Saturday, November 3, 2012

Apple's Arrogance in UK Apple V Samsung

Apple lost its patent case against Samsung in which UK court ruled that Samsung Galaxy Tab did not infringe on iPad. Court ordered that Apple had to publicly apologize to Samsung and clear up any
confusion that customers might have had about the two companies.

You would have thought this would have been over except that Apple arrogance and childishness is prolonging the saga causing further damage to the company. Apple posted an apology (see screenshot) that exactly wasn't an apology and Judge wasn't impressed. My personal take was that it read more like Apple claiming victory everywhere except in UK implying that UK courts made an error.

The UK Judge wasn't impressed and the it deemed Apple’s apology “non-compliant,” and gave the company 48 hours to post a new apology on the company’s homepage. The world's most valuable technology company stated that it couldn't post the apology in 48 hours and wanted 2 weeks to post!!

48 hours later, you would think Apple complied and sincerely apologied? Not really. As one reader pointed out, Apple resized the page so that the apology isn't visible on on the home without having to scroll. I was annoyed by the color which is not readable and is at the bottom of the page.

I now really wish Judge forces Apple to do it right in their home page :-)

No comments:

Post a Comment