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At this point I don’t even care what Apple and Nokia are suing and countersuing one another over. When we get a judgement and one company or the other is forced to stop importing doohickeys to the U.S. (yeah, right) or pay a fine that would bankrupt many an American city but hardly cause either company’s CFO to blink, then I’ll care again.<\/p>\n
For now, both companies are all locked up in a patent infringement case. This could have a huge impact on, well, lots of things, but it’s also kind of yawn-inducing from the perspective of a jaded, gadget-obsessed tech blogger\/reporter\/nerd. What’s far more interesting (i.e. worthy of snarky comments) is that Mark Squires, Nokia’s head of social media, has started poo-pooing Apple on his blog. And he did it under the header, “A Fruit Confused?<\/a>” Now that’s fun!<\/p>\n Sayeth Squires:<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Well you don’t see me putting pen to paper a great deal but sometimes there are articles floating around on the sphere that get my blood pressure rising to what my doctor is prone to call an ‘unreasonable level for a man of your years\/weight\/physical condition’. Reading coverage of one of our competitor’s much hyped web pad event this week, I was surprised to see that, by revenue, they were claiming in their leader’s keynote to be “the largest mobile devices company in the world.”<\/p>\n I thought we should to set the record straight, with a true, “apples-to-apples”, comparison. <\/p>\n He then went on to repudiate Apple’s claim with some statistics and quotes and other bits of logic lost on me because I was still chuckling over that “A Fruit Confused” headline. LOLZ!<\/p>\n Okay, okay, I did pay attention. I agree with this part of what Mr. Squires wrote:<\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n But I’m not so sure about this part, in which he quotes Nokia CEO OPK (seriously, he goes by “OPK”):<\/span><\/p>\n our devices “already have done more to improve lives at the base of society’s pyramid than perhaps any technology in history.”<\/span><\/p>\n I’d contend that fire and electricity and running water have had a far greater impact on “the base of society’s pyramid” than even the mighty Nokia 1100<\/span><\/a>. But I get what you’re saying, Mark. Nokia’s sold a ton of cell phones over the years. A TON.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [Via: Gizmodo<\/a>, Nokia Conversations<\/a>]<\/p>\n At this point I don’t even care what Apple and Nokia are suing and countersuing one another over. When we get a judgement and one company or the other is forced to stop importing doohickeys to the U.S. (yeah, right) or pay a fine that would bankrupt many an American city but hardly cause either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249816","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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