When did Apple announce they were cutting business ties with Samsung? How do you explain that statement?

In my world, Samsung and Apple agree to disagree, but desire a shared licensing experience.

Samsung has only heightened the Asian propensity to lift critical design elements from others’s good works.

“This said, let the Appeals begin!”

They have Pat, you just haven’t responded.

Makes you wonder why they never caught Nichole Brown Simpson’s murderer? OJ didn’t do it, and was covering up for someone else, but the jury let him off anyway, so now the real murderer can live the rest of “HIS” life in peace.

Oh by the way Snoop Dog, Samsung components can be found is almost every electronic gadget including cars, appliances (Non Samsung), etc..

All this to say, that I probably have more Apple products that most of you on here hence my points about Samsung are not to discredit Apple but rather to draw attention to just how big of a stakeholder Samsung is within Apple. If I ran Apple, I would of found a different way to do this. This said, the Courts will be playing around with this case well into 2015 or so and Samsung will have launched their Galaxy S10 by then.

I enjoy getting Apple Cult members all wet and bothered as it is just a hoot!

pat makes a rather simple comment and the everyone is on his ass… what happened to freedom of opinions ????

agree or not agree… far too many lemmings here

The fact that Samsung, BACK STABBED Apple should have been clear enough for Apple to move on. However, Pat is correct. It’s a major deal to replace Samsung.

I guess Apple will need to make better contracts with its partners it uses.

1) He hasn’t made a negative comment.
2) Asian companies will unite
3) Apple invests 5 Billion to Samsung, the win deducts 1.5 for only 1 year… hopefully more punishment comes from this other then money in damages.

Apple needed to defend its UI here – and they did. However the bigger picture is with Apple’s future suppliers. As I have mentioned before, Apple is still “barking up the wrong tree”, at least indirectly… the real EMEMY is in Apple’s own backyard; Google.

Android must die or be re-written so that it paralyzed to the point, where it is obvious to the consumers, that Android is inferior to iOS.

Plus, all out world wide ban on Samsung Galaxy Smartphones and Tablets. Including all orders of Googles Nexus from Samsung. A ban until Google restricts the alteration of its freely distributed Android by other manufactures with a none-cloning agreement. Also to stripe out of Multi-Touch functionality, Bounce end of list, the Translucent Quicktime over lay controls etc… and more.

If only Steve jobs could have lived to see the result. Hopefully this is the first in a long line of wins and maybe even a slowdown of the copying taking place.

Please Your Honor,, award triple damages and an import ban ASAP

Such a shame Steve wasn’t around to see it, hopefully the first of a run of wins and a maybe even a move away from copying(!)

Please judge, triple the award – it was wilful, blatant, slavish and serial.

He will find out the difference between a beautiful phone and a perfect God

‘well I’m the guy who saved the world and keeps it running. The only one who was able to save you’

Alas his entrance into God’s house would not have been allowed no matter his genius status, net savings, good deeds or product list. No one can exist in the presence of Holy God without Jesus.

@Zeke: I’m not here to defend Pat’s comments. I’m talking cold economics, never suggested the Chinese would need to invade the US to see its downfall. It’s fiscal policies and national hubris can achieve that without any military involvement.

There is some low level assembly that takes place in various parts of Asia by Foxconn, and Samsung and other suppliers make certain component parts.

The critical part happens here. The design phase with the high paid engineers, software and hardware, the designers, along with software architecture APIs, cloud computing components.

Everything of real value is created in the US.

They can get sold a lemon once, but after that, they have the score and will not buy crap again.

In fact, Samsung has far more to lose by being barred from selling their phones during the appeals process then just biting the bullet and trying to reach some kind of settlement with Apple in the meantime.

Whether Apple wants to settle… well, that’s another question.

BTW the Swiss regularly eat dogs too. They are pond scum for doing it and their society /culture for allowing it..

“The lawsuits between Apple and Samsung were about much more than patents or money. They were about values…”