Jury awards Apple $290.45 million in damages...

[enzo1]

“A U.S. jury on Thursday awarded Apple Inc $290.45 million in a damages retrial against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the latest battle in global patent litigation between the two mobile giants,” Reuters reports.
Apple had requested $379.8 million, while Samsung argued that it should have to pay only $52.7 million.

The judgement is expected to be appealed by Samsung.

[WolfeMacleod]

You know what irks me most about this?

"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. " -- Steve Jobs.

So.. Apple can steal, but will sue you if you do it?

[BE911SC]

Originally Posted by WolfeMacleod

So.. Apple can steal, but will sue you if you do it?

Yes. Standard corporate behavior.

[Steve Carlton]

How many truckloads of nickels is that?

[porsche4life]

Not as many as a billion dollars!

[enzo1]

the total due Apple from the two cases adds up to $929.83 million....

[john70t]

Doesn't Xerox deserve a piece?

History of the graphical user interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Something is fundamentally broken when you can patent a rectangle with rounded corners...for which there is prior art.

[intakexhaust]

The case is far from over.

IMHO, Apple makes a fine product, commands three times the price, rapidly outdates and no way to upgrade (ie: memory). Apple's app's are greatly limited. Their marketing campaigns have been the ingenious profit machine. I've heard - perhaps rumored??? but when a new product has a launch date, Apple plants buyers to wait in line days before, just to build the hype and get local news stations to report it. Seriously. I've seen this a half dozen times in Chicago and by major TV news networks, ABC and NBC.

Using both I'm amazed how the level of Samsung products are as good or better for far less money. The open source Android is an outstanding concept.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by intakexhaust

The open source Android is an outstanding concept.

Good in concept... But kinda sucks in reality from my experience....

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by intakexhaust

The case is far from over.

IMHO, Apple makes a fine product, commands three times the price, rapidly outdates and no way to upgrade (ie: memory). Apple's app's are greatly limited. Their marketing campaigns have been the ingenious profit machine. I've heard - perhaps rumored??? but when a new product has a launch date, Apple plants buyers to wait in line days before, just to build the hype and get local news stations to report it. Seriously. I've seen this a half dozen times in Chicago and by major TV news networks, ABC and NBC.

Using both I'm amazed how the level of Samsung products are as good or better for far less money. The open source Android is an outstanding concept.

So let's see.

Commands 3x's the price. That's simply not true when you look at comparable offerings.

Rapidly outdates? If you define outdate as a new version of a product has been released then that is true of most consumer electronics. If you define, as I do, outdated as in no longer capable of effectively performing the function for which it was designed / intended then I vehemently disagree.

Specifically which device is it that you are unable to upgrade the memory on?

Apples apps are greatly limited? In comparison to what? Notepad, Paint? Which specific ones do you feel are limited and to what competitive product are you comparing them?

Android and Open Source, hmmm, you are aware the much of OS X and other Apple offerings were (and continue to be) Open Source long before Android was even conceived.

The big problem with Android was googles failure to maintain strict implementation guidelines. Manufacturers take it then tweak it for their devices but don't bother making new releases backwards compatible which caused significant fragmentation placing undo burden on app developers and the 3rd party eco system while OS X typically maintains backwards compatibility for a decade even when Apple does radical things like switch processors.