Google Takes Rockstar To Court Over Nortel Patents
Notice which Android OEM is conspicuously missing from the list of the oppressed...
When Apple went to court against Samsung over patent infringement, they trotted out a Nokia Windows Phone as an example of a device that does not infringe on their patents, but they also trotted out... a Sony Android device... as an example of a non-infringing Android device. Yet, everyone else in Android is getting attacked as infringing on something somewhere, whether they are being attacked by Microsoft (HTC), by Apple (Samsung), or by Rockstar (almost everybody). Who gets a pass? Sony. Why?
Oh, wait! Sony IS A PART OF Rockstar! I have suspected for a couple of years now that a strategic game is being played here... that eventually Google will be targeted more directly, and that Android will be ripped from them and place...
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Even without going to any direct evidence, the behaviors sort of tell it like it is. Apple and Microsoft have been VERY nice to Sony, even while being very harsh to just about everyone else in the Android world. Yes, Sony doesn't do well in the US, but they are still an industry mainstay - and they are one of the few who is still holding their own and even turning a ...
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