Apple CEO Tim Cook sends note to employees following verdict
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It has been a year since Tim Cook took the reins of Apple after the death of Steve Jobs |
After the verdict came down, Wall Street had a chance to weigh in on the decision. In after hours trading late Friday, Apple's shares closed at $674.95, up more than $11 or 1.8% from the 4pm close. Assuming that the shares open around there on Monday morning, it will be a new all-time high for Apple's equity.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the jury who invested their time in listening to our story. We were thrilled to finally have the opportunity to tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trial showed that Samsung’s copying went far deeper than we knew.
The jury has now spoken. We applaud them for finding Samsung’s behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right.
I am very proud of the work that each of you do.
Today, values have won and I hope the whole world listens.
Tim"
source: IntoMobile
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40 Comments
1. lemenade posted on 25 Aug 2012, 18:50 28 13
Well said. And probably a lot more polite that what jobs would have said.
17. neutralguy posted on 25 Aug 2012, 21:11 15 13
I like how Tim cook handles the company. He's so professional. He's not taking these court trials personally. He's like, okay, we won, now let's go back to work.
The fact that they had a "Big" win, doesn't affect his professionalism.
+1 to apple for having a great CEO after steve jobs.
19. wendygarett (limited) 2 days ago posted on 25 Aug 2012, 21:39 12 9
Indeed well said...
But the word 'copy' is a very strong word...
I won't use that word if I'm Apple CEO
2. androidornothing posted on 25 Aug 2012, 18:54 20 19
Idk even know what to say at this point anymore. This guy is getting on my nerves.
10. Lucas777 posted on 25 Aug 2012, 20:27 13 1
well whether you like apple or not, at least he handled it maturely… although the "whole world listens part" sounds like a veiled threat but whatever… it sounded like a professional, "lets get back on track" note
34. iHateCrapple posted on 26 Aug 2012, 11:33 0 0
I'll bet anything, that if everything stayed the same with the one key exception being that Samsung was a NORTH Korean company that eveyone would be on cr@pples side in this...imo
3. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 25 Aug 2012, 18:57 7 9
Bigger and bigger the balloon gets, until...
5. Goldeneye posted on 25 Aug 2012, 19:00 7 5
Definitely all this is good for Samsung they need to find "inspiration" somewhere else, for real, their " perfected" products started to look too similar to apple's.
8. gallitoking posted on 25 Aug 2012, 19:50 13 18
I guess Samsung will not open another store to resemble the Apple store.. or try to camp outside on the release of the iphone.. and all of their stunts...
9. tedkord posted on 25 Aug 2012, 20:27 14 5
Biggest stunts - being the number one smartphone seller in the world, and having the most preordered, fastest selling device ever.
My SGS3 is in no way a copy add the iPhone.
12. Lucas777 posted on 25 Aug 2012, 20:36 11 1
nobody, including apple, has recently accused the s3 of being a copy-- it was not on their "list" of infringed devices
I believe apple did in the beginning but i think they dropped the case against it
And i am not sure if it is the most preordered and fastest selling device ever, and neither are you… samsung never released a confirmed preorder sales number… and the number that was put out was preorder sales to carriers-- we dont know how many were actually bought
11. taz89 posted on 25 Aug 2012, 20:32 3 3
even you cant say the gs3 is a copy of the iphone i mean first of all its not a rectangle and secondly it does not have a grid if square icons
14. Evil_SaNz posted on 25 Aug 2012, 20:52 10 2
Let's use the time machine: Martin Cooper and Motorola made the first cellphone.
Now imagine what could have been if Motorola acted like Apple does now.
Motorola could make the patent: portable electronic device that sends and receives calls.
Mobile progress would have been the same?
32. JonBjSig posted on 26 Aug 2012, 10:27 4 0
Google and Motorola have filed a patent lawsuit against Apple for these following patents:
5883580
5922047
6425002
6983370
6493673
7007064
7383983
These are all patents over things integral to how a smartphone works and 7007064 is pretty much a description of a phone.
They've offered Apple to license but Apple has thus far refused.
I don't care anymore whether or not this will have a detrimental effect on the consumer experience, I just want to see Apple taken down a peg or two.
16. GoBears posted on 25 Aug 2012, 21:02 4 5
I'm glad Apple's doing good. My Mom and Grandma enjoy their little idont.
18. frydaexiii posted on 25 Aug 2012, 21:21 10 5
Ughh, People from Apple talking about values is like listening to Marbolo preach about Lung Cancer, or Mcdonald's promoting healthy living...Just makes me wanna puke.
21. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 25 Aug 2012, 22:06 4 1
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/
en/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthr ough_touchscreen.html
Hypocrite CEO.
25. kew01 posted on 25 Aug 2012, 23:53 1 1
Apple should sue this guy. He stole their idea before they "invented" it.
How could anyone come to the same obvious conclusion (before them) that on touchscreens the natural evolution is to multi-touch and pinch to zoom, or double tap to zoom in and out.
How many prior art must be given so that judges understand those things?
But, like Tim said:
"Today money talked... err... I mean, values won and the whole world didn't catch on our hypocrite bull%sh... ahem... and i hope the whole world listens."
33. rusticguy posted on 26 Aug 2012, 11:05 0 0
And smarttech claimed to have done this 20 years before this guy on their flatpanels. But who would listen?
http://www.smarttech.com/
36. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 26 Aug 2012, 19:31 0 0
More reason why Apple's patents will be invalidated.
22. smartphone posted on 25 Aug 2012, 23:11 4 1
The title is wrong ,Tim cooks send galaxy note to his employees and they all got confused by its curved rectangular touch screen with black colour with the iPhone and proved his point of lost sales.
and please send this note about originality and innovation to Xerox also.
24. LionStone posted on 25 Aug 2012, 23:44 1 1
That's right...keep pulling the >wool< over the eyes! Pathetic.
26. ogtomasx posted on 26 Aug 2012, 00:26 1 2
Tim Cook is a SCRUB crying about s**t, that android makes yea THE iphone inspired the mobile industry but there are better android phones then iphone.....Complaining about copying come the hell on apple copied (notification TASK bar from android) how can you say other people copy you????? APPLE SUCKS they kill competition by taking them to court....sueing samsung Over an old as samsung phone that looked like the iphone it no longer even looks like that SCRUBS....
28. Bluesky02 posted on 26 Aug 2012, 02:35 0 0
he forgot to mention that everyone will get a pay bonus
30. A.aoudi posted on 26 Aug 2012, 03:01 4 0
Cook said Apple "makes the best products on earth" funny the best product on earth does not have 4g, does not have an sd card slot and cant send files via bluetooth.
31. longhairbilly posted on 26 Aug 2012, 06:40 1 0
He also sent a memo to the team responsible for stealing the Android notification system saying "good job."
35. kanagadeepan posted on 26 Aug 2012, 14:00 2 0
Apple Advocate: Samsung COPIED the iPhone completely!
Me: So a Samsung Galaxy Series phone works just like an iPhone?
AA: YES!
Me: So I get the same experience with Samsung that I get with Apple? AA: No. Android sucks, Samsung phones are horrible to use!
Me: So Apple's phones suck and are horrible to use too?
AA: NO! Apple's phones are awesome.
Me: But I thought you said that Samsung copied Apple's phones. How can that be, if they're identical as you say?
AA: Uhhhh...
Me: Do Apple phones have LTE?
AA: No. You don't need LTE, 3G EVDO is good enough!
Me: Do Apple phones have screens larger than 3.5 inches?
AA: No. 3.5 inches is enough for
anyone.
Me: Does Apple offer a removable battery?
AA: No. Removable batteries are terrible!
Me: Is Android a comparable
operating system to iOS?
AA: No. Android SUCKS!
Me: Does Apple make its phone with a plastic case and back?
AA: No. It's all glass.
Me: Does Apple make a phone with an AMOLED display?
AA: No. Apple uses LCD, which is good enough.
Me: So, basically, what you're saying is, other than the user experience, screen size, color, backplane, form factor, operating system, data speeds, look, feel and usability, the
phones are exactly alike.
AA: YES! SAMSUNG COPIED APPLE!
Me: *shakes head*
37. Brendan126 posted on 26 Aug 2012, 20:39 0 0
Now you're comment has a good point, but it is quite stereotypical of Apple Users. I for one have had an iPhone since the 3 came out, but recently switched to Android. But besides the point, I have an iPad and Apple everything else. I am in no way biased towards one of the two companies. I may own more Apple products, but that is because the ones I do own have the functionality I feel is suitable for me. Most people I know that even care about the lawsuits are smart enough to read articles about it, and do not act extremely ignorant about who copied who, or functionality. This situation may happen with an arrogent little kid, but please do not stereotype every existing fan of Apple.
