Thursday, February 16, 2017
APPLE TAKES REVENGE ON NOKIA BY REMOVING WITHINGS PRODUCTS FROM ITS STORES
APPLE TAKES REVENGE ON NOKIA BY REMOVING WITHINGS PRODUCTS FROM ITS STORES
Last week, Nokia was giving his Christmas gift to Apple by attacking him for patent infringement. An attack that obviously did not please the Cupertino firm.In reaction to this affront, the company withdrew from its shops all the products Withings, French brand bought by Nokia. Action reaction !
Do not look for the noises to Apple, because the reaction is immediate. Last week, we learned that the Cupertino company was sued by former smartphone giant, Nokia . In issue, the violation of several patents.
In 2011, the two giants had reached an agreement and Apple had committed to pay a kind of royalty to Nokia for the exploitation of its technologies. This agreement was limited to a period of five years.
We have come to the end of this truce and both sides are fighting hard. Apple for its part believes to have been victim of extortion. Nokia therefore attacks in return for violation of 32 patents. Good atmosphere between the two giants at the end of the year.
Angry against Nokia, Apple has therefore decided to hurt his rivals wallet. Thus, the US giant has removed all products from Withings shops, be it from the App Store online or physical stores. For those who do not know, Withings is a French start-up of connected objects that was bought by Nokia last spring for 170 million euros. Among its leading products include the Withings activity .
Hard blow (low?) Against Nokia but in this kind of confrontation Apple never does in sweetness. We remember for example that in 2014, the company had also withdrawn Bose products to its stores following a complaint by the latter.
Bose then attacked the brand of headphones and Beats audio accessories. The problem is that Apple had bought Beats some time earlier and therefore moderately appreciated the attack. With Apple, it is better not to try to enter into this kind of conflict, the reactions are never expected. For the record, Bose had finally left the App Store but had managed to appear on the Google Store . Not everyone was finally losing.
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