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Old 10-07-2012, 04:42 PM   #302
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
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At the start of the time period Samsung and Apple were pretty much neck and neck.
At the end of the time period, Samsung and Apple were pretty much neck and neck.
Both companies have higher satisfaction numbers at the end of the period than at the start.
If you drew a best-fit plot through the Apple numbers, the trend would be upwards, not downwards.
I'm not sure how you draw anything from it except that there was serious short-term damage to Samsung, but that the effect wore off very quickly, and now they are back to roughly where they started relative to Apple.

Edit: The article you quote does not attribute Apple's recent decline to anything patent-related, but to
The fact that sales of the S3 spiked the week of the trial's result and the week the iphone 5 was announced pretty much seal the deal. People are starting to see through the RDF.
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