Verdict
Nilay Patel for The Verge on the Apple vs. Samsung verdict:
There is no way to interpret this as anything but a sweeping, definitive victory for Apple.
Of course, that won’t stop people.
To be fair though, I’m not sure any of them are wrong. I think the verdict is a sweeping, definitive victory for Apple, but I also agree with two of the main counterpoints.
- First, let’s assume that Samsung did purposefully and knowingly copy the iPhone as soon as it came out. it may have been well worth the billion dollar cost in the end. You can certainly pick out some companies that didn’t copy the iPhone right away, and they aren’t exactly at the top of the market anymore.
- Second, the perceptions of the public are extremely hard to predict. I’m sure that many people are turned off by Apple’s current quantity of litigation. I’m also sure that some read the whole situation as meaning that products from Samsung really are just like products from Apple, which I’m sure isn’t really what Apple wants.