Today, Apple sued HTC, the smartphone maker from Taiwan, which is the largest dealer of phones with Google's Android opertaing system. Apple accuses HTC for stealing its 20 patents, and applying them in phones like Nexus One, which is designed and sold by Google.
The lawsuit was filed today in the United States District Court in Delaware and to the United States International Trade Commission. It says that HTC violated 20 of Apple's patents, which are very diverse: from iPone's ability to recognize the touch of multiple fibgers on the touch screen at once (multi-touch screen), through complexed patent of power managment, to patent as simple as the gesture that is made to unlock iPhone.
Steve Jobs on today's public announcement said: "We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."
In my opinion, this lawsuit begins a war over smartphone market. Although the war has started earlier when Nokia sued Apple and Apple countersued. This lawsuit isn't simply aimed at HTC, but I think that it is an indirect attack on Google, who made Android. The war over the control of phone market has just started but it is difficult to predict, who will win. I think that the consumers may benefit and feel effects of the conflict by lower prices.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
In my opinion, this lawsuit begins a war over smartphone market. Although the war has started earlier when Nokia sued Apple and Apple countersued. This lawsuit isn't simply aimed at HTC, but I think that it is an indirect attack on Google, who made Android. The war over the control of phone market has just started but it is difficult to predict, who will win. I think that the consumers may benefit and feel effects of the conflict by lower prices.
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