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**jokilewqs** · 01-10-2012, 06:59 AM

It's really Google they are after, but Samsung have a smaller legal team so each win builds up a case against Google in the future. Once they are done kicking Samsung enough they eventually turn on Google and the Android phones will dry up, all this fighting is making Microsoft very happy.

Steve Jobs would have been happy to see Google go out of business, but their new leader (Tim Cook) seems to be a lot more sensible about it. As they still have the lines of communication open with Google and Google has tried to distance itself from the Samsung case by releasing communications where they warn Samsung against making their devices look so similar to Apple's. So I personally think Apple and Google will eventually come to some sort of agreement.

Apple and MS already came to a cross licensing deal a few years ago where they aren't allowed to copy each other's UI. Which might partly account for the new direction MS have been going with the Metro interface.

01-10-2012, 06:59 AM	#15
jokilewqs Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 521 Senior Member	It's really Google they are after, but Samsung have a smaller legal team so each win builds up a case against Google in the future. Once they are done kicking Samsung enough they eventually turn on Google and the Android phones will dry up, all this fighting is making Microsoft very happy. Steve Jobs would have been happy to see Google go out of business, but their new leader (Tim Cook) seems to be a lot more sensible about it. As they still have the lines of communication open with Google and Google has tried to distance itself from the Samsung case by releasing communications where they warn Samsung against making their devices look so similar to Apple's. So I personally think Apple and Google will eventually come to some sort of agreement. Apple and MS already came to a cross licensing deal a few years ago where they aren't allowed to copy each other's UI. Which might partly account for the new direction MS have been going with the Metro interface.
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