There is no end to Apple's successes after the passing of its founder, Steve Jobs. On all fronts, from that of sales to that of image, even on the judicial front, where very complicated international patent battles have been going on for months, with the bitter rivals of Samsung and Htc.
The latest news, obviously positive for the apple company, is that The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Apple did not infringe HTC's patents, as instead claimed by the Taiwanese producer in a complaint filed last year, accompanied by a request to ban imports of some rival products.
The ruling marks another setback for HTC, which is embroiled in a long battle against Apple: in July, the Taiwanese company was found guilty of infringing two iPhone patents. Despite everything, HTC maintains its anti-Apple stance and awaits a decision on the new case, which the ITC commission is expected to announce next February.
However, all this does not seem to disturb the plans of the Cupertino company, which continues to defeat its rivals in the courtrooms, but also in terms of sales. It will be the effect of the disappearance of the founding father, but in the first weekend the iPhone 4S recorded record numbers: over 4 million phones sold.
Apple also disclosed that over 20 million people have signed up for iCloud services and over 25 million are now using iOS 5, the latest operating system for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. "It's a great start for iPhone 4S, the best ever for a smartphone and more than double the first three days of sales of iPhone 4," he said. Phil Schiller, general manager of Apple.
AT&T and Sprint, two of the carriers that provide iPhone services, also posted record sales on Friday, the first day the phone hit stores. Currently, iPhone 4S is on sale in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, while on October 28 it will also land in 22 other countries including Italy. Apple expects the phone to be available in 70 countries by the end of the year.
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