Samsung won't follow HTC's decade-long patent licensing agreement with iPhone creator.
After HTC struck a 10-year patent licensing settlement with Apple, Samsung has stressed that it won't follow suit by negotiating a patent deal with its rival.
In speaking with the Korean media, Samsung's mobile president Shin Jong-kyun stated that the South Korean conglomerate won't succumb into pressure and agree a patent licensing deal with Apple.
"It may be true that HTC may have agreed to pay 300 billion won (£173 million/$276 million) to Apple, but we don't intend to [negotiate] at all," Jong-kyun said.
Taiwanese manufacturer HTC had announced that it resolved its patent disputes with Apple, subsequently agreeing to a worldwide 10-year licensing deal with the Cupertino-based technology giant.
Apple and Samsung's ongoing court battles has been well documented, with the two companies involved in at least 10 patent lawsuits around the world. The former, meanwhile, has refused to publish an adequate apology message to Samsung, as ordered by a UK judge.
Elsewhere, Samsung is said to have increased the prices for the processor it supplies to Apple.
Apple has a hard time getting another provider for what they want, at least it seems that way, so Samsung has some sort of upper hand here.
That approach is kind of bad, but oh well. It's a big rats fight, guess it won't be "clean" anyway.
Cheers!
It's just a logo.
Apple makes elitist products for a limited -ego minded- market.
Otherwise their incompatible junk will fade into history like the Apple 2c, the Lisa and what else they 'invented'.
And I am not saying this as a simple Apple hater. I have a MacBook sitting right next to me.
It has exactly ONE simple purpose; testing if changes on a client's website will work on Apple's incompatible junk. Have to get a friggin' iPad too for just that purpose.
Man, how I wish they'd just go away or start building cars instead. I am so unbelievable tired of anything with the Apple Logo (The Beatles excluded, especially as I am managing one of their sites!).
Remember when Apple sued Microsoft and HP over Windows back in 1994?
This is much the same thing, except the defendants are different and so is the original inventing company.
History is known to repeat itself, no matter how many dollars you throw at the problem.
Apple may win a few fights here and there, but ultimately will likely lose the war again.
Remember Apple's problem? Though their devices seem (and are advertised as) "revolutionary", the underlying idea isn't actually original. Window dressing and early consolidation of other manufacturers' ideas are how Apple has always ran and made their money.
Unfortunately, this (and their reputation of a luxury device) strength guarantees an expiration date on their 'innovations'.
It hurt them with the Macintosh, and it will bite them again with iDevices.
Apple will lose, but it will take some time for that to happen.
Then something else will come out, Apple will do what it does, the concept goes mainstream, and the whole cycle repeats again.
It's just a logo.