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Samsung made the request for it to be posted throughout the EU. The judge disagreed...
Can someone confirm whether this link on Apple website is for one or 6 months? There are contradicting reports how long this links should be displayed.
The original ruling was for six months but it looks like the judges hearing the appeal have reduced it to one month.
I think that the original ruling was 1 year and the appeal has reduced it to 6 months
Is the honeymoon over for Apple?
Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - news) has been dealt a double blow after a US judge said yesterday it should be forced to reveal sensitive information about its profit margins and the technology giant lost a legal battle in Britain
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ordered-reveal-profit-margins-124806170.html
I hope all will be ok but I believe that generally business will believe that Apple has asked for this by ignoring all the advice and to Cook soft to peddle on the lawsuits.
These things have a habit of boomeranging back which we are beginning to see, and the respect that the industry had for Steve Jobs is no more...
Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL - news) has been dealt a double blow after a US judge said yesterday it should be forced to reveal sensitive information about its profit margins and the technology giant lost a legal battle in Britain
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ordered-reveal-profit-margins-124806170.html
I hope all will be ok but I believe that generally business will believe that Apple has asked for this by ignoring all the advice and to Cook soft to peddle on the lawsuits.
These things have a habit of boomeranging back which we are beginning to see, and the respect that the industry had for Steve Jobs is no more...
No, I quoted from the original ruling in this post.
EDIT: They have now posted the appeal judgement. It's been reduced to one month.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html
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What about driving on the left side?
We do drive on the left.
We are an island nation, and driving on the left has a historical function to it - likely back when we rode horses and you needed a sword in your right hand to defend (ride on the right hand side and you would use your left hand which, for the larger population would provide difficulty).
Fast forward and people around the world drive on the right, for various reasons. Nothing wrong with it, but we don't need to change our cars or roads since, as I said, we're an island nation and have no real need to do so.
I find the comment a little childish, sort of a last-ditch attempt at getting your own way.
I would also add that I have never had a warm beer here either. I noticed no difference in the coldness of beer in the US when I lived there either. It's a very outdated idea and bears no relevance to the topic at hand.
I am very fond of the US, but frankly it's comments like that that cause me to sigh.
You're also not alone with driving on the left side. Australia, India and several African countries and basically all former British colonies do it as well.
But it felt weird when I drove on the left side in Ireland. It wasn't as difficult as I had first expected, but it took a lot more concentration to drive.
Someone hasn't been paying attention to the gospels.
Hear these holy words:
"Nobody wants a stylus, yuch"
"If you see a stylus, they blew it"
- His Fruity Holiness
I think you mean "I couldn't care less".
But the Samsung claim was a result of Apple being in contempt of court after having lost the original lawsuit that they started, so I'm not sure it's fair to say that Samsung started it.
Yeah, the only way the beer differs in the US is that it doesn't really taste like beer but ranges from tasting like carbonated water to rat piss.
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The original lawsuit was filed by Samsung, pre-emptively asking the court to rule before Apple could file their own lawsuit and ask for a preliminary injunction as they were doing in the rest of the EU at the time.
For some reason I thought that Apple filed in the US initially and then Samsung started filing in different locations around the world. Am I misremembering or did something similar to that happen?
Apple filed in many jurisdictions. But in the UK, it's Samsung who filed pre-emptively.
And several media publications with millions of readership. It's even funnier it has to post the advert in T3 too as you could consider that the grandaddy of tech and gadget reviews and news publications, it's not a computer magazine but just covers everything tech.
Ah HP:
I think you'll find that's because Apple has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Samsungs apparent copying caused irreparable and widespread damage to Apple's profits as a direct result. Hence why Apple is hardly abiding with the request on one side, and announcing year on year on year record profits on the other
It would be interesting to find out exactly HOW much Apple marks up it's products by though wouldn't it? I would imagine it would be 30% to 100% or more. But that's because they are their own worst enemy as they strictly control the RRP across all outlets and seem to ban any sales on it's products unless it's old stock. Hence the Mac Pro being an incredibly overpriced dinosaur.
I don't know mate, I've been to some clubs and pubs in my youth and swear I was drinking coloured rats p***! But it got you drunk all the same
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1. As others have pointed out - it's not gloating just because people don't post negatively about the ruling. Who is gloating and what do you consider a gloating statement?
2. Who in this thread has claimed Apple is a monopoly? I don't even think the word "Droid" has been used. And I'm fairly certain there hasn't been any praise. You realize this thread isn't about Google or Android, right? It's about Samsung and Apple.
3. Please show me a comment that someone said that Apple should get back to innovating and also thinks it's OK for anyone to copy (let alone patent their copy)
Hyperbole is easy to post. So are sweeping generalizations.
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I think you'll find that's because Apple has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Samsungs apparent copying caused irreparable and widespread damage to Apple's profits as a direct result. Hence why Apple is hardly abiding with the request on one side, and announcing year on year on year record profits on the other
It's an interesting thing because one would never reallllly be able to prove anything. Meaning - how many people did Samsung sell a phone or tablet to that would have bought an iDevice? If someone really wanted an iDevice - I'm going to guess that that's what they bought. Same goes for if someone really wanted a Samsung (and/or Android) device. So the group that is most in question are the undecideds. And that's a hard group to quantify as to what they WOULD have done. If it wasn't Samsung's phone they bought, it could have just as easily been Motorola's or fill in the blank.
I've said it before. I'm not convinced that Apple is really concerned with the hardware (although they do make great profits from them). This is really a battle of ecosystem. Because once invested - it's a potential lifetime revenue stream for a customer.
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Apple got served. This overrated crap producing company will soon be done now that their messiah is dead
Apple got served. This overrated crap producing company will soon be done now that their messiah is dead
Some common sense at last. About time we had a non biased judge. I love my ipad and my nexus 7 and my samsung smart phone. There is room for all of them.
tablets, prior art
I guess somebody brought in a skeleton of a bronze age Hittite with his portable cuneiform tablet. Who is claiming he was the first to use a rectangle with rounded edges for reading and writing. The circular reading products kept on rolling away and the rectangles and triangles with sharp corners kept on breaking and making a mess.
I guess somebody brought in a skeleton of a bronze age Hittite with his portable cuneiform tablet. Who is claiming he was the first to use a rectangle with rounded edges for reading and writing. The circular reading products kept on rolling away and the rectangles and triangles with sharp corners kept on breaking and making a mess.
Well it seems it is how it works. I suppose a judge who sat through detailed examinations of both sides evidence, having served many years as a lawyer and eventually appointed to be a judge just might have a better grasp of the situation than you.
For sure they have learned a lesson, they have lost millions and millions. Or at least I hope they have learned something from this.