Apple Defeated Samsung. Yay!

"Ooh, that's gotta hurt". If Duke Nukem was reporting from the Apple vs Samsung trial, that is how he would describe more than billion dollars in damages. While many people are unhappy about verdict, they shouldn't be. Apple played fair and square by American law and won. Now let's forget about the case and let's start to think how future will look like. I will try to present different aspects of Android ecosystem and how verdict impacts them.

Smartphone Patent Wars as Wildlife Documentary

Ants are hard-working, dogs are loyal, foxes are cunning. We tend to match patterns of animal behavior with human ones and label them so - we anthropomorphize them. However, animals are neither good nor bad; they just are. Each species found ecological niche for its own survival. We also tend to anthropomorphize everything else, companies included.

So companies are greedy or inventive or "not evil" or patent trolls. In reality, they just try to survive. Main purpose of the company is to make money. People often forget that and expect companies to be noble, fair, or consistent. That's not purpose of the company; don't be disappointed if they behave differently.