{"id":24,"date":"2011-08-15T08:33:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2011-08-15T08:33:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:33:57","slug":"guess-they-decided-they-did-need-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Guess they decided they DID need to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that it will <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-20092362-94\/google-to-buy-motorola-mobility-for-$12.5b\/?tag=topStories\">buy Motorola&#8217;s cell phone division<\/a> for $12.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Most people don&#8217;t know this, but over the last few months there has been a bit of a war going on between the largest tech companies in the world. Patents are the weapons*, and Google didn&#8217;t have any. Now they have 17,000 of them.<\/p>\n<p>*Basically this was mutually assured destruction. Company A has 200 patents, and Company B has 300 patents. Both A &amp; B make phones that have features that infringe on on or more of the other&#8217;s patents. Instead of suing each other out of existence, A &amp; B just decide to engage in reciprocity. This worked well until Android became successful and started eating in to Apple&#8217;s marketshare. Apple fired the first shots at Samsung earlier this year and it&#8217;s been crazy ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that it will buy Motorola&#8217;s cell phone division for $12.5 billion. Most people don&#8217;t know this, but over the last few months there has been a bit of a war going on between the largest tech companies in the world. Patents are the weapons*, and Google didn&#8217;t have any. Now they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}