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In many cases, yes. And it’s not always easy.

At arm’s length you say?…

True, what I provided is the simple explanation of the current situation. It may bend and twist in future all the way.

You need to read the whole patent, not just headline.

No. US Court stopped Motorola’s actions because its patent was FRAND thus court decided what Motorola does is not legit.

MS’s patent is not FRAND, they may enforce it any way they like, no basis for stopping them.

As well as the quality of the publications. Amazon stuff is mostly text, sometimes a couple of pictures. iBooks are sometimes truly rich. I agree with the Apple’s argument on bringing in a competition.

However, if the price fixing took place it’s a wholly different matter. I would not appreciate that.

Wasn’t so talkative on the stand, was he?

Boy you are as serious as your avatar suggests.

By trying to undermine Apple’s offer of course. Apple shouldn’t win. Even if it doesn’t get any immediate monetary benefits. It’s about principle :)

Apparently Samsung feels utterly insecure if they resort to this kind of meticulous picking on Apple. Seems guys need to find a way to hurt Apple just anywhere to reestablish their self-esteem.

No. The reason Amazon is successful is content. You don’t get this game.

This is not good. Skype is one of the core services.

Yep, right. Thank you. Android will live but will be very different.

You are right. It’s just my language command. Sorry. Of course I mean Asian firms.

First, that’s not just my opinion. That’s my professional opinion basing on my experience in this market, so there’s some difference.

Second, no, Asians are not retarded or something if that’s what you think I imply. We just didn’t see a viable software solution from the Asian OEM as of now. And I doubt we will see it in the next year.

OEMs have no loyalty. They will stay with Android as long as there’s no more lucrative solution. Google doing its own hardware is a threat to their profits. So obviously they’d look for another solution and jump ship as soon as they see one.

Would it be WP or their own brew who knows.

Yes, they do. But it has nothing to do with their software quality. Bada is horrific. Samsung’s Touchwiz is a disaster.

If they partner with the capable partner it’s another story.

True that.

Every Android OEM would be jumping the ship if Google will start it’s own manufacture. We would have a single OEM (Google) providing most of the devices, with much stricter control over them. We will have other OEMs, some very powerful, trying to utilize other platforms because it won’t be possible to outcompete Google using Android.

In my book these are huge changes to Android world. I wouldn’t say they are necessarily bad, I do believe it would be good for Android to be a little more consistent. But I highly doubt Google would dare to do it.

There are just two big Android suppliers – Samsung and HTC. If Samsung will jump the ship with its enormous retail counts there wouldn’t be many popular devices where Android would be able to demonstrate its interoperability.

I myself believe Samsung will fail with fork, but basically because Asians are still notoriously bad in software department. However, if Google will start its own hardware business every OEM will be looking for the opportunity to jump the ship. And it won’t be good for Google.

If they would dare to go this path it’s the end of Android as we know it.

This was always an elephant in the room and Google invested awful amount of effort to convince fellow OEMs it’s not gonna happen. And still they are smiling Google in the face but cooking the plan B undercover. If Google will break their trust now we will see a whole lot of consequences.

They don’t have to, they have their ecosystems to protect. There’s good reason why a monopoly is always under close observation and I don’t think these litigations surprise Google.

Still truth is Google does all to make people use their services from Android phones, not competitor’s. They always have more integration, better options etc. Again not that it is not natural, but for monopolies it may be wrong.

We have a good excuse to make you to buy a phone every year. You can’t argue so get lost. But give us your money. Great.

By locking people in their services of course. Everybody does that, it’s only that Google has almost monopoly position in e-mail.

This too. Classical MS approach.

I think they will find the way to deal with this situation. Unlike with many other cases with maps to include them is only natural.

Ah, stop this. Google’s search products are great. It has nothing to do with evil or not. And even when they use their monopoly stance to enter different markets it really is not always bad too. I wholeheartedly dislike the way they use their services to promote Android – that’s in my opinion is not right. But with maps it’s only natural and it indeed is very logical to include them in the search results. I’m sure they will sort it out.

In Google’s case, unlike Bing this may be perceived as using the monopoly position to enter other markets. Google has monopoly in search and by its means enters the market of e.g. online maps that is not so monopolized.

While I totally agree what Google does is only natural and improves the service, I may understand the position of the EU regulator. Problem is that there’s no easy work around here. I wonder what they would do.

Shoot yourself in the foot, you are welcome.