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Samsung pay Apple $1 Billion fine in Coins!

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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Not very true I suspect - they are appealing, so paying would be an admission of guilt.


  • #3
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    if they had 5 cents for everytime samsung ripped them off...


  • #4
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Biggins wrote: »
    Not very true I suspect - they are appealing, so paying would be an admission of guilt.
    Dammit :(


  • #5
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,640 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    My hatred for Apple knows no bounds

    Never again will i buy any of their products


  • #6
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    It's a hoax that started from a meme
    http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/378402/20120829/samsung-pay-apple-1-billion-coins-five.htm#.UD32WNZlQe0


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  • #7
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    I find it hard to believe they managed to get their hands on 20 billion 5 cent coins in the space of less than a week.


  • #8
    Naid23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Naid23


    Would've been a good story if it was true. Be a right kick in the teeth for apple!!


  • #9
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    A quick web search returns this: http://www.wisdomportal.com/Currency/USCurrency.html

    Although it is from 1997 the total number of dimes in circulation back them was under 2 billion.


  • #10
    MagicRon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭MagicRon


    Jez, some people would believe anything!


  • #11
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,133 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    In the past, various disgruntled people, usually farmers, have written cheques on the sides of cows to pay disputed bills.

    If I were Samsung, I'd round up thousands of rattlesnakes and write a cheque on each them (after sedating them of course:eek:), then deliver those to Apple's HQ to be lodged.


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  • #12
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,982 ✭✭✭Degag


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    In the past, various disgruntled people, usually farmers, have written cheques on the sides of cows to pay disputed bills.

    If I were Samsung, I'd round up thousands of rattlesnakes and write a cheque on each them (after sedating them of course:eek:), then deliver those to Apple's HQ to be lodged.
    They wrote a cheque on a cow?:confused:

    How exactly would that work?


  • #13
    Colmustard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭Colmustard


    Headshot wrote: »
    My hatred for Apple knows no bounds

    Never again will i buy any of their products

    I have a Galaxy S2 and I love it, I had a choice of that or the Iphone and I think I chose right.

    BUT the biggest consumer electronics firm in the world is no longer Sony its Samsung. Apple MAY have plagiarised tech in its history but Apple have been a force for innovation. I hate the Ipad but my dad is nearly 80 and he can work it, it is easy to use, but it drives me mad with its restrictions, I much prefer my laptop. But there has never been a computer product that has sold like it.

    So if Apple are spending their R and D on development while Samsung are spending theirs on back engineering. Samsung deserve this judgement. At the end of the day Samsung will have to develop other systems which will be better for the consumer in the end.


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