Apple to settle with Samsung? Korean honcho: 'Fuggedaboutit'
Although HTC and Apple reached an out-of-court settlement of their patent-infringement squabbles on Saturday, don't expect such an amicable armistice in Cupertino's ongoing patent war with Samsung. "It may be true that HTC may have agreed to pay 300 billion won ($276m) to Apple, but we don't intend to [negotiate] at all," said …
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Walking in Itaewon, I had Koreans ask me whrpether tpmy tablet was an iPad. I tooj it as a chance opportunity to educate, but not humiliate. I unsleeved it and commented on the dimension poproportions, the location and number of speakers, the camera positions, button differences... But, when they asked me why not an iPad, I told them I was supporting Samsung.
Technthis good, easy to duplicate, belongs not in the hands of one company. Besides, not everyone wants something from Apple. Not everyone wants something from Samsung. I fault them both for making stupid, proprietary conectors and brain dead obstructions to getting off te devices the data we put on them.
Anyway, i met a Finnish girl with the original iPad, which I think looks better than subsequent iPads. Even she asked me whether my Tab was an iPad. So, i had ger unsleeve hers, and we put them face to face as i pointed out differences, especially the landscape or longish Tab vs the bookish or suqarish iPad.
And, also in Korea, I ran into a European girl whose iPhone 3 broke. She needed a phone desperately, and said she was contemplating an Android phone. I pointed ou that she may have to repurchase all those song licenses, and may not have an easy way to export notes, memos, etc. She doesn't care. She wants communcations, and she said she thinks an Android is cheaper. There must be something else going on....
Nothing like a bit of anecdotal evidence to prove a point... lol.
Personally
I say until they can bring in Psy and make him face a tribunal for crimes against our sanity, I am for punishing all of Korea.
But then, that's just me
Currency?
Why would a Taiwanese company pay a settlement to a US company in Korean currency (300 billion Won)?
Is there some devilish Oriental arbitrage going on?
Re: Currency?
No-one wants to be paid in USD anymore as the next QE is in the tube.
Re: Currency?
Yes, you'd have thought that a cowboy outfit like Apple would have taken a fistful of dollars......
this story still has me cracking up .. why no related link ?
"Samsung turns screws on Apple, hikes A6 processor price 20%"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/12/samsung_hikes_apples_prices/
Samsung is winning this fight .. it's a lot bigger company . .. outsells Apple 2 to 1 in the smartphone market
world's largest electronics company .. #1 in DRAM, #1 in Mobile ARM ( 73% market share 2011 ), #1 Smartphone, #1 TV, #1 Monitors
Samsung is to pay Apple (maybe) $1.05 billion on about $26 billion ( more now ) earnings copying Apple's *look and feel* ..
Apple may have an inflated US market capitalization .. but it really is small fry with some questionable IP and what is quickly becoming an outdated design and no more "wow" factor
we need an icon with an iPhone 5 in a light saber fight with a Galaxy S3
just a thought .. outta here ..
Re: this story still has me cracking up .. why no related link ?
Small fry - except it's the largest company in the world and is actually making real profits to support their share price - i.e. value is not some massive multiple on earnings like some other companies (Facebook, Amazon, many others...).
Samsung is probably charging more for the CPUs but perhaps it's volume related - i.e. they buy just the ones they need to keep up with demand that they are not already sourcing elsewhere.
Re: this story still has me cracking up .. why no related link ?
You work for their PR department?
War
As in any war there are no winners. Only degrees of losing.
Expect nothing good to come of all this.
Optional
Pertinaceously, I favour "pertinacity" over "pertinaceousness".
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