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Re: Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom

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Post by gnarbarian » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 7:16 PM UTC

nsp wrote: post #23

gnarbarian wrote: post #5

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I sold my iphone 4s to get a galaxy nexus. I like it way better. It's not a knockoff at all.

The Galaxy Nexus also isn't in the lawsuit. It only applies to phones no longer in the market (it takes awhile to get to trial), and the trade dress portion of the suit focuses on samsung's android skin, touchwiz, which isn't on the nexus.

it was named in this lawsuit though: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-20/samsung-sought-to-b...

and they succeeded in blocking their sale in the US for about a week before the decision was overturned.

Re: Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom

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Post by v0cab » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 12:32 AM UTC

jaekwon wrote: post #79

v0cab wrote: post #67

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Samsung own the South Korean government. Samsung had the government delay the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea to give them time to clone it (the phone that Apple was paying them to manufacture!), so that they'd at least find it easier to break their domestic market with their clone. Apple lost your respect for going against this? If you were Apple, you would love to see Samsung win?

Yes. Any entity can try to delay the deployment of a product that I try to sell to them. This entity can also try to reverse engineer my product. If Samsung and South Korea had such a tie, that's a problem for them and their citizens. To Apple, they are an encapsulated entity, and Apple chose to deal with them. Apple can try to get the US, or states within the US to blockade the import of Samsung devices in retributi…

Your future business may also be damaged if your potential American customers do not have money to buy your apps, because their jobs working at Apple in the US disappeared.

And what if you also found yourself unable to sell your apps in Asia due to the actions of protectionist governments there?

Re: Apple and Samsung Should Fight in the Marketplace, not the Courtroom

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Post by jr2 » Sat, Aug 25, 2012, 5:07 PM UTC

nirvana wrote: post #62

rustynails wrote: post #17

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Thank you for that insight mr Harrison. If you're talking about the packaging and connector, i completely agree. If you're talking about the form factor, I STRONGLY disagree. Apple whole heartedly borrowed from knight Ridder. So what? The design is simple and makes sense. This is how society benefits - the simple stuff is copied. More complex things like algorithms deserve some protection, but not beveled edges, scro…

The patent system has people like Apple revealing the inner workings of their inventions so that other people like samsung can stand on the shoulders of giants for the small price of a royalty. It works great. You are saying you'd like to go back to a time when there was no open publication of inventions and companies like Apple would keep their inventions secret and obscure so that others couldn't see them. Really?…

Double really?

All you would have to do is buy an iPhone or see one in action, and copy it. Or just, you know, come up with the idea on your own.