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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The point is that many are fed up with Apple's bully tactics, with litigation instead of innovation, so they went out in droves and bought Samsung phones in support.
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Have you read the information about why the Jury reached the decision they did? I found this interview with the jury foreman very convincing:
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One of the most decisive pieces of evidence was reading the minutes for myself of a meeting that was held at a very high level between Google executives and Samsung executives.
It was for a tablet and Google was concerned that for the sake of their operating system that the look and feel and the methodology that they [Samsung] were using to create their tablet was getting too close to what Apple was doing.
And in the memo themselves - remember this was minutes - they stated that Google demanded that they back away from that design.
And later there was a follow-up memo among themselves, these executives, and in black and white it says: we elect to not pass this information down to the divisions that were actually involved in the design.
So, from the sake of the engineers they went merrily along continuing their design not given any orders to back away.
They knew nothing of that meeting. To me that kind of raised a light bulb in my head that when I got in the jury room I wanted to read the minutes of that meeting myself.
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Full article at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19425052
That doesn't sound like "bully tactics" to me; it sounds like Samsung deliberately acting in a way that Google themselves were very unhappy with.