Patent lawsuits in the smartphone business: Novel sues Apple. Apple sues Novel and HTC. Oracle sues Google. Microsoft sues Motorola. Motorola sues Apple. And all this is just the major stakeholders. So why?
1. Novel is after iPhone/iOS. Apple is defending itself against Novel, and is attacking Android (HTC) along the way. Likely to settle out of court, with Apple being marginal winner.
2. Oracle is after money. They got the relevant patents when they bought Sun. The claims seem viable. They demanded Google to stop distributing Android, but this is just tactics to pressure Google into faster submission.
3. Microsoft is after Android. They sued Motorola, one of the few large smartphone developers who is not going to develop Windows Phones. In fact, Microsoft made sure to point out that the biggest advantage of their system is in ... explicitly granted protection against lawsuits.
Android popularity is soaring, and technically it has a lot of potential. But not all is right in the Android kingdom.
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