HTC countersues
By Dean • May 13th, 2010 • Category: HTC, Industry News, Lead Story
- Photo: HTC
Technology is such a litigious industry, it’s actually quite sad. Nonetheless, HTC have responded to Apple with a ‘Have at me?! No have at you, buddy!’ countersuit.
Five patents infringed
The Taiwanese company alleges the iPhone and iPad infringes five patents. None of the alleged infrigements have anything to do with touch technology, but rather speak to comparatively boring topics likes power management and how the phone accesses its directory (no, seriously).
The countersuit
This lawsuit comes on the heels of Apple suing HTC. While HTC’s motives are to have some defense against Apple’s advances, Apple’s motives are widely believed to be Google Android-related, making HTC, in effect, a mere means to an end.
Alas, with this suit, that might change, still.
About that Android threat
- Photo: Apple
Though Apple have since refuted the claims, a recent NPD report indicated that Google Android phone sales exceeded those of the iPhone in North America for the first time ever. Admittedly, there are a whole bunch of handset manufacturers, ranging from Samsung to HTC and LG who make Google Android phones, while Apple is the only manufacturer of iPhone OS-powered smartphones.
Great phones, time wasted
HTC have been kicking out some of the most exciting smartphones in the entire industry this last 12 months, most notably with the HTC Legend and HTC Desire. Apple, on the other hand, have had the hottest selling smartphone in the world, a well-received tablet computer and is prepping the release of its next phone. One just feels the resources dedicated to suing each other could be better spent kicking out better phones or dedicating those funds to further R&D.
Nevertheless, Apple now finds itself at the centre of two lawsuits with major mobile phone manufacturers – Nokia and HTC, both. Imagine if those two companies formed an alliance against their common enemy.
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