation when it comes at the cost of others IP in this case Microsoft. Plus "free" does not run a company/economy, it's easy to build and distribute "free" software by stealing others ideas so there has to be consequence for that.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 3:33pm
Benjamin Dyer · East Cowes, Isle Of Wight, United Kingdom
I just adore the fact that MS make more money from Android than they do their own mobile OS. Its a crazy world.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 12:07pm
Bogdan 'Znuff' Ilisei · Mangalia
You realize that nobody ever said anything about how much money does MS make off the patents, right?
Someone once insinuated that they make $5, then $15, but no official word ever.
So, how does Microsoft make more money on Android than Google?
Reply · 2 · · September 28 at 2:12pm
Benjamin Dyer · East Cowes, Isle Of Wight, United Kingdom
Bogdan 'Znuff' Ilisei Well as long as its more than $0 it will be more especially if you count the monster cheque MS cut for Nokia for WP7.
Reply · · September 28 at 2:16pm
Joshua Kronengold · Hunter College
Bogdan 'Znuff' Ilisei: Not than google -- than they do on Windows 7 Mobile. Pretty easy to do, given that W7M is a complete flop.
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Alvaro Osvaldo López-García · Top Commenter · Benemèrita Universidad Autònoma de Puebla
No, no this childish game again... Let's be honest, MS and Google should not be in this useless PR war.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 12:08pm
Waly Kerkeboom · Top Commenter · Verkoopklaar at Albert Heijn 1402
It's Google who keeps starting the crocodile tears.
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 12:10pm
Alvaro Osvaldo López-García · Top Commenter · Benemèrita Universidad Autònoma de Puebla
Waly Kerkeboom by reading MS tone, it seems "patent problems" are not being taken seriously... It's a move to give bad publicity for competitors. Obviously if this were serious they wouldn't be scoffing Google...
Reply · · September 28 at 12:12pm
Waly Kerkeboom · Top Commenter · Verkoopklaar at Albert Heijn 1402
Alvaro Osvaldo López-García My point is: Google could've kept the BOOHOO THEYRE EXTORTIONISTS shit to themselves, then Frank Shaw wouldn't have tweeted that, either. It's Google who throws the mud first.
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Yang Zhao · San Francisco, California
Waaaah
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 12:05pm
Hari Prasanth · SSR2 at Unisys
Samsung has agreed also for another reason as Google almost has acquired Motorola. Samsung is afraid if Google starts to favor Motorola in roll outs of updates and early peek of the upcoming iterations , then people will more likely go for Motorola. So at that point of time to stop Google showing favor to Motorola Samsung and HTC wants to show them that ' Hey look if you start to show favorites , then we can always turn to WP7'. Same is the deal with HTC.. Not because of they are not capable enough to fight these patent wars.. So Apple is repeatedly suing Samsung did Samsung give up? It is fighting till now.. So why can't it do the same with Microsoft? Because of Google and Motorola acquisition.
Reply · · September 28 at 1:25pm
Nick Fleker Felker · Top Commenter
I love Android. The idea of a mobile version of Linux is great, but I think Google would do well to start replacing some of the core technologies that they violate, if it's possible. I don't agree with these patent wars, but lobbying for better patent laws are not going to happen soon.
They've said how Ice Cream Sandwich is going to be revolutionary.
Reply · · September 28 at 12:49pm
Joshua Kronengold · Hunter College
The problem is that patents are currently a land grab. You can't "replace core technologies you violate" -- because a patent has been granted on the only obvious and right way to do things. The patents that android "violates" are largely bullshit.
Reply · 3 · · September 28 at 2:45pm
Iggy Pup · Top Commenter · Customer Book Purchasing Facilitator at GARRISON & GARRISON BOOKS
Aren't we still waiting for Google to release the Honeycomb source? I think we need a new type of license designation: MOS for Mostly Open Source
Reply · · September 28 at 2:49pm
Nick Fleker Felker · Top Commenter
Joshua Kronengold I know that Android's patent issues are bogus, but if there's another way to do something, Google would be wise to consider it.
Reply · · September 28 at 4:03pm
Umut Alpay Alp · Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
if you are big enough, small barriers for entry work your way, stopping others to do the same thing. Just because Samsung and HTC agreed to pay this unethical tax, this does not make any clear path for anything you idiot!
Reply · · September 28 at 12:08pm
Pascal Cremer · Mönchengladbach
Seems like Android is now neither free, nor open source *cough* Honeycomb *cough*
Oh, sweet irony :)
Reply · 5 · · September 28 at 12:08pm
knee_here (signed in using Yahoo)
I think your definition of irony comes from Alannis Morisette, not the dictionary. Also, your swipe at Android is as childish as Microsoft's comment.
Reply · · September 28 at 1:50pm
John Keir · Huntsville, Alabama
The point is - it never was either of those things to begin with.
Reply · 2 · · September 28 at 2:19pm
knee_here (signed in using Yahoo)
John Keir Those points are invalid.
1. Android has always been free. It may not be patent-unencumbered, but that's an argument that's yet to be proven. Microsoft makes no specific claims to Android. It's likely they are using their patents in other areas (hardware, desktop) to coerce companies into signing agreements. Read up on patent wars for more on that.
2. Android is open-source. Honeycomb wasn't released because it was bug-ridden, not because Google changed their philosophy. Every version of the OS on a phone is open-sourced and ICS, the next version, will be open-sourced as well.
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Reply · · September 28 at 4:06pm
Chris Chase · Houston, Texas
The clear path here is to steer clear of the patent litigation rabbit hole that these companies are now in with Apple. Knowing nothing of the merits (and frankly, I doubt any commenters here do), it is likely better to pay Microsoft off, whether they have a case or not. Even the potential of having the products removed from the market (or denied entrance) would scare off the mightiest of hardware companies. All it really means is that Microsoft has enough of a case, and is so far behind in the market, that it makes sense for them to go balls-to-the-wall with patent enforcement. Why? Because the same suits going the other way (i.e. against Microsoft) wouldn't generate enough damages to be worth the effort.
Microsoft will pursue this strategy until they have a strong enough footing in the market, and then you will see them back off for fear that retaliatory patent suits would actually hurt their bottom line.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 13:11
Iggy Pup · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · GARRISON & GARRISON BOOKS'da Customer Book Purchasing Facilitator
If MS had no case, then why has it managed to extract Android licenses from 7 companies, including HTC and now Samsung. If the claims were without merit, surely Samsung has the resources to fight it out in court. We're talking about royalty fees in the 100s of millions of dollars, maybe even billions. You think these companies would settle just because a court case scares them or because it would be too much of a distraction?
You made a point that I didn't understand: "Because the same suits going the other way (i.e. against Microsoft) wouldn't generate enough damages to be worth the effort." On what do you base this? (You acknowledged ignorance is showing.)
Yanıtla · 1 · · 28 Eylül, 14:37
Chris Chase · Houston, Texas
My whole post is an answer to your first two sentences, which btw are totally fallacious... If MS secured an injunction against these companies (which they can do without fully adjudicating the merits of their case) it would cause them to take a huge loss.
Also MS has relatively little to lose b/c their coomparatively small market share means that any potential infringement on their part (and don't kid yourself all these companies are infringing on each other's vaguely written pattens) would not have harmed others as much as others potential infringement has possibly harmed them...
Also, how about keeping things civil? Although given your pseudonymity, Im not sure why I bother asking.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 15:21
Iggy Pup · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · GARRISON & GARRISON BOOKS'da Customer Book Purchasing Facilitator
Chris Chase : First of all, I apologize for the veiled insult that I based on your admitted ignorance of the subject material. I was put off by your doubt that any other commenters did not share your ignorance. I'm glad that you bothered to ask.
Why would MS want these companies to take huge losses? MS wouldn't want to secure injunctive relief from Samsung or HTC and severely damage them if it can just hint at the threat of it and get what it wants: an ongoing revenue stream from the IP it claims is in Android and a better WP7 partner. Think of this situation as a pimp regaining control over his working girls. MS just gave Samsung a little bitchslap, but not enough to stop her from working.
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Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 19:23
Fernando-Hydee Lim
at first hand google knew that android is not free at all. they just throwing the dice just in case they are correct in their own world. you know technology invented is always patented and protected in this country. in another country one can't be sure to own a patented technology. there is no proper protections. this country is great because of this idea of protections. an ordinary person able to own a patent and no one can take it away without his consent. that is why it is good. so this people don't understand what patent means. it's a protection for who invented it. so does everybody understand now what is patent, or patented technology? please comment
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 14:06
Dan Fabulich · Redfin'de çalışıyor
Microsoft's "Waaaah" response only proves Google's point that Microsoft is extorting money. "Your friends have already given me their lunch money. Doesn't this provide a clear path forward?"
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 13:34
Michael Hendrickx
Lol @ the lunch money. :)
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 15:30
Rooturaj Pattanaik · Nth Dimension'da CEO/Owner
its time google came up with a real good free PC OS. That would screw microsoft out of software market and make the computer world a much safer place.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 13:33
Iggy Pup · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · GARRISON & GARRISON BOOKS'da Customer Book Purchasing Facilitator
They could call it Ginux, release it under the Apache License (after stripping out inconvenient comments and references to the GPL), and then release early to preferred partners and later to every one else. A crackerjack idea! Say it with me me everyone: 2012 will be the year of the Ginux desktop!
Yanıtla · 1 · · 28 Eylül, 20:37
Hack Generator
Google, when will you grow up to understand that this is real business, this is capitalism, this is survival of the fittest, this is America mofo!
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 16:05
Jay Dela Cruz · Winnipeg, Manitoba
You foresight-lacking people who are all for this patent-bullying: the consumers are the real losers of this war. We will soon be at the mercy of the 1 or 2 organizations who hold all these ambiguous patents, paying for their products with few other options and hardly any freedom of choice. As others have said, we need patent reform or we will wind up as robots, puppets, cattle or whatever term you'd like to use here; when we are all forced to buy products from these companies they gain more control of our very lives.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 20:40
Kavan Seggie · SayMama'da Founder
That's pretty mature if MS. True trolls.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 14:38
Alex Berhane
to Google seems like you guys are vexed.. vent here http://www.ventnation.com lol sorry for the shameless plug.. but it fit.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 18:17
Jakov Bit Mandić · EFOS
This. Is. So. Hilarious.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 14:00
Pete Digons · Kent State University
Who cares if they're squabbling - their products are garbage. Apple and Amazon are the only innovative, quality companies in the game - and they're the only products consumers should buy at the present time (ideology aside). MS is only good for MS Office, and some other software; and Google is good for a search engine. However, their phones, tablets, computers, etc. are second rate junk. So who cares if they bicker over their lousy patents. I would rather they stayed out of that arena anyway, and left it to the innovative folks. Break free from your ideology and/or politics; do yourself a big favor and stick with the "A's" (Apple & Amazon), and you will save yourself from 1,000 headaches.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 23:43
Aditya Sharma · Resource Interactive
lol.
Yanıtla · · 29 Eylül, 05:32
Stephan Richard · San Francisco, California
$12.5B later and still the same problem for Google.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 17:29
Michael A. Robson · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Shanghai, China
LOL! So true!
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 19:28
Eric Frenkiel · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Stanford
just sad and unprofessional.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 16:32
Alex Berhane
microsoft are some Gangsta! gotta love there motto F u PAY ME! lol
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 18:14
Arif Islam · Tiger Tours Limited'de Senior Executive
If I were Microsoft, I would be really worried just by reading the comments on MS's blog post. They are surely not getting positive reception from people these days.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 21:38
Skip Garcia · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
More time getting your company vision out of the toilet, less time on schoolyard-flavored tweets.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 22:35
OnAli Tinwala · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · SP Jain Institute Of Management & Research
But companies use patents against others when they are done innovating.
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 22:19
Craig Sour · University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Android is free. That hardware is not (yet). The name of the game is for the few people in control of these elephant companies is to make is much money during their reign. I grew up with Microsoft and used their products to develop software, build infrastructures and make businesses efficient. The way Microsoft has been operating the past 15-17 years has convinced me that they will meet their sorry demise in 3-5 years. Not even an acquisition can save them now.
But, but, butttt Microsoft has 3 (THREE) key product lines right under their nose that would destroy Google, put a decent dent into Apple, and a few other companies and turn their fate around but they don't have the flexibility, nor the leadership to slide aside their pride to find it. They don't have the "FEELING" within like GOOGLE does.
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Yanıtla · · 29 Eylül, 09:43
Carl Joseph Bialorucki · Üst Düzey Yorumcu · Rolling Hills Middle School
There using Rockmelt! lol
Yanıtla · · 28 Eylül, 21:41
Moe James · Üst Düzey Yorumcu
Google chief and Bill Gates should scuffle in the ring! hahaha! Who saw the Google Plus Girl video? http://www.MediaFileShare.com/video/2087
Yanıtla · · 29 Eylül, 03:38
Craig Sour · University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Can someone clarify one thing for me? What are the benefits for these 84 companies that contributed and backed Android? http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/index.html
Yanıtla · · 29 Eylül, 09:45
Jason Porter · Roanoke, Virginia
The comments being posted to this article are amazing. It's like a game of "count the paid shills".
Yanıtla · · 29 Eylül, 08:15
allerhandenonsens(Yahoo'yu kullanarak oturum açtı)
This whole patent BS sounds like it is about people stealing other people's ideas, but in reality it is about lazy 'professionals' claiming intellectual property rights on obvious solutions, and then making money of other people who áre trying to do work for their cash.
Same case here. In fact, apple tried to pull a similar stunt on microsoft back in the days, stating that Microsoft stole the graphical user interface from them... Luckily the dude that actually did invent the graphical user interface then threatened to sue apple. The charges were dropped and luckily all of us don't have to pay someone a fortune for every app that uses something as obvious as a button and a mouse.
But we came véry close.
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