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iPad, iPhone ban lifted

The Obama administration has overturned a U.S. trade panel’s ban on the sale of some older iPhones and iPads, reversing a ruling that had favored Samsung Electronics Co Ltd over Apple Inc in their long-running patent battles.
 
Amazing how America works. When Apple breaks the rules the White House comes to the rescue. When Samsung does so they get nailed without mercy. The US Government must surely be the most corrupt hypocritical organisation in the world. And then they want to "export" their brand of corruption to the rest of the world and we must thank them for their kindness.
 
BeVonk! said:
Amazing how America works. When Apple breaks the rules the White House comes to the rescue. When Samsung does so they get nailed without mercy. The US Government must surely be the most corrupt hypocritical organisation in the world. And then they want to "export" their brand of corruption to the rest of the world and we must thank them for their kindness.
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Unfortunately most people don't see it this way because we are bombarded by pro US everything because lets face it they own most of the media and entertainment services we deal with in our daily lives.

The number of US propaganda movies out there is amazing and nobody blinks an eye.Let China make even one and see how everyone cries about it.

I remember reading a few days ago a few cries about china making a propaganda video game to celebrate its army and yet all the popular first person shooters are American propaganda tools like the latest Call Of Duty and Battlefield for examples.
 
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Jola said:
Because Apple needs to compete in the lower end of the market.
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Where though? Usually older tech is discontinued because the value engineering put into making new products makes the older ones more expensive to produce.
 
BeVonk! said:
Amazing how America works. When Apple breaks the rules the White House comes to the rescue. When Samsung does so they get nailed without mercy. The US Government must surely be the most corrupt hypocritical organisation in the world. And then they want to "export" their brand of corruption to the rest of the world and we must thank them for their kindness.
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Really? Apple got nailed big time in the ebook case. The DoJ's judgement has tilted very punitively. But sure, you can have your anti-American narrative. I guess a case can be made that Amazon is also a US company though.

Where though? Usually older tech is discontinued because the value engineering put into making new products makes the older ones more expensive to produce.
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That's been Apple's whole pricing approach so far. But I do think the low-cost iPhone is going to come this year sometime and they'll be able to get some better scale with the newer engineering.
 
Fudzy said:
Where though? Usually older tech is discontinued because the value engineering put into making new products makes the older ones more expensive to produce.
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In the USA - they still sell a lot of iPad2's and iPhone4's.
 
Jola said:
Yes, but that was rather blatant, no easy escape there.
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Really? The whole case was bizarre from my perspective. It was an anti-monopolistic lawsuit instigated by the company that actually holds a 90% monopoly on the market against the company that barely has a 10% stake in it. And it enables the monopoly holder to entrench their position to the point where literally nobody can even hope to compete with their pricing.
 
cerebus said:
Really? The whole case was bizarre from my perspective. It was an anti-monopolistic lawsuit instigated by the company that actually holds a 90% monopoly on the market against the company that barely has a 10% stake in it. And it enables the monopoly holder to entrench their position to the point where literally nobody can even hope to compete with their pricing.
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So it was like the iPad vs. Galaxy tab case then?
 
cerebus said:
The iPad vs Galaxy case was anti-monopolistic in nature?
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Apple which had 90% of the tablet market taking Samsung to court to stop them from selling tablets using some bull**** patents?

I'd say yes.
 
Jola said:
The US authorities don't agree with you. Sorry. I agree with them, in this case.

And this case was also anti-monopolistic. Or maybe rather anti-cartel (ie the publishers and Apple).
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An anti-monopolistic case that found in favour of the monopoly holders? Look Jobs certainly wasn't blameless there - in fact he acted stupidly and made comments on camera that he never should have made - and it could be that it was correct to find against them; I'm no lawyer. But the subsequent ruling was highly punitive; that's the point. There's not a pro-Apple bias in the US court system as bevonk is saying; although there could be argued to be a pro-Samsung bias. But it's all very speculative; certainly Apple don't garner any favouritism in the US.
 
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cerebus said:
An anti-monopolistic case that found in favour of the monopoly holders?
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There was a conspiracy to create a new monopoly with 100% market share. That is why it was open and shut.

Steve Jobs's judgement was impaired here, maybe clouded by his personal circumstances.

cerebus said:
... certainly Apple don't garner any favouritism in the US.
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You say that after the veto by Obama ???
 
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