Apple gets a taste of their own medicine.

[nando]

unlike the companies apple sues, apple actually settles and pays. and it's not their own medicine. apple has been wildly slapped with lawsuits since before they got popular hence they are very aggressive now.

at least they don't go and claim no wrong doing and call what they did "competing" like samsung would.

 

[shakirmoledina]

also apple has been told to compensate samsung for their first statement which was unclear and may have disrupted samsung's sales

 

[Bladexdsl]

I already made and copyrighted that pun.

Blade, you'll be hearing from my lawyers soon. I hope you've been saving your pennies for a rainy day, because anti-competitive practices don't come cheap.

I'll settler now for 21 Million

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

Who the hell puts a circle at the end of a second hand? Seriously Apple has no original ideas left, they have to blatantly rip off other designs without even changing one thing!

So why do we want to punish Apple? For making really good products that people want to buy. Would it make you happy if Apple made poor products that no one wanted?

You are an idiot.....Apple's "prodcuts" are no better than the vast majority of other electronics manufacturers products. All the hardware is made in the same factories as companies like Dell, HP, Gateway, Nintendo and several other electronics companies.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

I don't know which option to tick...

Yeah I'm going to need a second.

 

[Gahars]

Oh, oh, oh, I got another one!

Well, I guess you could say Apple wasn't clock-wise.

 

[Foxi4]

Puns, puns everywhere, and it's all for the Likes... What a waste of time.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

So why do we want to punish Apple? For making really good products that people want to buy. Would it make you happy if Apple made poor products that no one wanted?

Samsung made really good products that people wanted to buy.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

All these Puns are driving me cuckoo.

 

[Foxi4]

So why do we want to punish Apple? For making really good products that people want to buy. Would it make you happy if Apple made poor products that no one wanted?

Pretty much what ShadowSoldier said - we'd like Apple to calm their titties down and let other players on the market compete rather than sue them for using such blatant copyright infringing ideas like "black rectangle" or "icons".

While some points in the Samsung vs. Apple case were valid, others were complete bullsh*t on a stick, no matter how you look at it.

 

[Bladexdsl]

All these Puns are driving me cuckoo.

now now don't get all wound up

 

[Taleweaver]

21 million dollars? Sounds like they're clocking off on a hell of a swiss deal.

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

Ah, sorry, I didn't read it fully.

But $21 million is a drop in the bucket to them compared to the profits they're banking off the iPhone that shipped with it. So really this is sadly not as much of a punishment as we'd want.

For Apple, it will only take 1-2 days to regain that back, if not sooner. To Apple, $21 million is as much of a loss as a $1 tip is to the average person.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Would it make you happy if Apple made poor products that no one wanted?

pretty much yes

 

[Janthran]

People are going to be doing this to apple for fifty years. We'll have to explain to our grandchildren why everyone seems so petty.

 

[Foxi4]

People are going to be doing this to apple for fifty years. We'll have to explain to our grandchildren why everyone seems so petty.

If that means that our grandchildren will live in a world where free market, devoid of any outside pressure, favourism or lobbying, I'm game.

 

[KingVamp]

So, I'm guessing the medicine was Apple favor?

At least Apple didn't get out of hand and face it head on.

 

[gamefan5]

Spoiler

They waved Swiss Rail off with a paltry $21 million. Apple is worth about $508 billion. That amounts to 0.004% of their entire net worth--four thousandths of one percent. If a beggar on the street asked you for money and you had $10,000 in a briefcase, it would be like giving him 4 cents and telling him to fuck off on his merry little way.

Apple didn't even notice that it lost $21 million.

Basically kiddies, this is Apple not giving a single fuck.

 

[shoyrumaster11]

*puts Linux Ubuntu on his computers hard disk* You see! Linux rules over Apple and Microsoft MASHED TOGETHER! I know, may be using a Windows 7 laptop right now but, Linux BEATS my beast in speed. As for Apple, you deserved it!

 

[Dann Woolf]

Puns, puns everywhere, and it's all for the Likes... What a waste of time.

Hey now, for some people making puns is an involuntary response. It's a gag reflex.