Originally Posted by sooper_droid12

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This is NOT the problem. Listen to an interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. Google thrives on the ability to obtain and retain their own intellectual property. All businesses are like this and without it, we wouldn't have companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google creating what they're creating. The fact that today, what we can do on our phone/devices was not even a figment of imagination 15 years ago speaks volumes about the need to protect IP. Google understands that. Apple understands that. What Schmidt continued to say was that we need to find a balance between protecting IP, use of IP and compensation.

IP can't be used in such a way that it's directed at 1 person for $1,000,000. The balance is understanding how to get $1 for the use by a 1,000,000 people. Same money amount, wider net casted. Eric Schmidt, in the same talk, praised Apple for understanding that and what they did with iTunes. The problem isn't that the patent exists. The problem is that there are companies out there, like HTC, that would rather steal tech than innovate tech, to make a buck. That's lazy. And I have no compassion for that.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think Google is absolved from all of this either. They made their bed with HTC. To me, there are really only three major players in the mobile device category: Nokia, Apple and Palm. Each of those three companies have long standing IPs on their side for the innovative development of mobile devices. As we can see from the Nokia suit against Apple, Nokia will likely win that suit due to precedence in their favor.

As I've said: I hope Apple bleeds HTC dry. This is the only way we drive innovation.

Originally Posted by pkopalek

iPhone/iPod OS is OS X.