Apple vs Samsung, court orders Samsung to show Apple 5 new phones

how much did apple have to pay samsung that time when they were found to be using samsung patents.

apple wanted to pay half a cent per phone sold.... but what did they actually end up paying?
 
El Capitano said:
Phone or tablet, I guess, or are you a Mac user?
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I have a MBP for Uni. Had an iphone, switched to an S3 and will happily stay with that as it is much better.

Had an iPad and it was great for browsing the net in bed, no other use so I'm sure if I felt inclined to get another glorified web browser I could find alternatives, granted iOS is very good on it where as it is much worse on phone.

And no, I wouldn't waste my money on a Mac desktop, MBP is okay for convenience.
 
Von Luck said:
It's a bit of a push to say 'everybody' hates Apple, as that's obviously not the case. A chunk of tech geeks may dislike Apple, but the wider population certainly seem to like them, if the % of idevices I see in use during my commute is any indication.

.....of course they might have been Samsungs, it's so difficult to tell the difference between them :D
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Is this share worldwide?? Android actually has a greater marketshare worldwide:

http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/08/q2-2012-smartphone-market-share-idc/

68% of the phones shipped at the end of Q2 2012 against the 17% of Apple and Samsung shipped 44% of the Android phones in that time period. That would indicate that the general population worldwide has a greater probability of buying an Android phone.

IIRC,Apple has a higher percentage of the phone market in London than the rest of the country.

Android marketshare in the UK is nearly 60% IIRC.
 
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Another great reason why I would NEVER buy an Apple product, what with this and their crappy stance on environmental standards I wouldn't touch one of their products if I was paid!
Apple suck!
 
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Glaucus said:
Something that many many phones do not infringe on. Why did smasung infringe on it?
Why did smasung have the Ui changed on android to look more like iOS?
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Have to agree here. They did make TouchWiz look very much like iOS, and I could care less if TouchWiz was what we would be losing, but pinch and touble tap to zoom? :(

(Yes yes, the UK will be fine, but it's still seems a rather unfair 'win' for Apple)
 
Purdy said:
I have a MBP for Uni. Had an iphone, switched to an S3 and will happily stay with that as it is much better.

Had an iPad and it was great for browsing the net in bed, no other use so I'm sure if I felt inclined to get another glorified web browser I could find alternatives, granted iOS is very good on it where as it is much worse on phone.

And no, I wouldn't waste my money on a Mac desktop, MBP is okay for convenience.
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Ah, so institutionalised corruption and almost mafia-like power is a-OK, but sue somebody for copying your design and it's boycott time? Interesting.
 
Adnams Drinker said:
This. I was an Apple fanatic during the 90s when it was the plucky upstart taking on the might of the Wintel behemoth - I had a Mac at home and would loudly proclaim its superiority over a Windows box at any given opportunity.

I guess it was the return of Steve Jobs that was the tipping point for me - he turned the company into the arrogant B.S. machine that is today. As a fanatic, you'd think I'd have been happy about that, but no - somewhere along the line he destroyed something in the ethos of the old Apple that I had found appealing. Maybe I just have an underdog mentality.

I really can't understand the hype around the iPhone - I used my sister-in-law's recently and I've got to say all bias aside I was completely underwhelmed. The screen was pathetically small and it was sluggish in use compared to my lowly Android. I don't like the whole 'Apple knows what's best for you' locked-down nature of iOS either - I'll decide how I want MY phone set up, not some Yank in Cupertino. If I want to rip out the factory-provided SMS module and replace them with something better, then I'll do so. The point being, I can change practically every facet of my Android, if I don't like how it works out of the box.

I'm due an upgrade towards the end of February and there are only two candidates on the shortlist - iOS and Android. Unless the iPhone 5 is something utterly revolutionary - not expecting it to be, as Apple seems content to sit on its laurels knowing that the herd will purchase whatever they put out, like the wet fart that was the 4S - my next phone will either be an SGS3 or the follow-up to the Galaxy Nexus if there's been a new one announced by then.
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I think you just have the underdog mentally because before Steve Jobs returned they were on the brink of liquidation. Now they are a behemoth, the largest behemoth and now have asserted their power as the most valuable corporation in the world. I doubt think Apple qualifies as underdog status anymore. Yet apple fanatics argue big bad Microsoft are still the axis of evil.
 
I tend to find the people that are the most vocal against patents and copyright are the ones that have never invented anything worth protecting themselves.. :/
 
Glaucus said:
Simply sliding finger up and down, in certain area.
Hold home button and slide up and down.


Plenty of ways you could do it, I agree it wouldn't be the best way.

Have any number of finger gestures instead of tap to zoom.
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Kenai said:
Touch and hold, slider bars, zoom in and zoom out buttons, two finger drag... there are loads of ways to do it - pinching is just one of the more elegant and more natural feeling solutions we have.
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Neodite said:
A circle movement around the area you want to zoom into?

DAMNIT brb i best patent that
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I though of those, but they all feel... Wrong :/

Maybe I'm just too use to apple :p
 
El Capitano said:
Ah, so institutionalised corruption and almost mafia-like power is a-OK, but sue somebody for copying your design and it's boycott time? Interesting.
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What exactly did Samsung copy? Pretty sure I had seen all those features before in some shape or form, and apple certainly copied plenty :)?

Also apple doing this is likely to restrict competition and development of products I wish to purchase, I don't fancy being forced into buying an apple as they are simply the only one who can do xyz due to a patent.
 
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