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Has Apple Foiled Google?

Analyst Yair Reiner says Apple lawyers have been talking to other handset makers as well
By Maureen O'Gara
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March 15, 2010 12:00 PM EDT
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Apple's patent suit against Google phone maker HTC is only the tip of the iceberg, according to Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner, who says Apple lawyers have been talking to other handset makers as well and that these discussions are "meaningfully disrupting the development roadmaps for would-be iPhone killers.

Rival software and hardware teams are going back to the drawing board to look for workarounds...And strategy teams are working to chart OS strategies that are better hedged."

He thinks that they may abandon Android for Microsoft, its patent portfolio and "its willingness to join battle with customers that come under IP attack."

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