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Jury Finds Largely in Favor of Apple in Apple vs. Samsung Trial, Awards More than $1 Billion in Damages

throys said:
It must hurt to be a Samsung/android fan but you must be blind not to see how Samsung devices look so much like apple. And coincidentally their new store in Sydney even the colleagues resembled a Apple store. They deserve it. I like competition but not a knock off.
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Yes, I think Samsung violated a lot of Apple's patents, but I don't think you should be able to patent a rectangle.

In addition, I think there are a lot of Samsung patents that Apple violated and if I were on the Jury, I would have held out that they are both equally guilty.

I also think this was a mistake on Apple's part. Imagine if Google, HTC, Samsung, Microsoft and Intel all decided to go after Apple in one big lawsuit that affects them all, even Apple's massive stock pile of money won't help.
 
Just need to say to all people that think that Android is dead, its not dead and will never be dead its open source for the love of god. Its all ready in all corners of the world, and USA software patent laws does not reach outside USA.

And also this will not stop Android in the USA either nor will it stop Samsung either. But it might as well make it impossible to ever start a new tech company in the USA again. That is where patents like this will lead in the end of things, and that is bad for the USA and it will hurt the economy of the USA.
 
Diode said:
When people can copy it forces you to continuously innovate. When you can sue others for copying you - it allows you to become lazy.
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this has got to be one of the dumbest things I've read in this thread. Moreso, than people saying Android is dead.

For the love of intelligence, I hope you're still in middle school possibly high school.
 
Windlasher said:
Toss in a few mill for lawyers.... isnt apple allowed to recoup legal fees in this kind of case?
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No need to. Apple's lawyers are in-house. They probably all ready make well over a mil each.

Also, it's not as if they worked any harder than they needed to. This was an open and shut case from the beginning.
 
Booyah! Innovate or die copycats. Go find your own insanely great idea work with blood sweat and tears to get it right, and patent it. It's called life, it's hard and rewarding when you do it right.
 
Diode said:
When people can copy it forces you to continuously innovate. When you can sue others for copying you - it allows you to become lazy.
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Remind me to rip off your ideas as much as possible to "inspire" you to innovate.
 
mklaman said:
you get more products that ARE NOT IDENTICAL, thus making it actually better for all consumers. duh.
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What if consumers want a simple, black phone that does not use hardware-based signature checks to block the execution of arbitrary code?
 
Diode said:
When people can copy it forces you to continuously innovate. When you can sue others for copying you - it allows you to become lazy.
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It causes the inventor to be lazy maybe, but it causes the competition (i.e. Samsung) to continuously innovate. Android fans got exactly what they wanted. A verdict that causes Samsung to innovate while Apple can stand pat. The anti-Apple verdict would have caused Apple to innovate to make their product better, and allowed Samsung to just copy what Apple came up with.
 
Diode said:
When people can copy it forces you to continuously innovate. When you can sue others for copying you - it allows you to become lazy.
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Or when people can`t copy, they have to innovate to come up with better ways.
 
Well the jury has decided. We'll see if the judge reaches the same verdict. $1 billion is a hefty sum even if you're Apple. Looks like this was a big pretty victory for them! I'm interested in seeing how Samsung intends to move forward if they lose the appeal.
 
dmelgar said:
Repeating Samsung name calling.

Look at Samsung's 130 page presentation detailing all the nuances of the iPhone UI and how superior it is to Samsung's UI and instructing how to copy it.

It is not rounded corners. Don't fall for the name calling.
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I browsed through that and it was pretty bad for copying alright but my point is patenting rounded corners is a bit ridiculous. The name calling, if that's what Samsung called it I didn't even realise, but it's obvious because that's what it is. Call a spade a spade. They have rounded corners. The icons, the device itself they have rounded corners and now that have a court backed, fully validated, legal right of ownership to 'rounded corners' . How ridiculous is that. I've already seen the effect on other companies, shying away from the rounded edge to a perpendicular one. The metro interface is disguisting but maybe this was on the only solution available to Microsoft because of 'rounded corners' and 'colourful icons'. Seriously I don't care what the kangaroo court says. GTFO if you think they are grounds of copyright.

Android is becoming really angular too. I guessed these two behemoths hedged their bets years ago. It's a strange world where one entity is the sole owner or rounded corners and colourful things...
 
So Samsung.. How do you like them Apples?

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cmwade77 said:
I also think this was a mistake on Apple's part. Imagine if Google, HTC, Samsung, Microsoft and Intel all decided to go after Apple in one big lawsuit that affects them all, even Apple's massive stock pile of money won't help.
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Google, HTC and Samsung are already going after Apple.

Why do you think there is even a remote possibility that Intel or Microsoft would? Not going to happen in a million years as they work closely together.
 
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