http://www.cnbc.com/id/48783982

It's not the court system.

It's the Patent system.

Although it's no surprise that a US company would win vs a non-us company in such a dispute.
In any case I bet it will be appealed.

It's also kind of sad because apple's product is rather inferior and overpriced.

Just bought an S3... hope I dont have to give it back cause its square with rounded edges :P

Seriously tho, doesnt apple have samsung parts in it?

and people wonder why apple sucks.

I've never liked apple because they like to control stuff too much and sell over priced products.

Hopefully apple gets smacked down when this is appealed; and then appealed again; and again....

Im hoping one day someone with billions decides to compete with apple and names their company "Orange" :p

Immigration is far more fluffed up.

We got illegal Mexicans running around like fleas, on food stamps with free housing. 12 million of the fluffers.

Apple already should have been smacked down for getting into the music business, which they *agreed not to* with the Beatles Apple lable...

From TFA: The companies are rivals, but also have a $5 billion-plus supply relationship. Apple is Samsung's biggest customer for microprocessors and other parts central to Apple's devices.

They sold products for the prices people were willing to pay, and along the way became one of the most successful businesses in history. Fact. Where in there is it possible to infer overpricing?

If you hold a patent on a technology, it means you have the sole right to use that technology for the life of the patent. How is it unreasonable for them to protect their immense investment from being copied? I highly doubt "rectangles with rounded corners" is the primary patent being defended.

Don't get me wrong, I don't care for apple's design philosophy, and I don't own a single one of their devices, but come on. Business is business.

FYI, apple didn't break the settlement agreement you're referring to, qzjul.

Pretty sure they got sued over it; also, if you read their patents, yes, rectangles with rounded corners is one of them, and the others are just as lame

Merca.... YEEEEEHAAAW!

latest from groklaw essentially reads: jury fluffed up big time
http://www.groklaw.net/...hp?story=2012082510525390

$1bn is too little. The gains Samsung made from IP infringement were much higher. Same goes for Apple and their €500m settlement with Nokia a while back. Should have banned sales of Galaxy series phones and iPhones.

qzjul, they did get sued, and they won. The agreement allowed them to use the Apple trademark on goods and services that were "used to reproduce, run, play or otherwise deliver such content," as long as the content was not on a physical media such as a CD. Considering iTunes is what they were being sued over, I'd say iTunes wouldn't qualify as breaking that settlement agreement.

elvesrus: good link, just finished reading most of the comments there. Interesting stuff.