More than congress its Google who needs to realize that all its partner device makers are spending expensive resources on lawsuits rather than focusing on making cool android phones and its all because of some missteps that Google took to not properly license their OS.
Why doesn't Google take responsibility of all these lawsuits? Afterall HTC, Samsung, LG and all other device makers are having to cough up money because they adopted android.
Google should lead the charge here and not leave it to its partners to fight it out.
I think Google is leading the charge when it can with respect to Android the software. Many of the patents that Apple is going after other players with have to do with 'look and feel' of the hardware. In those cases I'm not sure Google has the standing to step in since they are not the ones who created the hardware.
Why should Google lead the charge when HTC, Samsung pay zero zip nil dollars to license Android? It's they that are making buckets of money from selling Android phones, see the financials. Why is Google supposed to feel sorry for them? Google now has Motorola additionally to worry about.
If they want patent indemnity, let them go to Microsoft, which provides patent indemnification to WP7 in exchange of $15 or so of licensing fees. (Same with desktop Windows vs. Linux).
Google here comes up looking dishonest because it is the one that lured the so called "partners" into adopting androind claiming that it was free and now they are left to pick the tabs when apple and microsoft came after them.
Of course going with Microsoft is an option but all these partners have been there done that. So they know better. :)
>Google here comes up looking dishonest because it is the one that lured the so called "partners" into adopting androind claiming that it was free and now they are left to pick the tabs when apple and microsoft came after them
I don't see anything dishonest about it. It was given away for free after all and the OEMs software usually sucks as a universal rule. They leveraged the Android marketplace and ecosystem, Maps etc.
>Of course going with Microsoft is an option but all these partners have been there done that. So they know better. :)
I don't know what that snark means, but the meme keeps getting repeated. OEMs have been making rich profits all along selling PCs (and from crippling them with useless software that makes them even more money, causing people to blame Windows for their faults). It's not as if Microsoft bought Dell and then clobbered the other OEMs(like Google seems to be in real danger of doing with Motorola).
Re. the snark: the OEMs went with microsoft but were disappointed because microsoft had a lousy OS especially as compared to iOS. Microsoft needs to do some work to gain their confidence back.
WP7 looks much more competitive though. I have Focus. Love it.
Why doesn't Google take responsibility of all these lawsuits? Afterall HTC, Samsung, LG and all other device makers are having to cough up money because they adopted android.
Google should lead the charge here and not leave it to its partners to fight it out.
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