dasanman69

SpamSandwich said:

mike54 said:

Since Apple is doing nothing much with money they have with their buggy, incomplete, outdated, cancelled products, maybe they could use that money to give their lowest paid workers a meaningful pay rise, not use all, then put the rest aside and use it to fund it ongoing.

Or if they are going to use it to make stupid TV shows, then give it back to Samsung.

So... give people more money for doing nothing? That’s not good business practice. People should be smart and buy Apple stock for themselves.

dewme said:

macxpress said:

sflocal said:

AppleInsider said:

Samsung lawyer John Quinn told Judge Judy Koh he had some issues with the verdict that would be addressed in post-trial motions.

Yeah... we all have issues with the verdict.  Samsung should have been forced to pay the original $1B verdict!

Either way, this is perfect.  Samsung once again got smacked in the face.  Now stop stalling and pay the damn judgement!

In the end, Samsung still laughed to the bank.  It made billions of dollars off the iKnockoffs over the years.  It's like robbing at bank, paying a fine with the stolen money, and getting to keep the rest of the stolen money.

To Samsung, this is just a business expense, a cost of doing business.

Yeah $500 Million is a lot, but in the end its still a bargain and the amount of time and money Apple's legal team spent on this is got to be in the millions of dollars alone. Samsung made out in the end. I still think they knew they were in the wrong and were purposely dragging the case on to make Apple lose as much money as possible on this. 

Yeah, Samsung made out like a bandit and so did all of the other cloners whose entire smartphone future was based on switching over to the iPhone as the design archetype for their own products. Sure, most of them tweaked their designs just enough to avoid the obvious plagerism that took place, but in the end every successful smartphone shipped since the iPhone can trace its lineage to the iPhone. Behind the thin veneer, the marketing smoke and mirrors, and self serving deceptive claims to the contrary, every single builder of smartphones and accompanying iOS clones like Android was very intentionally and purposefully copying the iPhone. They knew it and the market knew it all along. As Apple fans we can lament the lost opportunity for 100% total world domination in a product segment, but at least the cloners and me-too designers avoided what probably would have resulted in intervention from governments had Apple refused to license its IP to others.

I view the iPhone as the HMS Dreadnought of the mobile phone market. Once it appeared on the scene all older designs were instantly obsoleted and all future designs that deviated from the archetype that it represented would not be viable. The motivation to clone and copy is irresistible - patents be damned, fines are better than total obliteration. However, missing out on a breakthrough design does not preclude other vendors from trying to leapfrog the current archetype and attempt to develop a product that may represent the next generation or improvement on the current archetype. That's a very difficult and costly endeavor made even harder when the IP for the current archetype is defined in a broad enough sense to preclude derivative designs. But it can be done. Historically, and certainly in the case of Samsung, they took the patents-be-damned approach and hired a team of lawyers to fend off the onslaught. In the end, if all it cost them is a little over $500 million USD their macro strategy was a spectacular success. They should slither back to their camp and try to use this payback to brush some of the dirt off their already messy reputation. 

Parenthesis said:

Google the king of flops, the one-pony ride company, the one with the search engine tha saw no improvement in 14 years, the one with a pile of flops like, wifi baloons, buzz, wave, circle, google plus, motorola, google monorail, google glass, all their laptops and phones, chromeos, google lively, google answers, google print ads, google radio ads, dodgeball, orkut, jaiku, google notebook, google drive, google video, google code, android@home, google viewer, google catalogs, google acelerator, iGoogle, google health, google fast flip, google offers, google wiki search, voice search, knoll, HTC, google bulletin, their speakers, their watch, and even the most giant flop of them all, Android, that as a business cannot give any relevant revenue to Google, that could keep the company going and gets 4 times less money to google compared to what iOS gives them. 

I read now that Google is doing their own line of processors? hahahaha add that to the list. 

The only success of google is adsense and that was not even their idea. Adsense/adwords was an idea by the lady that rented them the garage they started. Total humiliation. 

Google, stop trying to be Apple and copy other companies and improve your web shits because people are starting to notice that they stink. 

Google is the new Microsoft

zimmie said:

Uh ... is this somehow different from their acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion? They later sold it to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, taking a $9.6 billion loss.

rogifan_new said:

boltsfan17 said:

Pretty ironic how Google mocked Apple last year for removing the 3.5mm headphone jack and now they have done the same thing. 

Didn’t Phil Schiller once mock wireless charging? All companies mock something until they do it.