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reply to Goober

Re: Apple v Samsung verdict in-coming

reply to Coma
They're not done yet...not by any stretch. Many many moons to go.

Oh yeah, Samsung is stinging, but it could have been way worse. A billion is a lot of money but I would think that those devices generated more than $1B in profit over the years so even with the pain and write down, it isn't the end of the world.

Where it would be painful is an injunction against the import and sale of all these devices including those already in stores. Those products have to be quickly replaced with non-infringing products or lose the market placement of the brand. I quickly looked over that list and it seems that not all devices, while similar, are not infringing.

Who should be nervous is Google. This may mean Apple starts going after other handset makers.

reply to Goober
Ha.. Jury awarded Apple money for products they found to be non-infridging. Oops!
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Seen one Android handset...seen em all

reply to skeechan

I wouldn't discount Sammy. These companies always have contingency plans. All of these products are probably already well into redesign just in case they lost as they did.

I read a commentary I think in the WSJ about whether or not a win would really be a win for Apple in that it could force competitors to really spend on R&D. The gist was Sammy or another handset maker could come out with something revolutionary, not just evolutionary. Until now, evolutionary is paying the bills but now that can't happen.

. . . not to worry . . .

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You make me laugh. Every company that was seemingly invincible and on top has fallen at some time. It's how business works. Even through apple colored glasses, that should be an easy one to see.
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I've heard, and I don't know if it's true, that Harry Reid takes it up the kiester from farm animals.

Exactly. Nothing lasts forever. Just as RIM. Just ask Palm. Just as Nintendo. Just ask AOL. Just ask Yahoo.

What may be unthinkable now can easily be reality in half a decade.

Who in 2005 really for a second thought that RIM would be decimated by 2010.

The consumer market is so very fickle.

And successful people tend to get lazy like Microsoft did after IE6. With no competition, development virtually stopped. Before, they pushed out regular updates. And since FF and Chrome, they've returned to frequent releases.

reply to Goober

The question isn't Apple's past success but whether or not the exponential growth will continue, particularly without teh Steve's vision. Once the current products are played out...from who's mind are they going to get the next MAGICAL product? And if they come up with it, will straight laced Cook have the ballz to do it?

The question is would COOK have done the phone? Would COOK have done the iPad? Cook is a supply chain guru, but he may turn out to be risk averse.

reply to Goober
+1 proof that juries are retarded. A jury of your peers means "people who couldn't figure out how to get out of jury duty".

Hopefully this gets overturned in appeals. Patenting rectangles with rounded corners is just silly.

Makes me wonder if brick manufacturers can sue Apple for copying the rectangle design in the first place.

reply to skeechan

Ask me again in 10 years.

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reply to Thaler

reply to Coma
I would imagine people said the same thing in 1986.

reply to Coma
Your honor, I see no reason to excuse this juror. - Johnnie Cochran