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Jury Finds Largely in Favor of Apple in Apple vs. Samsung Trial, Awards More than $1 Billion in Damages
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They can have multi touch.
Do smartphones really need to have Pinch to Zoom, aren't there any better ways to zoom? Like using your finger to circle the area you wan't to zoom, do another circle and it zooms in even more, or fills the screen with the area you circled...
"Rectangle" shows how much aesthetic sense you have, if you believe all design aspects of the iphone can be summarized as "Rectangle"?
Simple minded to think that this would in any way stop the smartphone market, just because a few patents are held by a company... Heck, I'm sure Apple licenses a bunch of patents for smartphone technologies from Nokia, Microsoft and so on...
KnightWRX, I noticed you stopped posting as soon as it became painfully clear that Samesung...I mean Samsung wasn't going to recover from this one.
I get it. I'm from Canada too. I like going for the underdog. Going against companies that get big, when before they were small. Rooting for the one that seems to be unjustly persecuted - even if the evidence is overwhelmingly supporting the contrary.
You defend your posts with the stance of "objectivity". Looking at the evidence "neutrally", in a nonpartisan manner. Being free of bias. Maybe that crap flies where your from, but every last post you make is laced with bias. I see right through the facade you so delicately build and I understand. Things will get better...at least Samsung can appeal right? They always have that move. Then we can go back to the "being objective" song and dance. It's ok to be an Android fan, just don't be in the closet about it. No one is going to judge you because of your choices. Macrumors is a safe place - though a unconventional place to be a Fandroid - but a equal opportunity Android/iOS liking space none-the-less.
LG, Samsung and Sony control almost all patents to build LCD screens for an example what would apple do when they don't want apple to use them. Well I guess this might be the last Macbook Pro i can buy since Apple might get a shortage of materials to build me a new glorious Retina mac. Not sure I want the new cathode ray screen on next version
Your view is simplistic. Apple is Samsung and LG's biggest customer. You think Samsung and LG will stop selling to Apple because they are pissed off about losing one or more lawsuits? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. If LG or Samsung choose to stop selling components to Apple, they will quickly find themselves on the losing side of that decision.
If Apple gets defined as owning too much of the essential pieces of smartphone design, you can expect anti-trust action against Apple eventually. First in Europe, then the U.S. will pile on. If it happened to Microsoft, it can happen to Apple.
The bit over $10 increase in stock price in after market trading is a bit over $10B for a $1B award. So it's not about the money. It's about the market perception.
Rocketman
Rocketman
can you please explain what i said, that was improper?
Only if it joins the smartphone market.
Facebook has a patent for News Feeds... i wonder if they'll sue Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and all the other websites that use News Feeds for social networking.
This is how Apple plays hardball negotiating
Samsung knew it was ripping off Apple, and they knew they might pay for it.
Apple knew Samsung was ripping them off and then used this for some negotiation leverage.
Take a look at what these companies are worth...even if Apple had gotten everything it wanted, and there was no such thing as an appellate court, even then this decision wouldn't have done much.
Sooner or later Google and Apple will sue one another and that won't matter either. Notice how Jobs wanted to destroy Google, but still kept Google search and maps?
Too bad these big companies can't find a way to avoid the legal morass (I know I'm in fairytale land) and give people (other than attorneys) jobs with all this play money.
Samsung knew it was ripping off Apple, and they knew they might pay for it.
Apple knew Samsung was ripping them off and then used this for some negotiation leverage.
Take a look at what these companies are worth...even if Apple had gotten everything it wanted, and there was no such thing as an appellate court, even then this decision wouldn't have done much.
Sooner or later Google and Apple will sue one another and that won't matter either. Notice how Jobs wanted to destroy Google, but still kept Google search and maps?
Too bad these big companies can't find a way to avoid the legal morass (I know I'm in fairytale land) and give people (other than attorneys) jobs with all this play money.
Wrong...
For the same reasons you don't let programmers write user manuals. They wouldn't be able to objectively apply the user experience to the process and thats mostly what this trial is about. Droids/Iphones are for users.
For the same reasons you don't let programmers write user manuals. They wouldn't be able to objectively apply the user experience to the process and thats mostly what this trial is about. Droids/Iphones are for users.
5:16:14 PM PDT
The court is back in order and Judge Koh is back at the bench.
ANNNNND were back.
The court is back in order and Judge Koh is back at the bench.
ANNNNND were back.
I did, quite a few people in Steve's life didn't think he was a SOB. You should aspire to 1% of who he was.
Show me a single smartphone that looked like an iPhone before the iPhone was launched. There are plenty of ways that you can innovate a smartphone without copying Apple's patents. Samsung just felt it was easier to copy than create, and now they have been rightfully smacked off.
I think you got it backwards. People who copy are the lazy ones. Passing the blame to the ones who innovate and giving the copiers a free pass. Seem like your morals are skewed.
good thing its not a "real billion" and only a million of a million
UK/US English. I guess that's why the FT just writes it out, or says $1,000 million lots of times.
Well now the Apple fanatics have some huge ammunition to throw at the fandroidz.
That's really about all that came out of this case.
That's really about all that came out of this case.
No, Apple would then be the only smartphone provider who was able to use those valid patents. Others could design their own version of a smartphone.