{"id":248334,"date":"2010-01-29T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5459705"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:57:15","slug":"nokiaapple-lawsuit-turns-ugly-with-nokia-sniping-at-apples-largest-mobile-devices-company-claim-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248334","title":{"rendered":"Nokia\/Apple Lawsuit Turns Ugly With Nokia Sniping At Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Largest Mobile Devices Company&#8221; Claim [Lawsuits]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_nokia-apple-lawsuit.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/>Any chance the UN has a spare helicopter on a day Stephen Fry is free? Someone needs to fly him into this <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5424231\/apple-countersues-nokia\">Nokia\/Apple WARZONE<\/a> and provide both sides with a box of tissues, cup of tea and a comforting hug.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I can definitely see why Nokia&#8217;s got their panties in a twist after <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #stevejobs\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/stevejobs\/\">Steve Jobs<\/a> smugly boasted they were the world&#8217;s &#8220;largest mobile devices company&#8221; on Wednesday, following their <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5424231\/apple-countersues-nokia\">patent infringement lawsuit<\/a> which has both companies countersuing each other.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #marksquires\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/marksquires\/\">Mark Squires<\/a>, the head of social media for Nokia, wrote on the company blog that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;sometimes there are articles floating around on the sphere that get my blood pressure rising to what my doctor is prone to call an \u2018unreasonable level for a man of your years\/weight\/physical condition&#8217;. Reading coverage of one of our competitor&#8217;s much hyped web pad event this week, I was surprised to see that, by revenue, they were claiming in their leader&#8217;s keynote to be &#8220;the largest mobile devices company in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Promising a true &#8220;apples-to-apples comparison&#8221;, Squires snarked:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The difference between the two companies is even larger if you use the more common measure: the number of devices sold. By that comparison, Nokia has been the largest mobile devices company in the world for a dozen consecutive years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Before I get too schoolmarm-ish on the two companies, I do hope Apple <em>at least<\/em> responds to that. [<a href=\"http:\/\/conversations.nokia.com\/2010\/01\/29\/a-fruit-confused\/\">Nokia Conversations<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobile-ent.biz\/news\/35829\/Nokia-slaps-down-Apples-largest-mobile-devices-company-claim\">Mobile-Ent<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=a48f5e0bba2193a0d6f4fe49df86f975&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=a48f5e0bba2193a0d6f4fe49df86f975&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=3xIrAx8sF3g:_NHzEP7JwIU:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=3xIrAx8sF3g:_NHzEP7JwIU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=3xIrAx8sF3g:_NHzEP7JwIU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=3xIrAx8sF3g:_NHzEP7JwIU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=3xIrAx8sF3g:_NHzEP7JwIU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=3xIrAx8sF3g:_NHzEP7JwIU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/3xIrAx8sF3g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any chance the UN has a spare helicopter on a day Stephen Fry is free? Someone needs to fly him into this Nokia\/Apple WARZONE and provide both sides with a box of tissues, cup of tea and a comforting hug. Still, I can definitely see why Nokia&#8217;s got their panties in a twist after Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}