With Microsoft pursuing Android makers for licensing, and now this, soon everybody will be making more money from Android than Google. Even Apple can now ask for licensing fees from Android makers.

Samsung was not listed as one of the companies that bought this portfolio, so now Apple have more ammo in their fight with them.

For some reason I expected Apple, with their gigantic hoard of cash to be the winner of this auction.

Mirrors my experience.

Having seen Apple nearly collapse in the late 90s, it's amazing to see it become the biggest and most successful turnaround story ever.

Amazing sales results!

In one of James Gosling's article's bullets about the Oracle-Google lawsuit, we find the following nugget (emphasis is mine):

Google did have a financial model that benefited themselves (that they weren't about to share). They were partly planning on revenue from advertising, but mostly they wanted to disrupt Apple's trajectory, and Apple's expected entry into advertising. If mobile devices take over as the computing platform for consumers, then Google's advertising channel, and the heart of its revenue, gets gutted. It doesn't take much of a crystal ball to see where Apple is going, and it's not a pretty picture for Google or anyone else.

Anybody who argue that Google didn't create Android to compete with Apple's iPhone, is deluding themselves.

If you download an EPUB ebook and add it to iTunes, then sync that book to an iPhone and an iPad with iBooks installed on both, if you read a part on the iPad, then if you resume reading on the iPhone, the iPhone would start from where you stopped on the iPad. iBooks syncs reading location over the air!

That's cool!

I wish other ebook readers like Stanza does that.

I just connected my iPhone 3G to my computer for charging and iTunes popped up with an offer to download and install iOS 4.

Hurray :)

Comprehensive list of additions and changes to iOS for iPhone 4.