Apple has lost its appeal against a UK court's decision that Samsung did not copy Apple's iPad.
Apple and Samsung have been duking it out in courts around the world for what seems like an age. About three months ago, Apple was handed a loss when a UK court ruled that Samsung hadn't copied the iPad in the production and design of its Galaxy Tab tablet. The courts also ruled that Apple must publicly apologize to Samsung and inform readers that Samsung did not copy Apple designs.
Apple, of course, appealed the decision, delaying any such apology. However, today it emerged that Apple lost that appeal, meaning the apology is back on. The BBC writes that Apple was previously ordered to place ads on its own UK website, as well as in widely read UK publications (including the Daily Mail, Financial Times, T3 Magazine), to "correct the damaging impression" that Samsung was a copycat.
This past summer, a UK judge said that Samsung wasn't infringing upon Apple patents because the Galaxy Tab wasn't cool.
_Any_ other company who would have contracted a company who have been busted using child labour and have several suicide cases due to working conditions, claiming design faults on their customers (your holding it wrong), make a poor excuse for established software (maps) would have been boycotted rather than take new sell records.
I really have to admire the marketing and pr of the company because they not only allow them to reap in ridiculous margins but also see past all the faults of the company and still make the customer believe its the best thing ever. Its simply amazing what a shroud they put on the sheeps eyes.
apple to samsung
i'm so sorry, now can you please pay me the $1b i extorted from you in us, nothing personal, just business you know. oh, and by the way we will need to order some more of those things you sold us the other week for our upcoming new products.
_Any_ other company who would have contracted a company who have been busted using child labour and have several suicide cases due to working conditions, claiming design faults on their customers (your holding it wrong), make a poor excuse for established software (maps) would have been boycotted rather than take new sell records.
I really have to admire the marketing and pr of the company because they not only allow them to reap in ridiculous margins but also see past all the faults of the company and still make the customer believe its the best thing ever. Its simply amazing what a shroud they put on the sheeps eyes.
Assigning fines and punishment is a waste of the court's time? Yes, this whole suit from beginning to end was a waste of time to begin with, but it was Apple that picked the fight, not the courts. Now the UK courts are just cleaning up the mess.
I agree with most of this, minus the points referring to Foxconn. You say any other company than Apple would be boycotted for using Foxconn, but the truth is that almost every tech company uses them to some degree, and most people don't seem to be boycotting those companies. To be fair, it's hard to boycott something when there's almost no alternative and it's difficult to track which products use Foxconn parts.
Don't they have anything better to do with their time?
That said, I think this is hilarious and would love to see Apple's "Samsung is actually legit" commercials.
So Apple has not only patented colors and shapes, but now cool, too?
(samsung first, apple second, in alturnateing order)
im a samsung
im an iphone
iphone, you got something to say
no
really, i got a court order that you have to
fine... im sorry i lied and tried to make it look like you were copying us
fell better
no
well i do
I think he said that so if Apple wants to appeal they have to admit they are not cool first. (Samsung copied us, so if their products are uncool, ours are too!)
Apple will find a way to grill Samsung while 'apologising' in these adverts, I'm sure.
When most of the patents being disputed are trivial and worthless things like bounce-back scrolling that should not have been granted in the first place, it certainly looks like a waste of the courts' time due to patent offices not doing their job cross-checking existing patents and prior-art before granting new patents.
The best part, IIRC, is that Apple has to vet the apology by Samsung before publishing it.
Who is this "everybody" of whom you speak? There's far from general agreement on that subject, unless you actually meant "Everybody who uses Apple products 'admits' that what Samsung stole from Apple is nontrivial..."
Also, your post lost all credibility when you compared a genuine atrocity to the squabbling of corporations.
yes i believe Samsung actually stole some skin tissue of Steve Jobs and have secretly cloned him so they can more closely copy Apple's 'design' as well as the secret of the technology behind grid of rounded square icons and bounce back
"Dear Samung users, we're sorry your tablet isn't cool like ours. For a moment there we thought it might be, but we've been proven wrong in a court of law. Best wishes and good luck with your uncool tablet." --Apple