“In October 2010, seven months after Steve Jobs told his biographer that he was going ‘thermonuclear’ on Google’s Android for ripping off the iPhone, he and Tim Cook offered Samsung a secret licensing deal — a fact that Apple saved for last Friday in its multibillion dollar patent trial against the Korean electronics giant that is both a key Apple supplier and the largest manufacturer of Android phones,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“According to the late-afternoon testimony of Borks Teksler, Apple’s director of patent licensing strategy, the company’s top executives had been ‘shocked’ in March 2010 when Samsung introduced the first of its line of Galaxy S touchscreen phones. ‘We didn’t understand how a trusted partner would build a copycat product like that,’ he told the jury. Jobs and Cook contacted Samsung and demanded a meeting,” P.E.D reports. “In August 2010, Apple prepared a document that identified dozens of instances where it believed Samsung was using or encouraging others to use Apple’s patented technology, Teksler testified. Then the jury was shown Defendant’s Exhibit No. 586: A Keynote presentation Teksler created in early October that spelled out exactly what Apple wanted in return. ‘Because Samsung is a strategic suppler to Apple,’ the preamble reads, ‘we are prepared to offer a royalty-bearing license for this category of device.'”
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that may be the “smoking gun” in this trial.
Except I think this shows that ‘the smoking gun’ is the one Samsung used to shoot itself in the back. How does one anatomically do that?!
Great going Samsung. Shot yourselves in the foot, the back, what’s next? You really are the most seriously stupid company. It’s called ‘Self-Destruction’ and it’s not good. Not good at all. 😥
ExactOmudus Sir. Boom!
more like the “thermonuclear” bomb
Are these the prices that samsung claimed were exorbitant? The fsck!?
I hope they get shafted hard. They had it coming.
I have heard of arrogance.
I have heard of stupidity.
I have heard of insanity.
But this is the first time arrogant, stupid insanity has been explicitly been observed in the real world.
Samsung is dead.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Jurors have to rule in Apples favor. Apple could present all the evidence in the world, it still has to go through 12 jurors.
I’m pretty sure it’s 8 jurors in this case. They started with 9 and one was cut loose. And not to take away from your point, you’re absolutely right. It’s in the jurors’ hands.
The jury is made up of members of the general public. The general public is mostly ignorant, reactionary, and lives to follow.
Apple should win, but won’t (or if they do, they’ll be awarded some paltry sum, like $30). Quote me on it.
Don’t count your chickens yet. Samsung may yet relent and accept Apple’s licensing deal.
Samsung may be fined at a cost equal to or less than the cost of the licensing deal. They maybe fined at a cost more than the cost of the licensing deal. Being fined it is likely that no iPhone ripoffs will be imported into the USA, but this ruling would not permit Samsung selling the ripoffs in other countries. Apple will have to sue Samsung in every country on the planet and win in every cass to effect a complete ban.
This would be a huge victory for Apple.
Collecting 2.5 Billion in Damages.
Forcing a import ban to several countries.
Forcing major changes to Android.
And hopefully killing the Galaxy Nexus Google phone also.
http://www.google.com/nexus/#/
DIE ANDROID
The Google/Fandroid/iHaters are in full force out there. Spamming the web with lies and deceits. These idiots must be on DEFCON 1.
“Hubris, thy name is Samsung.”
Unbelievable… that Apple offered it… that Samsung declined…
What the hell… Apple offered it?
This has just become absolutely surreal.
The mother of all Nuclear bomb! Boooooom!
Kill the backstabbers. Samsung deserves nothing less.
A: “hey, you can use ur iOS in your fake phones”
S: “no, thanks”
WTF????
Because Samsung didn’t wanna make it appear as though they copied iPhone. If they had accepted the licensing deal, they would have also publicly accepted that they had copied Apple. Now, in court, their decision to not accept the deal will support their case of not being copy cats.
They would also be paying $30 a unit for years.
But if they accept the deal, they are contractually absolved of copying, so it’s a moot point. AND they benefit from iOS itself instead of a fake. I’m sure Gaggle had something to do with Samesung’s decision. Poor form. Poor choice. Potentially dire consequences.
The deal was for patents not iOS.
Wow, this is news indeed, apple, especially Steve jobs is always against licensing os. I wish apple wins this one, the worthless Samsung deserves to be penalised
Look, how apple childish act prevent rival products , yes, because samsung is success and the largest manufacture out there, apple suing them for money.
And this make APPLE FORGET HOW TO INNOVATE…. and APPLE NOW SUING OTHER COMPANY BECAUSE APPLE CAN’T INNOVATE…
This will easy for Microsoft to burn apple in Hell with WINDOWS PHONE 8 …. because Apple forgot to innovate and busy suing other COMPANY, GO GO GO MICROSOFT,,,
I take it English is not your first language. Possibly not your second either.
the illiterate Koreans have escaped from the nut house again.
Biggest joke on the planet is Microsoft, that business is now totally irrelevant and dead.
They missed the boat big time.
microsoft? LMFAO
I know this comes off as racist, but our fake ‘ZuneTang®’ here comes off exactly like Samsung. Blatantly a ripoff of the original. Obviously following the all-too-sad contemporary Asian culture of imitation rather than innovation. Creepy irony.
Fake ‘ZuneTang®’. You’re really shooting yourself in the foot here, just like foolish Samsung. I think maybe you should try another approach as well as moniker for your satire. It’s not going to work stealing the ‘ZuneTang®’ name. Sorry.
Look, how apple childish act prevent rival products , yes, because samsung is success and the largest manufacture out there, apple suing them for money.
And this make APPLE FORGET HOW TO INNOVATE…. and APPLE NOW SUING OTHER COMPANY BECAUSE APPLE CAN’T INNOVATE…
This will easy for Microsoft to burn apple in Hell with WINDOWS PHONE 8 …. because Apple forgot to innovate and busy suing other COMPANY, GO GO GO MICROSOFT,,, DIE APPLE
lol!!!
And what reality are you living in???
I suggest you wake up from your drug infused paranoia and join the real world with everyone else.
I recommend you go back to your specialist and ask for some cyanide, that will do the trick.
That’sgoing to far. I don’t care who likes whose product, this comment should be removed.
ZuneTang:
you can keep your fake ® up yours.
Everything Samsung does is an Apple copy, so how can you blatantly lie so deeply?! disprove Samsung is not copying Apple! here: http://macdailynews.com/2012/08/13/samsung-shameless-slavish-copiers/
since you still are such a hateful, ignoranus anal-yst, you, like Sam, find it perfectly legal and fine to copy everything, just because ubiquity equals standards & standards should be democratically, freely be copied, right?
if it were your work, effort, time, money invested, you would not mind everyone copying everything you do, then, right? ok, so please share all the wealth you accumulated & all the Universe-bending innovation you created over your miserable lifetime, that benefits all of us humans so far. if you’re so smart, you have plenty to share. so do! we guess, you have nada, you are sitting on your throne (toilet) and shitting in your pants, as all the mierda in your mind is an incessant pool of diarrhea.
get a life. go masturbate. god will forgive you then.
apple never said it invents it all. just that they do it better than all. why then, are all competitors for over a decade, failing to compete? because they all think with their dicks, not heads, just like you.
the solution: invent stuff in non-apple categories. then you’ll succeed. otherwise, there’s only 1 choice for y’all: go fuck yourselves in human history’s biggest orgy. whilst the rest of us work properly.
your people embarrass humans, if ETs are watching. The Ancient Aliens will not want to return, except maybe to get rid of the scum of the earth.
p.s. don’t take this message too seriously ; )
except that you do need to go masturbate (just so you don’t bother some undeserving ladies)
the old style os with cluttered and clunky desain ====> iOS
the new modern and simplyfy, fast and fluid os =====> Windows Phone
What is a “ZuneTang”? Resistance is futile…
Don’t tell me no one here remembers Zune Tang. Zune Tang was our own mock troll. However this “Zune Tang(R)” (registered trademark) is not the original and authentic Zune. The real Zune did not have a registered trademark and his comments were much more clever, pithy, humorous and obviously a backhanded poke at real trolls.
But maybe there is more cleverness going on here than I first considered. Maybe ZT(R) is stealing the real ZT’s shtick, and doing so with a 2nd rate imitation, to mimic what Samsung is doing to Apple?
Correct. This ZT is a copycat wannabe. The real ZT would have the certified dot not the register circle.
Just ignore the copy. Someone is obviously wanting attention, and is not smart enough to invent his own identity.
Steve jobs would never had offered it.
He didn’t believe in licensing. Why the fuck should he licence an OS that has dominant market share???
It’s plain crazy. There is no way on gods earth he would have done that.
Zune Thang, go crawl back into your troll hole.
I feel like some people here are not reading. Steve Jobs wasn’t ready to license iOS, just some of the patents/technology in it. Some of you need to finally start high school or go back and finish, but the lack of understanding is insane.
Samsung figures “Why buy the Cow when you can get the Milk for FREE? LoL
Borks Teksler. What a great name.