[COM] Google Wants Apple’s Inventions To Be Shared With Everyone - Page 3

Originally Posted by W4nderer 

Is it patented though, or just secret?

Originally Posted by airisom2 

Well, I somewhat agree with your comment. I'll just explain by pulling out one of my posts in my sig. I edited it a bit to fit my argument.
To get somewhat back on topic, I don't see how this deal could hurt Apple in any way. EDIT: The next paragraph negates this statement. Afaik, some (most?) of Google's success is because their products are open source and free to share among the public. Doing this also makes the competition more equal so one company doesn't keep all of the goodies from the others (admittedly, this has the potential to dilute innovation). Plus, haven't we all learned to share when we were kids The closest thing to Apple sharing is their SDK that you have to pay $99/year for.
I believe that Google made this idea not because they want to put Apple down, but to resolve, to an extent, the horrible patent system that is in use. Apple's designs, well at least their software, is pretty much standard today, and I don't see why such a "standard" thing shouldn't be shared. With that said, it could also lead to why Google hasn't made their search engine open source, but I guess there are some things that companies would like to keep exclusive. In Apple's case, it would be everything...If being open source was, in all of its essence, a good thing, then Apple would be hurting themselves by not making their products open to the public. If open source products stagnate innovation, then Google would be in the red, but Apple seems to already have that problem (well, I think they do). If my past two sentences are correct, then Apple would take a double whammy if they made their inventions and whatnot to be shared with everyone. Just my

Originally Posted by Imports>Muscles 

Apple is ahead of Google, why would they accept this? That's someone asking you for money in nothing for return.

Originally Posted by Blindrage606 

What incentive would there be to such a prop as this? If none, this is already destined to fail. This is nothing more than a PR statement for google to be seen a positive light, in regards to IP.

Originally Posted by Abs.exe 

Isn't that like cutting the pie in half ?
Good for both sides ?

Originally Posted by Brutuz 

No, they're not; all in all the differences between Android and iOS are much like Intel and AMD during the race for 1Ghz; you can go for either maker and be happy with what you get since everything is so close it doesn't make much difference.

Originally Posted by serge2k 

I heard before it was an exclusive license from Stanford?

Originally Posted by Detroitsoldier 


This isn't just about phones anymore. Apple as a whole is doing better than Google business-wise and it will probably continue like this for a while.