Apple paid over half of the winning bid ($2.6B of $4.5B) for the Nortel patents (appleinsider.com)

2 points by andreyf 14y ago ↗ HN

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I wonder how many of the 6k patents Apple gets, and how many of those will be used against Android. Also amount of money is rather astounding - $2.6B is pretty rare in buying companies, not just patents. This is 4.6x as much as Apple paid for NeXT (more, if you don't include inflation).