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Apple Loses Tablet Battle In Australia
New submitter harmic writes "The Australian Federal High Court has denied Apple's appeal against the earlier decision that overturned the ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab. The Samsung Android based tablets should be in the shops in a matter of days. Apple had attempted to appeal an earlier court ruling overturning the ban."
"Apple loses appeal to ban Samsung Galaxy Tab in Australia" - beyond your abilities to write that?
Appalling title.
I'm surprised I've not seen this posted yet, but a few days ago Apple lost control of the iPad trademark in China after a dispute.
http://www.macworld.com.au/news/apple-loses-trademark-in-china-no-longer-called-ipad-41378/
Googling it returns this news story, does it mean Apple will have to pay Samsungs legal costs or even what Samsung is going to claim they have lost because of it?
Apple case isn't looking good, they are getting thrown out all over the world and the small wins are for trivial stuff Samsung can and has worked around. Meanwhile Apples reputation has taken a nosedive not being helped that Jobs epitaph seems to consist of "prick in a turtleneck". Screwing your partner out of a few hundred when he will one day make you a billionaire is just sad.
I still wonder what Apple was thinking. Yes, the Samsung tablets and for that matter anyone elses look a lot alike. And? I tried it at a local super store. Gosh, they are indeed very similar. Then I wandered over the washing machine department. Talk about copy cats. Really, take a LOOK someday, they are ALL the same. Even the place you the soap in. I couldn't find a single model on display where the soap didn't go in on the left. Even the order of pre-wash, wash and fabric softener is like that, from left to right.
And don't even get me started on fridges. white boxes the lot of them. About the only exception are the american models which ALL have the water dispenser in the LEFT door which is narrower then the right door.
So maybe Apple was the first to copy the design from a prop maker. Was it worth it Apple? We who are not fanboys now have fresh ammo to slap your buyers around with now that the one-mouse button joke has gotten a bit stale (mind you, tablets do have only one mouse button... old jokes never die it seems, they just get re-used on slashdot). Injunctions thrown out, might have to pay whatever Samsung is going to claim as damages and you made a Korean mega-corp many times larger and closely tied to a not-so-democratic regime that has taken thousands up on thousands of western job as the sympathetic underdog.
Maybe here is a hint for Apple, next time the lawyers suggest a strategy. Hit them!
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Apple wastes a gazillion dollars trying to get the Galaxy tablet banned, and fail... only to find out later that Samsung kills the product themselves due to slow sales, a la HP Touchpad and RIM whatever
Nice rewrite of history.
Apple paid for the use of Parc's innovations. They later had "seller's remorse" when they decided they should have asked Apple for more than what they got, but in classic style they didn't see the value in what they had, but felt entitled to try and change the terms of the deal afterwards.
There was no "ripping off" of Parc technology - it was all shared in exchange for money/shares/compensation.
Xerox were "kindly" allowed to buy apple stock in return for letting apple engineers visit their research centre. Apple never directly paid for any of the innovations they used.
Kindly allowed to buy at a reduced price. And if they hadn't sold the stock, it would be worth several billion dollars today.
"PARC was a ripoff of Engelbart's demo at SRI. "
Englebert didn't invent the GUI and his demo didn't have one. Just the mouse. Which is hardware, not software.
No idea. I don't know anything about that demo.
"Linux is a ripoff of UNIX."
Thats exactly what it is and its the reason I use it.
"GNOME is a ripoff of Windows."
Pretty much. So is KDE.
"Nearly everything in computing is an incremental improvement from something else"
There's incremental improvement and then there's direct copying. Its not the same.
"Apple massively improved the desktop metaphor with the Lisa and Mac."
Did they? Have you seen any Xerox Star demos? They're on youtube if you're interetsed.
"WHICH APPLE PAID XEROX TO USE."
NO THEY DIDN'T. Xerox *PAID* apple to buy apple stock. BIG difference.
"This historical rewriting that occurs amongst Apple-haters"
Ah , you're a fanboi. That explains the blinkers.
"It paints you as a blinded zealot."
Now there's a nice bit of irony. Perhaps the turtleneck is too tight and is cutting off blood to your brain so you can't see it.
Given how fast the Android market is evolving, Samsung only had a few months to make a profit on the 10.1. Apple killed that window of opportunity with their injunction. Now, newer and better tablets are already out.
Apple lost the case but they hurt Samsung badly. Apple should be made to pay for the harm they did to Samsung. And Apple may have opened themselves up to similar claims against them in the future, as other companies will now start to take out silly design patents as well and use them against Apple product launches.