Steve Jobs Biography describes Jobs as hell bent on destroying Android

[MagickMan]

With complimentary hemorrhoid attack from the reaming you just took to pay for "The full Apple" experience.

Or you're like me and work pays for it.

 

[BUTCH1]

I would encourage you to not purchase one then. 30 million other people don't agree with you though.

Sorry if I offended anyone, I guess my point was $500+ is close to the top for a tablet and certain connect-ability features should be standard or if they want one to use an adapter for their proprietary port it should be provided, USB is something that any user is going to want access to..

 

[BUTCH1]

In other news, Microsoft has another licensee to add to it's list, making your Android products more expensive, one license at a time

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-2...-android-chrome-licensing-deal/?tag=cnetRiver

Sad, it's going to keep happening as most makers just do not want to pony up the $$$ needed to fight a lawsuit from MS, I can see a mother-of-all legal battle brewing eventually, MS vs Google..

 

[jpeyton]

In other news, Microsoft has another licensee to add to it's list, making your Android products more expensive, one license at a time

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-2...-android-chrome-licensing-deal/?tag=cnetRiver

It's not making them more expensive for the end-user just yet. At $5-$15 per handset, it cuts into the manufacturer's margins.

 

[Fire&Blood]

It's not making them more expensive for the end-user just yet. At $5-$15 per handset, it cuts into the manufacturer's margins.

Way less, if it's a FRAND licensing deal.

I thought it was interesting that a quick search for "google sues" returned ~23 million results while "apple sues" returns 8 million search results.

However, as long as no one complains about Larry Page's hygiene and Google employees don't use the "reality distortion field" term to describe him, I think we are safe.

 

[hans007]

Way less, if it's a FRAND licensing deal.

I thought it was interesting that a quick search for "google sues" returned ~23 million results while "apple sues" returns 8 million search results.

However, as long as no one complains about Larry Page's hygiene and Google employees don't use the "reality distortion field" term to describe him, I think we are safe.

how is that even interesting. given the much larger and generally more litigous fields google works in, every time a dmca suit, or privacy suit for online stuff, or suit of that nature given the amount of personal info google handles, PLUS the apple suits comes up it would trigger a hit. every time someone sues about where their page rank is, or how adsense isn't calibrated right, or defemation suites, or whatever it'd be on there as "google sues"

and any time someone sues google such as apple it should turn up a hit.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I'm not sure why Eric was on the Apple board, but if Google followed their original Android roadmap, their flagship phones would still have physical qwerty keyboards. This is why the G1 had a slide out keyboard and now every Nexus phone after it no longer has this.

RIM has some physical qwerty keyboards and some all-touch phones. They aren't being sued.
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The Android OS has responded to what consumers want. There are still Android phones with qwerty keyboards to this day, but they are less popular.

Android's UI was built upon physical keys, which is why on screen menus haven't been introduced until ICS.

That's absolutely true. But so what? Are products not allowed to evolve?

Android has too much momentum to be killed. That's true but Apple has been winning some of these lawsuits in case you were wondering. In fact, judges in at least three countries have made rulings in favor of Apple. While most of these rulings are still subject to change, it does point to the very real possibility of Samsung being bent over by Apple and potentially changing the cell phone landscape.

Apple has won a few patent lawsuits against Android tablets and has a few qualms with Samsung's Touchwiz interface (especially Touchwiz 3.0 without using Widgets). However, Samsung just keeps on craking out new tablets that are free from the rulings. In the smartphone category, Apple may have had a legitimate beef with the design of the Samsung Vibrant (a variant of the original Galaxy S), and a few icons in TouchWiz may need to be changed, but I don't think Apple has a chance to get any tranction in barring the entire Galaxy S series; especially since the Galaxy S II no longer looks nearly so iPhone like, and soon enough they'll all be running Android 4.0 anyway, which is a different beast altogether.