Apple triumphs over Samsung, awarded over $1 billion damages

[reptoid]

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The US loves awarding itself billions of dollars in damages. BP paid a similar amount... and yet when a US chemical plant exploded in India killing thousands the figure paid was much, much smaller. Then again the US doesn't always get their own way, the ruling didn't go in Apple's favor in the UK and China really screwed them over recently.

[bad_juju]

Re unsa na patent, perteng daghana but ang most common AFAICR is ang rectangle with rounded corners, ug ang consistent na distance from the screen to the edge of the phone. Plus home button pa. Grabe, e patent nalang tanan haha.

Ingon ani na siguro sunod porma sa Samsung na phones/tabs:

Spoiler! 

hahaha.. harnessing the power of the pyramid.

[Axelremadeyo]

im sure that samsung will be aggressive and will have other units to be produced soon albeit different from the supposed patented units.let the competition begin.....

[FAQ]

Nakuha lang ni nako sa akong Google+

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Samsung Copied Apple and That's Why It Succeeded - Pundits

Apple fans say Samsung copied Apple and that's why Samsung is a loser.

Android fans say Samsung didn't copy Apple any more than Apple copied Samsung, and that Samsung is a winner.

But at least two pundits, +Farhad Manjoo and +Robert Scoble, have an alternative opinion. Namely, that Samsung did in fact copy Apple and that's why Samsung is a winner.

These guys point out that the companies that didn't copy Apple (Nokia, RIM, Palm, Microsoft and so on) have become smartphone market also-rans.

Samsung, they argued, copied Apple. And while it cost them a billion dollars in "damages," that's lunch money compared to how much they're making quarter over quarter with their smart phones.

(Manjoo points out that Samsung started out copying, but has evolved away from that and now innovates.)
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This is like Ford suing other car companies for having the same features of their car models: having a headlight , hoods and tail lights . Oh well , we live in a patent environment now and led more patent lawsuits . I don't own either of their phones so I don't care .

[Zebastian rella]

The biggest losers

DESPITE last week’s $1.05-billion judgment against Samsung, consumers, not the South Korean electronics company, may be the biggest losers in Apple’s ongoing scorched-earth patent war.

In a hometown decision Friday, a jury of nine in a San Jose, California court unanimously agreed that Samsung had “slavishly copied” the iPhone and iPad, and awarded Apple $1.05 billion in damages, less than half of what the company had sought. It also threw out Samsung’s counterclaims that Apple had violated its patent on wireless technology.

Samsung said it will appeal the decision, while Apple will ask the judge to triple the damages and bar the sale of some of the Korean company’s smart phones in the United States.

If the judge rules in Apple’s favor, the decision would certainly reduce the choices available to US mobile phone buyers. In the long term, the verdict could also make phone makers more cautious about potential patent violations and slow down the pace of innovation.

Consumers—whether they are buying iPhones or Android phones—could also end up paying more for their devices to cover the huge cost of litigation. Apple and Samsung alone are locked in court battles in nine other countries.

Interviews with members of the US jury were telling.

One juror, Manuel Ilagan, a mechanical engineer, told CNET that internal e-mails about how Samsung could incorporate Apple’s technology into its devices hurt the South Korean company. He also said they found South Korean executives who testified at the trial to be evasive.

Although the jury deliberated for less than three days, Ilagan said they were in no rush to find in favor of Apple, and denied that it was a hometown decision.

“We found for Apple because of the evidence they presented,” Ilagan said. “It was clear there was infringement.”

CNET’s interview with Ilagan also revealed that the jury debated such matters as Samsung’s use of a rectangular design with rounded corners and the bounce-back and pinch-to-zoom features in its Android-based software.

Last week’s decision will clearly hurt Google by casting a shadow of uncertainty over its mobile phone operating system. It will also hurt other Android phone makers, who could face similar lawsuits.

“It’s hardly a secret that the battle between Samsung and Apple is largely a proxy war over the Android system owned by Google,” writes Tristan Louis in Business Insider, who says the verdict is a major blow to the Internet giant’s goal to remain the most popular mobile operating system, based on total units sold. The accuracy of his prediction that the ruling will somehow resurrect Microsoft and Nokia, which have tied their fortunes together around Windows smart phones, remains to be seen. I am skeptical.

Samsung alone has already surpassed Apple in smart phone sales, selling 50.5 million units in the second quarter of 2012, against 26 million iPhones shipped in the same period, according to the research company Strategy Analytics. In the United States, Android accounted for 56.3 percent of the market, compared to 33.2 percent for Apple iOS.

Google developed the Android system while its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, was still on Apple board. This apparently infuriated Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs, who saw Google’s operating system as a rip-off and promised Apple would resort to “thermonuclear war” to destroy Android and its allies.

The resort to courts in the face of a market challenge is nothing new to Apple.

In the 1980s, it unsuccessfully sued Microsoft for copying the “look-and-feel” of the Macintosh graphical user interface on its Windows operating system.

That episode demonstrated clearly that Apple’s vociferous campaign against “stealing” and copying stopped at its own door, with Jobs later acknowledging that Apple had “borrowed” liberally from others as well.

A video of a 1994 interview that you can view on YouTube has Jobs putting it this way: “Picasso had a saying. Good artists copy; great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” Chin Wong

The biggest losers - Manila Standard Today - Daily news, current events, latest news in the Philippines - Manila Standard Today

Column archives and blog at: Digital Life | Information Technology News and Views by Chin Wong

[kageron]

basta mangcopya lage na i kapalit parehas ragud ni ni Tito Sotto.

[peewee_toot]

expect na lang ta nga mo mahal na ang samsung phones ani. mamawi. hehehe.

daghana na baya og na daot anang kopya oi.

[frozentime]

ang apple(US) gi gukod niya ang samsung(sokor) nga lahi ra kaayo ug brand name, features pero ang apple(class b, fake, china made) wala.toink mas maau pa diay siguro mag pina china style nlang aron d ma fine ug ana ka daku. dang.

[edgeknife]

This is like Ford suing other car companies for having the same features of their car models: having a headlight , hoods and tail lights . Oh well , we live in a patent environment now and led more patent lawsuits . I don't own either of their phones so I don't care .

OT: blackberry ka noh? coz i saw posting on blackberry thread.

to be honest, i like samsung android smartphones. even their galaxy note and galaxy tabs gusto kaayu nako. ang di lang nako ganahan is not the products, but the samsung fanboys/ fangirls lang jud nga kusug kaayu mo daot og other smartphone products. hasta pod ang fellow android products like htc, sony xperia mobile, motorola ila pod dauton pag ayu...

i am an samsung android phone user. but i do have plan to switch to sony xperia mobile. and thanks for samsung fanboys for trolling and might be switching brang; but still android

[ninjaturtle]

Samsung Galaxy S III sales skyrocket following Apple patent trial verdict

sales of the Galaxy S III saw an immediate and “significant” increase in sales following the delivery of the jury’s verdict. Apparently, the analyst made his rounds to several retail locations after the news broke.

At any rate, it’s starting to look like Samsung won’t have any troubles paying back that 1.05 billion dollar fine, should they end up losing all of their appeals in court.

So, why did people rush out to get the Galaxy S III? Did they assume that the verdict could possibly lead to a ban on the device here in the United States? Were they taking a stand in the #BoycottApple war? Or is it all just a big coincidence?

Maybe this would be a good reason


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