kowenicki said:
This is a big deal in terms of design. Manufacturers will either have to change their designs (including soon to release iterations) or negotiate big license fees to Apple, Google gets out of it becasue it is the manufacturer and not Google that designes the UI and handset for Andorid handsets. But Google could suffer if the manufacturers decide to play safe and switch to a UI that is decided by the software vendor i.e. Windows - removing patent infrigement risk, or rather placing back with the software vendor. |
I understand that, however, I don't think that this ruling will really change how competitive each of the big handset and software firms are.
Legal battles are still ongoing, the big companies will no doubt find ways around the patent infringements if they absolutely have to, and there have been no significant product bans as of yet.
Basically, after this is all said and done, Google and Apple will still be the big dogs on the software side, Samsung will still sell the most phones around the world, RIM will still be in decline etc etc etc.
