The legal battle between Apple and Samsung is getting hotter by the day and this time it is because another mobile carrier decided to get involved. The first one was Verizon which requested an injunction against Apple and now it is T-Mobile, which is also following Verizon and is backing up Samsung.
The main concern that T-Mobile has stated is that the ban against Samsung products will lead to a drop in holiday sales through the carrier. The holiday season has seen the highest amount of sales and it is understandable for carriers to be worried. Though not as specific, Verizon, the largest carrier too had cited a similar reason.
This legal mess began in April when Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung in a court in California claiming that the smartphones and tablets from Samsung are heavily copied from the same products produced by Apple. It was a case of intellectual property infringement and Apple in specific cited that Samsung “slavishly” ripped off the iPad and iPhone.
The injunction from Apple seeks to ban Galaxy products, the leading ones of which are used by T-Mobile in its promotional campaigns. The Galaxy S 4G and the Galaxy Tab are dominant in the advertisements and T-Mobile has supposedly ordered stocks for holiday sales, all of which would not be sold if the ban were to be imposed.
While it is not explicitly supporting Samsung, T-Mobile clearly has vested interests in seeing that the ban doesn’t come into place. In fact, it is possible that the fourth largest carrier will follow Verizon into claiming that intellectual property infringement should have no bearing on the sales of these devices, especially through the carriers.
Meanwhile, Samsung has filed opposing lawsuits against Apple in a lot of countries across the world from the Netherlands to South Korea. However, Apple seems to be winning this battle as it had the first step in filing the injunction and succeeded in securing a ban against Samsung products in Germany.
As of now, it is unclear what the other carriers, AT&T, Sprint will do as they seem to be weighing their options in the debate. In all probability AT&T will choose to become an observer as it relies heavily on Apple for sales (both iPhone and iPad) but with the Galaxy SII to come soon, it might take a neutral stance like Verizon.
February 29, 2012 at 3:29 am
Apple has a roeitatupn for building its hardware and software entirely in-house and not partnering with outside companies.Apple didnt need Samsung for iMac or iPod because Apple has some of the best engineers in the world and this is why they sue cuz they don’t give a fuck and a matter of fact there going to be the ones to be the first to build curve glass which hasnt been done and it’s going to be a spaceship and this will be there campus where every one of course would want a job there to be an alien from outer space which will seek more hackers and engineers of course cuz there worth 383 billion dollars and are current the # 1 company in the world.oh don’t forget Steve jobs is Still Alive and is still an apple employee so Samsung is losing a customer worth 383 billion dollars but Samsung worth 173 billion dollars short about 200 billion and samung unfortunatly isn’t a software company which depends on google os and microsoft os cuz I know they sell windows samsung 7 but google did say they have Samsung back so this is where it gets interesting but for Samsung it a huge lost cuz they lose a big customer and there’s stuff has been banned in most places and there know out of the race which profits all companies cause they were trying to compete they should understand that they should continue to make hardware for there customers including apple but sneaky samsung went on top of the 3rd quarter sales made a killing but now is out of the race in some places so far cuz apples pissed that Samsung actually grab the whole cake when there customers apple presented them with billion dollar ideas but no more ideas from apple no more when they have a roeitatupn of ideas so samsung better suck googles cock cuz that there only way of making money but samsung will still be rich and just complain they aren’t going to be as rich as apple and now samsung can’t have the woke cake but they will have a small piece hopefully if they could win but the true war is really between google and samsung vs apple and for Microsoft they want a samsung windows 7 tablet to take the whole cake too but samsung needs to work with a software company so there pretty much screw that they need somebody not like apple who really doesn’t need anybody cuz they do hardware why else u think they fired Samsung and no only did they get fired but now there getting banned but Samsung still gonna make money regardless because they got some good hardware but what’s hardware without software nothing but they still end up making money one way or another and for apple are they going to invent something again and Patton it lol and make Samsung salty or will Google carry Samsung for a long ride intill the next invention happens nobody knows but my money going with apple cuz of computer iPhone and Microsoft cuz of kinnect and xbox and google for there great software but no inventions just copycats like Samsung that’s why there best friends but what they should do is join eachother instead and invent something instead they take whats invented and make it cheaper and better so I hope samsung and google continue to work together cuz together they actually get close to apple standards especially when Samsung has knowledge of apples inventions which will lead google to victory but apple will invent again and banned phones and tablets to prove it and then google will be next on the hit list and then it’s gonna get more interesting