Samsung agrees to pay Apple $548M in patent row

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  • Reply 21 of 34
    hmm said:
    hmm said:
    My guess would be that, shortly after Samsung makes the payment to Apple, their pursuit of an appeal or invalidation of Apple's patents will go away. They are merely saving face with their request to get the money back should those initiatives succeed. Typical for Asian culture.
    We don't need more of your racist ******** on the forum.
    How is that "racist"? You are aware of the importance of "saving face"? That is not a racial insult, it's a social reality.
    Generalizations to a population of well over a billion people really annoy me, and they aren't accurate. It effectively places Singapore, Kazakhzstan, and China under the same label. I might have said cultural bias if he wasn't quite so general. It's a cheap misguided way to look down on others.

    At least from a US perspective, "Asian" usually refers to China, Japan, Korea, Thailand (perhaps a few more in that general area). Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, or what have you, are not usually thought of as "Asian". I know this perception is different in other parts of the world.
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  • Reply 22 of 34
    How did Samsung not get hit for interest in holding off paying for several years?
    Why were they not forced to pay the 1.2 billion they were initially charged? Why was that not upped to 5 billion or more? We all have questions.  :p

    Forum hint for those who don’t like it, you can restore quoting to a single depth by going here.

    Hopefully this (meaning the image upload in the first place) works.

    WHAT? NO DIRECT IMAGE UPLOADS ANYMORE?! I loved that. I hate having to use third party hosting.




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  • Reply 23 of 34

    At least from a US perspective, "Asian" usually refers to China, Japan, Korea, Thailand (perhaps a few more in that general area). Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, or what have you, are not usually thought of as "Asian". I know this perception is different in other parts of the world.
    This is sheer ignorance, and we should neither feed it or excuse it.

    Asia includes everything from Israel, all the way to Papua New Guinea. Period. (Russia may be the one country where we could think of an 'Asian' part and a 'European' part.)

    RadartheKat's comments were stupid and racist, and painted with a broad brush independently of whether we use the correct definition of 'Asian' or your perspective on the US perspective of 'Asian.'
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  • Reply 24 of 34

    At least from a US perspective, "Asian" usually refers to China, Japan, Korea, Thailand (perhaps a few more in that general area). Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, or what have you, are not usually thought of as "Asian". I know this perception is different in other parts of the world.
    This is sheer ignorance, and we should neither feed it or excuse it.

    Asia includes everything from Israel, all the way to Papua New Guinea. Period. (Russia may be the one country where we could think of an 'Asian' part and a 'European' part.)

    RadartheKat's comments were stupid and racist, and painted with a broad brush independently of whether we use the correct definition of 'Asian' or your perspective on the US perspective of 'Asian.'
    It's not "ignorance". It's a matter of geographic and cultural perception. I don't consider Israel an "Asian" country, nor do I consider Israelis "Asians". I seriously doubt they consider themselves Asians also. That comment is absurd, in my view.
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  • Reply 25 of 34
    NOTE:  Another issue in these forums... We need a "trash can" to quickly clear the comment field for replies.
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  • Reply 26 of 34
    It's not "ignorance". It's a matter of geographic and cultural perception. I don't consider Israel an "Asian" country, nor do I consider Israelis "Asians". I seriously doubt they consider themselves Asians also. That comment is absurd, in my view.
    If you think facts are absurd, go right ahead. Knock yourself out. Why not....

    As Frank Zappa once said, "stupidity has a certain charm; ignorance does not."
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  • Reply 27 of 34
    It's not "ignorance". It's a matter of geographic and cultural perception. I don't consider Israel an "Asian" country, nor do I consider Israelis "Asians". I seriously doubt they consider themselves Asians also. That comment is absurd, in my view.
    If you think facts are absurd, go right ahead. Knock yourself out. Why not....

    As Frank Zappa once said, "stupidity has a certain charm; ignorance does not."
    Ask any Israeli if they are Asian and they'll laugh in your face.
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  • Reply 28 of 34
    Ask any Israeli if they are Asian and they'll laugh in your face.
    LOL. Tell any Indian that they're not Asian, and you'll get a billion more laughs in your face. 

    That aside, what people think they are or should be is not how maps are drawn. People don't -- just as you don't -- get to make up their (your) own facts. If you have any claim to being serious, that is...
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  • Reply 29 of 34
    Ask any Israeli if they are Asian and they'll laugh in your face.
    LOL. Tell any Indian that they're not Asian, and you'll get a billion more laughs in your face. 

    That aside, what people think they are or should be is not how maps are drawn. People don't -- just as you don't -- get to make up their (your) own facts. If you have any claim to being serious, that is...
    I'm very confident the majority of Americans would not say Indians were Asian. 

    Are you Indian?
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  • Reply 30 of 34
    Ask any Israeli if they are Asian and they'll laugh in your face.
    LOL. Tell any Indian that they're not Asian, and you'll get a billion more laughs in your face. 
    Really? I mean, yeah, from a technical–physical–standpoint, sure, but not genetically.

    EDIT: Why is it loading more than one level of quote when I explicitly have only one level selected in my settings?
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  • Reply 31 of 34
    Americans anyway get pissed off when Canada or anything from Central America is called American, so I can understand the ignorance that says "not all countries in Asia are Asian".
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  • Reply 32 of 34
    am8449 said:
    If Samsung can so obviously infringe Apple's patents, and then drag it out in the courts for this long, then our patent and legal systems aren't working. We need a better system.
    A public announcement saying "We admit we are copying scum bags" should have also been required. ;)

    Now, that could be interpreted like Samsung is calling Apple "scum bags"!!
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  • Reply 33 of 34
    Americans anyway get pissed off when Canada or anything from Central America is called American

    I’ve only experienced the other way around: non-American people who live in the Americas getting uppity that our demonym is ‘American’.
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