All SNDK needs is that one little ingredient for CE products....where this writer sees an issue that may be advantageous to APPLE....I see two possibilities...

1. SNDK sells CE products and they are now being challenged for those issues....IMO, it's selling them cheap, or near the bottom line in order to move memory products and keep its memory standards front and center in the public eye. Can it enter the phone market? IMO, it can.

2. Or, Apple, if it has the desire, becomes the leader.

Is SNDK tired?...."Even without a bid from Apple, SanDisk remains interesting. Secular growth in smartphones and portable internet devices should continue and Eli Harari's retirement at the end of last year may make SanDisk a more willing target."

I say NO....they are not the type people to be laid back....and they have a master plan for SNDK.

LG.... "cross-license rights to certain patents covering multimedia-related products"

CASIO....cross-licensing agreement with Casio...on e.Digital product licensing.

AVID...cross licensed certain patents

Samsung...e.Digital obtained a license and release on certain Samsung patents.

e.Digital got what it wanted in the above actions...In doing so, it released news in a most inconspicuous manner not naming the entities in the order they were resolved. I placed entities in order according to the dates of PACERs and release of PRs in getting a picture of what went where.

e.Digital was picking a team from the Texas 7....and used the value of its IP for X licensing details of others. How important those details are remains to be seen.

No one else has Xlicensing, the balance of defendants have product licensing, where, IMO, HTC was somewhat put off about that.

e.Digital was/is not giving its IP away as some lead you to believe....and it's all right there in front of SNDK

doni