Eight Android-Samsung smartphones make Apple tremble. Not happy with the billion dollars she was recognized by California CourtApple has called for the recall of eight Korean-made mobile devices allegedly infringing on its patents. The Cupertino company has already seen the damage caused by the infringement of patents by the Korean company recognized on a total of 28 devices, but the shadow of those still hovers on the market 8 models still in production in the USA. For this Apple has asked that they be withdrawn from the market. Specifically it is the model Droid Charge and seven model variants Galaxy, namely the S 4G, S Showcase, S2 AT&T, S2 Skyrocket, S2 T-Mobile, S2 Epic 4G and Galaxy Prevail.
According to the jury who found Samsung guilty of infringing ben 5 Apple patents, these devices use the same iPhone iconography, his own zoom system of visualization, its own effect”bounce back” when the screen is scrolled and the same zoom activation via double touch.
For its part, Samsung took the verdict not as a victory for Apple, but as one defeat for American consumers. According to the South Korean company, the decision will lead to worse choice, less innovation and higher prices. In the official reply Samsung says: “Unfortunately, patent law can be manipulated to give a company a monopoly on a rectangle with rounded corners, or on technologies that are improved day by day by Samsung and other companies. Consumers have the right to choose and they know what they are buying when they buy Samsung products. It is not the final word on the case and in the battles that are being fought in courts around the world, some of which have already rejected Apple's claims. Samsung will continue to innovate and bring choice to consumers.”
Certainly, the withdrawal from the market of the 8 models mentioned, some of which are real best sellers of consumer electronics, will bring great economic damage to Samsung, but it is said that it is to Apple's advantage, considering that an Android user would hardly switch to an iOS-based device, in the absence of his favorite terminal.
While reverse migration is generally free of cultural obstacles, the open source world has many difficulties in marrying a philosophy of blind dependence on a manufacturer which, in exchange for an undeniable advantage in terms of reliability, forces the user to don't go out logic of the proprietary standard, of the controlled software, of the poor compatibility of all the accessories marked with the beautiful apple logo. Not to mention the fun that a pure android would never give up: the modding, i.e. the possibility of installing modifications and improvements of all kinds very easily to the software already present on your mobile phone. At the moment, moreover, the hardware available to mount the latest Android distribution is slightly more performing of what Apple supplies for its most recent terminals.
Those who choose Samsung have first of all chosen Android and this is why, thanks to the availability of such a wide variety of models based on this operating system (both Samsung and not), it will have a thousand alternatives to be evaluated before thinking about Apple's solution. As for Nokia, and its operating system developed with Microsoft, it is certainly not a direct competitor because it has the same problem as Apple: from a software point of view it is untouchable. But undoubtedly for the average consumer, not too attentive to the dynamics of open-source, it is likely to be a more consistent choice, if only in terms of price. And therefore there could be positive implications for the Finnish giant.
In short, Apple is leading this battle against Samsung, but in reality it has to deal with the much more armored Android. For Samsung, the real concern is that the legal challenge could open, in the wake of the accusations so far considered founded by the jury, a new fundamental chapter or the preventative blocking of the sales of all potentially infringing products, including the Galaxy S III or the upcoming Galaxy Note 2.
