Originally Posted by ACU:
“They lost out in the phone market to android. They wont want to make the same mistake again in the tablet market.”
“They lost out in the phone market to android. They wont want to make the same mistake again in the tablet market.”
I don't see the same reasons as applying there though. Android gained in the mobile market primarily because Apple chose to select preferred suppliers amongst the carriers in each territory. People weren't going to go with an iPhone if it meant hobbling themselves with a network without adequate local coverage, and those sales gave Android the impetus in order to mature and attract developers.
With tablets the lack of phone coverage doesn't worry a large section of the userbase, since they buy the wi-fi models, and in the meantime Apple have abandoned their exclusive contracts policy and opened up the iPad to more carriers.
So I don't see the lawsuits as a delaying tactic, rather a desire to force Android to change the way it works in the hope that it becomes sufficiently different for the users that they see iOS as closer to how they expect their phone to work. Apple hope that come next upgrade time a lot of those users could switch as a result.



