“A Korean news site this morning picked up on data from a Strategy Analytics report released yesterday,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“It revealed that Samsung Electronics’ global mobile AP market share (based on sales) as of the fourth quarter last year fell off a cliff,” Purcher reports. “In the last quarter of 2013, Samsung’s Application Processor business fell more than 50% from the previous year, due in large part to Apple.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Denial of business is a much more efficient and effective method of punishment than via the courts.
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“MacDailyNews Take: Denial of business is a much more efficient and effective method of punishment than via the courts.”
Totally correct. Just another thought. IF IP cannot be correctly protected in court (patent trolls seem to win but true innovation loses??) maybe that is why Apple seems to be moving to hardware innovation.
Apple designed processors
Apple ownership of most of the worlds cell phone milling machines.
Apple ownership of most of the worlds supply of sapphire
Apple ownership of the most advanced fingerprint detection.
etc, etc, etc.
Just a thought.
Also:
Apple ownership, in perpetuity, of Liquidmetal alloys in Consumer Electronics.
Liquidmetal is a purely development project that has gone on for over well over a decade with Apple being involved for the last 5 years os so.
Competitors will pop up when they can do it without infringing on patents that are still in force.
My guess is that most of the Liquidmetal innovation will NOT be patented, but be kept trade secret for as long as possible.
You might think that people in production could figure out what the trade secrets are. However, with complex process controls, environments and multi-step, multi-material composites, trade secrets can sometimes be kept for many decades. Patents are only 20 years from date of filing.
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It is better to continue beating them with engineers, rather than with lawyers!
Use both then go after their sources too! The Samsung smart phones are going the way of the Blackberry now, “Buy one get a second FREE.” It is down hill from here now.
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Yes baby bot!
Justice is ultimately the solution for the problems of the world. Although many people will take the easy road of saying that Apple should just innovate faster, I think that it just encourages those ‘fast follower’ (thieves) to continue to steal and ignore Intellectual Property. We all will lose when we give in to these thieves. The small time inventors will have their inventions stolen by Samsung and their ilk and prevent the inventors from achieving their dreams. Justice first rather than expediency!
“YOU’RE VERY WELCOME”…………..APPLE
Music to my ears.
Finally some F’n justice.
Along with items like “total cost of ownership,” “build quality,” “tightly integrated ecosystem,” “stability” (and a few others), one of the main things I tell people who ask my opinion about what they should buy or why I own so much Apple gear, I tend to say something like this:
“You can buy something else and it will probably work fine. You might even save a few dollars initially. But over the history of personal computing — including the smartphone and tablet years — if you want something that leads the state of the art, always go with Apple. Other companies will eventually copy it, but if you want to be the first with something, go with Apple.”
Sometimes I’ll get a snarky comment from someone about a feature that wasn’t in Apple’s products first (3G or LTE, for example), but the point I’m trying to make is that in the overall look and feel — be it hardware or GUI design — Apple leads and eventually everyone else comes out with a “me too” product.
The list goes on and on and on and . . .
…and they also “just work.”
The state of the art is the leading edge of useable technology for human betterment. This is not to be confused with being first to bolt on a new instrument — doing so earns one bragging rights, but the work seldom remains best in class…that awaits a Master who sees it as part of a larger Idea.
3G and LTE were only in very large cities at first.
Android phones were first to use them but not many people were able to use the 3G or LTE phones where they lived.
First does not mean best.
And this is with Apple still buying Samsung’s stuff. Just wait till Apple really pulls out.
That’s what she said
Here hee. 🙂