Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany 325
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung Electronics said Sunday it has pulled its latest Galaxy tablet from the IFA trade show in Berlin, after a German court approved an Apple-requested injunction — the latest move in a wide-reaching patent dispute between the two firms."
It just shows how stupid the patent law is. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Why the hell are they allowing this? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:epic backfire (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Doesn't make sense (Score:0, Insightful)
Since when do Apple fanboys/viral-marketing-droids or even Apple's lawyers need evidence? They just fabricate stuff out of thin air to fit their view of the world.
Re:Why the hell are they allowing this? (Score:3, Insightful)
For crying out loud, you're bashing Apple for going back on a promise they made 30 years ago . "Music industry" back then meant selling vinyl records. How is that lying anyway? 30 years passed before they decided to start producing MP3 playback devices in a totally different music and technology landscape.
Re:Will this bite Apple? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Why the hell are they allowing this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Are you serious? How much time has to pass, in your opinion, in order for it NOT to be a lie? Are your wedding vows still valid after 30 years?
Re:Apple has no choice (Score:4, Insightful)
. It has become so complex and relies on so many differing pieces that it is getting increasingly difficult to differentiate between products. That leaves functionality and design as a product differentiator.
That makes no sense. If things are complicated, it's easy to differentiate. It's because the design of a tablet is so simple that all tablets look the same (barring colours, and whether to round off certain edges or not).
Here's another choice Apple had: not suing other companies for using a shape that was around before the iPad..
Re:On the Engadget Blog... (Score:3, Insightful)
Engadget and Slashdot might be a LITTLE bit biased towards geeks who would probably buy a Galaxy Tab over an iPad anyway.
I really doubt most of Apple's target market cares.
Re:Will this bite Apple? (Score:5, Insightful)
Most consumers feel good about choosing a winner.
Thankyou. I've never heard this put quite so well before. You have succinctly defined what it is that I don't like about people who buy Windows or iDevices without ever seriously considering the alternatives.. and why the cycle can perpetuate such godawful products for so long.
Android market 200% in 12 months, Apple panics (Score:3, Insightful)
Android market 200% in 12 months, Apple panics
According to http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2106625/android-market-share-doubles-apple-ios-falls-cent [theinquirer.net]
"Apple's IOS operating system (OS) has fallen eight per cent in popularity over the last year, while Google's Android OS market share has doubled"
Apple is a sore little pesky bastard. The iPad tablets they have produced have been around for decades as precursors, and for millennia (or millenniums, if you prefer) as design cues.
There must be some reason why Samsung decides not to fight back much harder, the initial arguments is on their side. There is a secret agenda or clue somewhere. For now, I have no idea.
Re:That backfired. (Score:4, Insightful)
"The only way someone this late in the game is going to buy an Android tabletâ¦"
25 million tablets sold. 1.1 billion people in the industrialized world. About 2.3% of the developed world population owns a tablet. That's "late in the game"?