It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad

Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by recoiledsnake on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:05PM (#2900859)

I think we are quickly approaching a point of patent detente. Google needs to get a few more patents and indemnify Android OEMs and maybe lob a few lawsuits at Bing etc. and MS will quickly cross license. Same against Apple.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by sleight42 on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:13PM (#2900894)

Detente? Between the big contenders, perhaps. The up and comers are still very much at risk.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by olefoo on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:14PM (#2901110)

And one sign of a "mature market" is that barriers to entry rise. So for the big players the game of patent poker is the price they pay to keep the innovations down to a dull roar and to "manage the competitive environment", for actual innovators It just means that the slope is steeper, and if they are at all successful they will attract predators like Lodsys/IV.

And while a few more entrepreneurs getting ground into hamburger by lawyers isn't that big of a concern in the larger scheme of things; it does mean that innovation in the tech sector is tamed and that we lose out on great products that never get a chance to compete in the marketplace.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by sleight42 on Saturday August 20, 2011 @08:48PM (#2908183)

Mature? It's artificially stymied and partially stagnated by the external imposition of ignorantly granted government monopolies.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by robtoo on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:49PM (#2900990)

patent detente

The patent trolls don't understand detente. They don't understand MAD. They're the real threat, not Apple/Microsoft/Motorola/HTC/whoever.

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by recoiledsnake on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:00PM (#2901047)

Are there that many examples of HTC, Samsung, Motorola having trouble with patent trolls as opposed to Apple/MS ?

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by Terretta on Thursday August 18, 2011 @11:10PM (#2902076)

Lodsys

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Re:It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the TouchPad by kqr2 on Thursday August 18, 2011 @08:46PM (#2901758)

This is a nice graphic summary of who's suing who in the mobile space:

http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/mobile-patent-suits...

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