“Apple’s recent string of courtroom victories against rival Samsung are continued progress in the company’s ‘thermonuclear war’ against Android. Its next target: the latest flagship Android smartphone, Samsung’s Galaxy S III,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Apple initially tried to halt sales of the Galaxy S III with an injunction before it launched in the U.S. last month, but failed to halt the stateside debut of Samsung’s latest smartphone,” Hughes reports. “However, the Galaxy S III remains a courtroom target for Apple, and a victory halting its sale would leave Samsung with ‘big problems on its hands,’ analyst Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets said in a note to investors on Monday.”
Hughes reports, “Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs vowed to biographer Walter Isaacson that his company would ‘destroy’ Android, as he considered it to be a ‘stolen product.’ Jobs said he was ‘willing to thermonuclear war’ and would have spent ‘every penny’ that Apple had to ‘right this wrong.'”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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