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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."
The UK is a totalitarian regime that is completely out of line on this (and many other things). They have no business telling Apple to add things to their company web site. Apple met the letter of the demand and had a little fun with it.
What Apple should do from here is put the UK on the back burner. Apple should cease all sales of Apple products in the UK for one month. Then after that the UK is set as the last country to get Apple new products with each release. Let the fools in the UK suffer.
Exactly. Kind of makes you wonder if Samsung and Apple hatched this idea together. They're both making reams of money from their legions of holy warriors that claim their product is better than the other. Samsung and Apple are laughing all the way to the bank....morons...
It didn't take them 14 days to put up the first draft
How long did it take? What is your source?
Oh, never mind, we all know you just made that up.
The judges seem to be annoyed that Apple quoted their comments about coolness. And that Apple put other countries courts decisions on a similar level of importance to theirs.
The problem seems to be the judge's egos.