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You mean Android vs. Windows Phone? Microsoft has actually lost even more marketshare since WP7 was released. It's currently just an also-ran mobile OS. The mobile OS fight will continue to be between the big boys: Android, iOS and Blackberry. WebOS and WP7 are just bit players.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
Maybe it will be Android vs WP8 or WP9 or 10 or 11?! All this while Apple will be busy defending rectangle and circle IP in court rooms against Aristotle and Pitagora.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
My lawyer will send you a PM with the sentence tomorrow morning after he visits a certain German Courtroom! :p ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
I'm sure I posted and patented something VERY similar previously. I'll sell you the patent for that for £50 though.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
Well, I hate to brake it to you but I have already patented the suing process and the patenting process so I think I am 2 steps ahead! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
PS: Isn't it fun to play like this? man I should have become a lawyer! :rotflmao:
I'm sorry but that's a very simplified view of it. Sure Apple stole a march on everyone, but they've done little else other than add features which others already had since before the original iPhone was launched......Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
A centralised App store is the only real innovation that Apple brought to the market and even that wasn't an innovation per se, just something they marketed well and placed restrictions on which ended up being a bonus for the customer.
Mom said it well with this
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That's possible, though I don't see it as likely. Why, out of the blue, would MSFT all of a sudden get its mobile strategy right, when all its done up to this point is get it wrong? It could happen. Just as the lawsuits brought by Apple and Microsoft against Google could cripple Android - seen by most as the reason Google is buying Motorola Mobility. Google needs patents like a drowning man needs air. Instead of wasting money on Skype, Microsoft should have probably bought Motorola (IMO).Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
They're all suing each other. It's not one or two suing one or two. Everybody is getting "lawyered up".
Perhaps Microsoft actually sees value in Skype other than in paying just to have google not have Skype....Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Every now and then MSFT does get some things right otherwise they wouldn't be what they are. And together with a Nokia team that has knowledge of what mobility solutions should be like they might pull a rabbit again.
I still think that the market is big enough for all of them but the one that will do best is the one who offers an open and thus easily compatible OS.
The way I look at it is like this. If tomorrow Apple announced that they were shutting up shop and no longer making anything, what would happen? People would merely move on to other stuff. If Microsoft announced they weren't making OS's for business or office packages for business or Server OS's for business then the world would quickly grind to a halt. If RIM shut up shop there would be a lot of problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Apple's problem is that they've got to be popular to really sell lots of their product. The moment Apple products become uncool or someone brings out something which gets even more hype then Apple will be kicked out of bed faster than a thing that kicks stuff out of bed fast. Will that be in a years time? 2 years time? 5 years time? Who knows, but it won't last forever.