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I wonder if Apple regrets ever suing Samsung. Surely they must have known that it would be a prolonged battle with Samsung never capitulating? Companies usually
by bitmapbrother 11y ago
I wonder if Apple regrets ever suing Samsung. Surely they must have known that it would be a prolonged battle with Samsung never capitulating? Companies usually use their patents to scare other companies into licensing deals, but when you decide to play your patents in court you're taking a chance that you're going to lose the power you thought they had and this is exactly what's happened in this case.
I wonder what Apple would have done if they had a do over? These trials have done more damage to Apple then Samsung.
I also suspect this won't be the last judgement, in favour of Apple, to be overturned.
- sigzero 11y agoI fail to see how it has "Done more damage to Apple...". Their bottom line seems to be unfazed. Their growth in the market was not affected.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoThey submitted their patents for analysis by suing Samsung and quite a few of them have been ruled invalid due to prior art in both the US and EU. Not to mention the case has also exposed quite a bit of internal information about Apple.
- kobayashi 11y agoWhat information is that?
- bitmapbrother 11y agohttp://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443687504577567421840745452 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904436875045775674...
- kuschku 11y ago> Their growth in the market was not affected. Apple went from 11% to 10% market share from Q42014 to Q42015. Android is the only one of the top 3 mobile manufacturers to have sold more devices than have become inactive in that timespan.
- jsjohnst 11y agoYou say that as if "Android" was the name of a mobile manufacturer.
- kuschku 11y agoI was just on the way back from an 8h project at uni, already falling asleep in the bus xD Sorry. Meant mobile system.
- dba7dba 11y agoAnd strangely enough samsung is the only android maker still making money.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoHuawei made money. LG made money. Xiaomi made money. Lenovo made money.
- dba7dba 11y agoI said 'still' making money as of now. Ref: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/apple-doesnt-sell-phones-makes-money/ http://www.wired.com/2015/07/apple-doesnt-sell-phones-makes-...
- bitmapbrother 11y agoThis changes nothing from what I said.
- dba7dba 11y agoOk how about profitable?
- foota 11y agoAlthough the remaining patents (I don't know how many those are...) have now been vetted by the courts and could now be used with a stronger arm it seems like?
- wstrange 11y agoSuing Samsung always seemed like a dangerous maneuver. They do a ton of basic research into displays, semiconductors, etc. It seems like only a matter of time before they find a patent that Apple infringes.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoNvidia is proof of this. They tried to sue Samsung for some GPU related patents. Samsung countersued and pulled some basic patents out of their war chest. Samsung was found to not have infringed Nvidia's patents, but in the countersuit it was determined that Nvidia infringed on Samsung's patents. Nvidia was the instigator and not only did they lose, but they must now compensate Samsung for using their IP.
- dba7dba 11y agoI agree the lawsuits caused apple more damage. It actually brought more attention to samsung. And possibly more sale. 'Apple felt threatened enough to sue samsung? Than samsung must be making phones that should be good enough.'