[RockdaMan]

Originally Posted by HansTWN

Let us hope Apple will start inventing their own stuff again

Not the Schmidt quote.

Stuff I read on the Internet about that:

The idea that Apple, of all companies, is not innovating in the mobile marketplace is completely absurd: jeez, a year and a half after the first iPad, Android has yet to power a credible competitor.

Cynics might argue Schmidt’s comment draws from nervousness on Google’s part because Android backers are increasingly discovering hidden costs as Microsoft and Apple emerge as holders of patents crucial to Google’s mobile operating system...

...Microsoft is already taking money from five Android vendors for patent protection, including HTC which is said to pay five bucks each time it ships an Android handset...

Google opened the bidding for the more than 6,000 Nortel patents in April with an offer of $900m...