Apple-Samsung Dispute: Galaxy Tab 7.7 Pulled in Germany, iPad Sales Disclosure in Australia?
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7
The wide-ranging intellectual property battle between Apple and Samsung has continued in recent days, with one of the more notable events taking place in Germany, where Apple won a new preliminary injunction against Samsung requiring the company to remove its new Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the expo floor at the IFA show in Berlin as part of a broader ban against sale and promotion of the device.
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-biggest handset maker, unveiled the Galaxy Tab 7.7 for the first time at the annual trade fair, known as the IFA, which kicked off on Friday for a six-day run in Berlin.
But Samsung pulled the tablet computer out of the show after a Dusseldorf court accepted on Friday Apple's request to ban sales and marketing of the product in Germany, the company said.
Apple’s claim that the Samsung tablet’s release in Australia will hurt iPad sales may carry little weight if it doesn’t provide the numbers, Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett said in Sydney Federal Court today.
“Unless Apple puts on evidence showing the impact in the U.S. or U.K., I can’t draw any positive assumptions,” Bennett said.
Specific disclosure of iPad and iPad 2 sales in the United States and United Kingdom would be an interesting look into Apple's performance, as the company typically provides little detail on its iOS device sales, only reporting the total number of units sold each quarter on a worldwide basis. Such numbers are considered key competitive information, so much so that Samsung has decided to stop reporting mobile phone sales entirely.
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Seem like whiney children now. "Mommy! Timmy is copying me!!"
Apple invented the tablet computer, they were the first to bring a tablet computer to the mass market, hope they screw Samsung and every other tablet maker for every penny they have.
I want to see a world where the only tablet out there is Apple and the only smartphone out there is Apple
Why? :confused:
Was even in the filing the 7.7?
I cannot understand how some of you seriously wish that Apple have an absolute monopoly on consumer electronics. Maybe look into living in China-- communism seems like a good suit for you.
Because Apple is great and Uncle Steve is our leader.
And we wonder why Apple fans are though so poorly of. Thank you for making us all look like eltist know nothing snobs.
Sad part is I find that his views are pretty tyipical of Apple fanboys.
These are the views of many on this forum. Most of the real fanboys feel this way.
One year ago, Steve Jobs stated that 7" tablets could not compete with the iPad.
And next year when the 7" iPad is released it will be the perfect size for a tablet just because Apple made it.
The Apple would still win because of the fact that it is Apple
Owning an Apple and showing it in public is a status symbol, bit like flashing an American Express platinum card about or driving a Ferrari, it holds the same level of status and feeling of wealth and superiority so I have no doubt at all that the Apple would triumph if it was the same price as the GalaxyII because owning a Samsung does not have that feeling of status and people are very status conscious.
No, I'm pretty sure most people would take the Galaxy S2 over a 2 year old phone. Status is no good if the thing you're showing off is horribly outdated.
My partner and I went into London on a cloudless summer day and took the same pictures, Westminster Abbey, the soldiers on horses outside the palace in Whitehall, Nelson's Column, Big Ben, the lions in the fountains in Trafalgar Square, we then got our mutual friend a highly respected motorsport photographer who travels the world to photograph races to judge the images and give his opinion on what was the best camera and he overwhelmingly decided on the iPhone 4 images.
Yap, contradicting almost every review about the Nokia and iPhone cameras
Jobs developed the iPad before the iPhone and the iPod touch, they are both essentially slimmed down iPad's as opposed to the iPad being an iPod touch on steroids so Jobs/Ive developed the iPad years ago and only took it to market in 2010, Jobs said as much
Doesnt matter. Tablets were invented long before Jobs started working on the ipad. Time to face the music.
It still wouldn't sell even close to the iPad3 no matter how "kick ass" the product was in specs, people are buying Apple products because it is Apple.
2 products were launched in the UK on the same day in March, iPad 2 and Nintendo 3DS
Queues a mile long were reported for the iPad 2 outside the Regent St Apple Store, the 3DS was launched with barely a whimper.
5 months later the 3DS was being heavily price cut because of lack of interest yet despite a deep economic crisis in the UK you couldn't get an iPad 2 above 16gb without incredible effort, even in August the John Lewis website would sell iPad2 stock in seconds.
The £200 3DS was destroyed by the £659 iPad 2 in a deep recession
People buy Apple because of the fact it is Apple
2 completely different products. One is a handheld gaming console, the other is a multimedia tablet. One has a gimmicky 3D display, the other has a 10" 2D display. You're example is poor. I'm pretty sure bread outsells iPhones every day around the world, but you wouldn't draw any meaningful conclusion from that.
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