While the mobile industry is becoming increasingly central to all computing, it is Apple that is clearly dominating the market place and more enviable its its very high profitability. A great majority of the revenue comes from mobile devices that are launched not far ago. Looking at this companies are running like crazy - few giving up in the race and others running at high speed to get pie of this surging market.
HP, with leading market share in PC business has surprised industry by announcing that it will stop selling laptops, tablets and smartphones. It will stop making hardware for devices purchased as part of the acquisition of Palm Computing, and will license the webOS platform software to other companies.
And Google, which has avoided selling handsets save for one brief failed attempt, is buying Motorola Mobility for a hefty $12.5B. Google becomes both partner and competitor to current Android-based handset makers as Motorola will continue making Android-based phones and tablets. Contrary to this, Apple don’t license their software but use it only for their own hardware.
Legal battles is also not short of any catfight - Microsoft is suing Barnes & Noble, Foxonn. Oracle is suing Google. Sony is suing LG. Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, HTC and Kodak are all suing Apple, and Apple is suing them all barring Kodak.
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