“Everyone and their brother knows the Obama administration has overturned a Samsung-inspired ITC ban on US imports of some Apple products — but if you read the administration’s message, I suspect there could be far more trouble in store for the Korean company as competition regulators look at how it does business,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “It’s all in the administration’s response to Samsung’s attempt to usurp the meaning of FRAND patents. Is it appropriate that the company has refused to follow the spirit of such patents in order to harm the interests of its biggest competitor?”
Evans writes, “I feel a little like a canary in a coal mine as I write this. I recognize the customary cohorts of Samsung fans will reject these arguments even while the most rabid Apple fans will attempt to whip the discussion up. I’m not really aiming to stimulate either group in this, simply proposing a question I think will soon be discussed by US trade authorities. That question is: ‘Is Samsung’s way of doing business anti-competitive under US law?'”
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Does a bear crap in the woods?
A good minute or two after reading your comment, I’m still sitting here laughing at it.
Abso-freaking-YES!
Thanks!
The proper reply is: “Not a polar bear.”
Well it seems to be considered unacceptable most other civilised places so might be worth following that trend for a Change.
In businesses, if you are honest and integrity, there is nothing to fear about, unless you are a crooked or cheaters. ShameShung knows very well that Apple has had the patents to protect its products but they taking risk for fast profit. ShameShung already gained a lot in smartphone market-shares
anyway, there is nothing to complain about.
Samsung had better be worried. They are not innovative. They steal, copy, and rip off better products. I don’t care that their construction unit built the Burj Dubai in Dubai (mostly off of terrorist money) or that they build ships (which deserve to go the way of the Titanic) they need to end now. Lets just nuke them for intellectual terrorism, then we can nuke the North for thinking of nuking Hawaii. Killing to birds with one stone.
I agree with your view on Samsung but not the Burj Dubai. After running out of money during construction Dubai was bailed out by Abu Dhabi. The building was renamed to Burj Khalifa in honor of the Emir of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khalifa. The money was from oil not terrorism. I’m not a fan of using the Internet to spread mis-information. If you have ‘proof’ of funding from terrorism please post link.
That question is: ‘Is Samsung’s way of doing business anti-competitive under US law?’”
Does a hundred pounds of dough make a big biscuit?
Texas sized biscuit!
Yes, very much. Other companies tried to mess with Apple, and they all got what they deserve: IBM, Mocrosoft, BlackBerry, Commodore, Amiga, Atari, the people who made that stupid Palm PDA Newton rip-off, and, soon,GooSung.
Samsung is getting way too comfortable under the US troop’s protection of South Korea…
We should nuke them for intellectual terrorism. Besides, we all know they support the North Korean government. Trusting them is just like how we trusted Saudi Arabia in the 80s/90s and look what happened…
And here, Samsung thought it had paid off (or otherwise “influenced”) the appropriate officials to get their way… Maybe those officials who did not “make it happen” for Samsung should be the ones with “fear.”
This is one case where the slowness of the system favored Apple. Even if the ban went into effect, the current products affected were the GSM iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Both products are very likely to be “intentionally” retired within the next 1-3 months.
“Is Samsung’s way of doing business anti-competitive under US law?”.
YES DEFINATELY! SCREW THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE TRYING TO INTIMIDATE US AND SAVE SAMDUNG AND THEIR NASTY WAYS. WE PROTECT THEM AND THEY TRY TO BEAT US AND BE SUPERIOR WITH DEVIOUS WAYS, NOT BY FAIR COMPETITION. HOW CAN THE U.S. COURTS BE SO UNFAIR TO A U.S. COMPANY TO UNFAIRLY GET A COMPETITOR AGAINST APPLE? JUDGE LUCY KOH IS OF KOREAN DECENT. WAS SHE BIASED AGAINST APPLE?
“Question is: ‘Is Samsung’s way of doing business anti-competitive under US law?’”
Real Question – Is it fair under any law …. I still cannot believe the ITC even considered the ban …. Blows my mind
“Besides, we all know they support the North Korean government.”
Really. And you have incontrovertible proof to back up that statement, then?
And I don’t mean some YouTube video of a fat bloke in a basement who also claims proof of their involvement with chemtrails, HAARP, and the moon landing fraud.
Idiot.
Calm down dude, for crust sake your going to choke on all that Korean Loyalty and why don’t you prove Samsung isn’t or doesn’t, by all accounts they have been proven to be run by corrupt organized crime by proof of South Korean court documents, they also have been caught paying off many many high level officials in Korea.
Now with a track record prove otherwise.
Mac daily news well that says it