Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile 175
Although the graphic itself won't win an award for design,
Norman submitted a story about who's suing who in the mobile universe. From Apple to Qualcomm and pretty much everyone in between, it's a pretty impressive mess.
The Lawyers win (Score:5, Insightful)
Abolish patents already. (Score:3, Insightful)
All this money and time (Score:4, Insightful)
Business Success (Score:2, Insightful)
Microsoft.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Size? (Score:5, Insightful)
And even better if they sorted it out so that the arrows didn't overlap..
Why on earth does the Oracle-Google arrow overlap with the Nokia-Toshiba one? Specifically added confusion, that's why.
Re:Microsoft.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Microsoft.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Microsoft isn't delivering a product, so they can't be sued.
The Era of Stupid Computing (Score:5, Insightful)
Can you imagine if what is going on now in the mobile space had been happening as personal computing took off during the 80s? We'd have gotten just short of nowhere, what with all the patent suits crippling things and walled garden lock down forcing people to find exploits so they can regain basic levels of control.
I can't help that this piss poor, anti-user behavior in the mobile market is going to ripple up into the general computing space in the next few years and generally make life hell for anyone who shows an interest in computers beyond Facebook, e-mail and the latest console game.
Re:Hey Microsoft (Score:3, Insightful)
Does that reveal a knee-jerk anti-microsoft bias, or an inability to comment on the actual subject matter...I guess that's not really an either-or question. never mind.
Re:competition (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not anti-competitive... the competition just moved into the courts.
Re:Size? (Score:5, Insightful)
As a matter of fact, I did just that. Theirs is a hopeless mess of spaghetti.
http://ompldr.org/vNXFndg/lawsuitmap.gif [ompldr.org]
Re:Hey Microsoft (Score:4, Insightful)
And as far as everyone else goes, these kinds of things have been going on for years but it is Microsoft who continues to do the most damage to competition. The others tend to figure out how to work thing out without initially destroying each other. Microsoft's business methods and practices are always based on protectionism as opposed to competition and their market position makes them the largest threat in the ring. They've lost 10s of billions on the Windows CE based productline yet it still exists. As with Internet Explorer they effectively pay vendors to ship their products until the competition has lost enough income they are easy pickings. That makes them the elephant in the room.
As for it being knee-jerk well if it were a demolition derby, when a competitor shows up in a armored tank, who but the blind isn't going to point that out?
LoB
Moreso (Score:1, Insightful)
The business of government wins. Billions of dollars each year are being raked through the business of government merely for the administration of the IP racket. After all, who do you think designed and implemented the process? It sure wasn't the players -- it was the founders and owners of the game.
Don't for a second think that government doesn't benefit from all this.
Re:Nokia, LG and Samsung? (Score:3, Insightful)
Nokia is suing LG, Samsung, Hitachi, Toshiba, Sharp (and others on this graph) over the fact that they were involved in LCD price-fixing. It has nothing to do with patents.