If my memory serves me right, there was price fixing involved back then. Its ultimately what gave way to Apple's monumental success. Without the iPod, Apple would still be stuck at their 5% PC marketshare they once had.
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Apple Asks for $379 Million in Damages Retrial Against Samsung
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If my memory serves me right, there was price fixing involved back then. Its ultimately what gave way to Apple's monumental success. Without the iPod, Apple would still be stuck at their 5% PC marketshare they once had.
Yes, but this lawsuit is only over a handful of patents. Samsung will have to pay the damages, pay a royalty for ongoing infringement, and work out a licensing deal or avoid using the patents in the future. Then it has the other 200 or so patents to content with that Apple is or will be suing over.
I was thinking the same thing... the phones are just as high end as apple's.
Have you actually held either? They are made out of cheap plastic (Nokia has a much better plastic body as does the iPhone 5C). The phones feel fragile. Further, Samsung had to cheat on benchmarking.
Yes, but back in the late 90s when Samsung's LCD business was hurting, Apple invested over 100 million dollars into Samsung's LCD business. So, you could also argue Apple's early investment in Samsung's LCD business has put Samsung in the position it is in today.
I'm sorry, I guess you fooled me with the ridiculous statement that Apple "unethically created a monopoly."
Apple is constantly winning with the phone tech and looks, and its got billions. How about saying putting the court winnings to a good use, you know, like the Philippines typhoon victims.
Apple wants $979 million. Samsung wants to give them $650 million. What's more important to Apple is a sales ban, though. That would give them more leverage since Samsung would wind up having to keep using workarounds.
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What? Where is your proof? To say they don't develop anything is BS. They are EVERYWHERE, the smartphone business is just one aspect of Samsung.
Well, $650 million that the judge has already granted, plus $379 million that Apple wants additionally, that makes a billion. Looks like Samsung isn't getting away with their thievery.
But right now they also have to contend with a judge who is absolutely furious about Samsung's behaviour (she is waiting for weeks for an explanation how confidential information moved from Samsung's lawyers to Samsung management).
Neither does Apple. The jurors freely admitted they didn't consider prior art at all--the fact is, for nearly everything Apple sued over, there was.
Someone didn't follow the whole story, and didn't read this article...
Here's the part you missed:
It should be noted howeer that the orignal number was 1.05 billion.
So... $1.05G - $450M + $379M would be $979M.
So yeah, pretty much a billion.
Either way, like someone mentioned, that's pocket change for Samsung relatively to the revenues generated by their smartphone business, which wasn't anywhere close to that big before they started to make phones similar to the iPhone.
It won't be somewhere in the middle. That's not how it works. It's not a negotiation. It's a jury deciding what damage Samsung has done.
How can it be enough when someone rip you off to start their business to steal the same business from you? I don't think it's enough. Sorry.
Please get your facts right. Samsung is the one threatened by the EU with a 13 billion Euro fine for abusing their patents.
Seems like an odd comment given that the article relates to a dispute over $450 million. In either case both sides had some basis for their calculations, so turning it into a one liner doesn't work well.
The common sense one. If it's Samsung, it's "invention" and "innovation". If it's Apple, it isn't.
