There have been plenty of legal wranglings between Motorola and Apple, and with Google buying Motorola, that doesn’t show signs of stopping. Now, Google plans to grab 2.25 per cent of every iPhone sale because of the patents it owns through the purchase of Moto.
CNN Money reports that, in a letter sent to IEEE by Google, the search giant intends to ask for the “maximum per-unit royalty of 2.25 per cent” in the EU, that Motorola has tried to demand from Apple in the past. As if allegedly stealing the idea for Android from Apple wasn’t enough in the first place, eh? [CNN Money]
Hesh
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM‘allegedly stealing the idea for Android from Apple’ ?
yeah of course thats what happened.
David
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:23 AMI wouldn’t say stole because it’s not exactly unusual to display icons in rectangular grids, but android’s look and feel etc was at the very least heavily inspired by the iphone.
Suprising
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 1:51 PMIcons in a grid? that sounds like just about EVERY (GUI) Operating system available. Windows has Icons, MacOS has icons and Linux has icons.
But, agreed, at a desktop level iOS and Android do appear very similar, but once you use the interface at a slightly deeper level you realize that there are a lot more differences then there are similarities.
Sean
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 4:25 PMDo you three need an “Irony” sign?
justin
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8:38 PMWindows phone 7….
Kris
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Teal
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:59 AMYou know…. if I’m going to chooose between two evil giants, I’ll choose Google because Google at least let’s a few more people have some of the pie.
F**k you Apple.
np
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:58 AMAs an individual what makes you go out of your way to hate a company so much on a personal level?
What is it that they did to you to affect you to that extent?
Do you have a loyalty to a a percieved competitor that enables you to create an us vs. them scenario?
Are you opposed to their ethics or policies in which case do you think bashing them on a forum is helping remedy the situation?
I see this bile on Giz all the time and don´t understand it at all. The only way this would make sense is if you have got something to gain out of it.
Entilzha
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:28 AMDon’t worry I’m sure Apple will just tack on the extra cost with whatever Foxconn solution they come up with…
np
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:30 AMAndroid essentially gives asian hardware manufacturers the edge.
South Korea to be specific.
Their manufacturing industry is booming and the US, Japan and Australia simply cannot compete. Most of the brands receive their screens etc. from giants like Samsung instead of manufacturing them themselves nowadays.
The profits from these manufacturers filter back to Asia whereas with Apple the profits are US declared and based (and therefore taxes and the like are injected back into the US infrastructure (roads, education etc.)).
Apple have for years been putting pressure on the US government to get them to recruit overseas engineers. there is a lack of engineers in Western manufacturing because Asia consumes most of it.
The premise is that Apple would love and continuously pushed to bring manufacturing back to the US but simply cannot because there are not enough engineers to facilitate this.
Giz have published some great articles on this recently.
Entilzha
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 9:49 AMHeaven forbin the Government actually supports students in Australia/US when the students get replace by “Skilled” workers on 457 Visas.
There is no IT shortage in Australia yet we still have work being sent overseas to “Reduce cost” hell the people at Westpac recently even had people come over on 457 visas to learn from the people whom they were replacing.
np
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:39 AMIn what field of IT were the staff replaced?
The US and Australia does not produce enough engineers to support the manufacturing needs of a company like Apple, Samsung or HTC. They need engineers accross the board.. civil, electical, mechanical, chemical. A wide expanse from inception of manufacturing plants all the way through to component and industrial design. Huge. Absolutely huge.
The last three engineers my company employed were Finnish, German and Chinese (all had been in the country a short perieod of time). It´s hard to keep hold of them in my industry as they are so in demand. A lot of them (the good ones with practical experience) move to WA to work in mining or move to China and earn three times as much than working here in Vic.
Entilzha
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:55 AMI admit I’m probably a bit biased on my part of the story being a systems tester. The Westpac guys were systems testers. Sorry I get a bit ranty on that subject.
But I agree with you the Government does not do enough to support the production of local engineers in numbers required by these businesses. And the 457 visa sceme only promotes getting inexpiranced people to come here get their practilce training and jump ship when their resume is padded enough to get the higher pay.
Okla
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 1:03 PMI can tell you first hand that there are more than enough engineers. Only 5 out of 10 gets employed because companies only want to get the cream of the graduates. Some of these who failed to be hired were actually forced to work unassocited engineering work and some to extend of owing ppublic listed companies now.Until the interviewers baby boomers start realizing academic grade is not the most important in the business world we will always have a false statistics that we are short of engineers.I have previously questioned Engineers Australia on their statistics and they admitted until now they do not have means to include numbers on those who did not gain engineer employment and why they did not re enter engineer work force.
np
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 9:08 PMI’m sorry you are incorrect. I suggest you read this Gis article:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/01/why-apple-doesnt-make-the-iphone-in-america/
Here is a excerpt…
“Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.
In China, it took 15 days.”
So if you believe we have “more than enough engineers” let’s see you come up with 8 to 10,000 of them in Australia.