No surprise here. TC said all along he just wants to settle and make it fair. I'm happy for Apple and HTC to both be grown up about this.

The only problem is that Samsung has'nt grown up and is still wearing diapers and sucking it's mothers tit.

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Originally Posted by KootenayRedneck 

The only problem is that Samsung has'nt grown up and is still wearing diapers and sucking it's mothers tit.

Er .. quite.

I think Samsung realises that Cook is just as unlikely to let this go as Jobs was. They're looking to pay the licence fees but want to be sure they're not paying over the odds.

There may be more of the agreement made public today during the court hearing. The heavily-redacted sections done by HTC and Apple may get pulled back a bit if they can't convince Judge Koh that they fall within the royalty terms carve-out she already advised they could restrict from public (but not the courts/attorneys) view.

Apple probably has agreed to tell HTC how to make their Android phones not look like Apple iPhones...

and all previous and present phones can be sold (if they cannot be updated) but all new phones after the agreement date need to NOT look like iPhones... and any similiarities be toned down to the point of "operation" and not feature.

meaning if i turn on an HTC phone, i should not think hey, this is an iPhone, but instead "i can get use to this, yet it isn't an iPhone..."

The reason this is important was not because of the royalty amount but rather because samey Samsung wanted to prove that if apple licensed ALL o it's patents including the design patents then surely they could not be used to induce an injunction... Paying a license fee in already a given, now apple is going for the throat... As expected, apple did NOT give up rights to design patents... Therefore, an injunction is potentially in the cards still...

I don't know what's most interesting: the (B), which we all could have assumed came after the (A) but now it's proven, or the (C), which frankly surprised me, and I'm sure many others.