Apple Helps Windows Phone?
(Reuters) - Apple Inc's decisive triumph over Samsung Electronics in
the most closely watched patent trial in years could open the door for
Microsoft Corp to finally hop on board the mobile boom as manufacturers
of Android-based smartphones and tablets weigh their legal risks.
Published at DZone with permission of Jerry Nixon, author and DZone MVB. (source)It remains to be seen if the new touchscreen-friendly and cloud computing-ready Windows 8 can prove a serious rival to Android, the world's most-used mobile software, or Apple's iOS. But mobile industry executives who had been cautiously considering Windows as an alternative to Google's Android say Friday's ruling that Samsung had copied Apple's designs and software features had intensified their interest in a Microsoft alternative
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