{"id":6362,"date":"2011-07-16T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T20:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2011-07-16T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T20:52:38","slug":"the-android-in-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/07\/16\/the-android-in-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"The Android in Peril."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of people cursing Apple&#8217;s name for suing HTC over Android. The ITC sides with Apple and concludes that <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/apple\/2011\/07\/15\/itc-judge-says-htc-infringes-on-two-apple-patents\/\" target=\"_blank\">HTC violates 2 of Apple&#8217;s patent<\/a>. Sean Ludwig of VentureBeat dares to scream the headline: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/07\/15\/why-apples-itc-patent-victory-over-htc-android-phones-is-scary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Apple\u2019s ITC patent victory over HTC Android phones is scary<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It is pretty apparent that Apple-hating is so trendy these days in lights of the Apple v. HTC lawsuit. Unfortunately a lot of people seems to forget that HTC has waived the white flag when Microsoft came knocking. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/htc-pays-microsoft-5-per-android-phone-2011-5\" target=\"_blank\">HTC is paying royalties to Microsoft<\/a> for every Android phone it sold. Hating Microsoft is apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_v._Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">so 1998<\/a>. Does anyone remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/06\/us-samsung-microsoft-idUSTRE7651DB20110706\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft recently demands Samsung to pay $15 for each Android phone<\/a> it makes.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is asserting some ownership to Android, that&#8217;s a bigger threat. HTC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/msft-android-royalties-ubuntu-netbooks,11546.html\" target=\"_blank\">is not the only company<\/a> to pay Android royalties to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Blame it on how easy anyone can abuse software patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of people cursing Apple&#8217;s name for suing HTC over Android. The ITC sides with Apple and concludes that HTC violates 2 of Apple&#8217;s patent. Sean Ludwig of VentureBeat dares to scream the headline: &#8220;Why Apple\u2019s ITC patent victory over HTC Android phones is scary&#8220;. It is pretty apparent that Apple-hating is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/07\/16\/the-android-in-peril\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Android in Peril.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,6],"tags":[327,1444,934,2272,936],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-rants","tag-android","tag-htc","tag-microsoft","tag-patent","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1EC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}