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OK, so $1B goes from Samsung to Apple.

But what is the cost to the US economy of the fact that we now have only ONE* company left who can design and market handheld portable electronics?

* One might argue that Motorola isn't fully dead yet.



What about Amazon?


OK, Amazon counts. Perhaps RIM isn't dead quite yet either. But the point remains.


RIM isn't a US company.


Well, there you go. Guess I'd assumed it was US-based since they'd had such a problem with patent trolls in the US.


Microsoft reveals the shroud of x.




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