The Totally Unsurprising Apple-Samsung Patent Truce

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That Apple-Samsung partial patent truce? We told you so. In March 2012 Bloomberg Buisnessweek published a cover storyBloomberg Terminal titled “Apple’s War on Android” that made two central points:

1. Apple’s worldwide intellectual-property war against its erstwhile business partner Samsung was primarily a legacy of Steve Jobs’s over-the-top hostility toward the Google Android operating system, which Samsung and other Apple rivals use in their devices.