Apple Suspends iCloud/MobileMe Push Email in Germany Due to Lawsuit

icloud icon textAs noted by Engadget, Apple has informed customers that Push email service has been suspended for iCloud and MobileMe customers in Germany due to successful patent litigation by Motorola Mobility.

Affected customers will still receive iCloud and MobileMe email, but new messages will be downloaded to their devices when the Mail app is opened, or when their device periodically fetches new messages as configured in iOS Settings. Push email service on desktop computers, laptop computers, and the web is unaffected, as is service from other providers such as Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.

Mail services are otherwise available for both iCloud and MobileMe, but mail must be fetched manually or at a certain interval of time.

Motorola won the injunction in early February, and was able to enforce it by posting a 100 million euro bond. Apple is appealing the decision and Motorola may be liable for some amount of damages if it is later overturned. Apple states in the support document that it believes Motorola's patent is invalid and is appealing the decision.

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Top Rated Comments

arn Avatar
177 months ago
Yeah, why don't just sue Google over their Google Sync Push Mail too?

Cause Google owns Motorola now?

arn
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
KnightWRX Avatar
177 months ago
Live by litigation, die by litigation.

Unfortunately, it can't go both ways. Apple can't sue everyone else, play industry victim to "copying" and "only enforcing the right to defend its own IP" and then not suffer the consequences when they violate someone else's IP. Apple isn't the only IP owner in the world.

This is why patents have forever been a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) type weapon. You bring them out in defense of yourself, not in offense against competitors. Otherwise, you get the situation we're in now.

And don't get me wrong, Motorola, Google, Apple, Nokia, Kodak, RIM, Microsoft, name the corporation, I don't care whether they win or lose. In the end, the true loser is the consumer, us.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
KnightWRX Avatar
177 months ago
Really? Seriously, I didn't know that.

Really : http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/kodak-wins-again-over-apple-rim-in-itc-patent-ruling/51776

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And there you discovered the entire "reason" for this lawsuit.

Google's thugs strike again.

The lawsuit was filed prior to the acquisition. And to call Google thugs after Apple's actions against Samsung and others these last years is quite ridiculous. They're all thugs, and the consumer is the victim.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
macphin Avatar
177 months ago
stop this **** already
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
rmwebs Avatar
177 months ago
And there you discovered the entire "reason" for this lawsuit.

Google's thugs strike again.

Yeah because Apple never bullies other companies :rolleyes:
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Matt-M Avatar
177 months ago
I live in Germany, and I am signed up to iCloud, but I have not been contacted in any way by Apple to let me know about this, which is a bit annoying. If I were to rely on iCloud for business, I'd be genuinely pissed.

They probably emailed it to you, but it didn't get pushed to your phone. :)
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)