» Acer cancels smartphone launch with Alibaba

Reuters (via Daring Fireball):

A planned launch of a smartphone between Acer Inc and a unit of Alibaba Group, China’s biggest e-commerce firm, was canceled on Thursday due to what Alibaba said was pressure from Google Inc on the Taiwanese group.

So, my only question is who will the boycott Apple people buy phones from now?

I can kind of understand if you think Apple was wrong to sue Samsung. What I can’t understand is how myopic you have to be to think that Google is as pure as the driven snow.