Of course for the truly paranoid, there is a profound problem with install any root based tracking software. What's to stop them from tracking you and selling that information to the highest bidder. You have now turned your notebook into a device, to monitor and track all your uses of it and any activities you do in front of it and you are blindly hoping they don't change or alter conditions of contract or employ cheap disgruntled nerd teenagers or jock strap douches because they are even cheaper.
Rock and a hard place, they harder you make something mobile to steal, the more privacy you must give away and blindly hope is not abused.
That M$ is giving Samsung money for what seems like nothing likely has more to do with them charging Samsung to use Android ie a quick 'mea culpa' and please don't do to use what you are going to do to Apple.
The best way to crack down on advertising is perhaps not to block it but to force total truth in advertising. No lies, no exaggerations, no false associations, no people recommending who do not provide proof on continued use of the product and required warnings for any known problems with the product to be included in the adds.
Adds should be restricted to informing people about a product, not about manipulating people especially children, not about false product qualities, not about people lying about using the product and, in fact not about anything that company can not prove to be true about the product.
That is a failed idea. Thin edge of the wedge. You think they wont shift this idea of recording and selling all your browser habits from you fixed connection. You think they wont start intercepting all your emails, analysing the content for psychological marketing manipulation and farming those email addresses, you think they wont intercept your content and add there own. You think they wont start intercepting VOIP and, all the calls you make.
How about as a business, all your contacts are now going to be farmed, all your business knowledge sold off to competitors. Hell, why stop their. The most profitable business tactic would be to intercept all, 'ALL', email tenders, and route that data to ISP preferred contractors.
So the idea is to fight it at the beginning. Absolutely any and every challenge of personal and business privacy should be challenged and challenged hard right at the beginning. Any company that refuses should be shattered, broken up, it's parts sold off to competitors and the corporate executives should enjoy a federal holiday at government expense for quite a few years.
This is extraordinary dangerous interception of private traffic and a real crack down is required.
Different strokes for different folks. Amazon unbeknownst to many people is a logistics company and is managed like a logistics company, hence attempts to run the computer side of things like a logistics company. When they think employees, they think packers, pickers, forklift drivers and truck drivers, all of whom they don't trust and from whom they try to squeeze the maximum amount of labour from at the minimum price. Those workers of course adjust they behaviour to suit the way they are treated and try to get away with everything they can for as long as they can. Shift they same of labour relations into the coding and computing engineering environment at you get exactly what you expect, well that is if you understand who different companies according to their core industries operate.
For google to enhance google+ with interactivity, likely it would be better to buy it in with share transactions, sort of pick the up and comers. Likely ones would be Kongregate, Turbine (whoops to late) and Stumbleupon, to get a real quick push on the interactivity part of google+ and the three are still small enough to get a huge growth spurt out of being associated with google.
Replacement spare parts, now that's cool. Now all we need to do is force manufacturers to supply full digital details and specs for all the parts in the devices so that we can repair them ourselves. Don't you just hate when that tiny plastic dohicky breaks and paying for it to be replaced cost near the same price of replacing the whole product.
The copy rightists will go nut's, so would you steal a car, hmm, but now be honest would you download it and 3d print it out.
More dubiously consider the logic of jamming GPS ie obviously your ships can still navigate with GPS jammed otherwise it would be a really stupid thing to do. So if your ships can readily navigate without GPS , then you can be pretty sure that all other military vessels will be able to do the same.
So this is not a military exercise in the normal sense, this exercise is obviously targeted at military actions against civilian populations, where GPS jamming comes into play, along with of course communications jamming, "it seems that the militaryâ(TM)s GPS jamming also impacted mobile phones, Internet connectivity as well as satellite TV".
Lets not forget the Verisign complaints fee, register a complaint and pay a substantive deposit to have any name taken down for any reason, all liabilities are yours and Verisign keeps the deposit money. Why the rest of the world hasn't told ICANN to take a leap with Verisign, well, I guess it is only a matter of time.
The point being that what is put up on social network is sometimes not quite truthful, in fact from many millions of individuals is down right dishonest, so the GIGO principle holds true, garbage in, garbage out. The larger and more complex the data base the more likely it is to be corrupted with false data, creating false connections which makes the whole thing collapse.
The scheme he sounds like just another drive to bleed millions of tax dollars into a futile exercise at best and at worst a scheme by which corrupted agents can fabricated reams and reams of evidence of nothing against any individual, claim it as a terrorist conspiracy and basically baffle the courts with fabricated bullshit into a conviction.
Sounds like some crazy plan to try to convict every non-member of "Anonymous", of conspiring to be a terrorist threat to national security, woohoo, your all criminals, brought to you by the WESAYSO corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series), so appropriately dinosaur thinking.
If current thinking is not challenged, than we as a society remain locked in current thinking. Those that challenge current thinking are more often than not derided and abused, even when that challenge manages to alter current thinking to a better more sane balance. Jobs did little beyond hiring the right people to do the jobs, even the direction of the company was decided by the input of many of those people hired. Of course what he did do was effectively market that it was all him, not that different to all those other CEO who spent millions on marketing and public relations to achieve that same delusion celebrity worship of corporate executives as an exercise in marketing.
It is all really off, as it is the blatant denial of all the efforts of all of the people who actually do the bloody work, come up with the ideas and provide the creativity behind the company. The gross and offensive denial of the efforts of tens of thousands to feed the gross and excessive ego of a handful narcissists and psychopaths, something well worth challenging to create a healthier society (rebalancing income to those who do the work rather than those who take credit for it).
WTF did your mind take an absolute blank about what you can tax deduct with a corporation compared to what you can tax deduct as an individual. Do you not pay any attention at all to reports of the most profitable US corporations pay no tax at all. It has nothing to do with tax rates, you disingenuous individual, it has everything to do with tax deductions, what is claimable. what is deferrable and what can be shifted into capital gains. So does you lying little graph point at that capital gains tax for corporations or individuals is exactly the same but corporations get to claim more deductions against capital gains, hmmmm.
More importantly someone had to courage to say it, against the massive onslaught of the Apple marketing bullshit machine. So the pathetic slobering public attack begins, driven by the mob marketing machine that is the forum infesting specialist.
Richard Stallman has every right to comment on the disingenuous marketing machine that Job's created, the current flooding of digital channels with empty Job's worship, all of which had nothing to do with valuing the individual but everything to do with using the marketdroid created image as a marketing tool.
All worship at the coffin of Job's but only after you buy an iPhone of course. The microsfties always complained that Jobs was not better than Gates in the bullshit marketing department, but even with Gates donating billions to charity, Jobs whose drive was all self serving still garners greater cool (the difference being the capability of the viral and forum infesting marketing department).
It's to cheat on tax numnuts. Corporations pay a lower tax rate, income can be fudged into capital tax gains by making certain types of investments and cashing in those investments. A substantial portion of the income can be written off as tax deductible investment expenditures. Why do you think the psychopathic right wants no tax on corporations, so they can shift all personal income into a corporation. A corporation is a company created by charter, that charter stating it purpose etc' and with nominated directors to maintain corporation status it must be audited to ensure the corporations funds are managed legally. It is all a tac cheating fudge, a shift of criminal liabilities to a non prosecutable entity and a straight up socialisation of risk with privatisation of profits.
Well for a start fingerprinting all students means that information could be passed along to the police for obvious investigative purposes, the police state at work. In the US that means that those rapacious kids can be kept safe in prison, well safe from everything but homosexual rape which is the US preferred recidivist treatment, keeps them coming back in the for profit prison system, nothing like rage against society to keep people committing crimes.
Lets try this, let's hang all the oil producers and save the money from all the flooded coastal cities and hundreds of millions of displaced persons and then see what happens. Climatically speaking we are at the warmest and are in fact due for an ice age.
Let's not forget all the other pollution generated by fossil fuels and whole range of carcinogens. They pollute the air, they pollute the water, they pollute everything we eat and of course they pollute us.
Why protect the profits of a psychopathic, disgusting minority, we instead we should be protecting our environment, our selves and our future. Gees some of the lying deceitful bullshit the fossil fuellers come up with, the lies about the gulf oil spill, the lies about drilling methods and the seismic and pollution risks, lies about carbon emissions and even focusing on carbon emission to hide all the other pollution generated.
Clean renewable energy means cleaner smog free cities and that's worth investing in. Like your carbon then go suck on a carbon monoxide tail pipe and then tell everyone how healthy that is for you.
Lets drop the crap about iTunes Store/App Store not making any profit, early in the piece 2008 they made 500 million dollars and ever since then they have been super secretive about the profits being generated, hiding them in every imaginable legal way possible.
Just another bull shit marketing diversion by Apple, they are generating billions of dollars profit via a suckers lock in, what for the whole of the interest is generally given away free.
Marketing departments the world over are becoming much more aware that customers have access to those financing statements and where they can shuffle and distort the marketing illusion of how much a particular internal division is making, in order to fool the suckers into how much money they are throwing away. Apples high profits come straight out of the gullible customers pockets.
How about this. A judicial review, where each and every redaction must pass a court of law and fulfil firstly that the redaction would have no impact upon the next election and secondly the redaction is truly in the public interest and date set for the release of the information contained in the redaction.
No government department should be entitled to keep secrets under it's own authority without judicial review and where information was kept secret that would have an impact on the next election those person should be charged with treason for attempting to pervert the course of democracy. After all that is the only acceptable reason for keeping secrets from the public, those secrets must be in the interests of protecting that democracy and never ever should those secrets instead be an attack in that democracy.
Sometimes personal drive, a single minded focus on finding a solution and,a real gift for achievement can work miracles. Putting the right team together, providing the right environment, supplying motivation, reaching out for ideas, count for more than just throwing money at the problem. Steve Jobs had a real talent achieving a goal once his mind was set on it, could he have resolved the cancer problem, it would at least be an even bet.
650,000 warnings, that 650,000 people so far who are very unlikely to vote for Scarsleezy who snuck the law in with no public review. Guess who is going to lose the next election big time and what law will be changed by the next incoming President to ensure an extended political career.
The better idea is to implement tighter regulations to ensure building are designed to be more earthquake resistant in high risk zones and possibly providing very high strength safety zones that will form a protective zone in the event of a collapse.
In forecast earthquakes, learn to read the musical instrument that is the earth. The sounds the various elements of the crust make under load and when approaching over load, a three dimensional map over time, to more accurately forecast risk.
Forget the marketing and the PR=B$, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, George Boole, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce and Richard Stallman. Lets be honest and get past the product marketing and into the nitty gritty nuts and bolts of the people who did the hard yards.
Let's be honest, perhaps if Steven Jobs had put the same amount of effort into finding a cure for cancer as he did for making money from mobile phones, perhaps he might still be alive today. Visionaries build a better future, they don't just attempt to maximise profits.
OF course there is LOTRO and Turbine's effort with basically a free MMO and grinding or paying for turbine points. In this case are they worried that Turbine might make a play for the science fiction universe as a break from fanatsy and to target another market group. Yes, I have been playing LOTRO and found it a fairly interesting and entertaining game, for me lot's of game learning opportunities.
The loss of innovation has very little to do with patents, it is all about a myopic focus on 'GREED', all about making profits and nothing about saving costs or a focus on the future.
We are a society that quite simply has been corrupted by psychopaths and narcissist, with no focus on us except as the exploitable masses. It's become, "Let it all burn as, long as I and, only I am illuminated in the flames of a self destructing earth".
Innovation was always about people working together to achieve a better future, when that was abandoned in favour of glorifying in the psychopathic and narcissistic ego of the minority, cheered on by PR=B$, you end up with the snake eating it's own tail, nothing new being created, just society feeding upon itself to extinction.
The reality here is, everyone knows that all the major companies violate each others patents, in a Mexican stand off, they choose not to sue each other into oblivion. Apple broke that stand off and no will simply be forced to recant it's patent suit or suffer oblivion.
Samsung is in the far better position, it manufactures a complete rang of appliance household (not digital but major electrical) and commercial as well as phones and computers.
The reality is that Samsung could pretty much give away tablets, if it allowed their other appliances into the door, stoves, fridges, air conditioners, washing machines, big screen TV, basically tens of thousands of dollars of gear. Samsung could quite readily do a rewards scheme, buy enough appliances and earn free tablets to remote control them and then add in content distribution. In fact you can quite readily imagine a "Samsung Digital Home" all controlled from a Samsung Android Tablet and against that Apple has nothing, hence the desperate patent challenges to block competition.
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Of course for the truly paranoid, there is a profound problem with install any root based tracking software. What's to stop them from tracking you and selling that information to the highest bidder. You have now turned your notebook into a device, to monitor and track all your uses of it and any activities you do in front of it and you are blindly hoping they don't change or alter conditions of contract or employ cheap disgruntled nerd teenagers or jock strap douches because they are even cheaper.
Rock and a hard place, they harder you make something mobile to steal, the more privacy you must give away and blindly hope is not abused.
That M$ is giving Samsung money for what seems like nothing likely has more to do with them charging Samsung to use Android ie a quick 'mea culpa' and please don't do to use what you are going to do to Apple.
The best way to crack down on advertising is perhaps not to block it but to force total truth in advertising. No lies, no exaggerations, no false associations, no people recommending who do not provide proof on continued use of the product and required warnings for any known problems with the product to be included in the adds.
Adds should be restricted to informing people about a product, not about manipulating people especially children, not about false product qualities, not about people lying about using the product and, in fact not about anything that company can not prove to be true about the product.
That is a failed idea. Thin edge of the wedge. You think they wont shift this idea of recording and selling all your browser habits from you fixed connection. You think they wont start intercepting all your emails, analysing the content for psychological marketing manipulation and farming those email addresses, you think they wont intercept your content and add there own. You think they wont start intercepting VOIP and, all the calls you make.
How about as a business, all your contacts are now going to be farmed, all your business knowledge sold off to competitors. Hell, why stop their. The most profitable business tactic would be to intercept all, 'ALL', email tenders, and route that data to ISP preferred contractors.
So the idea is to fight it at the beginning. Absolutely any and every challenge of personal and business privacy should be challenged and challenged hard right at the beginning. Any company that refuses should be shattered, broken up, it's parts sold off to competitors and the corporate executives should enjoy a federal holiday at government expense for quite a few years.
This is extraordinary dangerous interception of private traffic and a real crack down is required.
Different strokes for different folks. Amazon unbeknownst to many people is a logistics company and is managed like a logistics company, hence attempts to run the computer side of things like a logistics company. When they think employees, they think packers, pickers, forklift drivers and truck drivers, all of whom they don't trust and from whom they try to squeeze the maximum amount of labour from at the minimum price. Those workers of course adjust they behaviour to suit the way they are treated and try to get away with everything they can for as long as they can. Shift they same of labour relations into the coding and computing engineering environment at you get exactly what you expect, well that is if you understand who different companies according to their core industries operate.
For google to enhance google+ with interactivity, likely it would be better to buy it in with share transactions, sort of pick the up and comers. Likely ones would be Kongregate, Turbine (whoops to late) and Stumbleupon, to get a real quick push on the interactivity part of google+ and the three are still small enough to get a huge growth spurt out of being associated with google.
Replacement spare parts, now that's cool. Now all we need to do is force manufacturers to supply full digital details and specs for all the parts in the devices so that we can repair them ourselves. Don't you just hate when that tiny plastic dohicky breaks and paying for it to be replaced cost near the same price of replacing the whole product.
The copy rightists will go nut's, so would you steal a car, hmm, but now be honest would you download it and 3d print it out.
More dubiously consider the logic of jamming GPS ie obviously your ships can still navigate with GPS jammed otherwise it would be a really stupid thing to do. So if your ships can readily navigate without GPS , then you can be pretty sure that all other military vessels will be able to do the same.
So this is not a military exercise in the normal sense, this exercise is obviously targeted at military actions against civilian populations, where GPS jamming comes into play, along with of course communications jamming, "it seems that the militaryâ(TM)s GPS jamming also impacted mobile phones, Internet connectivity as well as satellite TV".
Lets not forget the Verisign complaints fee, register a complaint and pay a substantive deposit to have any name taken down for any reason, all liabilities are yours and Verisign keeps the deposit money. Why the rest of the world hasn't told ICANN to take a leap with Verisign, well, I guess it is only a matter of time.
The point being that what is put up on social network is sometimes not quite truthful, in fact from many millions of individuals is down right dishonest, so the GIGO principle holds true, garbage in, garbage out. The larger and more complex the data base the more likely it is to be corrupted with false data, creating false connections which makes the whole thing collapse.
The scheme he sounds like just another drive to bleed millions of tax dollars into a futile exercise at best and at worst a scheme by which corrupted agents can fabricated reams and reams of evidence of nothing against any individual, claim it as a terrorist conspiracy and basically baffle the courts with fabricated bullshit into a conviction.
Sounds like some crazy plan to try to convict every non-member of "Anonymous", of conspiring to be a terrorist threat to national security, woohoo, your all criminals, brought to you by the WESAYSO corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_(TV_series), so appropriately dinosaur thinking.
If current thinking is not challenged, than we as a society remain locked in current thinking. Those that challenge current thinking are more often than not derided and abused, even when that challenge manages to alter current thinking to a better more sane balance. Jobs did little beyond hiring the right people to do the jobs, even the direction of the company was decided by the input of many of those people hired. Of course what he did do was effectively market that it was all him, not that different to all those other CEO who spent millions on marketing and public relations to achieve that same delusion celebrity worship of corporate executives as an exercise in marketing.
It is all really off, as it is the blatant denial of all the efforts of all of the people who actually do the bloody work, come up with the ideas and provide the creativity behind the company. The gross and offensive denial of the efforts of tens of thousands to feed the gross and excessive ego of a handful narcissists and psychopaths, something well worth challenging to create a healthier society (rebalancing income to those who do the work rather than those who take credit for it).
WTF did your mind take an absolute blank about what you can tax deduct with a corporation compared to what you can tax deduct as an individual. Do you not pay any attention at all to reports of the most profitable US corporations pay no tax at all. It has nothing to do with tax rates, you disingenuous individual, it has everything to do with tax deductions, what is claimable. what is deferrable and what can be shifted into capital gains. So does you lying little graph point at that capital gains tax for corporations or individuals is exactly the same but corporations get to claim more deductions against capital gains, hmmmm.
More importantly someone had to courage to say it, against the massive onslaught of the Apple marketing bullshit machine. So the pathetic slobering public attack begins, driven by the mob marketing machine that is the forum infesting specialist.
Richard Stallman has every right to comment on the disingenuous marketing machine that Job's created, the current flooding of digital channels with empty Job's worship, all of which had nothing to do with valuing the individual but everything to do with using the marketdroid created image as a marketing tool.
All worship at the coffin of Job's but only after you buy an iPhone of course. The microsfties always complained that Jobs was not better than Gates in the bullshit marketing department, but even with Gates donating billions to charity, Jobs whose drive was all self serving still garners greater cool (the difference being the capability of the viral and forum infesting marketing department).
It's to cheat on tax numnuts. Corporations pay a lower tax rate, income can be fudged into capital tax gains by making certain types of investments and cashing in those investments. A substantial portion of the income can be written off as tax deductible investment expenditures. Why do you think the psychopathic right wants no tax on corporations, so they can shift all personal income into a corporation. A corporation is a company created by charter, that charter stating it purpose etc' and with nominated directors to maintain corporation status it must be audited to ensure the corporations funds are managed legally. It is all a tac cheating fudge, a shift of criminal liabilities to a non prosecutable entity and a straight up socialisation of risk with privatisation of profits.
Well for a start fingerprinting all students means that information could be passed along to the police for obvious investigative purposes, the police state at work. In the US that means that those rapacious kids can be kept safe in prison, well safe from everything but homosexual rape which is the US preferred recidivist treatment, keeps them coming back in the for profit prison system, nothing like rage against society to keep people committing crimes.
Lets try this, let's hang all the oil producers and save the money from all the flooded coastal cities and hundreds of millions of displaced persons and then see what happens. Climatically speaking we are at the warmest and are in fact due for an ice age.
Let's not forget all the other pollution generated by fossil fuels and whole range of carcinogens. They pollute the air, they pollute the water, they pollute everything we eat and of course they pollute us.
Why protect the profits of a psychopathic, disgusting minority, we instead we should be protecting our environment, our selves and our future. Gees some of the lying deceitful bullshit the fossil fuellers come up with, the lies about the gulf oil spill, the lies about drilling methods and the seismic and pollution risks, lies about carbon emissions and even focusing on carbon emission to hide all the other pollution generated.
Clean renewable energy means cleaner smog free cities and that's worth investing in. Like your carbon then go suck on a carbon monoxide tail pipe and then tell everyone how healthy that is for you.
Lets drop the crap about iTunes Store/App Store not making any profit, early in the piece 2008 they made 500 million dollars and ever since then they have been super secretive about the profits being generated, hiding them in every imaginable legal way possible.
Just another bull shit marketing diversion by Apple, they are generating billions of dollars profit via a suckers lock in, what for the whole of the interest is generally given away free.
Marketing departments the world over are becoming much more aware that customers have access to those financing statements and where they can shuffle and distort the marketing illusion of how much a particular internal division is making, in order to fool the suckers into how much money they are throwing away. Apples high profits come straight out of the gullible customers pockets.
How about this. A judicial review, where each and every redaction must pass a court of law and fulfil firstly that the redaction would have no impact upon the next election and secondly the redaction is truly in the public interest and date set for the release of the information contained in the redaction.
No government department should be entitled to keep secrets under it's own authority without judicial review and where information was kept secret that would have an impact on the next election those person should be charged with treason for attempting to pervert the course of democracy. After all that is the only acceptable reason for keeping secrets from the public, those secrets must be in the interests of protecting that democracy and never ever should those secrets instead be an attack in that democracy.
Sometimes personal drive, a single minded focus on finding a solution and,a real gift for achievement can work miracles. Putting the right team together, providing the right environment, supplying motivation, reaching out for ideas, count for more than just throwing money at the problem. Steve Jobs had a real talent achieving a goal once his mind was set on it, could he have resolved the cancer problem, it would at least be an even bet.
Did not not make it to the end of the article http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110906/14595315829/sarkozy-routes-around-parliament-ditches-net-neutrality-forces-copyright-clauses-into-all-isp-terms-service.shtml. "Sarkozy Routes Around Parliament, Ditches Net Neutrality, Forces Copyright Clauses Into All ISP Terms Of Service" that's the headline from linked to at the bottom of the article. Don't forget that's 650,000 households, 650,000 families and those families of course will have relatives and other associations beyond that and the law isn't even a month old, youch.
650,000 warnings, that 650,000 people so far who are very unlikely to vote for Scarsleezy who snuck the law in with no public review. Guess who is going to lose the next election big time and what law will be changed by the next incoming President to ensure an extended political career.
The better idea is to implement tighter regulations to ensure building are designed to be more earthquake resistant in high risk zones and possibly providing very high strength safety zones that will form a protective zone in the event of a collapse.
In forecast earthquakes, learn to read the musical instrument that is the earth. The sounds the various elements of the crust make under load and when approaching over load, a three dimensional map over time, to more accurately forecast risk.
Forget the marketing and the PR=B$, Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, George Boole, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce and Richard Stallman. Lets be honest and get past the product marketing and into the nitty gritty nuts and bolts of the people who did the hard yards.
Let's be honest, perhaps if Steven Jobs had put the same amount of effort into finding a cure for cancer as he did for making money from mobile phones, perhaps he might still be alive today. Visionaries build a better future, they don't just attempt to maximise profits.
OF course there is LOTRO and Turbine's effort with basically a free MMO and grinding or paying for turbine points. In this case are they worried that Turbine might make a play for the science fiction universe as a break from fanatsy and to target another market group. Yes, I have been playing LOTRO and found it a fairly interesting and entertaining game, for me lot's of game learning opportunities.
The loss of innovation has very little to do with patents, it is all about a myopic focus on 'GREED', all about making profits and nothing about saving costs or a focus on the future.
We are a society that quite simply has been corrupted by psychopaths and narcissist, with no focus on us except as the exploitable masses. It's become, "Let it all burn as, long as I and, only I am illuminated in the flames of a self destructing earth".
Innovation was always about people working together to achieve a better future, when that was abandoned in favour of glorifying in the psychopathic and narcissistic ego of the minority, cheered on by PR=B$, you end up with the snake eating it's own tail, nothing new being created, just society feeding upon itself to extinction.
The reality here is, everyone knows that all the major companies violate each others patents, in a Mexican stand off, they choose not to sue each other into oblivion. Apple broke that stand off and no will simply be forced to recant it's patent suit or suffer oblivion.
Samsung is in the far better position, it manufactures a complete rang of appliance household (not digital but major electrical) and commercial as well as phones and computers.
The reality is that Samsung could pretty much give away tablets, if it allowed their other appliances into the door, stoves, fridges, air conditioners, washing machines, big screen TV, basically tens of thousands of dollars of gear. Samsung could quite readily do a rewards scheme, buy enough appliances and earn free tablets to remote control them and then add in content distribution. In fact you can quite readily imagine a "Samsung Digital Home" all controlled from a Samsung Android Tablet and against that Apple has nothing, hence the desperate patent challenges to block competition.