“Look at the charts, ANDROID’s momentum is killer”. This phrase from the above mentioned article describes ANDROID’s position in the smart phone market today perfectly. The article talks about the patent infringement complaints filed against Motorola by Microsoft in the International Trade Commission and the Federal court. It also mentions a list of other lawsuits to be filed against ANDROID by the other technology big-wigs.
Android is sure making waves with its increasing number of customer, so why wouldn’t its competitors find ways to slow it down. The patent in issue is the Microsoft Exchange Active Sync that is being used by the Android OS. Though Google has taken the patent for it, Microsoft now claims that even the handset manufacturers should be buying a patent. Ok! good, so what happened to this claim when ANDROID was being introduced with Motorola? All of a sudden they want to file complaints? I would say it leads us to the stance of Microsoft Windows 7 against ANDROID. May be they are following the good old school thought – make hay while the sun shines.
Not one, but there is actually a list of patents that they plan to file. So what’s in for Microsoft if they do this? One thing is for sure, they expect Motorola to shell loads of money for the patent. This would definitely increase the pay offs from the customers in order to get their investment back and may be reach Microsoft’s goal of declining ANDROID users and hopefully increase Windows OS phone followers. But looking at the split that Motorola is about to go through, none of the trade experts think that it will be investing billions of dollars for the patent.
Microsoft is not the only company rooting against ANDROID. The list might even increase over the coming months, like Apple’s lawsuit against HTC and Oracle suing GOOGLE over Java in ANDROID. Microsoft sure seems to be happy with the un-declared support that APPLE and ORACLE is offering to it against ANDROID. How will ANDROID sustain this pressure is definitely to watch out for. Motorola has already declared itself to have a leading intellectual property record and is very confident to come out of this hopefully brief law fights. What APPLE, ORACLE or even MICROSOFT does not know now is if ANDROID and MOTOROLA come against all the odds in a short time, it will definitely climb up the ladder and can even be on top of SYMBIAN (leading OS from NOKIA) one day.
All Hail ANDROID! [And why not!! I own one of these masterpieces!!!]
No comments:
Post a Comment