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Old 10-10-2011, 11:55 AM   #80
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Originally Posted by SamuraiXSendai View Post
If you've been following the patent wars, then you know there is no guarantee of a continued Android. Apple is not going to license any of it's patents - they want android stopped period and have a chance to do so, and there are others who do want money who could cost enough to make Android the high OS option. Also Google seem to be only half-heartedly helping their app developers who are also under attack.

This may be one of the reasons for the rumored WEBOS interest on Amazon's side.
I must differ with you honorable Samurai. What is mainly happening is positioning for getting license fees. For example Microsoft is doing a lot of that. The smaller machines like HTC are having to pay out a lot because they don't have the finances to fight it. The bigger ones like Samsung aren't.
Samsung has run into difficulties in Germany essentially because one device looks like an Apple to a German court. That foolish reasoning won't fly many other places.
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