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Apple's Legal Fight With Samsung Revealed a Gold Mine of Top-Secret Information (bgr.com)
An anonymous reader writes with this story about how the Apple vs. Samsung battle brought to light the inner workings of Apple product development. BGR reports: "Following a contentious patent battle that raged on for nearly five years, Samsung last week finally agreed to pay Apple $548 million in damages for infringing upon a number of iPhone and iPad patents. While Samsung may still be holding out hope that it may someday recover those millions, it seems that we can finally start closing the book on the most widely publicized patent dispute in recent memory, one which saw Apple and Samsung battle it out in courtrooms across all corners of the globe.
One of the more interesting aspects of Apple's legal battle with Samsung is that it gave us an unprecedented look behind the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds all aspects of Apple's product development and day-to-day operations. Over the course of discovery, innumerable court filings, and a fascinating trial, the inner workings of Apple were brought to the forefront for the fist time in history. From photographs of iPhone prototypes to how Apple conducts market research, Apple's legal battles with Samsung provided tech enthusiasts with a treasure trove of previously top-secret information.
With Samsung now agreeing to pony up for damages, we thought it'd be a good time to take a step back, reminisce, and take a look at some of the more interesting nuggets of information the hard-fought patent dispute brought to light."
One of the more interesting aspects of Apple's legal battle with Samsung is that it gave us an unprecedented look behind the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds all aspects of Apple's product development and day-to-day operations. Over the course of discovery, innumerable court filings, and a fascinating trial, the inner workings of Apple were brought to the forefront for the fist time in history. From photographs of iPhone prototypes to how Apple conducts market research, Apple's legal battles with Samsung provided tech enthusiasts with a treasure trove of previously top-secret information.
With Samsung now agreeing to pony up for damages, we thought it'd be a good time to take a step back, reminisce, and take a look at some of the more interesting nuggets of information the hard-fought patent dispute brought to light."
Down with men and the patriarchy!
You seriously think there is a secret in the success of the always-deficient-apple-hardware? All their devices are worse performing than their competitors. This is not secret nazi technology.
That was just stupid.
If Samsung used appy app apps instead of LUDDITE software, they would have been able to app Apple so Apple would be forced to app apps even appier than Samsung apped!
Apps!
Am I missing something? Did the US government classify how Apple runs its business?
It's company proprietary information, at best. I doubt they seriously go through the headache of protecting pictures in GSA safes.
I want the physiological details of how the Jesus Phone incarnated parthenogenetically and triumphed over mortality.
The rest is just CEO trashtalk which amounts to nothing.
And this proves that. That is why their once spectacular quality has gone done. It's also why AppleCare has turned into AppleDontCare. Finally, it was the big driver from the move from quality CPUs to the garbage Intel one. Apple is shit now.
>> how Apple conducts market research
I thought Apple didn't conduct market research. http://appleinsider.com/articl...
Those octagon-like corners might be a good way to get around Apple's patent on rounded corners. Could've saved Samsung half a billion dollars.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
.... that says absolutely nothing.
Forstall cryptically told them that if they opted to join, they would have to “work hard, give up nights, work weekends for years.” Not mincing words, Forstall also told prospective team members: “If you choose to accept this role, you will work harder than you ever have in your entire life.”
You see, this is why I don't get hired for these things. I'd ask what my increase in pay is going to be. And in Cupertino, CA with those work hours and demands, I'd be looking for $500K per year - at the minimum. See, all the free California shit pizza in the World isn't good enough compensation.
But, there's a huge line behind me of people with no money sense or lives who jumped at that chance. That's their choice. But when you wake up one day in your late thirties, alone and with diminishing career opportunities, you ask yourself how you could be so stupid to devote so much of your life to a job. And there's this jab of pain when you see some of your classmates who pursued less demanding careers that have a loving spouse and family. And then your job is off-shored.
if you are making a smartphone, and you have to make sure that your design doesn't infringe upon their patents. It's kinda like how Coca-Cola and Pepsi have a tendency to avoid making identical formulas.
The real issue, however, lies in whether one group unintentionally made a design error BECAUSE the information to prevent them from doing so was unavailable.
said. 'Screaming (Click Here 4ere, but what is Of progress.
For those who don't know, Samsung marketed this digital picture frame in 2006, long before the iPad was even a rumor, and even pre-dating the iPhone. Notice how the front looks identical to the later Samsung tablets, just with bigger bezels and no button. And it contains all of the distinctive elements of the original iPad that Apple sued over except the home button - flat, rounded corners, black bezels with white/silver edges. As if Apple simply ripped off Samsung's design, then turned around and sued Samsung for ripping them off.
The argument against that version of history has always been that the back of the picture frame looks nothing like the back of the iPad. Well, now we have this image of the back of an early iPad prototype, lending support to the theory that Apple used Samsung's picture frame as a starting point for their iPad design.
Let us celebrate fists!
Like most garage sales the stuff was mostly someone else's crap that you wouldn't want for yourself. Apple's reaction to Samsung's âoeThe next big thing is already hereâ ad campaign was interesting though.
Top Secret is a classification given to sensitive government information. It is not related to Trade Secrets in the least. There was no Top Secret information revealed in the court filings. If there were people would be getting indicted for mishandling classified information.
If I could expect "glory", big stock, and/or resume credit, I may have considered such when younger.
I've actually been promised similar things, BUT the owners flaked in the end or the product flopped. I roughly cloned Ebay in 4 weeks once under such pretenses. (I was cross-eyed at the end.)
9 times out of 10 when you are asked to "sell your soul for glory", there's nothing at the end of the tunnel but bulls8t and disappointment. But, the young and restless often like such gambles even if success is unlikely.
I recommend it at least ONCE in your life, before or after you have a family to support. When you get older you then won't kick yourself for not trying when you had the stamina or time. I'm disappointed I never made it big from such gambles, but glad I tried a couple of times.
Table-ized A.I.
... and it's so long. Might as well just replace the summary with a link to the original article, what a complete waste of reading time.
I's all in the secret sauce. Apple has macic elves hidden away.
I'm surprised Apple's lawyers allowed their secret corporate practices to be publically revealed.
Does anyone seriously "reminisce" about the internal processes used by a random company they have no real stake in? If the answer is yes then I'd prefer to die sooner rather than later.