“T-Mobile just submitted an amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) brief in support of Samsung against Apple with respect to a possible US-wide preliminary injunction, along with a formal request for permission to be admitted to the proceedings as a third party and a motion to shorten time in order to ensure that the court will decide on the admission of T-Mobile ahead of the October 13 hearing on Apple’s motion for a preliminary injunction,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS patents.
“Verizon made a similar submission on Friday, and Apple objected to that one on the basis of untimeliness (and will certainly disagree with its substance if the court accepts Verizon’s submission at all),” Mueller reports. “T-Mobile’s argument is materially consistent with the one made by Verizon: they don’t want important 4G devices banned during the Christmas selling season.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Well, now it’s even more blatantly obvious: Verizon and T-Mobile do not give a rat’s ass about what’s right or wrong as long as they can make a buck. At least the T-Mobile slime buckets can fall back on not having iPhone. The Verizon weasels have no such wiggle room.
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“Verizon has no such wiggle room” … yet.
Only an idiot would be surprised at this. Apple won’t let T-Mobile sell the iPhone so T-Mobile has to join the fight to be able to have as many options as possible to offer their customers.
I’d love an iPhone again but I am sticking with T-Mobile because they have the absolute best pricing plans along with service.
You get what you pay for and why T-Mibile doesn’t have the iPhone.
What’s that suppose to mean? I get 4g, unlimited everything including hotspot, great service and a very good signal all for $80 per month.
T-Mobile does sell the iPhone – in Germany.
sorry, folks, the carriers are corporations involved in a capitalist economy. “right” is what is right for their shareholders. The carriers have been spending a ton of money building out 4g networks and would like to offer products that, you know, use those networks. You cant expect the carriers to wait another year or year and half for apple to get the perfect chipset, or, more likely, to put out another iphone iteration without having to pay 4g related patent fees.
Not shocked, these guys aren’t the moral police, they are in business and this might have an effect on business.
Why in God’s name MDN would expect any company to limit their options and chain themselves to one phone manufacturer (apple) is beyond me. I guess the whole ‘having control of their own destiny’ only makes sense to MDN when they are talking about Apple.
I look forward to MDN’s slanted and ignorant anti-verizon and Tmobile ‘articles’ that are sure to be coming now.
It’s Apple against the world, like always.
Did you read the briefs? T-Mobile does not say it is siding with Samsung, it specifically says it takes no position on the merits of Apple’s claim. T-Mobile and Verizon’s points are simply that blocking sales of products at such an early posture of the case–BEFORE any experts have weighed in on the validity of the patents or whether they are even infringed–is a drastic and seldom appropriate remedy, and that the court under the law needs to consider how such a drastic remedy affects others, i.e., the public, besides Samsung and Apple. That’s all they say. Sure, they’re greedy corporations that don’t want to lose a buck. But so is every company.
Because of the ripped off IP, Apple is potentially losing out on sales as well, and since they are the inventor, they are well within their rights to petition for a ban.
Let’s say you created a unique widget and there are elements of it that you patented. You then find out your competition stole those elements and is selling a similar product as yours and is doing his best to take sales from you. Wouldn’t you want to use whatever legal measures available to you to protect your investment and creation? If you say otherwise, then that’s an unwise position to take.
Verizon and T-Mobile are nothing but middle men. There are a gazillion other Android handsets they can sell. I understand they exist to make money, but they should want to sell blatantly illegal ripoffs.
You don’t see reputable department stores selling knockoffs AND defending a position to sell fake products, do you? It’s illegal. This shouldn’t be treated any differently.
I don’t recall anyone saying apple is in the wrong with this.
I also don’t see anything wrong with the stance verizon and tmobile are taking. Sure its Samsung today, but who is next? That is the question id be asking if i were either ver or tmo.
Its just business
My point is that Verizon and T-Mobile are taking a stance in support of selling a product that has been determined to illegally infringe upon another company’s intellectual property and that’s an foolhardy stance to take. It being just business is just an excuse to be lazy.
Unless i missed something samsung hasn’t had their day in court.
Everything so far has been preliminary and while you and I can agree samsung copied apple, tmobile and verizon won’t take that stance early on as it is not in their business interests to do so. Thats all i really think is going on.
I think its just business and they don’t want to back an action that limits their product offerings going into the xmas season.
I 4 one have been with T-Mobile since 1997,
a very Loyal Customer who still uses a iPhone 2G on it’s Network, But i do hope they Suffer dearly from this Stunt.
Hey T-Mobile it is not ur Fight & this only shows how much u care about what’s right.
(T-Mobile, Shame on you)