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Patent wars led by Apple and Microsoft are pushing up the prices of Android smartphones and tablets, Google's chief legal officer wrote in a blog post Monday

Patent wars led by Apple and Microsoft are pushing up the prices of Android smartphones and tablets, Google's chief legal officer wrote in a blog post Monday.

Google: Apple, Microsoft want to strangle Android	谷歌稱微軟蘋(píng)果等公司欲借專利扼殺Android
Patent wars led by Apple and Microsoft are pushing up the prices of Android smartphones and tablets, Google's chief legal officer wrote in a blog post Monday, firing the opening salvo in a public relations struggle with the tech giants.	8月4日消息，谷歌高級(jí)副總裁、首席法律顧問(wèn)大衛(wèi)?德拉蒙德今天在官方博客上表示，微軟和蘋(píng)果公司利用專利戰(zhàn)推高了Android設(shè)備的售價(jià)，想借此扼殺Android。
David Drummond wrote that Apple and Microsoft have "gotten in bed together" to try to "strangle" the Android operating system, which Google provides free of charge, by launching thousands of patent claims using bundles of recently acquired intellectual property.	德拉蒙德(David Drummond)今天在官方博客上表示，微軟和蘋(píng)果等公司一致對(duì)外，購(gòu)買大批專利，是為了借此扼殺Android。
"A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and our competitors want to impose a 'tax' for these dubious patents that makes Android devices more expensive for consumers. They want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation," he wrote.	一部智能手機(jī)可能涉及多達(dá)25萬(wàn)項(xiàng)專利(其中大部分值得商榷)；我們的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手希望針對(duì)這些可疑的專利“征稅”，推高Android設(shè)備的售價(jià)。他們希望加大生產(chǎn)商銷售Android設(shè)備的難度。他們不是憑借研發(fā)新功能展開(kāi)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，而是訴諸法律。
The intellectual property infringement claims come as the Android is enjoying huge international success. Drummond said 550,000 Android devices were being activated worldwide every day through a network of 39 manufacturers and 231 carriers.	Android正高歌猛進(jìn)。每天有超過(guò)55萬(wàn)部Android設(shè)備被激活，全球有39家硬件廠商和231家運(yùn)營(yíng)商支持搭載Android系統(tǒng)的產(chǎn)品。Android正與其他平臺(tái)展開(kāi)激烈競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，這為消費(fèi)者帶來(lái)了新的酷炫產(chǎn)品和優(yōu)秀應(yīng)用。
"But Android's success has yielded something else: a hostile, organised campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents," he wrote.	然而，Android的成功也引發(fā)了其他一些東西：微軟、甲骨文、蘋(píng)果及其他一些公司正倚仗可疑專利，發(fā)動(dòng)一場(chǎng)有組織的針對(duì)Android的惡意攻擊。
Microsoft and Apple recently bought thousands of Novell and Nortel's old patents and are using them to demand a $US15 licensing fee for every Android device, Drummond said. This would make it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android than Windows Mobile, he added.	微軟和蘋(píng)果最近收購(gòu)了Novell和北電網(wǎng)絡(luò)的專利。他們?cè)噲D向每臺(tái)Android設(shè)備收取15美元的專利授權(quán)費(fèi)，使手機(jī)廠商為Android設(shè)備支付比Windows Mobile設(shè)備更多的費(fèi)用。
"We're not naive; technology is a tough and ever-changing industry and we work very hard to stay focused on our own business and make better products," Drummond wrote. "Google is determined to preserve Android as a competitive choice for consumers, by stopping those who are trying to strangle it."	我們并不幼稚；科技產(chǎn)業(yè)是一個(gè)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)激烈、不斷變化的領(lǐng)域，我們努力專注于自身業(yè)務(wù)，研發(fā)更好產(chǎn)品。但在這件事上，我們認(rèn)為有必要闡明態(tài)度，即我們決心阻止那些試圖扼殺Android的人，并將其作為一款富有競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力的產(chǎn)品提供給消費(fèi)者。