Samsung Galaxy S3 Sales Unhurt From Legal Loss to Apple
Week of Apple patent trial verdict saw demand for S3 grow by 16 percent.
Despite being ordered to pay over $1 billion in damages to Apple over a patent-based lawsuit, analytics firm Localytics said demand for Samsung's flagship Galaxy S3 smartphone hasn't waned at all.
In fact, Localytics, which tracks what types of smartphones access thousands of mobile apps via its mobile analytics platform, stated that they saw a 9 percent average increase of new Galaxy S3 devices since the first week of August.
Furthermore, the smartphone's demand apparently grew 16 percent during the week of the Apple patent trial verdict. It grew 15 percent during the week that saw Apple announcing the iPhone 5.
Apple suing Samsung may have given the latter a favor, Localytics believes, as “the deluge of post-litigation press coverage both drove general attention to Samsung and suggested that Samsung devices were similar enough to iPhones to be an option for many consumers.”
What's more, Samsung may not even have to pay the $1 billion; the South Korean conglomerate recently asked for the case to be dismissed.

As long as people can buy it and it does what they need or want, I doubt they could care less who won in court.
so my last mobile became a Samsung smart phone..
Apple hasn't gone after other companies. Apple is making super profits and they spend their energy and value doing something stupid.
They lost me as a future iPad3/4 owner... The only way they'll get me to get one, is if they are public about leaving Android/Samsung alone. I'm guessing that Motorola/Google has already fired their first warning shot and brought Apple to the table to talk.
I don't like 16:9 tablets! I don't like 16:9 tablets! I don't like 16:9 tablets!
If anything more people bought S3s just to give a middle finger to Apple for not being able to handle competition.
Yea only "blind loyalists" care about technology being able to progress.
Well if that is what you think then I'll gladly carry the title of "Blind Loyalist"
Anything for a few web hits these days.
um ya didnt pay much attention to the court case did you.. its not about the fine.. its about the injunction to stop the sale of samsung devices in the USA. if the injuction goes ahead then samsung in theory loses a big market.. even the threat of injunction should have been enough to make many US companies reduce their inventories... unfortunately for apple.. the USA is no longer the biggest market for smart phones...
Yep, stop the sales of the GSII. tough break for Samsung. I guess they'll have to sell more GSIII's to make up for it.