Apple softens Jobs' war on Android, offers licensing deal to Motorola and Samsung

54. Mario1017 posted on 06 Mar 2012, 19:42 0 0

Good job Apple! Now that is good competition!

69. bayusuputra posted on 07 Mar 2012, 13:35 0 0

yeah, i don't mind paying more for the technological progress, but i hate paying more for another legal battles..

10. cepcamba posted on 06 Mar 2012, 14:48 8 0

"pay us now and forever or we keep suing".

That's certainly very Apple (or Jobs). Anyway, looks like the new Apple management has a different view from Jobs. I have this feeling they're starting to play by the rules, I mean the Market Rules :)

dual-core, variety of screen sizes (rumored), dropping prices (really? Apple?) and now this sort of attempt to make peace with it's biggest competitor.

16. remixfa posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:04 7 0

I hope that sort of behavior modification is true on apple's part. I dont hold high hopes as I don't think Jobs would chose a successor that fell too far from his tree, but at least there is some hope.

19. cepcamba posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:16 4 0

Yup. If Apple is indeed wanting a harmonious relationship with other companies it can only lead to good things.

Honestly, I think Apple can get a big chunk of the Android Market share if they made their products "open". Imagine them producing quads with a humongous apps store with all the apps optimized for their device. I'm guessing porting of Android Apps wouldn't pose much of an issue too since both have arm architecture (i'm guessing here).

I just really like the way iPhones (3GS, 4, and 4S) have this creamy feeling (thanks to a highly optimized software) whereas you only get this feeling with dual core droids and a select few single core monsters.

I guess what I'm saying is the combined technologies of anything is sure to lead to something better.

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70. bayusuputra posted on 07 Mar 2012, 13:40 0 0

if that's true, i think apple will have even more followers, and maybe it can even coexist peacefully with android.. it's not that i hate apple products, actually they are not that bad, and certainly in some aspects, better than others.. it's their market behaviour that disgusts me the most, and maybe Jobs' personal vendetta to kill other competitors.. he's a great guy, but his methods are sometimes too sick..

22. -box- posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:18 4 0

I dunno, I haven't seen apple innovate anything... whereas other companies are pushing for better and more exciting (and long-lasting) UI/UXs, tweaking the software, pushing the hardware boundaries (processors, screens, cameras), rather than incremental upgrades to increase sales and render prior models almost entirely useles...

26. gallitoking posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:37 1 11

they release a phone every year... thats why their innovation is different...

39. andro. posted on 06 Mar 2012, 16:55 9 3

They release the same phone every year is what you meant to say

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40. gallitoking posted on 06 Mar 2012, 17:09 2 10

to dumb to noticed the difference.. ok.. now I see why you went with Android

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50. nak1017 posted on 06 Mar 2012, 18:46 1 0

Are you high? The lawsuit wars have made lawyers apart of engineering R&D decisions, which is akin to pouring molasses in gears. Companies are so worried about getting caught up in these never ending trials, they're having to go everything with a fine-tooth comb and keep perfect records of all development work just to avoid the appearance of using someone else's prior art.
Licencing give companies the option to take the shorter routes and speed up development work (at a small cost per unit). It also allows companies an out in the event of possible lawsuits, thus removing some lawyers from engineering decisions. You obviously never worked for an engineering company...

24. -box- posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:20 3 2

I know you're a hardcore apple person, but your statement says that you're glad the picture shows apple about to get smashed by the gavel, meaning you're happy apple has to compromise...

...did you have an epiphany or something?

28. gallitoking posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:38 1 6

is called sarcasm....

11. theBankRobber posted on 06 Mar 2012, 14:48 5 3

I agree

12. gallitoking posted on 06 Mar 2012, 14:49 4 15

are you sure they stole it.. prove it... thats what I thought

17. vijaysivakula posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:14 6 2

yeah. i am sure you can prove it on your idevice even before android existed.

21. TechDroid posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:17 3 2

Are you serious?

58. frydaexiii posted on 06 Mar 2012, 21:06 1 1

Prove it? Are you for real? That's like looking at a sparrow and say to others "Are you sure it's a bird? Prove it!".

45. stealthd posted on 06 Mar 2012, 18:09 3 0

Google hasn't been granted a patent for that.

25. cepcamba posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:21 2 0

Well said. :p

29. gallitoking posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:38 1 10

could it be that they were late to the party and they copied everyone..

30. taz89 posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:44 4 1

late to the party?thats rim,nokia and microsoft and thats why they are where they are

38. gallitoking posted on 06 Mar 2012, 16:12 1 6

microsoft?... really... wow..ok. whatever

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55. remixfa posted on 06 Mar 2012, 20:04 2 1

did you know that Windows 5xx had slide to unlock? lol

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42. tward291 posted on 06 Mar 2012, 17:13 0 0

who did microsoft copy

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34. CivicSi89 posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:56 5 1

Dude..... Lay off the Apple Jelly on your iBiscuits man...

41. gallitoking posted on 06 Mar 2012, 17:11 1 8

as soon as you lay off the IC sandwich...

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20. drahmad posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:17 3 6

bad news for you dear. android will become so costly for oems that they would rather prefer windows.

32. andro. posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:46 5 1

Thats hilarious!

31. -box- posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:45 4 1

More like first time since the original iphone came out.... and even that wasn't necessarily innovative, just a combination of ideas and parts from other companies (without permission for a number of them, i.e. Nokia) with a logical evolution of the smartphone concept, already illustrated by other companies' prototypes and concepts, much like the original macintosh was for PCs

33. ReturningToNokia posted on 06 Mar 2012, 15:49 1 1

Don't worry, Love. HTC and the others will be added to the list!

Just think, if you are already using an Android device, you're already supporting Microsoft; might as well support Apple too :)

36. redrooster13 posted on 06 Mar 2012, 16:03 4 2

I don't really mind supporting Microsoft. Just not Apple.

51. frydaexiii posted on 06 Mar 2012, 19:05 3 0

No, I love Microsoft despite their extremely costly software, but at least it works and it's good...I refuse to pay Apple. They have given me nothing but a s**tty mp3 player and a hoard of annoying iFans to make my life miserable...

44. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 06 Mar 2012, 17:35 1 0

i guess a lot of us think same way on moral grounds.

46. -box- posted on 06 Mar 2012, 18:24 2 1

Buy Nokia. Apple has to pay them for patent infringements

53. MichaelHeller posted on 06 Mar 2012, 19:29 0 0

if you buy Samsung or Motorola, you're already supporting Microsoft to the tune of $10 or so. What's another $15 going to Apple?

56. remixfa posted on 06 Mar 2012, 20:05 5 2

Because I dont dislike MS as a culture (though i do not like their foxconn practices), where I disagree with Apple as a culture and do not want to contribute to that.

Its like being a capitalist and being told you are forced to give your money to communists..
wow. its exactly like that.. lol

57. cellphonator posted on 06 Mar 2012, 20:48 0 0

Ha! You're in the 1% then, busted, shame on you hahaha!

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59. hepresearch (unregistered) posted on 06 Mar 2012, 23:22 0 0

Capitalists being forced to give money to communists? I cannot remember a time when that has NOT been the case in my lifetime...

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68. audiblenarcotic posted on 07 Mar 2012, 11:49 0 0

What a wonderful analogy. But you forget that such a move would require logic and common sense. Something that our government seems to lack currently.

71. bayusuputra posted on 07 Mar 2012, 13:49 0 0

when i read the first sentence, i was like, okay, this guy got a good point..

when the last one came........

facepalm.........

37. Aaron_R96 posted on 06 Mar 2012, 16:07 0 0

Dont get the GS2, at least get a newer model like the Sony Xperia S or SGS3.. (: