Doesn't Apple keep about 1/3 of their cash in the USA?
Look up Braeburn Capital. Its' Apple's investment arm, based in Nevada (which a lot of companies do so they don't have to pay California corporate taxes on the earnings).
Yes. In fact, I recall reading somewhere (can't find it now) that most of the cash is parked in US government bills and bonds, right here stateside.
"Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system,"
Am I missing something? Since when is a GSM product the same as a CDMA product? If anything, this should only pertain to CDMA models (Verizon, Sprint etc.), but it's aimed clearly at GSM models (AT&T).
Either I'm missing something, or the ITC and Samesung have some really retarded employees.
I did the opposite. I bought a Samsung phone 3 years ago, what a revelation. It makes the apple phone look like a childs toy. I then replaced my imac with a Samsung, and I bought a Samsung smart TV. So glad I did. Apple fans live in a self-deluding little world, although more and more of them are now seeing the light. My wife is, for the moment, stuck with an apple phone; she cannot wait to be rid of it and get a fantastic Android device.
You are a complete moron. Keep giving your information to Google for advertising dollars. They love blind fools like you.
I just bought a Samesung NX1100 camera, and it was bundled with a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. Now that I own an Android product and have used it, I can clearly confirm it totally SUCKS, and IT should be called the TOY. I keep trying to play around with it, but it's no match for my iPad mini, period. It's SLOW, the battery life sucks, and things just don't work as expected.
In your world, I suppose that construction workers are totally invent buildings, and architects have nothing to do with it right?
And Apple does have patents on retina displays, and on the software that makes it work (and not just shrink everything down).
But whatever. I mean a shill's gotta eat.
No, I think what he means is that the real estate agent who sales the building and the owner of the building does not design it. They hire architect to design it and contractor to build it.
It's too bad that in the case of houses, the architect did build something a 2-year-old couldn't design.
In the case of smartphones, a 2-year-old could come up with something like a rectangle with rounded corners. Hell, even LG had the prada. So no, I won't give Apple credit for that.
Well, Apple has a patent for it. Do not ask me why, I am not the patent lawyer.
Because the only way to engineer something is to physically manufacture it. D'ok.
You are not correct. I am in business of designing and engineering consumer products. On average, about 10-15% of new fully designed and engineered products will go into manufacturing stage.
edit: there were mentions of "software patents" down the thread, do I have to remind people that such "patents" are ridiculed/invalid all over the world excepting in the US and maybe Japan?
Wow! Are you way off. Samsung does not do all their own tech, they license a lot of it as do a lot of tech companies. You have this inability to separate manufacture with invention and invention with manufacture. You also seem to want to redefine what it means to invent so that it justifies your juvenile view of the world.
Their R&D budget is put towards studies of who they should spend their marketing money on and of course how better to dispose of all the unsold returned phones they flooded the market with.
LOL At you thinking Samsung is the best. Prove it. You can't. And of course they're second in CPU, who else is going to want their components in crappy Samsung products, that have the highest failure rate in the industry. Samsung's panels aren't better, they just had plenty of time to work the bugs out of their process as they were the first Apple contracted. Both LG and Sharp got the bugs worked out now and are making panels and Samsung is out.
Let's not forgot all the times they've been dragged into court for antitrust issues all over the world. They have to be the most immoral of all tech companies. Including by the EU and DoJ who are currently looking into suing Samsung for violating SEPs. Personally, I hope the standards bodies around the world take a look at what Samsung is doing and decide that Samsung will never be allowed to submit IP towards another standard again, and furthermore, invalidate any IP that resides in any current standard.
- You're an imbecile. I never said everything Samsung puts into their phones = Samsung tech. I'm saying that compared to competing products, Samsung's products have a high amount of its own in-house tech.
Apple has nothing. Everything is outsourced to other companies including the design all the way down to manufacturing.
- More nonsense. Post proof that Samsung's R&D budget is its marketing budget. Don't just spout bullshit. Provide proof.
- Samsung is second in CPU because Intel has been in the industry longer than Samsung has. This is to be expected. Also, you seem to forget that almost every single memory module comes from Samsung. The memory on your AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards and your RAM are most likely Samsung's tech. No other manufacturer can make memory modules as reliable and as fast as Samsung can.
LOL... Samsung panels in the first iPhones never had severe issues. Stop posting BS.
I have a question, if Samsung's tech sucks so much, why is Apple still using them? Does Apple not care about their own customers that they're subjecting them to Samsung's "inferior" tech? Must be so good to have a corporation only caring about profit margins and not their customers, right?
You are not correct. I am in business of designing and engineering consumer products. On average, about 10-15% of new fully designed and engineered products will go into manufacturing stage.
I'm sure that almost everyone who doesn't believe what I'm saying has never had a tech job or a business job that deals with the tech industry. The manufacturers play a crucial part in the design of the final product. That's essential and one of the reasons why Apple can't move to TSMC for its processors yet.
Most times, companies like AMD and NVIDIA do half of the designing while TSMC does the rest.
In the case of Apple and Samsung, Samsung does most of the designing and Apple takes all the credit. What a despicable corporation.
It's easy to get another supplier for LCD panels. LG might not have their LCD tech on par with Samsung, but the average user won't give a damn and the user experience won't change.
However, if you outsource processors to different manufacturers, you risk huge performance gaps.
It's hard to argue with JoshKar426, shame that many of the posters here & especially that 'moderator' Tallest Skill (please say you're not still allowed to be a mod as you sir / madam make some disgusting comments to people on here?) simply resort to personal attacks. This happens whenever anyone makes comments which don't sit with the AI view of the world - that all that Apple do is wonderful, their legal claims are always valid, they copy no-one & that Samsung copy everyone. God forbid Samsung having any success in legal land, you'd think that Samsung have personally burnt some of your houses down judging by the commments.
Have any of you read your comments a day or so after & realised that you look like a bunch of spoilt arrogant kids?
Jeff, How can you accuse him / her of trolling? I thought that to do that you basically do one liners with absolutely nothing thats correct & also have to have references such as Crapple & Samesung etc... Not reasonably well thought out arguments?
Surely TS classes as one of the 'best' trolls on here with his / her typical troll comments?
Call me a troll all you want, but I find it hilarious that the TRUTH is causing some serious asshurt for Apple fans.
Usually, trolls resort to LIES and HYPERBOLES to get a rise out of their victims. I'm using the TRUTH and it's causing massive amounts of denial and crying. This is something I've never seen before in my long years on the internet...
I'm sure that almost everyone who doesn't believe what I'm saying has never had a tech job or a business job that deals with the tech industry. The manufacturers play a crucial part in the design of the final product. That's essential and one of the reasons why Apple can't move to TSMC for its processors yet.
Most times, companies like AMD and NVIDIA do half of the designing while TSMC does the rest.
In the case of Apple and Samsung, Samsung does most of the designing and Apple takes all the credit. What a despicable corporation.
It's easy to get another supplier for LCD panels. LG might not have their LCD tech on par with Samsung, but the average user won't give a damn and the user experience won't change.
However, if you outsource processors to different manufacturers, you risk huge performance gaps.
In industry, companies can be integrators (this is the case of aeroplane or car manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing ...)) or components suppliers (they design, manufacture and sell their components to the first category for integration into a final original product).
Samsung is both, which some people (like you, if I understand well) see as a competitive advantage.
Like others, I disagree, because when you develop internally your own technology, it not only cost you a lot of money, but it obliges you to be always the best in ALL technologies you use, which is known to be impossible (you always have unexpected breakthroughs coming from unknown outsiders).
Having said this, the "make or buy" decision may not be always the same , depending on the components (an integrator may decide to develop its own technology, just keep it for himself, if he sees it as a competitive advantage). Could be the case for batteries in the case of electric cars, for instance. And since Apple now can financially afford to enter the chips business, we may see moves in this direction. But the "make or buy" situation may not be stable over time.
I am an Apple fan, I do not like Samsung. But the strange thing is that these two companies have a lot in common (capacity for elaborating long term strategy, vertical integration, some form of secrecy, disregard for stock exchange opinion, and desire for worldwide domination for example).
Call me a troll all you want, but I find it hilarious that the TRUTH is causing some serious asshurt for Apple fans.
Usually, trolls resort to LIES and HYPERBOLES to get a rise out of their victims. I'm using the TRUTH and it's causing massive amounts of denial and crying. This is something I've never seen before in my long years on the internet...
I think calling Apple Dell really hurt them. That's a low blow. Even if it's true.
In industry, companies can be integrators (this is the case of aeroplane or car manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing ...)) or components suppliers (they design, manufacture and sell their components to the first category).
Samsung is both, which some people (like you, if I understand well) see as a competitive advantage.
Like others, I disagree, because when you develop internally your own technology, it not only cost you a lot of money, but it obliges you to be always the best in ALL technologies you use, which is known to be impossible (you always have unexpected breakthroughs coming from unknown outsiders).
Having said this, the "make or buy" decision may not be always the same , depending on the components (an integrator may decide to develop its own technology, just keep it for himself, if he sees it as a competitive advantage). Could be the case for batteries in the case of electric cars, for instance. And since Apple now can financially afford to enter the chips business, we may see moves in this direction. But the "make or buy" situation may not be stable over time.
I am an Apple fan, I do not like Samsung. But the strange thing is that these two companies have a lot in common (some form of secrecy, disregard for stock exchange opinion, for example).
I highly doubt a corporation with a puny $1 billion R&D budget designs its own components. Just trying to figure out the specs and assembly for the next-gen products would soak up all those costs.
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How about Samsung made components that are in iPhone?. Are they banned too?.
Yes. In fact, I recall reading somewhere (can't find it now) that most of the cash is parked in US government bills and bonds, right here stateside.
"Apparatus and method for encoding/decoding transport format combination indicator in CDMA mobile communication system,"
Am I missing something? Since when is a GSM product the same as a CDMA product? If anything, this should only pertain to CDMA models (Verizon, Sprint etc.), but it's aimed clearly at GSM models (AT&T).
Either I'm missing something, or the ITC and Samesung have some really retarded employees.
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Originally Posted by Exmacuser
I did the opposite. I bought a Samsung phone 3 years ago, what a revelation. It makes the apple phone look like a childs toy. I then replaced my imac with a Samsung, and I bought a Samsung smart TV. So glad I did. Apple fans live in a self-deluding little world, although more and more of them are now seeing the light. My wife is, for the moment, stuck with an apple phone; she cannot wait to be rid of it and get a fantastic Android device.
You are a complete moron. Keep giving your information to Google for advertising dollars. They love blind fools like you.
I just bought a Samesung NX1100 camera, and it was bundled with a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. Now that I own an Android product and have used it, I can clearly confirm it totally SUCKS, and IT should be called the TOY. I keep trying to play around with it, but it's no match for my iPad mini, period. It's SLOW, the battery life sucks, and things just don't work as expected.
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Originally Posted by Pendergast
In your world, I suppose that construction workers are totally invent buildings, and architects have nothing to do with it right?
And Apple does have patents on retina displays, and on the software that makes it work (and not just shrink everything down).
But whatever. I mean a shill's gotta eat.
No, I think what he means is that the real estate agent who sales the building and the owner of the building does not design it. They hire architect to design it and contractor to build it.
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Originally Posted by JoshKar426
It's too bad that in the case of houses, the architect did build something a 2-year-old couldn't design.
In the case of smartphones, a 2-year-old could come up with something like a rectangle with rounded corners. Hell, even LG had the prada. So no, I won't give Apple credit for that.
Well, Apple has a patent for it. Do not ask me why, I am not the patent lawyer.
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Originally Posted by Pendergast
Because the only way to engineer something is to physically manufacture it. D'ok.
You are not correct. I am in business of designing and engineering consumer products. On average, about 10-15% of new fully designed and engineered products will go into manufacturing stage.
http://www.samsungapps.com
edit: there were mentions of "software patents" down the thread, do I have to remind people that such "patents" are ridiculed/invalid all over the world excepting in the US and maybe Japan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
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Originally Posted by mjtomlin
Wow! Are you way off. Samsung does not do all their own tech, they license a lot of it as do a lot of tech companies. You have this inability to separate manufacture with invention and invention with manufacture. You also seem to want to redefine what it means to invent so that it justifies your juvenile view of the world.
Their R&D budget is put towards studies of who they should spend their marketing money on and of course how better to dispose of all the unsold returned phones they flooded the market with.
LOL At you thinking Samsung is the best. Prove it. You can't. And of course they're second in CPU, who else is going to want their components in crappy Samsung products, that have the highest failure rate in the industry. Samsung's panels aren't better, they just had plenty of time to work the bugs out of their process as they were the first Apple contracted. Both LG and Sharp got the bugs worked out now and are making panels and Samsung is out.
Let's not forgot all the times they've been dragged into court for antitrust issues all over the world. They have to be the most immoral of all tech companies. Including by the EU and DoJ who are currently looking into suing Samsung for violating SEPs. Personally, I hope the standards bodies around the world take a look at what Samsung is doing and decide that Samsung will never be allowed to submit IP towards another standard again, and furthermore, invalidate any IP that resides in any current standard.
- You're an imbecile. I never said everything Samsung puts into their phones = Samsung tech. I'm saying that compared to competing products, Samsung's products have a high amount of its own in-house tech.
Apple has nothing. Everything is outsourced to other companies including the design all the way down to manufacturing.
- More nonsense. Post proof that Samsung's R&D budget is its marketing budget. Don't just spout bullshit. Provide proof.
- Samsung is second in CPU because Intel has been in the industry longer than Samsung has. This is to be expected. Also, you seem to forget that almost every single memory module comes from Samsung. The memory on your AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards and your RAM are most likely Samsung's tech. No other manufacturer can make memory modules as reliable and as fast as Samsung can.
LOL... Samsung panels in the first iPhones never had severe issues. Stop posting BS.
Here's something for you to cry over: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/05/28/theyll-be-frenemies-forever/
Apple going back to Samsung as LCD panel supplier
Ouch, that must be embarrassing...
I have a question, if Samsung's tech sucks so much, why is Apple still using them? Does Apple not care about their own customers that they're subjecting them to Samsung's "inferior" tech? Must be so good to have a corporation only caring about profit margins and not their customers, right?
You need a sarcasm detector.
Most times, companies like AMD and NVIDIA do half of the designing while TSMC does the rest.
In the case of Apple and Samsung, Samsung does most of the designing and Apple takes all the credit. What a despicable corporation.
It's easy to get another supplier for LCD panels. LG might not have their LCD tech on par with Samsung, but the average user won't give a damn and the user experience won't change.
However, if you outsource processors to different manufacturers, you risk huge performance gaps.
It's hard to argue with JoshKar426, shame that many of the posters here & especially that 'moderator' Tallest Skill (please say you're not still allowed to be a mod as you sir / madam make some disgusting comments to people on here?) simply resort to personal attacks. This happens whenever anyone makes comments which don't sit with the AI view of the world - that all that Apple do is wonderful, their legal claims are always valid, they copy no-one & that Samsung copy everyone. God forbid Samsung having any success in legal land, you'd think that Samsung have personally burnt some of your houses down judging by the commments.
Have any of you read your comments a day or so after & realised that you look like a bunch of spoilt arrogant kids?
Wow.
People, please don't feed the trolls.
He's gone, at least for the moment.
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Originally Posted by JeffDM
Wow.
People, please don't feed the trolls.
He's gone, at least for the moment.
Jeff, How can you accuse him / her of trolling? I thought that to do that you basically do one liners with absolutely nothing thats correct & also have to have references such as Crapple & Samesung etc... Not reasonably well thought out arguments?
Surely TS classes as one of the 'best' trolls on here with his / her typical troll comments?
Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffDM
Wow.
People, please don't feed the trolls.
He's gone, at least for the moment.
Call me a troll all you want, but I find it hilarious that the TRUTH is causing some serious asshurt for Apple fans.
Usually, trolls resort to LIES and HYPERBOLES to get a rise out of their victims. I'm using the TRUTH and it's causing massive amounts of denial and crying. This is something I've never seen before in my long years on the internet...
Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshKar426
I'm sure that almost everyone who doesn't believe what I'm saying has never had a tech job or a business job that deals with the tech industry. The manufacturers play a crucial part in the design of the final product. That's essential and one of the reasons why Apple can't move to TSMC for its processors yet.
Most times, companies like AMD and NVIDIA do half of the designing while TSMC does the rest.
In the case of Apple and Samsung, Samsung does most of the designing and Apple takes all the credit. What a despicable corporation.
It's easy to get another supplier for LCD panels. LG might not have their LCD tech on par with Samsung, but the average user won't give a damn and the user experience won't change.
However, if you outsource processors to different manufacturers, you risk huge performance gaps.
In industry, companies can be integrators (this is the case of aeroplane or car manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing ...)) or components suppliers (they design, manufacture and sell their components to the first category for integration into a final original product).
Samsung is both, which some people (like you, if I understand well) see as a competitive advantage.
Like others, I disagree, because when you develop internally your own technology, it not only cost you a lot of money, but it obliges you to be always the best in ALL technologies you use, which is known to be impossible (you always have unexpected breakthroughs coming from unknown outsiders).
Having said this, the "make or buy" decision may not be always the same , depending on the components (an integrator may decide to develop its own technology, just keep it for himself, if he sees it as a competitive advantage). Could be the case for batteries in the case of electric cars, for instance. And since Apple now can financially afford to enter the chips business, we may see moves in this direction. But the "make or buy" situation may not be stable over time.
I am an Apple fan, I do not like Samsung. But the strange thing is that these two companies have a lot in common (capacity for elaborating long term strategy, vertical integration, some form of secrecy, disregard for stock exchange opinion, and desire for worldwide domination for example).
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Originally Posted by JeffDM
He's gone, at least for the moment.
Thank you!!
I think calling Apple Dell really hurt them. That's a low blow. Even if it's true.
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Originally Posted by umrk_lab
In industry, companies can be integrators (this is the case of aeroplane or car manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing ...)) or components suppliers (they design, manufacture and sell their components to the first category).
Samsung is both, which some people (like you, if I understand well) see as a competitive advantage.
Like others, I disagree, because when you develop internally your own technology, it not only cost you a lot of money, but it obliges you to be always the best in ALL technologies you use, which is known to be impossible (you always have unexpected breakthroughs coming from unknown outsiders).
Having said this, the "make or buy" decision may not be always the same , depending on the components (an integrator may decide to develop its own technology, just keep it for himself, if he sees it as a competitive advantage). Could be the case for batteries in the case of electric cars, for instance. And since Apple now can financially afford to enter the chips business, we may see moves in this direction. But the "make or buy" situation may not be stable over time.
I am an Apple fan, I do not like Samsung. But the strange thing is that these two companies have a lot in common (some form of secrecy, disregard for stock exchange opinion, for example).
I highly doubt a corporation with a puny $1 billion R&D budget designs its own components. Just trying to figure out the specs and assembly for the next-gen products would soak up all those costs.