Comments on: Nokia sues Apple relating to iPhone patents/technologies http://www.iphonestalk.com/nokia-sues-apple-relating-to-iphone-patentstechnologies-6062/ iPhone 4.0 News, Reviews, Accessories and more | The latest iPhone 4.0 Accessories, News, Reviews, ringtones and more Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:07:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Furie http://www.iphonestalk.com/nokia-sues-apple-relating-to-iphone-patentstechnologies-6062/comment-page-1/#comment-2117 Furie Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:55:24 +0000 http://www.iphonestalk.com/?p=6062#comment-2117 "If you can't really beat 'em, sue 'em." That really had me laughing my ass off. On the smartphone front Nokia has more than three times the global smartphone share that Apple has. When you add feature phones into the equation, which you have to if you include the original iPhone 2G in calculations, then they must have sold ten or twenty times the amount of phones since the iPhone first got released. This is more a case of if you are beating them, sue them too. The fact remains that Nokia invented these technologies that are needed by mobile phones in order to make calls, connect to the data network and even connect via Wi-Fi. They've tried for two years to get Apple to pay the fair license fees required to make a phone using those technologies and Apple has refused until Nokia has been left with no choice but to take legal action. As Apple is a little quicker to stamp down on people who infringe on their patents and Nokia is beating them anyway, this seems more a case of karma than sour grapes. “If you can’t really beat ‘em, sue ‘em.” That really had me laughing my ass off. On the smartphone front Nokia has more than three times the global smartphone share that Apple has. When you add feature phones into the equation, which you have to if you include the original iPhone 2G in calculations, then they must have sold ten or twenty times the amount of phones since the iPhone first got released. This is more a case of if you are beating them, sue them too.

The fact remains that Nokia invented these technologies that are needed by mobile phones in order to make calls, connect to the data network and even connect via Wi-Fi. They’ve tried for two years to get Apple to pay the fair license fees required to make a phone using those technologies and Apple has refused until Nokia has been left with no choice but to take legal action. As Apple is a little quicker to stamp down on people who infringe on their patents and Nokia is beating them anyway, this seems more a case of karma than sour grapes.

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