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Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced -- Uh Oh. What's Wrong With this Picture? ~pj | 871 comments | Create New Account
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Yes, merit.
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 01:39 PM EDT
Look at where those companies are in the smart phone that did not want to
compete. The public demanded the iphone type features. Apple doesn't own ideas.
First to market with a unique product lasts only until someone else improves.

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Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced -- Uh Oh. What's Wrong With this Picture? ~pj
Authored by: Kilz on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 01:40 PM EDT
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Are you so sure that Rim and the others are not moving to larger screens and rectangles with rounded corners?

Dont let facts get in the way of spin.

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What bias and outright unfairness.
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 04:18 PM EDT
It seems to me, in a more perfect world, that Samsung should be permitted to
file reports with the police and let a criminal prosecution proceed.

OK, I'm dreaming. We all know many rich people who really should be in prison
will never go there.

On the bright side maybe the more blatant the unfairness can be shown, the
better chance the appeal courts will rectify things, I hope.

So Steve Jobs wanted to go thermonuclear, and he's doing it. I mean to say, that
by all means, a well prepared person can strike from the grave.

Except, my understanding is that my using weapons of mass destruction means you
will get them back, if there are any to send your way.

This war goes on and a new battle front has opened up in Motorola vs Apple. And
the battle between Samsung and Apple is not yet over.

~

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No Apple copied Palm, Nokia, Microsoft, RIM, Samsung etc.
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 25 2012 @ 06:21 PM EDT
Palm (Newton Refugees, btw), and yes Samsung and Nokia came
up with smartphones and dumbphones all had the features that
Apple has. Rectangular shape, rounded corners, flat faces,
bezels etc. - all was done by others before Apple, and Apple
didn't invent the smartphone or any of the technology that
is associated with smartphones except dubious features like
the slide to lock and bounceback.

Smartphones - Nokia introduced them.
Tablets - Microsoft introduced tablets long before Apple.

Apple is not an inventor, it is a label brander and its
skill lies in branding, and not innovation. Apple doesn't
even make its own products or own the technology for making
them - if pays tech companies like Samsung to do that for
it. Companies like Samsung and Google are the real
innovators.

The question is if Samsung copied public domain ideas
introduced by Microsoft, RIM, Nokia etc. which are unprotectable and Apple also
copied those same ideas, why on
earth should Samsung pay Apple for that?

The judge and jury booth goofed big time on this kangaroo
court case, which has the appearance of being rigged from
the beginning. It makes a joke of the US justice system, the
judge and jury look like they have acted with all the
fairness and impartiality of a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob in
this case. They didn't even bother to look at the validity
of the patents, and they looked at the some emails and
ignored the facts. The point is that facts are facts, but
what emails say (like what people may say) isn't always
correct or accurate.

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