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UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement
Macthorpe writes "In the UK, Apple were previously ordered to add a statement to their website stating that Samsung did not copy their designs, following a previous case where this was ruled by the UK courts. However, today the same court revealed that Apple's statement is not good enough. From the article: 'The acknowledgement put up last week, linked from the home page by a tiny link, was deemed to be "non-compliant" with the order that the court had made in October. The court has now ordered it to correct the statement – and the judges, Lord Justice Longmore, Lord Justice Kitchin and Sir Robin Jacob, indicated that they were not pleased with Apple's failure to put a simpler statement on the site.' It appears the main objection is the statement is on a separate page and only linked from the hompage — and that the statement is buried in marketing blurb, and also put next to references to a case Apple won."
Apple posted it's apology, using language from the court itself. This is preposterous. Samsung has done nothing but benefit from the extra publicity and sell more phones, so why is the court issues such a ridiculous order? Twisted.
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Did they use the wording required? yes, fully. It's the first two sentences in the statement.
Were they not allowed to use the judge's own words to clarify? No such restriction was placed upon them.
Were they not allowed to cite other judgments? No such restriction was placed upon them.
Were they not allowed to say ANYTHING other than the required wording? No such restriction was placed upon them.
You may not like what Apple did, but they complied with the letter of the law. And nothing you said contradicts that.
They 'may' have a publicity problem, but every time someone quotes Apple's statement quoting the judge saying Samsung wasn't as cool, Apple is probably ok with that.
Fanbois... sheesh...
If Steve Jobs raped this guy's mother, AC here would probably insist that she was asking for it, wearing that slutty apron and beehive hairdo...
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Common fucking sense. If I have a restraining order that says that I can't get within 100 feet of someone, the court isn't going to give two dicks if I claim that I was 101 away when I was stalking them. That's how it fucking works.
Apple is run by childish, arrogant, and idiots if they thought that the court will let this fly.