“Apple Inc. (AAPL) recently scored another legal victory over its arch rival Samsung Electronics Co., after a Milan court rejected the Korean company’s bid to ban the iPhone 4S sales in Italy,” Zacks Equity Research reports for Yahoo Finance.
“Apple seemed to be having a favourable run as this is Apple’s second victory in consecutive months,” Zacks reports. “Just last month, Samsung had failed to block iPhone 4S sales in France.”
Zacks reports, “We believe that these victories are important for Apple due to the fact that iPhone is its best selling device to date. Moreover, it has also been a major revenue contributor for the company over the last few years… We believe that the strong sales of iPhone 4S and upcoming release of iPad 3 (expected March 2012) will boost Apple’s competitive edge over Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Android operating system.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I suppose it’s a win, but it’s defensive win. I’m sure Steve had hoped to have a few more Offensive wins against the Android hoards by now.
If Samsung wasn’t so big, this would be a death wish. This company, at least in this aspect, is dumb as dirt. From what I’ve heard though, this is typical of the Korean business attitude, fight rather than compete. It probably comes from being dominated by those chaebols.