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Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung

Posted by timothy on from the would-like-a-slice-of-samsung-pie dept.

New submitter jbernardo writes "There seems to be an interesting side-effect of the flawed jury verdict of last Friday — Samsung sales have surged. Even with the approach of the launch of Apple's new iPhone, the Galaxy SIII is sold out in many stores, and there is a measurable increase in sales, according to Trip Chowdhry, the managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research, cited in Forbes. Maybe Apple really managed to convince its customers that Samsung phones are equivalent or better, so they are being overcharged? Or is it a rush to buy the currently best smartphone in the market in case there is an injunction on its sale in the U.S. any time soon?"

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  1. Streisand effect? by Reibisch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At this scale? That'd be interesting.

    1. Re:Streisand effect? by EdIII · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Not really all that many factors.

      It is supposed to be a kick ass Android product. Pretty good chance it will be banned from sales in the future.

      I can easily see people that might have waited otherwise rushing to get it now before they can't. What's the alternative? Apple??

      Yeah, right. There are quite a number of people out there that would sooner die then choose Apple because of their shiny retarded walled garden approach to computing. I'll go back to a clamshell phone before I choose Apple for anything.

      I don't know what Apple is thinking here. People that want Apple, largely have it. People that will never choose Apple are not going to embrace them, especially if they approach competition like this. Nobody likes to be forced.

    2. Re:Streisand effect? by Desler · · Score: 5, Interesting

      How is there a 'pretty good chance' of the G3 being banned when it wasn't ruled infringing and isn't part of the list that Apple is asking to be blocked?

    3. Re:Streisand effect? by EdIII · · Score: 5, Interesting

      let alone anyone else, would clearly exhibit a dearth of faculties, as you would be willing to forfeit your existence over something so trivial as a piece of technology.

      Your failure is thinking the choice of technology is trivial. It is not trivial, but in fact crucial to our very future. That is not hyperbole.

      How we approach computing in the future with respect to freedom, privacy, and anonymity will be a deciding factor in the very nature of freedom, privacy, and anonymity outside of computing.

      It is inarguable that our lives in cyberspace and "meat space" are progressively becoming so intertwined as to be effectively indistinguishable. If you want to argue that is untrue, explain how somebody was arrested for a tweet? How the stock markets can lost a half a billion in a matter of moments affecting the economies? How we could have massive power outages due to negligence or malicious hackers? How an incorrectly entered piece of data in an insurance carrier platform can result in suspended license plates and somebody being pulled over and arrested? How child porn could be put on a machine and result in the loss of freedom for an individual?

      The walled garden is a very simple paradigm:

      1) You own nothing.
      2) Your very existence is at the discretion of the garden. Failure to comply with the will of the garden can result in punishment, which can be all the way up to expulsion from the garden.
      3) You may only perform actions that are compliance with the will of the garden.
      4) You may not perform any actions that could endanger the garden, or make it less "shiny".
      5) The garden cannot be wrong.

      At first glance that may seem like hyperbole, but is quite accurate.

      Now apply that to real life and see if you would not be part of a revolution to overthrow it .

    4. Re:Streisand effect? by amRadioHed · · Score: 5, Insightful

      My Galaxy Nexus has none of those issues and is a solid phone that I'm very happy with. Since my personal anecdote trumps random person on the Internet's anecdote, Q.E.D.

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  2. People Worried? by Techmeology · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Law of unexpected consequences: Perhaps people are worried that Samsung devices will become unavailable?

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    1. Re:People Worried? by noh8rz8 · · Score: 5, Informative

      How does it limit customer choice? Samsung will go back to the drawing board and come out with some killer features that don't infringe. Wouldn't that be more customer choice?

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  3. Bias by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    flawed jury verdict

    Apple's new shinny

    the currently best smartphone in the market

    Whoever wrote this made it a touch too clear their loathing for Apple and preference for Samsung.

  4. galaxy s 3 shouldn't be under the banhammer. by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    galaxy s 3 shouldn't be under the banhammer - however it's been on the news due to this a lot.

    it's more likely it's something to do with start of school year though.

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  5. Many factors to consider here... by cynop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The trial was only one of the factors to consider here. The overall growth of the android ecosystem should be accounted for. Also keep in mind that smartphone sales are surging overall ( http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/more-than-half-of-all-handsets-will-be-smartphones-in-2013/ ) so it makes sense for Samsung's phones to sell more.

    It would help to see the recent sales figures of other notable android manufacturers like HTC and LG to decide if the exposure from the trial had a noticeable effect

  6. Fairly sure it's because of the trial by gentryx · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and the coverage in the news. Here is a nice story on how people react on the verdict.

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  7. Just bought mine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I went and bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 even though it wasn't a part of the lawsuit or a ruling against the Samsung Galaxy Tab line. I had been scouting it out for a few months now. Even though I disagree with the ruling, I wanted to buy it before an increase in price due to licensing fees, in case Samsung decides to license the technologies that were borderline borrowed from Apple.

  8. Apple's Response by theEnguneer · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to Apple, this phenomenon is due to the fact that shoppers are actually trying to buy Apple products, but are mistaking Samsung products for them.

    1. Re:Apple's Response by firesyde424 · · Score: 5, Informative

      I think the parent is being sarcastic, but I seem to remember something very close to that being stated by Apple during the trial. It baffled me when I heard it. Apparently, Samsung has so closely copied some of Apple's devices that people can go into a store looking for an Apple product, walk out of the store with a product that instead of the distinctive Apple logo, has the word "Samsung" on it, and think they have purchased an iDevice.

  9. Re:Fallacy by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a classic case of someone with a very modest education--but knows some Latin buzz phrases--trying to reach beyond their resources in an attempt to position themselves as superior.

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