Samsung Resists Apple in Court, But the Biggest Winners Are Consumers

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Samsung Resists Apple in Court, But the Biggest Winners Are Consumers
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Apple (http://mashable.com/category/apple/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) may have earned a favorable judgment in its latest court battle over patents, but Samsung (http://mashable.com/category/samsung/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) is the one laughing all the way to the bank. A California jury awarded Apple (http://mashable.com/2014/05/02/samsung-guilty-of-infringing-apple-patents-again/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) a mere $119.6 million in damages rather than the $2+ billion it was seeking.

It may **t have been the ideal result for Samsung, but it could have been far, far worse. It amounts to a symbolic victory for the Korean electronics giant, and by proxy, Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). The trial was, after all, just the latest battle in Apple's war against Android, which Steve Jobs once said (http://mashable.com/2012/04/05/steve-jobs-larry-page/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) he'd go "thermonuclear" to destroy.

See also: The Complete Evolution of Apple's iOS in One GIF (http://mashable.com/2013/09/20/evolution-ios-gif/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/03/apple-v-samsung-judgment/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


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