Apple already eats up 71% of the mobile profits. Looks like they never forgot how to act like a monopoly in all these years and they like getting up on stage and playing all their 20 year old tunes:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso...</a><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager#Later_versions" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager#L...</a><p>Buying their products is saying, with your actual wallet, and your actual real money in completely unequivocal terms: "Yes, I fully support these blunt litigious anti-competitive tactics. Please do this more."<p>It's almost like a more evil serpent version of the Windows tax: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund#The_.22Windows_tax.22" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund#The_.22Windows_t...</a><p>What if Apple spent all this lawyer money instead on making a superior product that would beat their competitors, you know, because it was a better product, and not just go around and be the corporate Tonya Harding?
every? $30 for every _smartphone_, $40 for every _tablet_. Sounds decent for me <i>as a starting point for negotiations</i>, given that Microsoft is rumoredto collect $1 to $5 per Andorid phone (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15427575" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15427575</a>), with the $5 probably for the higher end phones.
Microsoft seems to be charging anywhere between $7 and $15 per android device for their patents. ( <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/reality-check-microsoft-charging-vendors-a-15-patent-fee-per-android-device/9944" rel="nofollow">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/reality-check-microsoft-...</a> ) So while Apple's fee is much higher, it seems fair to me that given the many obvious similarities a form of patent licensing would be in order.
Sorry Off-topic for the royalty request but relevant to the link.<p>Is it just me that runs with Noscript and finds scribd a real nuisance?<p>The linked page wants to run scripts from:<p>www.scribd.com<p>fonts1.scribdassets.com<p>s5.scribdassets.com<p>s6.scribdassets.com<p>rc.rlcdn.com<p>resources.infolinks.com<p>tap-cdn.rubiconproject.com<p>www.bkrtx.com<p>And you have to register to do the direct download. I would have thought that they could have rationalised their own use of domains to a single domain (plus subdomains) that could be authorised if I wished. The other four domains I've never heard of which makes me just want to get out of the site. Should I just trust them because scribd says that they trust them?
The title is not particularly accurate. Starting bid of 30 per phone with crops licensing discounts and discount for 'non infringing' phones. Non infringing being ones that apple did not consider to be outright copy of the iPhone trade dress and then quirky features.<p>Apple made enormous effort to differentiate the product and give it a personality. Samsung did not just try to match the features the old ones looked like copies.