Comments on: Apple: We’ll Pay $1 to Motorola For Every iPhone Sold to License Essential Patents, But Not a Penny More

By: drathos

drathos — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 12:53:00 +0000

The problem is, in most cases the licensing deal is a cross licensing deal with little to no money involved. Apple wants the “little to no money” part without the cross licensing. And when they don’t get that, they go complain to the FTC.

By: kidheated

kidheated — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:25:00 +0000

“What’s that American expression about shoes and feet?”

By: Just_Some_Nobody

Just_Some_Nobody — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:31:00 +0000

This has exactly what to do with Android?

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:30:00 +0000

average apple phone and 3g/4g tablet are sold for well over $600+ and they want to pay Motorola $1 a device, that’s actually more than they pay their Chinese slaves.

By: KB26

KB26 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:24:00 +0000

72 point font in comic sans

By: KB26

KB26 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:23:00 +0000

Exaggerate this even more:

“We demand $30 for each phone you sold because of the way the pixels are arranged on ONE PART OF THE HOMESCREEN, and because of the rounded corners found in every day life, but i’ll give ya a candy bar for inventing something that changed the world. Deal?”

By: dangolds

dangolds — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:51:00 +0000

And of course that gets 2 down votes because heaven forbid anyone suggest that there could potentially be a valid reason for buying an iPhone aside from being a mindless iSheep. You stay classy, Fan Boys.

By: Suman Gandham

Suman Gandham — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:16:00 +0000

Yeah, and I guess it’s not really Motorola anymore… it’s Google! Still, if Apple have named an amount, it sort of admits their need to licence.

By: tomn1ce

tomn1ce — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:10:00 +0000

I don’t see $1/phone as been fair to Moto…especially if other OEMs are paying more then that….This is just to show the court that they tried to work out a deal with moto and this comes 4 days before the trial…hhhhmmm

By: tomn1ce

tomn1ce — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:01:00 +0000

They just made that pathetic offer to show the court that they tried to work out a deal with Moto…but $1/phone that’s pathetic on their part. I hope that when Apple tries to show the court this retarded offer they made to Moto, that the judge takes into consideration the amount that the other OEMs are paying Moto for the same patents and force apple to pay the same amount or more for trying to laugh at Moto and trying to make a mokery of the judicial system.

By: dangolds

dangolds — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:57:00 +0000

The main thing I got from your post was that you thought someone was a sheep just because he preferred the iPhone 5 over the gNex. Since we both agree the 2 devices have similar functions along with different strengths and weaknesses, I’m not sure why you’d come to the conclusion that the guy is an iSheep just because he didn’t happen to prefer your device. Glad you like your gNex – but it’s not an unreasonable position for someone to prefer the iPhone 5 to the gNex, and it shouldn’t automatically imply that the person is just blindly following the flock.

By: WickedToby741

WickedToby741 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:50:00 +0000

It depends on how much they charged others for these patents. If they took $1/device from someone like say Samsung, then they’d be SOL despite the fact that Samsung isn’t attempting to sue them out of existence.

By: WickedToby741

WickedToby741 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:48:00 +0000

Screw the apology, I think Apple should be forced to run full size ads on their site. Imagine seeing Samsung’s “The Next Big Thing is Here” campaign on Apple’s home page. Golden.

By: WickedToby741

WickedToby741 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:46:00 +0000

“We want $15/device for the degree to which you rounded your corners, but we’ll give you $1 per device for inventing the cell phone. Sound fair?”

By: Justin Swanson

Justin Swanson — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:44:00 +0000

I thought the GNex radios were fixed a long time ago… I don’t have any problems with my signal… maybe it’s because I’m in Korea we there are cell towers/repeaters every 15ft?