The world of phones witnessed the beginning of an unprecedented development since 2007 after the arrival of the first iPhone, but the conflict was somewhat quiet until 2009, when the beginning of the war and clash between companies was the introduction of the Android system to compete with iOS and the actual war between companies began with the rise of Eric Schmidt, who was serving as CEO Google then submitted its resignation from Apple's board of directors for a conflict of interest, and here the actual competition began, and Apple added search engines, Bing and Yahoo to the iPhone, then the Android system began to develop and the war continued.
The competition that has had a great impact on the development of phones has continued terribly in the last two years, as every company is trying to attract customers to it ... But with the end of 2010 a new kind of conflict began and the world of conflict has become not only the stores but the courtrooms, there are issues between Apple and Google and between Apple and Samsung and between Apple and HTC, between Apple and Nokia, between Apple and Microsoft, and we see that Apple is the common denominator between the issues, as everyone tries to eat from an Apple cake and the conflict remained like this. And it takes from the profits of the other company to increase its profits, the last of which was Microsoft, which this year obtained 444 million dollars from companies that use the Android system in their devices, and this number exceeds Microsoft's gains from its new operating system, Windows Phone, and the reason is that the Android system violates some of the patents of Microsoft and i A company that uses the Android operating system must pay Microsoft.
Then the concept of companies changed in 2011, Apple decided to change the type of cases it raises. The cases are not compensation and profit sharing issues, but the other product blocking cases completely. There is the famous case in German courts in which a ruling was issued to prevent the sale of the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10 and also the similar ruling in Australia and the initial ruling in the Netherlands and Samsung's filing of counter-lawsuits against Apple accusing it of violating its own patents, and the court gave Apple a final opportunity until December 1 to prepare the papers that prove its innocence, as well as Google selling 9 patents to HTC to use in cases against Apple, as well as a victory. Motorola, a subsidiary of Google, has been on the German company Apple for weeks and the possibility of preventing the sale of Apple products in Germany, and Apple's purchase of several companies specializing in 3D maps to begin the journey of independence away from Google to be able to fight more freely because Apple, despite this war against Android, they rely on Google Maps in their devices as well as Despite its war against Samsung, it seeks to provide its mobile devices with processors, memory, etc., as well as iMacs, as it provides them with screens.
Eric Schmidt, the former Google manager, had said in a statement "Apple's stopping creativity and resorting to the courts is worrying and dangerous." Perhaps Eric is right, but other companies' stopping creativity and stealing from Apple is also dangerous, and very harmful to technology.
Conclusion: It is known that conflict leads to development, but does this new type of conflict lead to delay in development? In the beginning, companies used to let others take their innovation and take from their profits. Any system that wins and let others win. Nowadays, new struggles eliminate the other. Do not forget what appeared in Steve Jobs’s memories, where he said in a statement in 2010 that he would spend his life fighting Android and eliminating it because it is a system. A thief and steals their innovations and he is ready to spend every penny Apple has to eliminate Android. We note the word eliminating Android, that is, removing the competitor from the arena, not just defeating it.
Do you think that this kind of conflict is useful for the future of phones? Will it force companies to slow down development and delay the appearance of any phone until all legal loopholes are closed, and this leads to a restriction on creativity? Do you think that companies will devote themselves to each other's wars and kill the competitor instead of focusing on innovations?
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