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Could Apple lawsuit stop the s3 from being released for MetroPCS

OH HELL NO. Already crapple got their fake a-ss win from California for bullshit patents, but this crap better not effect the S3 from what I have learned I don't think the S3 infringed any of the so called "patent" of apple. But anyway boy this thread just pissed the hell of me, already pissed that those ***s crapple were handed victory. Anyway thanks a lot guys I am checking days and night for you and n4ztv to post news for the S3
 
No seeing as though the S3 looks nothing like the iPhone and they tried to include the S3 in the lawsuit but it was too late. S3 is one badazz phone that for what it's worth and also the only one that rivals the iPhone in sales.
 
Good I got my I sheep friends all happy poor souls lol Android #1 and we will have our s3 i about 2 months keep on saving guys.
 
I going to go against the grain and say its possible. Pretty much the lawsuit was if apple could patent a square rectangle device. The jury said sure so no device right now is safe from apple. According to the courts any rectangle device is a patent infringement. I dont think Apple has the guts to start going after other manufactures thought.

Keep in mind the Galaxy Tab 7 very will could be included in this. Apple does not produce anything even remotely like the Galaxy Tab 7.
 
Did somebody say crapple? Jk i don't think that would happen i would like to take a crapple on those "patents" though lmao

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pcgamer said:
S3 is like twice the size of an iPhone ...has 3 buttons and, wait for it... ITS 50 TIMES BETTER.
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You forgot to add 50x(insert unlimited number). Next there is gonna be a patent for oxygen and we will get sued for breathing IOXYGEN. If this sounds stupid to anyone then that's exactly how apple winning this shit patent sounds to a sane person.
 
The s3, note 2, and nexus will be fine. These phones violated no patents. Though I wouldn't put it past apple to try and get those phones canned.

Apple doesn't like to compete much.
 
By request - reopened. :)

Please try to help with the question as to whether the decision will impact the phone coming to Metro - as best as possible given that this news is angering the community. ;) :)

I say, at most it will delay things.

The same / similar case was just heard in Korea and the judgement there was that both sides owed each other money.

That will turn into appeals here.

I'm typing this on a phone that Apple tried to stop coming in to the country, and was held in customs over the claim supported by a court that software violated one of their patents. Their bs made me wait 5 weeks, but I still got it.

And I got the features that Apple had removed about a week later thanks to the root development community. Given that the so-called violation is a matter of prior art that I have used on my pc for years before Apple "invented" it, I sleep just fine at night with the mod.

This is Android.

Samsung can get involved and embroiled, but in the end, Android will continue to move forward.

Besides, by the time the smoke clears, you may want a better model anyway (not slamming, just saying).

Anyway, hope you get some high end Android love soon. :)

(And join in the Lounge discussion, too.) ;)
 
greatly said earlymon i just dont get its like apple is acting so desperate going all out trying to sue every1 last night me and mike spoke about this and i was like i could of swore i read that a uk judge ordered apple to apologize on their site publicly to samsung now mike tells me they won the lawsuit??? so i googled the apple lawsuit thing and kept seeing so many articles about apple suing motorola apple suing even kodak and now samsung???? man i think they are scared they are about to go down under again like how they did back in the 90s with their crappy mcintosh computers trying to go head to head with microsoft lol that was epic. anyways i really hope this dosnt pull the plug on the galaxy s3 on metro pcs and thats why we opened this thread on here since we are fearing samsung might just tell metro that sorry they cant release their product to us :( anyways im gonna be optimistic about it for now.
 
Sued HTC, too - over features that HTC always had - but they didn't sue until last year (when they plans to copy HTC Sense features).

Why all of the suits?

You mentioned the Mac, let's look at that.

When the Mac was introduced in the 80s, it was kicking butt. Microsoft made their first fortune with Applesoft on the Apple][+ and were making money on the Mac.

Then they fired Steve Jobs and started producing the crappier 90s Mac.

Then he returned in the dot com days and brought the company back to life with the new Macs and OS X (great operating system) - but he couldn't overcome the damage wrought by the interim management, even with the best OS.

Napster happened, the mass market discovered mp3 music and players, and from that came the iPod and then the iPhone.

As of the last year, Apple has had more cash than Exxon (no joke), smartphones are outselling PCs and the world is turning to cell phones for their internet.

Apple makes hardware and software that locks you in to their hardware.

Apple got their cash in mobile devices, not Macs, and this last year, Android has been handing them their head on a stick.

They know what happened the last time they were bucks up and on top and lost market share. Despite having more money than anyone, they are suing to survive because they are out of markets.

As for the SGS3 on Metro - hope you get it, but newer models are just around the corner and they are still selling the SGS2. The SGS3 isn't going to die, no matter what. It might change form - and it might not.
 
exactly which shows their true character in the technology world. either way one thing they did good and that was they hit first on their app market world other than that devs are leaving apple app world to join the android app market some have their own reason such as the policy and how much apple takes away and other want to explore a new world. i really believe apple saw that samsung was going to sell their products even to prepaid carriers so they went all out trying to come up with some type of road block.
 
Thanks early Mon for keeping this thread open I got a little carry away naming apple the other name lol sorry if I hurt someone's feeling thanks n4zty for your strong and well balanced opinions :thumbup:
 
bottom line this effects all carriers not just the phone companies so if metro stops recieving such products from great companies like samsung what will this mean for our future? then again the whole lawsuit was about the shape and curves of the phone lmao can that even be patent???? cmon a rectangle is a general shape lol car makers copy off each other all the time geeze.
 
The newer phones weren't cited in the suit so nothing is gonna happen to the s3. In fact the suit doesn't declare bans on any of Samsung's devices. They just have to hand over some money.
 
THE W said:
The newer phones weren't cited in the suit so nothing is gonna happen to the s3. In fact the suit doesn't declare bans on any of Samsung's devices. They just have to hand over some money.
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not entirely true.

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — A jury's conclusion that Samsung stole the innovative technology used by Apple to create its revolutionary iPhone and iPad could mean fewer smartphone options for consumers to choose from, analysts said.

Apple Inc.'s $1-billion (€800-million) legal victory sends a warning to other companies manufacturing similar devices, the biggest marketplace threat to Apple.

A federal jury's found Friday that Seoul-based Samsung Electronic Co. stole Apple's technology to make and market smartphones using Google's Android software.

"Some of these device makers might end up saying, 'We love Android, but we really don't want to fight with Apple anymore,'" said Christopher Marlett, CEO of MDB Capital Group, an investment bank specializing in intellectual property. "I think it may ultimately come down to Google having to indemnify these guys, if it wants them to continue using Android."

That's if the verdict stands. Samsung, the global leader among smartphone makers, vowed to fight. Its lawyers told the judge it intended to ask her to toss out the verdict.

"This decision should not be allowed to stand because it would discourage innovation and limit the rights of consumers to make choices for themselves," Samsung lead lawyer John Quinn said. He argued that the judge or an appeals court should overturn the verdict.

Apple lawyers plan to formally demand Samsung pull its most popular cellphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market. They also can ask the judge to triple the damages from $1.05 billion to $3 billion.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh will decide those issues, along with Samsung's demand she overturn the jury's verdict, in several weeks. Quinn said Samsung would appeal if the judge refuses to toss out the decision.

Apple Inc. filed its patent infringement lawsuit in April 2011 and engaged the country's highest-paid patent lawyers to demand $2.5 billion from its top smartphone competitor. Samsung Electronics Co. fired back with its own lawsuit seeking $399 million.

The jury on Friday rejected all Samsung's claims against Apple, but also decided against some of Apple's claims involving the two dozen Samsung devices at issue.

It found that several Samsung products illegally used such Apple creations as the "bounce-back" feature when a user scrolls to an end image, and the ability to zoom text with a tap of a finger.

The U.S. case was the latest skirmish in a global legal battle between the two tech giants. Its outcome is likely to have ripple effects in the smartphone market. Other device makers relying on Android, the mobile operating system that Google Inc. has given for free to Samsung and other phone makers, may be more reluctant to use the software and risk getting dragged into court.

During closing arguments, Apple attorney Harold McElhinny claimed Samsung had a "crisis of design" after the 2007 launch of the iPhone, and executives were determined to cash in illegally on the success of the revolutionary device.

Samsung's lawyers countered that it was legally giving consumers what they want: smartphones with big screens. They said Samsung didn't violate Apple's patents and alleged innovations claimed by Apple were created by other companies.

Samsung said after the verdict that it was "unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners."

"This is by no means the final word in this case," Quinn said in a statement. "Patent law should not be twisted so as to give one company a monopoly over the shape of smartphones."

The jurors' determination that Samsung took Apple's ideas probably matters more to the companies than the monetary damages, Marlett said.

"I don't know if $1 billion is hugely significant to Apple or Samsung," Marlett said. "But there is a social cost here. As a company, you don't want to be known as someone who steals from someone else. I am sure Samsung wants to be known as an innovator, especially since a lot of Asian companies have become known for copying the designs of innovators."

Apple and Samsung combined account for more than half of global smartphone sales. Samsung has sold 22.7 million smartphones and tablets that Apple claimed uses its technology. McElhinny said those devices accounted for $8.16 billion in sales since June 2010.

Samsung's Galaxy line of phones run on Android, and ISI Group analysts viewed the verdict as a blow to Android as much as Samsung.

If Android lose any ground in the mobile computing market, that would hurt Google, too. That's because Google relies on Android to drive mobile traffic to its search engine and services to sell more advertising.

Google entered the smartphone market while its then-CEO Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board, infuriating Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who considered Android to be a blatant rip-off of the iPhone's innovations.

After shoving Schmidt off Apple's board, Jobs vowed that Apple would resort to "thermonuclear war" to destroy Android and its allies.

The Apple-Samsung trial came after each side filed a blizzard of legal motions and refused advisories by the judge to settle the dispute out of court. Legal experts and Wall Street analysts had viewed Samsung as the trial's underdog. Apple's headquarters is just 10 miles from the San Jose courthouse, and jurors were picked from the heart of Silicon Valley, where Jobs is a revered technological pioneer.

A verdict came after less than three days of deliberations, surprising observers who expected longer deliberations because of the case's complexity.

While the issues were complex, patent expert Alexander I. Poltorak has said the case would likely boil down to whether jurors believed Samsung's products look and feel like Apple's iPhone and iPad.

Samsung's lawyers argued that many of Apple's claims of innovation were either obvious concepts or ideas stolen from Sony Corp. and others. Experts called that line of argument a high-risk strategy because of Apple's reputation as an innovator.

Apple's lawyers argued there is almost no difference between Samsung products and those of Apple, and presented internal Samsung documents they said showed it copied Apple designs. Samsung lawyers insisted that several other companies and inventors had developed much of the Apple technology at issue.

Apple and Samsung have filed similar lawsuits in South Korea, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, France and Australia.

"This is not the final word in this case or in battles being waged in courts and tribunals around the world, some of which have already rejected many of Apple's claims," Samsung said in its statement.

Samsung won a home court ruling earlier Friday in the global patent battle against Apple. Judges in Seoul said Samsung didn't copy the look and feel of the iPhone and ruled that Apple infringed on Samsung's wireless technology.

But like the jury in California, South Korean judges said Samsung violated Apple's technology behind the "bounce-back" feature. Both sides were ordered to pay limited damages.

The Seoul ruling was a rare victory for Samsung in its arguments that Apple has infringed on its wireless technology patents. Samsung's claims previously were shot down by courts in Europe, where judges ruled that Samsung patents must be licensed under fair terms to competitors.

The U.S. case is one of some 50 lawsuits among myriad telecommunications companies jockeying for position in the burgeoning $219 billion market for computer tablets and smartphones.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/25/apple-wins-lawsuit_n_1829658.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
 
THE W said:
The newer phones weren't cited in the suit so nothing is gonna happen to the s3. In fact the suit doesn't declare bans on any of Samsung's devices. They just have to hand over some money.
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lol smh apples asking for 2.5 billion from samsung that doesnt really sound like some
 
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