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Steve jobs liked sony, infact apple itself was inspired by sony. That love + patents = no sue. But once, if, sony does change and become successful again, especially in the mobile segment, then its unpredictable as to what will happen. So far they have only gone against people who are more recent in the mobile area such as htc, samsung, etc. When they tried suing some one older such as nokia, they got sued back for much more patents and ended up paying them. Ericsson, sony and sony ericsson have been in this business for much longer time, and they would obviously be more loaded.

Ever wondered why microsoft never sued sony but htc, samsung, all new comers have to pay royalty fees for making android? Probably due to the same reason, patents.
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Posted: 2012-06-13 13:13:07
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^^ That makes me think that Sony is one the strongest force in the mobile market
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Posted: 2012-06-13 13:14:32
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I don't think it's about being a threat only. Sony has been around longer than Samsung or most other big electronic companies. Sony has more of its own patents or ideas of it's own that stand out and are original to most others. Take Xperia phones they look completely different to anything else out there. Sony has alot more going for it than Apple and I don't mean as in mobiles.
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Posted: 2012-06-13 13:23:00
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Motorola have been around the longest, longer than Sony in the mobile industry AFAIK, and havn a huge patent portfolio, yet they have been sued.

IMO, i dont think Apple's lawyers saw any benefit in suing Sony, they are barely making a profit in all their departments except PlayStation and arent even in the top5 in terms of marketshare in mobile, nor is their growth rate amazing. If Sony were in Samsung's position right now im sure they'd be in and out of court with Apple just as much as Samsung and HTC, Steve Jobs felt betrayed by Eric Schmidt, and would stop at nothing to destroy Android, and what that meant is going after the top brands in Android. Notice how LG hasn't been sued either.
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Posted: 2012-06-13 14:04:41
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Maybe because Sony won't to do an iWannabeiPhone?
And go against who have massive patents of mobile communication (GSM techwise) will result in iApples making calls via telepathy. (kidding but almost this)
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Posted: 2012-06-13 14:10:51
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Yes Sony are unique in design compared to the rest. No iPhone copies. LG copy Samsung alot in design
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Posted: 2012-06-13 14:13:00
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Posted: 2012-06-13 15:32:47
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Can you justify why i am a spam?
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Posted: 2012-06-13 15:38:13
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Motorola are also pretty unique, and whilest everyone else incl. S(E) rushed to make touch only phones, Motorola made the Moto Droid with a QWERTY keyboard which pretty much boosted Android.

I cant think of a Moto or even an HTC Android that tries to look like an iPhone actually.

Not sure about LG copying Samsung, maybe in UI here and there, but the rest? Nah. Id actually say Apple copied LG's Prada design in the iPhone4 and 4S:
http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_ke850_prada-pictures-1828.php
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Posted: 2012-06-13 15:45:24
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On 2012-06-13 15:38:13, Sugarkane wrote:


Is is very much true that Samsung did repeatedly copy iPhone and iPad in so many ways from design, to UI, and SIII may not be iPhone-esque in design but still there were features in its software package that mimicked the ones seen in iphone 4s. as much as it would hurt the most die-hard Android fans out there, almost every asian manufacturer except Sony and its Japanese brethren have attempted to make their phones iPhone-ish.
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Posted: 2012-06-13 15:46:12
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