That is important. Apple should make sure that it is a settlement where Samsung's honor is maintained since in that part of the world 'honor' is a big deal indeed.
Apple, you are not going to lead with that, are you?
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Apple and Samsung Said to Resume Settlement Talks Over Patent Dispute
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Apple apologised for Mobile Me.
Apple apologised for Ping.
Apple apologised for Maps.
Apple apologised for leaving the EPAT (or whatever you call it).
And why would Samsung's manufacturing division, which has almost 0 ties to the mobile device division making Galaxy smartphones and has it's own financial goals to make each year, decide to cancel huge lucrative orders of Apple's components? Samsung is a HUGE company where divisions feel like entire separate companies.
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Just start the settlement with "With a courageous and enviable effort put forth by the defendants, we humbly agree that honor is served and that a settlement between two great warring factions is needed to maintain balance in the tech blogoverse"
or just screw it and say "Samsung, you bunch of losers, got you red handed so stop copying our stuff...and no Kimchi for you! 2 years!"
Yet they didn't apologise for a design failure in the iPhone 4 antenna. Instead they tried to divert the attention to other brands instead of just admitting they made a mistake.
That's because there was no fault in the iPhone 4. The vocal minority tried to make up an iPhone 4 fault that was not there.
Of cause it does. I spoke the truth. If others can't see that, then we can agree to disagree and have to move onlol ok, if you believe that then it marks of the end of this discussion
So much of a "no fault" that people successfully sued Apple over it. My iPhone 4 certainly had the problem which probably wasn't helped with the piss poor connections in my area, but either way it existed and was damn annoying unless you had a case.
Frand does not equate to free. It's still a negotiated rate. Something Apple is having trouble reaching an agreement on with Samsung."Fair" is where the courts come in.
Second - Why should Samsung pay $15 per device running touchwiz now when they've already made significant changes that don't violate remotely the same or same # patents. You realize that much of these lawsuits are for models no longer sold, right?
And just because Samsung MAY move to another platform - or add another platform they support, doesn't mean they should just roll over. Since this forum likes bad analogies - that would be like you moving to a new state but someone expecting you to just pay an exorbitant last electric bill regardless if it's accurate. After all - you're going to a new electric company - you should just suck up and pay off the fee.
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There was a significant issue. Jobs as much said so. He smoke and mirrored the thing by saying ALL phones have this issue - but that doesn't mean the iPhone DIDN'T. He tried to throw other phones "under the bus" with a lot of rhetoric. If you didn't want to believe it - you could be easily sold.
And that's actually the bigger issue I had with this problem (And I was one of the few to hear directly from Jobs (or at least his alias) on this - you can check MR). Whether or not there was an issue - Apple's handling of the situation was piss-poor. You don't tell customers they're holding it wrong. Or that it's not an issue. Some forum members here criticize Microsoft or Samsung for insulting the intelligence of Apple users - but this was at least one instance I can name where Apple insulted their own customers.
Even iPhone honcho Tony Fadell admitted later that they had made a mistake keeping all the test phones in camouflage cases for secrecy, and for allowing form to take precedence over function.
It didn't help that Apple's signal strength status code turned out to display too many bars, also hiding the problem.
And that their "fix" was to fix the strength code - something that was tweaked way back because people complained their iPhones got LESS of a signal than other phones.
This tactic was another smoke and mirror trick and a way for Apple to look like they were being uber-honest by reprogramming to provide (finally) the real signal strength
Only the lawyers win.
I'm in the wrong line of work. Definitely, definitely the wrong line of work.
There you go again. "Winning." As if Andy Rubin were still running Android at Google.
They've demoted him to chief of reverse-engineering Boston Dynamics' Big Dog.
So they can put it in self-driving cars and have it prance around with ads on its flanks.
Too bad it has no head. If it did, they could make it wear Google Glass.
Oh, and by the way, the AppleInsider article is brilliant.
Read it. Learn. Open your mind, stop drinking the Googleaid.
You're correct. That article tried to (and apparently did) fool people by mixing up various stats.
First it said that Samsung high end sales were flat between 2Q and 3Q 2013. Then it bogusly contrasted that to a 26% Apple sales increase between 3Q 2012 and 3Q 2013... a whole year apart instead of just a quarter.
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What the article cleverly left out was that:
Apple's sales were also flat between 2Q and 3Q 2013. So there was no difference between quarters for both it and Samsung.
The big difference is that year over year between 3Q 2012 and 2013, Samsung's total smartphone sales grew 55%, higher than the industry average 45%. So Samsung had a TWICE as big year-over-year increase as the lower than average Apple's 26% cited in the AI article.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/28/s...n-q3-and-samsung-grew-twice-as-fast-as-apple/
In which parallel universe Samsung manufactures Apple devices?
This one. A hell of a lot of the componants used by Apple in their products are made by Samsung.
Just because Samsung makes some components, or it used to (designed by Apple itself, except some screens) does not make Samsung manifacturer of Apple products. Ever heard of Foxconn? That's where Apple devices are manufactured.
A hell lot of them??? Geeee! I know it used to do the displays and processors, don't know where you get the rest!
Just the display and SOCs. As if these are nothing more than small, inconsequential bits and pieces of an iPhone.
And there's no used to, Samsung still produces the vast majority of these parts for Apple.
This is why I know not to take you seriously...
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Exactly and just like every other article on that terrible site. They can't write or report anything without having a dig at another brand. All articles are so Apple biased they aren't credible.
The forums are littered with psychotics and quite a few racists that go unchecked. I've seen your posts on there and also the typical responses you get. Surprised you haven't been banned for having common sense.
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Winning in court is all about having a good lawyer and the legal system on your side. It has not been about the pursuit of truth in the USA for a long time.
Doesn't disprove my point. Antennagate existed. And if a winning lawsuit isn't enough proof then it existed so much that Apple even gave out free cases and also did a keynote attempting to shift the blame from them to the entire industry.
If it didn't exist, we wouldn't have heard about it and my iPhone 4 would have had no signal problems.
Companies do things to appease vocal minorities all the time. Because a PR disaster (even due to no fault of the company) can cost the company millions. Apple didn't want the vocal minority brewing up a *****torm. So Apple gave out the bumpers to shut them up. Everyone else with an iPhone 4 benefited too. So a win-win for all.
Antennagate existed. You are not wrong there. But I think you don't get what Antennagate really was. Just a vocal minority complaining to Apple to have some gain from Apple. And Apple dealt with it in the best way they knew how.