“Apple Inc has rejected an offer from South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co to help settle their tablet-computer dispute in Australia, hoping for an important court victory there in its global campaign of patent litigation,” Narayanan Somasundaram and Amy Pyett report for Reuters.
“Apple has claimed Samsung’s Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablets had ‘slavishly’ copied its iPhone and iPad. It has already secured a block on the latest Galaxy tablets in Germany and is delaying their launch in Australia,” Somasundaram and Pyett report.
“Samsung made an offer to Apple last week, promising to help ensure an expedited court hearing in return for Samsung being able to immediately launch the Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia,” Somasundaram and Pyett report. “But both companies made clear to the Federal Court on Tuesday that there appeared to be no prospect of such a deal.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Boycott Samsung. We no longer buy Samsung-branded products and advise our millions of readers worldwide to also avoid purchasing Samsung-branded products until they cease stealing Apple’s patented IP.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
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Oh Samsung, you are making this too easy – September 24, 2011
Why are Apple’s icons on the wall of Samsung’s store? – September 24, 2011
Samsung threatens to step up patent fight with ‘free riding’ Apple Inc. – September 23, 2011
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Perhaps you could stop taking their ads too? I’m always seeing Samsung ads in MDN articles here in Australia.
How about mdn does not select the ads shown but instead is a client of a service that provides bulk ads.
Wait, that would require common sense, which is in very short supply on the net.
Continue your knee jerk reactions netizens.
How about replying in the same way you would in person, instead of implying that everyone else is an idiot just because you happen to know something they don’t?
No worries mate. I’ve been using social media with this nick since 1994. I can handle it.
“Slavishly copying the work of … other people and presenting it with ads from anybody that you get money from.” What does that define?
The controls are not fine enough to remove Samsung-branded products from every possible ad shown via third-party networks or we would have done it already. Thank you.
It appears the point may have been missed by you, by a boat and a half; guess Nekogami13 may rightfully now accept that as vindication.
You’re not related to Techstud, are you?
The sheer stupidity of your post boggles the mind. Do you not have a single brain cell inside that coconut shell of yours. Probably not by the looks of it.
Many of their ad’s come from on outside source. MDN doesn’t always know which ad’s appear on their site. In many cases they never see them. Some of the ad’s I see (Portrait Professional Studio for example) I’m sure are not seen by most other people here but are a result of my past browsing history.
If there is a way for MDN to ask and have Samsung ad’s block then they should do so. I assume they are not getting any click-thorough revenue from them.
Exactly, when I was in France, I would see local product impressions; same thing happened while in Germany and later in Japan. Most of these ads are from Google I think.
We have been through these discussions before (why MS product ads on a MS slamming article on MDN etc.). Some of the new visitors here aren’t maybe aware of these and find these ads confusing. I don’t see how we can not have a similar conversation at a later date again. I liked that you patiently explained it for everyone.
Meanwhile, I find extensions/add-ons like Ad block plus, No Script, Better Privacy on your browser (I use Firefox) useful. They afford me the obnoxious ad-free browsing the way mother nature may had intended Internet to be.
Good. I too am boycotting Samesong, er… Samsung. I probably would have purchased a TV from them last month. But, now… NO!
Samdung ate back-stabbing Kuzunts!
@ MDN Take. The first “boycott” of Samsung needs to come from Apple. Otherwise, it is impossible for consumers to buy Apple devices (from Macs to iPhones) without Samsung parts inside.
Samsung wants to be a key supplier to Apple and then use the proceeds from being Apple’s component supplier to compete directly with Apple. It would be like Intel deciding to release MacBook Air clones. Apple is not interesting in funding its own competition, especially when the competing products are “slavish” copies.
Apple will still buy RAM from Samsung, but the “A6” will be fabricated elsewhere…
Which part of “Samsung-branded products” did you not understand?
My point is that you can’t “boycott” Samsung just by boycotting “Samsung-branded products.” So it’s worthless to even suggest doing so… because we are not going to boycott Apple products that contain Samsung parts.
Apple needs to work toward ending, or at least reducing, it’s dependence on Samsung-built components. THAT is what will really hurt Samsung, not some consumers avoiding Samsung displays and HDTV sets.
“My point is that you can’t “boycott” Samsung just by boycotting ‘Samsung-branded products.'”
Why not?
Meanwhile, as you know, it’s not a boycott call pushed by Apple. It’s a customer driven protest movement where most of us are free to pick and choose any products. You and a few may have opinions w.r.t. its effectiveness, while a few others (me included) find it to be a perfectly valid way to express our objections and displeasure.
As ‘Comprehension’ and MDN have alluded, no one is calling for boycotting parts and components from Samsung, but major products (employ common sense here for an effective definition). Whether that’s effective or not is immaterial to me; I’m boycotting simply because I don’t wish to support a company that rips off others and then, upon facing objections, turns around and use their massive funds (state aided too) to sue the same companies it blatantly steals from. That leaves too much of a bad taste in my mouth to readily open up my wallet for any of their products. That’s my message to them as well to myself and to my children one day. Effective or not, I’m OK with this.
I hereby call for a boycott of milk…! But it’s OK to buy cheese, yogurt, and ice cream. 🙂
Not that I think your analogy is valid in either case, but it may have been more apt had you said: boycott cheese, yogurt and ice-cream while leveling no objections to milk. The point would have been stronger still, if you slapped on a particular brand on these yogurt, cheese and ice-cream.
You are one of the smartest and sharpest posters on MDN and I have a lot of respect for you. Maybe, I’m not understanding where you are coming from on this.
If I had said it the other way, it would not be worth saying.
And I’m just saying it’s pointless to boycott stuff that says “Samsung” on the outside, when Samsung is all over the inside the products we love. If I put too much thought and effort into boycotting Samsung, it would make me feel bad to buy an iPhone or iPad. At this point, I’ll probably avoid buying a Samsung HDTV or microwave (the next time I need one) anyways, without giving it too much thought…
So don’t put too much thought into it. 🙂
ken1w, I do not sign up to your assertion that it is “pointless.” Companies tend to have a much higher profit margin on self-branded products. That is why grocery stores have their own brands of beans and such – they make more money on them than they do selling cans of Del Monte products. My belief is that the same applies to Samsung, and no one has provided any evidence to the contrary on this forum. Samsung wants the additional profit from value-added, name brand products. They do not want to be limited to manufacturing electronic components.
Will I sign up to an absolute boycott of Samsung-branded devices? Probably not. I have to weigh the pros/cons for each purchase based upon my needs and objectives. But I will avoid Samsung products if there are viable and competitive alternatives, particularly for the bigger ticket items.
“Meanwhile, as you know, it’s not a boycott call pushed by Apple. It’s a customer driven protest movement where most of us are free to pick and choose any products. You and a few may have opinions w.r.t. its effectiveness, while a few others (me included) find it to be a perfectly valid way to express our objections and displeasure.”
Samsung isn’t going to miss the couple hundred items that MDN readers may choose not to buy. Until MDN goes national with its boycott message (network TV advertisements), its reach is so pitifully low its present effort is nothing more than a hit generator.
At the same time a national campaign would backfire because that group of people that hate Apple, just as Apple lovers hate MSFT, will choose to buy Samsung when they ordinarily would have bought something else.
krquet is just being his usual dickface self. I don’t pay any attention to his maniacal ravings. Buy what suits you, even if it includes Samsung products. I don’t see what Samsung television has to do with Samsung electronics. Even if it does why flog yourself by buying an inferior product just because of ongoing disputes between Samsung and Apple. The sheer stupidity of his posts makes him look like a turd.
Who says they aren’t?
I believe Apple is starting moving away from using Samsung parts in its products with a more manageable pace. With existing contract obligation with Samsung, Apple simply can not just stop “ordering” parts from Samsung overnight.
my 2 cents…
MDN is not a charitable organization, it has to get revenue somewhere to make profit to sustain its operation otherwise where we are going to have descent conversation about Apple news.
I am 100% agree with some posters saying that MDN don’t even control or can’t control which ads are being displayed. For those of you attacking MDN blinding about displaying Samsung ads are simply non-sense and totally unacceptable.
my 2 cents…
I’ve stopped considering any Samsung branded products for purchase. Regretfully, I purchased one of their televisions and a printer prior to all these shenanigans. I had I known they would end up being such backstabbers, I would never have supported them.
what’s amazing is how much you can copy and still suck. for work and testing, I’ve spent since July with a Samsung 10.1. If the iPad had never been invented, I’d be mightily impressed. But that’s not reality and the android tablet sucks so bad It’s really noticeable if you’ve ever done QA or Information Architecture you’d wonder how it ever passed???? But SAMEsung paid my company for product placement so I’m getting pretty good use of a bad iOS ripoff beta with a ton of errors. It’s still useful, but it’s like moving into a new house in which your General Contractor had an irrational hate of sandpaper, prepare for redonculous splinters.
Bah humbug
Oh this conversational-debate is sad…
People will boycott Samsung-branded products, due to its face value being SAMSUNG.
People will not boycott prducts with Samsung-parts if it has another face value ie. APPLE.
Examplar:
If Apple announces two new iPhones, the 5 (tapered etc) and 4S and they turn around and say “The iPhone 5 is solely made from Samsung internals and costs £425 and the iPhone 4S (which only has a Processor upgrade and RAM) is made purely by ourselves (Apple) or other manufacturers costing you £425”
We all know that 80% will go for the iPhone 5.
Why?
FACEVALUE.
I post something similar the other day –
Samsung may not frequent MDN, so, for this boycott to be effective people need to contact Samsung corporate offices directly. Even if it is only a few hundred people, that is a sizable demographic.
I don’t care if Samdung is paying MDN. My money is not going to those copycats. I’m happy they are blowing their own wad for a no sale and still help keep MDN to pay the bills.