In the other court battle between Apple and Samsung, Apple is arguing that the Universal Search feature in the Galaxy Nexus violates Apple’s “universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system” patent. But Samsung says Apple shouldn’t feel threatened by the Galaxy Nexus, because the sales of the phone are so “minuscule”.
According to Bloomberg, after Apple’s lawyer Mark Perry told the court that the Galaxy Nexus was Samsung’s “beat-Apple strategy” and that it “was the top of the line, Cadillac phone they trotted out to compete with the iPhone”, Samsung said:
Samsung lawyer John Quinn said Apple, which has the biggest share of the U.S. market, wasn’t harmed by the “minuscule” sales of the Galaxy Nexus, so there’s no threat if the phone remains on the market.
Oof. It is true — according to Samsung’s lawyer, Samsung sold $US250 million of the Galaxy Nexus device in the first two quarters while Apple sold $US16.2 billion worth of iPhones in the last quarter. Samsung is effectively trying to argue that the Galaxy Nexus and iPhone aren’t competing with each other, and if they are competing, Apple is clearly winning this battle. The case is in the appeals court right now as Samsung is trying to get the courts to overturn an order to stop selling the Galaxy Nexus in the US until the patent-infringement case can be held (it’s currently set for 2014). Ugh to all these court battles. [Bloomberg]
250 versus 16,200 is like 65 to 1 and that is hardly a competition. Eff everyone that resorts to the courts to sort out patents that shouldn't have been granted in the first place.
seeing as the galaxy nexus is now updated to JB, and google said they changed the search so that JB didn't conflict with the patent, isn't this a dead issue?
I live inthe US so does this article mean the Galaxy Nexus is available in Australia? Does Australia only run on GSM or do they have CDMA too like theUS?...Does the unlocked GSM version work in Australia or do you have to buy it from the carrier....I t seems Google Play doesnt sell devices directly to consumers in Aus. But I see the Nexus7 tablet is sold so Im confused. THe GN seems to have gotten great reviews in the US - the only neg. is that its almost a year old and a new model is expected...and it only runs on HSPA+21 instead of the +42 that we have on the Tmobile carrier. Ironically the only carriers that carry the handset are the 2 CDMA carriers...but then Google decided to sell the GSM version directly for only $350 ...where it used to sell elsewhere for over $800 unlocked