HTC CEO says Apple lawsuit won't put company in 'dangerous situation'

Apple is not winning.  

How are they not winning?

The ITC says HTC violated 
HTC says they need to work it out with Apple.

Once Apple and HTC come to terms then every other Android manufacturer has to also.

$76 Billion in the bank doesn’t lie.

What — if anything — Apple ultimately gets from HTC will not even be a drop in the bucket compared to the already signed deal in the patent litigation lost to Nokia. In other words, it is all relative. If you’re paying out $100 and taking in $3 you’re hardly “winning”.

Apple is definitely winning!! HTC will want licensing & Apple will definitely NOT give it to them. This will force HTC/Android to remove specific coding from their OS software, possibly crippling the usefulness of the OS, which will eventually affect all of the other OEM’s using Androids OS (Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony, Acer, Asus, etc.) All these companies should be looking forward to a lawsuit in the future, that they will most likely lose. Just another example of terrible leadership at the management level. These companies were too used to being sloppy in the consumer market where customers would buy anything, knowing that it was priced reasonably enough that it didn’t matter how bad the product was. Now, consumers are much more picky & a lot smarter. They just want products that “work” & last long! That leaves all of thee above out in the cold!

Yeah, go with that.

Amen

Just keeping up with current events. I like HTC, they are one of the few companies outside of Apple that actually try to create a better product each and every time out. HTC faces the same problem as everyone else though, shrinking ASP’s. You can only really differentiate your product from other Android manufacturers with price. At this point the carriers hold all the cards because there are so many different Android handsets to choose from. The carriers get to dictate how much they pay per device, the OEM’s literally have no leverage. Apple, they have all the leverage and the carriers have zero. The carriers can only get the iOS devices from one company, Apple. Apple’s ASP’s have been exactly the same since the iPhone launched. Their quarterly reports show that Apple has never cut their selling price to the carriers.

I hope HTC and Apple can come to an agreement.

Ms. Cleo! Is that you?!

Scroat > Nostradamus true story™©®

Android will be dead in two years.  true story™©®

You are so butt hurt.

Feel free to do a tongue tour of my anus.

Why is it top selling? Why is WP 7 doing so poorly? No support from carriers or OEMs that is why. 

I would love some competition in the OS depart, I would love to see equally desirable WP 7 handsets to the Androids. Maybe knocking some of these OEMs off the Android train will be just what the doctor order, for me anyway not the Fandroids that want to see Android & Google (privacy invaders) rule the world and become the Windows of the smartphone market.

If Apple wants to shut down Android?  You guys really are too funny.

Who are “You guys”?

I am fine with companies legally gaining an upper hand but if you are illegally using someone else’s IP then you should pay what ever the penalty is. Each and every time Apple is forced to pay some company because they are illegally using their IP I applaud it. Just because they are Apple doesn’t mean that they have to play by the rules too. 

If HTC wasn’t doing anything wrong the ITC would have said that. If HTC wasn’t doing anything wrong then HTC wouldn’t have come to the conclusion that they need to work things out with Apple.

Just because HTC paid $300 million for S3 five days after S3 patents were ruled invalid by the USPTO because of prior art is no reason to be upset we “You guys”.

Spend time building your own hardware and software and then you will enjoy the benefits.

Hah, I’m not angry about anything. I’m saying your statement implying Apple could shut down Android is ridiculously naive. The Apple patents being litigated with HTC are relatively minor. Moreover, patent litigation is an ongoing cost of doing business for technology companies. They budget for it.

And “you guys” are the people trying to make this litigation with HTC into an Android killer. It just shows you have no idea what you’re talking about.

What’s funny is u calling people naive and saying the HTC patent violations are minor when plenty of people who are more knowledgeable about patent law than you state that this could have HUGE repercussions for every other android manufacturer and google.

Apple willfully infringed on Nokia GSM patents when it created iPhone. When Nokia began litigation, “knowledgeable” people — tech blog writers and under employed lawyers — made the case it was going to be HUGE. It was supposed to be be the end of iPhone. What happened was iPhone then went on to absolutely dominate Nokia in smart phones. Did that patent infringement in any way deter Apple from selling iPhones? I mean, if ever there was a company with a fundamental interest in “shutting down” Apple’s smart phone it should have been Nokia, right? Was Nokia able to do that?

“Knowledgeable” people on the Internet are always saying this and that is going to be HUGE. That sensationalism is how they garner attention. Predictably, people like you — those desperate for supposed unmotivated opinions to support their own beliefs — gravitate. Before you deem anyone to be “knowledgeable” my suggestion to you is that you do a little research to determine if these people have been correct about predictions in the past. Good luck.

Apple doesn’t need their money & they will never license out their software or IP to anyone! Never have, never will! It’s in Apple’s best interest to crush the so-called “competition” NOW! Accepting money from any of these companies is equal to walking backwards for Apple. All of the top companies combined (except for Google), couldn’t even join with Apple to by the Nortel patents the other day. Apple payed more than half of $4.6B price tag in the deal. They don’t need anyone’s money!

and google could have bought all of it…thats why apple rounded other companies up to go in jointly…..

Android is not competition for Apple?  You’re in complete denial.  The reason Apple, Microsoft and soon Nokia are suing is because they’re getting their lunches eaten by Android.  Android went from less than 2% market share four years ago to 38% and rising. They’re trying any and all methods to slow down the rate of adoption for Android.  Apart from that, the rest of your post is incoherent… and terribly flawed.

The reason Android is winning is consumer electronics firms must build mobile computers (handsets).  They need to make certain they have a foothold in that market as that is the future of consumer electronics.  They can’t build Apple iOS based devices.  They can’t build RIM OS based devices.  They can build Windows OS devices but many are reluctant to repeat the WinTel experience in desktop computers where their products essentially became commodities and they couldn’t make any money.  So, they are left with Android by default.  What they will do is continue to build unique user experiences (skins) atop Android because they have no other choice.  And, quite frankly, it is good business. 

Android is absolutely competing with iOS and it is winning.

I think you need to do a little more research. 

Android devices are already commoditized. That is why their ASP’s are so low.

Where is Android winning exactly? Apple went from taking home 50% of all mobile profits last year this time to now taking home 66.30% of all mobile profits.

You’re wrong.  Apart from that, you’re making a classic error made by people with only half of the facts.  First, average selling prices are lower for Android because there are more varieties of devices using the Android OS.  Some of these are entry level devices, others mid level devices.  Second, it depends how one defines “mobile”.  Apple is careful to define a “mobile” device as anything that runs iOS while most people would make the case mobile devices must have at least a 3G radio.  This distinction eliminates the vast majority of iPads and all of the iPods sold.  When you do that, your numbers don’t hold water.

All of that aside, we’re talking about patent litigation, where Apple, given the Nokia judgement, is clearly losing.  I’m okay with you changing the subject to something you feel you can win.  I just want you to be aware that I know you’re trying to change the subject.

TheNewReign sounds like a Steve Jobs clone and they want to reign. Guess he is an Apple fan. Who would have thought. You know the old saying that Eve fed Adam an apple and he bit into it and for give me but “all hell broke loose”. Sorry couldn’t resist. I just can’t stand Apple products myself. My kids like them but they are young and don’t know any better. 

you are too obsessed with IOS , You apple fanboy’s are too snobby. wait and time will tell you wins and who losses. Since apple doesn’t like freedom on their OS they will eventually fall down one day.  In other side windows OS and android will definately grow year by year untill apple finds themselves in same situation like blackberry !!!