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Originally Posted by AustinChief
I'm not a huge Samsung fan but I think they are getting jobbed on this. They deserve to lose some but not like they did.
And you are right, won't change things for consumers. Hell iPhone is less then 17% of the world market now. That's unlikely to change. I think that is their natural equilibrium point.
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I like Apple - I haven't used anything but an Apple laptop for years. Their innovation with cellphones has been huge, and to deny them all rights to that would be a big blow for innovation.
I do have a problem with a lot of their patents, but I can understand their frustration. They design an amazing device, unlike anything before, and Samsung comes in and copies it and gains a huge market share. How do you respond?
Android has moved away a lot from those days, when it really did feel like an Apple clone. But Samsung has skinned the shit out of everything to make it look as close to an Apple competitor as possible. Just look at Siri - Google releases something new and different to compete; Samsung copies Apple. They are not a good company.
I have an HTC phone now. It's beautiful, well designed, and works great. And it looks nothing like an iPhone.
The patent system is ****ed up. I would have been pissed if Oracle won over Google. But I'm strangely okay with this decision. We'll see what the Federal Circuit says though.