Well put John. On 9 May 2010, at 17:37, John Panarese wrote:
> This is true to an extent. The issue here is that Apple's growth in the > smart phone market worldwide is nearly exponential. Remember that iPhones > did not exist 3 years ago and now they are the third biggest smart phone > seller. Nokia is losing a lot of business to Apple, as is RIM. If you think > that Nokia and RIM are not aware of this and are in defensive mode, you are > fooling yourself. I have a friend who works for Motorola's mobile devices > division and he was telling me flat out that Apple's iPhone is "killing' > their business and that is a quote from him. Companies will do whatever it > takes to protect their business, and if the shoe was on the other foot, Apple > would surely be involved in a similar tactic. It's how business is done > these days, I'm afraid, among manufacturers protecting their technologies. > > As for the lawsuit itself, yes, it will go away. There will be behind > the scenes deals made. The last one Nokia tried fell short, so I don't know > what this one is about now. There are so many patents owned by various > manufactures that are so close in description that it all gets ridiculous > when you try to interpret their application. From my understanding written > in several articles, if Apple truly wanted to be the cut throat, cold, nasty > company some portray them as being, they could take Google, Microsoft and > other companies to court over specific aspects of the touch screen patent > technology they particularly own and have solid, legal grounds to tie them up > in court for quite some time. > > John D. Panarese > Managing Director > Technologies for the Visually Impaired, Inc. > 9 Nolan Court > Hauppauge, NY 11788 > Tel/Fax, (631) 724-4479 > Email, [email protected] > Internet, http://www.tvi-web.com > > AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS FOR PORTSET SYSTEMS LTD, COMPSOLUTIONS VA, PREMIER > ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INDEX, PAPENMEIER, REPRO-TRONICS, DUXBURY, SEROTEK > AND OTHER PRODUCTS FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED > > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > On May 9, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: > >> I know we love our iPhones here, but to act like Nokia is terrified and on >> the ropes is silly. Do you know that 2 out of every 5 smartphones in the >> world are Nokias. Their 40% market share is mamoth when compared to Apple's >> 17%. BlackBerries stil out-sell iPhones. It's great that Apple sold nearly >> 9,000,000 iPhones last quarter, but, in the same time, Nokia sold 21,000,000. >> >> As big as the iPhone is here in the US, I think that a lot of people forget >> just how popular Nokia is nearly everywhere else in the world. >> >> These patent battles happen all of the time. Qualcom was the big focus a few >> years ago. Nokia and Apple will maneuver for a while, they'll come to some >> agreement that I won't sue you for this patent if you don't sue me for that >> one, and then they'll both try to take a swing at RIM. >> >> Bryan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marie Howarth >> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:07 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: o.t, maybe. Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of >> Nokia patents >> >> and that is the point. Nokia's suffering so what do they do, hit the company >> that potentially has the most money. >> >> On 9 May 2010, at 11:49, Kaare Dehard wrote: >> >>> sounds to me like they are timing this right, results are down for Nokia >>> right now and they're probably trying to do this to cut some losses witha >>> fat lisencing contract. >>> On 2010-05-08, at 11:20 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> >>>> agreed. I do wonder what will come out of it though? I hoep nokia >>>> looses big time On May 8, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yet another boring lawsuit. 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