Because they just realized they can't make something that will compete with the Iphone without violating apples patents ?
So they figure rather than to wait they should sue first, hope to get apples attention in a way they can't ignore and 'settle' for cross licensing. And so the madness continues.
Nokia should give up their software patents and simply make a stand instead of going out of their way to look like losers here.
They were one of the most r&d driven companies in the world after Xerox, the stuff they did was pretty groundbreaking, unfortunately in the field of software that allows you to take out patents. That should have never happened. Nokia was one of the parties lobbying the EU very hard to allow software patents:
So they figure rather than to wait they should sue first, hope to get apples attention in a way they can't ignore and 'settle' for cross licensing. And so the madness continues.
Nokia should give up their software patents and simply make a stand instead of going out of their way to look like losers here.
They were one of the most r&d driven companies in the world after Xerox, the stuff they did was pretty groundbreaking, unfortunately in the field of software that allows you to take out patents. That should have never happened. Nokia was one of the parties lobbying the EU very hard to allow software patents:
http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Software_patents
Now you can see why.