Sales of Samsung Galaxy S, S II banned by Netherlands judge in Apple patent case

It’s spelled fuck,  like fuck off or fuck you… both of which apply here.

you’re still crying though…

You know, I was wondering how long it was going to take before someone read that and leapt to Apple’s defense.

HTC, Motorola and LG all make phones that compete with the iPhone. Where are the repeated lawsuits all over the globe? What makes Samsung so special? But please, white knight Apple some more. Don’t try to be even remotely dispassionate and try to see the argument from someone else’s perspective. It’s scary on this side of the fence!

It should be scary! IP theft is serious! They better sell a lot of Galaxy products for their lawyer fees.

Apple is afraid that Samsung will force it to compete on price.  That is lose/lose for Apple as doing so diminishes profit.  Not doing so diminishes sales volume.  Samsung could saturate the market with Galaxy SII and Galaxy Tab devices and do serious damage to the Apple business model that is VERY dependent on extremely high average selling prices.  That is what Apple is afraid.  They should be afraid because, judging by recent actions, that is just what Samsung wants to do.

And I know some will argue doing that also hurts Samsung profitability.  What people fail to understand is that Samsung, like most Asian conglomerates, is not subject to quarter to quarter Wall Street hysteria.  If Samsung really wanted to hurt Apple, it could… easily.  Thus Apple is firing all of its bullets.

Agreed… Hence the proliferation of iPhone on other carriers and talks (already) of iPad3. They’re being dealt a blow and they know it.

+1

Coulda, woulda, shoulda, WON’T! Samsung will flood the market like how HP succeeded flooding the market with their “competitive” devices! Ya right! Apple has the best priced products, they can’t be beat! BYOGOF, discounts, even fire-sales haven’t caused any prices changes at retail. Apple (Tim Cook) is so smart, they put re-furbished “original” iPad’s in the store for a reduced price of $299. You can’t compete with that. Plus, when the iPhone 5 is released, the iPhone 4 drops to $49-$99 & the 3GS goes for $0 (2-3 year contract). The same for the iPad. The iPad 3 is released for the same price: $499. While the iPad 2 drops to $399 & the “original” iPad officially drops to $299. How can any future (non-iPad) tablets compete with this sales strategy, in the long-term? Apple practically prints money, while Samsung can barely srcape together manufacturing & component dollars! Wake up!

Apple should get a “verbal beating” for stealing the pull down notification bar from Android, and are ripping off BBM with their iMessage service. Obviously Apple is taking ideas from others as well, and add that to the fact that they are crying in the courtroom in an attempt to eliminate competitors just goes to show that Apple is losing steam in the innovation department.

Instead of pissing and moaning in the courtroom about companies doing things that Apple is doing as well, they should be trying to move forward and be innovative themselves.

Because Samsung is now besting the iPhone in the UK with a single phone?  Because the S II has the potential to keep people from buying the iPhone 5?  I don’t know, want me to go on?

I’m not saying Samsung is in the right at all; when you’re wrong, you’re wrong. It just seems odd that they’re going after Samsung much harder. The iPhone 4 stands on its own even if you put it right next to the SGS II.

Sqube, Judges don’t care about os’s, they care about the facts. apples case is that sammys phone can fool you into buying their device, thinking it is the same as apples(ios).  everyone on bgr can tell the difference between galaxy s and a iphone. but to a person that does not know anything about cell phones can be fooled.  it happened to my co-worker, she thought t-mobile got the iphone because she saw galaxy s in t-mobile store.  called me to say “look tmobile got the iphone”. All the judges cant be wrong,  the phone looks, feels and operates like the iphone. look at all those video reviews by phonedog etc, they all say it looks like a iphone. Apple is right.

@321d4c7468f9712fce97f0c7556c9388:disqus While I understand the point you’re making… it has nothing to do with this lawsuit. Do you want to know what patent Apple had upheld? Kinetic scrolling in the photo app. All Samsung has to do is change/remove kinetic scrolling on their photo app and they’ll be fine. This has nothing to do with the look and feel of the phone and, as a result, all of this discussion is… kind of pointless. Samsung was still stupid for copying so closely, but even Apple isn’t arguing that the Galaxy phones look too much like iPhones.

Sqube, aside from  kinetic scrolling trade mark, i thought it was also straight trade dress as well.  

@321d4c7468f9712fce97f0c7556c9388:disqus Nope. I followed the read link, which leads to a BBC article that says, and I quote:

“A district court in the Hague upheld Apple’s claim concerning one specific patent – EP 2059868 – which outlines an interface for viewing and navigating photographs on a touchscreen phone.

However, the judge rejected several other patent issues, as well as Apple’s claim that Samsung had stolen many of its design ideas.”

Apple straight up lost on the design idea area. It’s literally just kinetic scrolling in the photo app that has resulted in this injunction, which means that this injunction probably won’t stop anything at all. It doesn’t even take effect until October 13th, which gives Samsung more than a month to… change the kinetic scrolling in the photo app. I think they can manage.

was not aware. thanks 

are you a broken record?  And no, in this case it is NOT ‘trade dress’.  please do some research before continually posting ‘it’s called trade dress, it is a legal term’ on all of these posts.  Cheese and crackers.

Yes, be proud of a company that has no vision. No creativity. Be proud of a company that copies. Be proud of a nation of slaves making millions of parts for .00001 cents a piece. South Korea is a hack wannabe first world country. North Korea will invade and wipe out the fat lazy copycat koreans. South Korea will be dead in two years.  true story™©®

The only unique thing Apple has EVER come up with was a wheel for navigating iPod.

Their phone and tablet designs are old, as old as 1968 old.

And you’re a complete racist asshole.

 Have to agree with Drybones5. You are one stupid racist idiot and you are really annoying and someone really should shut you up. Free speech and so on yeah. But no need to go that low you pathetic excuse of a human being even if you are that. Samsung will still be one of the biggest companies around and Android will be around for a long time still to come. I am not a fan of either Apples or android but people like you who come on here and start with stupid comments really do piss me off and i bet i am not the only one who agrees on that

Youre a racist bastard for saying that. I know ppl like you. Big time talker thinking ppl dont know who i am. So i can say what i want. Now you feel like a big man. Bgr should ban your ass.

what a pathetic piece of shit fool, lol

Google makes it’s own software?

No son, it comes preinstalled by apple!