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Apple trips over its own advertising
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 09:06 AM EST
I'm not going so far as to accuse Apple of doing this deliberately to hide the Samsung notice.

The resizing may or may not have been introduced in reaction to the court judgement. I guess we have to give Apple the behefit of the doubt for that. It's a totally irrelevant question though.

Apple could have chosen many different positions for the text. It could have gone at the top of the page; it could have gone under the mini iPad; it could have gone above the other legal notices, or even with them. Instead of all of those possibilities they deliberately chose the position which makes it almost invisible. The position which is below where any reasonable person could be expected to scroll because you have already reached the page footer before you reach the notice. They have many web designers in their employ; it's not as if they do not know what the value of different placements on their page is.

Apple is treating the court's judgement with deep contempt.

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Apple trips over its own advertising
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 09:36 AM EST
I just feel that they could have simply chosen to put the
notice at the top of the homepage. Instead they chose to
knowingly place it somewhere where it is normally hidden -
whether or not the resizing code was present before or not.
If they had done this during their first attempt, the judge
might have taken a more flexible view...but after last weeks
courtroom fireworks who knows.

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