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Maybe Google can buy it, then spend 3-5 years coming to the same conclusion. Motorola, Fitbit, HTC’s R&D div... etc. 

It would be silly to make decisions solely based upon the complaints of a few. That’s more likely to have unintended consequences for the many - or in the case of fortnight: developers who can’t man or afford to run a store in a store. 

This isn’t really the full story as some stores still force the £limit on Apple Pay as well. 
Obviously this will change with self-serve, but the £ cap is ridiculous and prevents contactless being useful for anything but minuscule shops. 

Texan jurors doing what they need to do to keep their little pot of gold running...

Patent reform in the country is well overdue. It’s unfair to claim damages when neither producing a product, nor even possessing the ability to produce such a product due to having insufficient complementary IP or technical know-how. What damage has truly been done?

What we have right now is just a silly trap for anyone who does create products. It needlessly elevates the cost to consumers while providing no alternative options in the market place.
The other side issue: it effectively funnels money from a large number of consumers into an entity which contributes nothing to society. Because these suits happen retrospectively those consumers were additionally denied a choice in who they spent their money with.

They're not the brightest folk...
they've spent the last few months inadvertently telling investors and ad buyers that their product's effectiveness and quality will be greatly diminished.

This will obviously have an effect on investor and ad buyer confidence. So with the writing on the wall, naturally they're changing their tune.