Samsung loses U.S. trial, owes Apple more than $1 billion in damages

Well like, it was people that voted.
like, .. idk man, just. you know, its just the way it is, but the law did not decide the 1 billion. the people did. right?

Im not a fan of either company to be honest, but Apple p*ss me of. I know its old news, but how can they "steal" from xerox then take microsoft to court, then say...

"We applaud the court for finding Samsung?s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn?t right."

I say we all buy windows phones, just to p*ss apple off!

Which People?

US isn't a true democracy.

I've said it many times before, but now I can't see the positive thing here. 1 billion in damages?! Who will care about selling and innovating when you can sue the competence and win the lottery.

Pretty much. But I know there are monopoly laws somewhere, even if they have yet to make an appearance so far. If things get too bad, the average consumers will realize how awful Apple's ethics are and make a public outcry about it. After that someone in power will take action against Apple to keep the people happy. Hopefully, at least.

One things for sure though, there's no way I'm buying Apple products anymore.

I had a ipod touch (4th gen) and while the OS was nice, I couldn't stand the restriction of having to go through iTunes for virtually everything. I think Apple is getting a little scared because while they do have a large market, it is dependent on two to three products for 70%+ of their revenue -- and the products and the OS are starting to look dated.

Apple DID NOT give anything to Xerox, Xerox gave the interface away. Bill Gates just took the idea and went further with it as it didnt actually belong to anyone anymore. Xerox didnt care who had or did what with the interface. Some say Gates stole it from Jobs, maybe he did but Xerox just basically gave it away( to Jobs ppl assume). Gates took the interface and would make Windows out of it. If Jobs had did a better job of securing the interface maybe Gates wouldnt have had a chance at it but he left the door open and Gates took advantage of it. Business 101.

Great verdict, it is obvious that the S Korean and Chinese tech companies have ripped off Apple, I know there are a lot of Apple haters out there, But, Apple innovates where as the rest copy, come on, if Samsung came up with the UI first, they would have introduced it before the iPhone did, but that did not happen, did it?
Interestingly, a S Korean high court sided with Samsung, clearly that court was playing favorites, and I think the EU has also ruled for Apple.
Give Apple it's due

I guess Microsoft wins, because now that Android is illegal Windows 8 will be the most popular mobile OS that doesn't have rectangles with rounded corners.

from the beginning Apple knows that Samsung gain access to iPhone's design and start to copy their product since Apple ordered Samsung to manufacture iPhone's processor (and maybe several parts too). But the funny thing is, despite Apple already knows it, why they (apple) just don't stop/break their partnership to prevent this before happen?

Seriously. Couldn't stop shaking my head.

She obviously has no idea what she's talking about.

So what happens to Apple if Samsung decide to stop making the processor for the iPhone? Granted, Samsung just spent $4.2 BILLION on a new plant to make the chips but what if they decide to cripple Apple temporarily out of spite? There's no law that says they have to sell ANYTHING to Apple (or anyone else for that matter)

A judge whose court is a few miles away from Apple's HQ and probably some money as well.

I live in the US (not sure if you do or not) and I agree that there are many problems with the government. I wouldn't say the whole government is terrible, but most of it is.

Apple's hardware is horrible. Their A5 is worse than any of ARM's mobile chips, even some of the smartphone chips. Apple actually doesn't make anything themselves either. They out source all their manufacturing to Chinese companies. Have you ever seen an iFactory? No? Well there aren't any.

Or, Samsung could raise the wholesale prices of all those components, making Apple (and it's consumers) return all those spoils back over time? *shrug* Either way, between the appeals what will obviously come from this lawsuit, and the numerous gaggle of ongoing litigation (and their appeals after the fact), I'm not sure when, or truly IF Apple will get all that money from Samsung. At least in our lifetimes. XD

in not-too-distant-future we will see the sequel of their clash (apple vs samsung).

Samsung will sue Apple for copying Samsung's smart TV when Apple launched their new product so-called iTelevision

I have a feeling that Apple will patent the shape of their iTV (rectangular case with black borders and slightly rounded edges) and sue Samsung and all other TV makers, of course this will be done in a court a few miles from Apple HQ

This ruling was about following patent laws.

If the patent system is flawed, then that is another matter. When it comes to preventing patents for technology that should be considered obvious and be considered "free for all", then the patent system should be changed. The difficulty is that the definition of obvious is hard to make objective.

I think that patents require common sense to prevail, and the legal system is unfortunately nothing even remotely close to common sense.

Just the beginning. Samsung will appeal. Plus the decision was for less then half of what Apple was asking for. I am getting bored with the smart phone thingies anyway. I need to finish my universal bio-port adapter.