Now, recently, Nokia also made a very, very interesting statement:
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"Nokia enters into patent license agreement with Apple
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 · 8:55 am
Nokia announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Apple. The agreement will result in settlement of all patent litigation between the companies, including the withdrawal by Nokia and Apple of their respective complaints to the US International Trade Commission.
The financial structure of the agreement consists of a one-time payment payable by Apple and on-going royalties to be paid by Apple to Nokia for the term of the agreement. The specific terms of the contract are confidential.
We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees,” said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Nokia, in the press release. “This settlement demonstrates Nokia’s industry leading patent portfolio and enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market.”
Source: Nokia Corporation
Florian Mueller writes for FOSS Patents, “This frees up resources for both Apple and Nokia. Apple is embroiled in litigation with the three leading Android device makers (Motorola, HTC and Samsung). Nokia doesn’t have any litigation worries at the moment, but part of its new strategy is to ratchet up the monetization of its patent portfolio. The fact that Nokia has demonstrated its ability to defeat Apple — after the most bitterly contested patent dispute that this industry has seen to date — is a clear proof of concept. Other companies whom Nokia will ask to pay royalties will have to think very hard whether to pay or pick a fight.”
Mueller writes, “This is also very significant with a view to Android. Given that Android is in many ways a rip-off of Apple’s operating software, Android-based devices are highly likely to infringe on largely the same Nokia patents that Apple now felt forced to pay for.”
“I don’t hold shares in any tech company, but if I were an Apple shareholder, I would probably view this outcome favorably. Nokia emerges victorious, but this is a sweet defeat for Apple because its competitors — especially those building Android-based devices — will also have to pay Nokia, and most if not all of them will likely have to pay more on a per-unit basis because they don’t bring as much intellectual property to the table as Apple definitely did,” Mueller writes. “So from a competitive point of view, I don’t think Apple loses much. On the bottom line its profitability may even benefit from this because Apple’s margins face no greater threat than Android-style commoditization of smartphone technologies.”
Damn interesting, since I'm kinda of a Nokia fan and I'm really missing the Nokia cellphone quality. At least here. I know however that for a reason most products are have a better quality in the West, so...
I really hope that Nokia will make cellphones with Operating Systems. I'd love to have the ability to pick between Android or MeeGo. And I'd love to see at least Windows 7 phone kick iOS ass. QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:03 pm Post subject:
I saw the N9 and I'm quite impressed. I'd need to see it in action before deciding anything but it could potentially be my next phone. The thing you bolded, however, is old news. Nokia have invented so much in the mobile phone industry that to use any kind of GSM aerial involves a Nokia patent. Every phone manufacturer on the planet has to pay Nokia for this and Apple thought they could get away with it, but failed miserably. They forgot how much of a player Nokia was. _________________
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:49 am Post subject:
That's why I like Verizon and Sprint. They don't use GSM. They use CDMA, although I'm quite sure that they have to pay something to Nokia regardless. _________________ "Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there." -Adam Young QUICK_EDIT
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:45 am Post subject:
Android also is on about 50 billion different devices when iPhone OS is on.. well.. one. The iPhone. hah. _________________ "Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there." -Adam Young QUICK_EDIT
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And I thought for a moment that Nokia was dead...
