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Originally Posted by Pastiche
Google should just buy Palm right now at pennies on the dollar for all their patents.
Getting into a protracted patent suit is just so anti innovation and a clear offensive strategy to try and hold onto their market share. I think Apple sees the writing on the wall with Android that it will be the next 'Windows' of the phone OS'. All of the IBM clones will choose to adopt Android squeezing Apple's market share to their traditional levels. They'll also squeeze margins as Android is free to use.
However Apple had to think that they couldn't ride the iPhone gravy train for much longer. The market will catch up. Unless of course Apple can corner the touchscreen features through enforcing their patents. God I hope not.
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This would make more sense if Apple actually had a lot of market share, but in fact they don't. Symbian rules the market by a lot.
Apple's run by a control freak.