On Jan 28, 8:05 am, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote:
> You can see from the article
> athttp://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/16/Firm_seeks_to_bar_Nokia_RIM...
> that the worst that a firm can do is try to ban companies importing
> products into the US which may breach a US patent.
I generally agree with you. You are comparing apples with oranges
however (pun intended). Saxon Innovation and this whole slew of non-
practicing entities (also known as "patent trolls") exist for the sole
purpose of extorting money from legitimate businesses. Apple would
shoot themselves in the foot if they started enforcing the rights
granted through this (and I suppose other) patents. If this happens,
the touch-screen oriented model of user interaction would mostly be
available with their products only. Although Apple's big, they are not
quite big enough that they wouldn't have to rely on having their boat
lifted along with everybody else's as a result of the proliferation of
touch-oriented handsets by virtue of introduction through numerous
vendors. In my humble opinion, anyway. I am looking in particular at
manufacturers in China and "extended workbench" countries which
deliver to growth markets, and which are not be quite there yet as far
as software is concerned. Android should come as an opportunity to
deliver a software platform that supports the touch-oriented model for
their products almost "out of the box".
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