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Samsung Stepping Up Attacks on 'Free Riding' Apple in Patent Dispute
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There's always a market for the cheap and disposable. That will never change.
You know what Samsung needs to do? Stop messing with Bada crap and make a tablet for Windows 8. Do you think Sammy could ever code an OS from the ground-up as good as MSFT? MSFT + Samsung seems to me a marriage made in heaven!
Samsung did. The Win8 tablets MS gave away in the recent dev conference was from samsung. One with beastly spec.
They sell hw with android, Bada, Win8. And provide critical parts for iOS stuff.
I agree, they should start from scratch with regards to operating system.
As for Windows 8 tablets, its 99.999% certain Samsung will be making Windows 8 tablets in the future.
I think Sammy can easily replace the $7 billion of Apple with their own Windows 8 tablet + supplying components to other OEMs. No problem, as the market is thirsting for an iPad alternative!
You mean that the largest market is for the less expensive items, no matter what they are. Toyota sells more Corolla's than they do Lexus ES 330's, etc, etc.
Other tablet makers will jump with joy when apple stops buying ram from samsung, freeing up all those RAM for less. They will be able to price their tablets less than ipad and you know where that leads to.
Remember TouchPad? Lower price and it outSOLD ipad by a huge margin.
Nokia taking Apple to court is how these companies negotiate settlements if you haven't been paying attention.
Microsoft settled out of court after Apple sued then in the 1990s. It's the way all of these companies negotiate, most sue then settle during the discovery process, before things go to trial. This way most info can be kept out of public record, or severely redacted when published in public record.
Business 101, sue to get someone to the negotiating table.
The FRAND patent practice is an idea, not law. It is put forth by international standards committees, to play fair, and allow all manufactures to license patents that are used in standards.
If Samsung or someone takes a FRAND patent suit to actual trial, there will intense scrutiny on the FRAND practice, and legal judgments will be made that affect the entire tech industry. FRAND may become law, with various legal opions in different courts across the world. The system works pretty well right now, the last thing the tech companies want is legal presidence and guidelines, dictated by various courts around the world.
Samsung may not want it's patents legally declared FRAND, because then they become less valuable in negations if they have to license them by court order rather than business negotation.
Its a dangerous game of chicken when you sue with patents that could become less valuable if you lose the trial.
Dude. Alienware, Lenovo, Samsung 9 series, HP Envy are no cheap and disposable. You should really take a look around you.
Claims reduced from 128 to 3 : http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/google-oracle
Damages reduced :
http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuter...ge_rejects_Oracle_damages_estimate_vs_Google/
Wait, why would I read Florian Mueller's anti-google agenda tainted reporting ? I get most of my unbiased reporting on law cases from Groklaw. They don't have an agenda. I suggest you remove FOSSpatent from your reading list if you want to remain unbiased and untainted. Florian Mueller has 0 credibility :
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Florian_Müller
I think Apple has bitten off more then it can chew now. Obviously Samsung has just had enough and is going to hit them where it hurts. But it has to be remembered it's Korean, a lot of the other companies suing Apple or Apple is suing are also from that part of the world. So if Apple gets a reputation of being difficult to deal with, then who do they think is going to deal with them?
Sure Apple spends loads of money, but if that money comes with hassle and stress and possibilities of having your own products taken of sale, then your not going to deal with them are you.
Then again you can alway's save Apples money up to spend on your defence or case.
Anyway pot kettle black is a phrase that comes to mind with this, Apple is going to need luck with this one. Just launch the iPhone 5 first though
Anyway Apple will never corner the mobile phone market, no one will, choice is too big and you just piss everyone off if you just have the competition banned. they could be the new Nokia? The market really needs MS to step up and be successful to help balance it out again.
Still, nice to see they can all waste endless millions when endless billions are being wiped of the world markets, keeps those lawyers in their Rolls Royce's or Maybach's. I would say Jaguar's but with the money they must be getting these day's........
Sure Apple spends loads of money, but if that money comes with hassle and stress and possibilities of having your own products taken of sale, then your not going to deal with them are you.
Then again you can alway's save Apples money up to spend on your defence or case.
Anyway pot kettle black is a phrase that comes to mind with this, Apple is going to need luck with this one. Just launch the iPhone 5 first though
Anyway Apple will never corner the mobile phone market, no one will, choice is too big and you just piss everyone off if you just have the competition banned. they could be the new Nokia? The market really needs MS to step up and be successful to help balance it out again.
Still, nice to see they can all waste endless millions when endless billions are being wiped of the world markets, keeps those lawyers in their Rolls Royce's or Maybach's. I would say Jaguar's but with the money they must be getting these day's........
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I think Apple has bitten off more then it can chew now. Obviously Samsung has just had enough and is going to hit them where it hurts. But it has to be remembered it's Korean, a lot of the other companies suing Apple or Apple is suing are also from that part of the world. So if Apple gets a reputation of being difficult to deal with, then who do they think is going to deal with them?
Sure Apple spends loads of money, but if that money comes with hassle and stress and possibilities of having your own products taken of sale, then your not going to deal with them are you.
Then again you can alway's save Apples money up to spend on your defence or case.
Anyway pot kettle black is a phrase that comes to mind with this, Apple is going to need luck with this one. Just launch the iPhone 5 first though
Apple is getting a bad reputation in Korea. MSFT has been very kind to Asia in general and I can see them benefiting!
Koreans still love iProducts though. Thats not going to change. And banning a product with that much popularity will create a huge black market for it in Korea.
Is it?
If the market was really "thirsting" for an iPad alternative, it would have snapped up the TouchPad and the Playbook.
But it didn't. They lingered on store shelves, dusty and unwanted, until the prices got slashed.
A lot of people who, for whatever reason, don't like Apple, seem to be putting their hopes in Windows 8 somehow succeding where Android and WebOS and QNS failed. I think they are going to be mistaken.
Because nobody really likes Microsoft. And nobody really likes Samsung either. But more importantly, nobody (sane) is going to go out and waste $500 or $600 just to "stick it" to Steve Jobs and the folks at Apple. They are going to say: "Do I spend $500 on an iPad - for which there is all this wonderful software. That works with my iPhone and my Itunes library. That I KNOW just works. Or do I go and spend the same $500 and buy myself the same heaches I've tolerated from Windows all these years. Do I buy myself a Samsung, with an incomprehensible manual like the one that came with the LCD TV set and DVD player I bought."
Sensible people don't buy computer products out of spite.
imo if apple stops buying ram/display from samsung, that's a good thing for other tablet makers. Price of components has been artificially high due to apple sucking up all available components. IF apple goes to another supplier, samsung will just sell the parts to others who can then finally price their tablets/phones competitively against iDevices.
And yes touchpad was collecting dust but when the price was right, it outsold ipad.
I'll just leave these here
Has anyone seen this phone before? I finally found out the model after scratching my head seeing someone use it on the bus. I couldn't take my eyes off it because it looked so much like an iPhone no matter how long I looked.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_ace_s5830-review-558p2.php
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Has anyone seen this phone before? I finally found out the model after scratching my head seeing someone use it on the bus. I couldn't take my eyes off it because it looked so much like an iPhone no matter how long I looked.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_ace_s5830-review-558p2.php
Yes the Samsung Galaxy S II is a total ripoff and should not be allowed to be sold. End of story. Samsung should learn how to innovate! The thing is the iPhone design is so perfect that any other design looks inferior. Game over.
Not to mention that they've completely mishandled the Sun acquisition in general.
Now all we need is RedHat to develop an OracleDB competitor so we can forget about Oracle beyond Java.
Hum, his pics were for the Samsung Galaxy Ace, not the Galaxy S II. And the Ace has quite a few differentiating features, the backs are completely different, the front is rife with branding and the Ace sports a bevel, making the grey sides flush with the front instead of front plate being slightly recessed.
You'd have to be blind or have never seen an iPhone 4 to mistake the 2.
Any suits against apple is of their own doing. They're the ones who started this whole thing filing suit after suit after suit and now the competition is fighting back. The sooner apple realizes it's not the center of the universe the better off everyone will be.
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