Samsung Galaxy S III Anti-iPhone 5 Ad
It’s really telling how Samsung works: tick all the checkboxes in the feature checklist.
It’s really telling how Samsung works: tick all the checkboxes in the feature checklist.
The New York Times posted Samsung’s response after the jury’s verdict yesterday. Here’s a translation of what they’re really trying to say:
Today’s verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer.
Fuck Apple.
It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices.
We would now have to spend more money on our products and forced to pass the cost to the customers.
It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies.
We thought we could get away with this.
Consumers have the right to choices, and they know what they are buying when they purchase Samsung products.
Consumers should be able to buy cheap crap from us that looks like iPhones.
This is not the final word in this case or in battles being waged in courts and tribunals around the world, some of which have already rejected many of Apple’s claims.
We’ll still find ways to copy Apple without being caught.
Samsung will continue to innovate and offer choices for the consumer.
We will keep finding ways to safely copy Apple in order to keep selling cheap iPhone knockoffs to consumers.
Billy Gallagher:
The jury in the landmark Apple-Samsung trial ruled mostly in favor of Apple, including awarding Apple $1,049,343,540 in damages. Samsung, on the other hand, was granted a total of $0 in damages.
Justice served for Apple today.
Horace Dediu on Samsung’s sales:
What is surprising is that the overall sales volume is not growing. At least for the products catalogued (which exclude the Note) growth for the last four quarters has been: 5%, 34%, 31%, -53%. These are in stark contrast to the iPhone pattern shown in the outline bars behind Samsung’s.
It’s amazing how common this pattern is. Horace mentioned that he has seen this happened in Nokia:
Samsung’s pattern is not unusual. I’ve seen similar pattern for almost all Nokia products. Prices drop. It’s a standard industry phenomenon.
The charts in his post is breathtaking. What people should wonder now is how did Apple manage to get into that level of sales? Maybe releasing only one great phone a year is the key, but who knows.
Jonathan Geller:
The phone is too big. You will look stupid talking on it, people will laugh at you, and you’ll be unhappy if you buy it.
I used to have this phone many years ago: 
I looked so stupid talking to it, I thought everyone has learnt the lesson.
Eric Silvka, writing for MacRumors:
Strategy Analytics showed Apple first taking the title in the second quarter of 2011 as it passed Nokia and held off a surging Samsung to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor. But Apple’s reign at the top was short-lived as Samsung easily topped the list in the third quarter on continued growth paired with a pause in iPhone sales ahead of the iPhone 4S launch.
One caveat for numbers released by Strategy Analytics and other research firms comes from the fact that Samsung no longer reports mobile phone sales numbers, ending the practice in mid-2010 for competitive reasons.
The priority of being the world’s largest smartphone vendor in Apple’s strategy map is not as high as Samsung or other hardware manufacturers. If that would have been the case, then Apple would have released an iPhone nano by now. But five years into selling iPhones, Apple have never released more than one model per year.
On the other hand, it is in Samsung’s1 best interest to milk as many people as possible. That’s why they make all kinds of phone, ranging from the one with keyboard to the one that runs ancient version of Android.
Feel free to substitute Samsung with Motorola, Sony, and other hardware manufacturers here. ↩
I’m just going to leave this here.