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Why not buy Nokia for its patents and dump the rest of the business then?
by rollypolly 14y ago
Why not buy Nokia for its patents and dump the rest of the business then?
- loverobots 14y ago<opinion> Probably Nokia would demand north of $20 billion to even be in the game. A few more bad quarters can lower the price, but still, it's Nokia. MS has enough patents to scare the crap out of any rational company: they have been working in OS for decades and they patent everything. Long before the iPhone, MS came out with portable and mobile computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile . The fact that their work never caught on, doesn't matter, the underlying tech is probably all patented. Add to that Nortel and Netscape patents (hello cookies, SSL and everything we take for granted now) and they are loaded with patents, especially since Android is an OS. Any win against MS is temporary; they don't mind opening their checkbook to license and to hire lawyers. As for Nokia's patents they can probably "buy" a few select ones to go after Motorola /Google instead of spending billions and billions Edit to add: If not for Google, Motorola would have undoubtedly kissed the ring too, like Samsung and almost every other company did. </opinion>
- Uchikoma 14y ago"Long before the iPhone, MS came out with portable and mobile computers" Not to rain on your parade, but you do new about the Newton? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform) (which I loved) And how late MS was to the portable game?
- loverobots 14y agoRe-reading my comment it seems like I dissed Apple. I didn't mean to, actually I meant to say that OS developers (Apple obviously included) have a lot of patents that pertain to smartphones.