So here's the debate... Is it the noble cause, or the $$$/actual patent cause as the motive of this?

Is this having to do with google doing this for the industry and suing Apple to send a message and say "Hey, its not cool just going around and suing your closest competitors to try to deal with them that way"...

Or is it more along the lines of Google thinking "Oh, good idea... So if they beat samsung, then maybe we can do the same to them"

divito

Canada1213 Posts

August 28 2012 11:27 GMT

#107

Google doing this, and the likely overturned Samsung verdict is going to be awesome!!

Le French

France782 Posts

August 28 2012 11:35 GMT

#108

This will end in a settlement. No 2 big corporation will risk cleaning their dirty linen in the public.

Liman

Serbia681 Posts

August 28 2012 11:35 GMT

#109

Well Microsoft could sue them all,android is win ripp off.

ThunderGod

New Zealand897 Posts

August 28 2012 11:39 GMT

#110

Lawyers are the big winners here.

blug

Australia623 Posts

August 28 2012 11:42 GMT

#111

Most businesses don't sue non stop because they know of the repercussions in terms of tainting their reputation.

This is basically a "Reputation Unaffected Card" for all competing companies.

Every company that sues Apple now look like "Good Guys".

Netsky

Australia1155 Posts

August 28 2012 11:46 GMT

#112

I hope these actions are successful for Google.

Apple is sickeningly abusive of intellectual property law.

Gahlo

United States35170 Posts

August 28 2012 11:53 GMT

#113

Yeeeeeeah buddy, toss the rotten fruit.

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

August 28 2012 11:55 GMT

#114

I liked the phrasing of the OP but honestly it's more like The Empire Strikes Back (at the Empire)

CursedRich

United Kingdom737 Posts

August 28 2012 11:59 GMT

#115

Exactly why Google brought Motorola in the first place, Google are not a company that are easy to respect, pretty much everything they have ever done is based on others ideas, all of these companies are hypocrites

dannystarcraft

United States179 Posts

August 28 2012 12:01 GMT

#116

On August 28 2012 20:53 Gahlo wrote:
Yeeeeeeah buddy, toss the rotten fruit.

My thoughts exactly.

This is like a battle of the two super corporations here. I hope Google wins, but I hate to see any corporation have so much power honestly... the influence of these companies is getting enormous.

henkel

Netherlands146 Posts

August 28 2012 12:02 GMT

#117

Some one a couple of pages brought up a good point. How do other producers deal with these patent laws, tv and car manufacturers for example? anyone know anything about this? vaguely remember reading something about a gentlemans agreement but am unsure.

Rorix

357 Posts

August 28 2012 12:02 GMT

#118

I checked some of the links in the OP and most of them are about 2 weeks old. Any update on this "war"? Google knew Apple won a small but important battle recently so...