Apple Removes Code Hiding Samsung Court Order on UK Website

MacRumors · Nov 8, 2012, 09:58 AM

As noted by CNET, Apple has tweaked its international sites to remove code that automatically pushed footer text including a court-order acknowledgment that Samsung had not infringed the protected iPad design in the UK below the scroll unless the user's browser window was extremely tall.

While Apple has used such vertically responsive design before to automatically adjust page layouts based on browser window size, its use on the company's international front pages (but not the main apple.com page) was seen as an effort to hide the notice on its UK page.

The international pages are now using the same layout as the main apple.com site, alternating between the iPad mini and the fourth-generation iPad as featured products and keeping a static layout. Previously, images within the iPad mini feature linking to the keynote and product videos automatically moved to underneath the feature section as the browser window was made taller, pushing the footer text where the Samsung acknowledgement was out of view unless the page was scrolled.

Article Link: Apple Removes Code Hiding Samsung Court Order on UK Website

Oletros · Nov 8, 2012, 10:01 AM

Hardly surprising

JayLenochiniMac · Nov 8, 2012, 10:01 AM

They're obviously doing all this to piss them off.

spyguy10709 · Nov 8, 2012, 10:02 AM

Just undoing Scott Forstall trickery

All Taken · 10:33 AM

I understand the need to be protective of your design but if a Judge delivers a verdict you should be adult about it and just place the damn notice clearly instead of acting like a smart arse teenager.

Practice what you preach and grow up Apple.

The Judge isn't treating Apple like a child by giving this order which so many Macrumors readers naturally leap to assume, it is simply that the Judge felt Samsung didn't infringe on Apple's iPad design and that as a result of the court case Apple tarnished Samsung's reputation given the media attention.

When brand reputation is a MASSIVE part of your business model then it needs to be protected. If it were the other way around then I'm sure the Judge would have demanded the same of Samsung given the reliance of both companies on brand reputation.

I won't comment on the merit of the decision as I, simply put, am not a Judge.

DrJohnnyN · Nov 8, 2012, 10:03 AM

Mature.

MetalRCG · Nov 8, 2012, 10:03 AM

Geez, just do it right and get it over with. The sooner they comply, the faster this will all go in the past and be forgotten.

Radio · Nov 8, 2012, 10:04 AM

apple stop playing games and man up!

KdParker · Nov 8, 2012, 10:05 AM

Now that is just no fun.

spyguy10709 · Nov 8, 2012, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by All Taken

I understand the need to be protective of your design but if a Judge delivers a verdict you should be adult about it and just place the damn notice clearly instead of of acting like a smart arse teenager.

Practice what you preach and grow up Apple.

There was nothing wrong with what apple did. They just put a quote that the judge said over the court order... I fail to see anything wrong with that. Freedom of speech, for the win.

slrandall · Nov 8, 2012, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by All Taken

I understand the need to be protective of your design but if a Judge delivers a verdict you should be adult about it and just place the damn notice clearly instead of of acting like a smart arse teenager.

Practice what you preach and grow up Apple.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalRCG

Geez, just do it right and get it over with. The sooner they comply, the faster this will all go in the past and be forgotten.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radio

apple stop playing games and man up!

Did you guys even read the article?

needfx · 03:09 PM

avoidance at it's finest

MetalRCG · Nov 8, 2012, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slrandall

Did you guys even read the article?

D'oh! Just a little fustrated that it's taken them this long to get it right.

KdParker · Nov 8, 2012, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by All Taken

I understand the need to be protective of your design but if a Judge delivers a verdict you should be adult about it and just place the damn notice clearly instead of of acting like a smart arse teenager.

Practice what you preach and grow up Apple.

Aren't they following the verdict?
The judge is a lawyer also and should have clearly stated how the court order should be executed.

Oletros · Nov 8, 2012, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spyguy10709

There was nothing wrong with what apple did. They just put a quote that the judge said over the court order... I fail to see anything wrong with that. Freedom of speech, for the win.

They broke the court order, the court explicitly told them what to put on the note.

And it has nothing to do with free speech, they can say what they want wherever they want EXCEPT in the court order

Mr. Gates · Nov 8, 2012, 10:10 AM

Now they need to release a statement that the iPad Mini is a copy of the Nexus 7.

When I saw it I was so confused ! I said to my wife " Is that a Nexus 7 ?"

I cant tell them apart.

All Taken · Nov 8, 2012, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slrandall

Did you guys even read the article?

Sure did, Apple have tried to neutralise the verdict in a previous notice by using jest full word play, then they tried hiding the notice by altering page layout.

All signs of Apple refusing to abide by what the ruling required. It was a simple demand of the court that should have been executed without this farce.

Did you even read the article(s)?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spyguy10709

There was nothing wrong with what apple did. They just put a quote that the judge said over the court order... I fail to see anything wrong with that. Freedom of speech, for the win.

No

bayxsonic · Nov 8, 2012, 10:14 AM

Guys, seriously? Even on an Apple forum you don't realize that that behavior has been there for a while and it's on every website besides the US?

The Mexican Apple.com still has the old flexible layout for the iPhone 5, what are they hiding?
http://apple.com/mx

andyjam · Nov 8, 2012, 10:16 AM

I'm genuinely surprised that Apple didn't use a white font for the online apology...

NinjaHERO · Nov 8, 2012, 10:18 AM

The comedy of this situation isn't going away anytime soon is it?

M-O · Nov 8, 2012, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by All Taken

I understand the need to be protective of your design but if a Judge delivers a verdict you should be adult about it and just place the damn notice clearly instead of of acting like a smart arse teenager.

Practice what you preach and grow up Apple.

to be fair, it was a pretty stupid ruling. fine them and move on. it's a company, not a child.

Mattie Num Nums · Nov 8, 2012, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andyjam

I'm genuinely surprised that Apple didn't use a white font for the online apology...

I was thinking the same thing! Or made it some epileptic type color scheme.

Oletros · Nov 8, 2012, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KdParker

Aren't they following the verdict?
The judge is a lawyer also and should have clearly stated how the court order should be executed.

And the judges clearly stated how the court order should be executed

BvizioN · Nov 8, 2012, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Gates

When I saw it I was so confused ! I said to my wife " Is that a Nexus 7 ?"

I cant tell them apart.

You are joking, right? You must be. Otherwise you need an urgent eye test.

Gemütlichkeit · Nov 8, 2012, 10:25 AM

Whole thing is ridiculously silly.

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