No mention of Apple's successful legal attack on HTC over garbage patents like slide-to-unlock. Apple was able to block imports of HTC phones in 2012 back when they had the hot Evo brand and were introducing the One brand. HTC settled for an undisclosed amount that HTC has to pay Apple for every unit it sells. They have not been able to regain momentum since.
I guess it's not mentioned because it's irrelevant? The people on HN seem to care a lot about lawsuits and companies copying eachothers features, but most people buying smartphones couldn't care less. People don't care who invented something first or who sues who, people just pick whatever seems to be the best product that they can afford.
I don't think that HTC failed because of a lawsuit; Samsung was pretty successful despite all the lawsuits, and Apple is similarly killing it despite constantly being sued from all kinds of companies.
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No mention of Apple's successful legal attack on HTC over garbage patents like slide-to-unlock. Apple was able to block imports of HTC phones in 2012 back when they had the hot Evo brand and were introducing the One brand. HTC settled for an undisclosed amount that HTC has to pay Apple for every unit it sells. They have not been able to regain momentum since.
Do bear in mind that not all patent claims in Apple vs. HTC were what you describe as 'garbage'. Things like http://www.google.com/patents/US5848105?dq=5,848,105
I guess it's not mentioned because it's irrelevant? The people on HN seem to care a lot about lawsuits and companies copying eachothers features, but most people buying smartphones couldn't care less. People don't care who invented something first or who sues who, people just pick whatever seems to be the best product that they can afford.
I don't think that HTC failed because of a lawsuit; Samsung was pretty successful despite all the lawsuits, and Apple is similarly killing it despite constantly being sued from all kinds of companies.
How is having to pay another company a margin of what you make on every unit not relevant? I doubt it's going to be small sum.
It might not be relevant to the end users but it's very relevant in a discussion of HTC's finances.