Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, and any other big tech-player need to band together...
But they won't - Microsoft and Apple are patent trolls themselves, now, and it won't be long until Google and Samsung join them.
It works like this. Startups have no patents, but as they grow and succeed they accumulate them. Eventually they get lazy and start to rely on their IP for income, rather than continuing to develop valuable new markets.
Microsoft is a great example of this arc, making more money licencing unspeakable patents to Android than they do from Windows Phone. Apple are going that way - their heyday is over and patents are becoming more important to them. Google is currently not over the hump yet, but give them ten years.
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But they won't - Microsoft and Apple are patent trolls themselves, now, and it won't be long until Google and Samsung join them.
It works like this. Startups have no patents, but as they grow and succeed they accumulate them. Eventually they get lazy and start to rely on their IP for income, rather than continuing to develop valuable new markets.
Microsoft is a great example of this arc, making more money licencing unspeakable patents to Android than they do from Windows Phone. Apple are going that way - their heyday is over and patents are becoming more important to them. Google is currently not over the hump yet, but give them ten years.