Apple vs Samsung: Trial starts

[karl]

The battle has been brewing for two years, but today is the day Apple and Samsung square off in front of a jury in a San Jose courtroom, with billions of dollars at stake for both companies.
The row has raged across Europe, Australia and America for the last few years, with each company accusing the other of patent violations as they vie for supremacy in the fast-growing market for smartphones.
There have even been disagreements over where each firm should sit in the courtroom, with Samsung claiming 'Both parties will at times be acting as plaintiffs and both as defendants, and it is therefore important that both parties are treated the same.'
Apple believes Samsung's Galaxy range of phones copied the iPhone's design, helping to dilute the public's perception of the iRange - and ask for billions of dollars of Samsung's profits as recompense.


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[Cognizant]

Cool.

[Thunduhbuhlt]

Oh Apple, I hoped now that that wackjob Steve Jobs died over you wouldn't go to his extremes, but alas you have. Just another reason to hate them and their products.

[Foamy]

Who gives a shit?

[Rayquaza]

I really hope Samsung win this time. It will show Apple that they need to back off over the most useless claims, it's incredibly irritating.

[phenol]

...samsung argues apple is trying to stifle competition to maintain 'exorbitant' profit, according to court filings.

final-fucking-ly someone says it.

[Infidelitas]

This makes me feel bad for being on an iPad at the moment......

[karl]

And it continues


Apple launched an attack on Samsung in court yesterday as lawyers for the firm related how Apple's entire business was at stake when it launched the iPhone.
Harold McElhinny, representing Apple, painted an evocative picture of Apple as a struggling underdog company which knew it would either revolutionise the smartphone market - or die trying.
He reminded the San Jose courtroom, in which Apple and Samsung are flinging patents at each other in a bid to prove they did not infringe each others' inventions, that the mobile market was an entirely different landscape when Steve Jobs pitched the final designs.
He said: 'Apple had absolutely no name in the field, no credibility. [The iPhone] was an entry that - had it gone bad - could have ended the company's future.
'On January 9, 2007 when Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller went through that presentation, they were literally betting their company.'


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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2182023/Apple-attacks-Samsung-patent-war-Weve-ripped--offensive.html#ixzz22IY664zP

[Liam_Johnson]

I want Samsung to win

[phenol]

And it continues


Apple launched an attack on Samsung in court yesterday as lawyers for the firm related how Apple's entire business was at stake when it launched the iPhone.
Harold McElhinny, representing Apple, painted an evocative picture of Apple as a struggling underdog company which knew it would either revolutionise the smartphone market - or die trying.
He reminded the San Jose courtroom, in which Apple and Samsung are flinging patents at each other in a bid to prove they did not infringe each others' inventions, that the mobile market was an entirely different landscape when Steve Jobs pitched the final designs.
He said: 'Apple had absolutely no name in the field, no credibility. [The iPhone] was an entry that - had it gone bad - could have ended the company's future.
'On January 9, 2007 when Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller went through that presentation, they were literally betting their company.'


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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2182023/Apple-attacks-Samsung-patent-war-Weve-ripped--offensive.html#ixzz22IY664zP
This is complete bullshit and apple knows it. They knew that they already had insanely popular crap that idiots bought like their laptops, desktops, and iPods. They knew that the worst that could happen is that it's only the second most popular phone on the market (which it is) and even if it didn't work out that they could fall back on their other stuff.

Burn in hell Apple.

[darkwoon]

Another great website to follow the legal battle details of Samsung vs Apple Trial: Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/).

I found the court language sometimes hard to follow, but those guys are actually going great lengths to explain it and make it understandable.