Apple company said, in the American lawsuit filed by Samsung, that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus terminal copied functions of the iPhone only with the idea of stealing part of the market share of the smartphone produced by Apple. As a defense to these accusations, Samsung's lawyer claims that in 6 months the Korean company sold Galaxy Nexus terminals worth 250 million dollars, and these "tiny" sales do not compare to the 16.5 billion dollars generated by the sales recorded of iPhones in a single fiscal quarter.
Samsung, sought to steal market share by selling a Galaxy Nexus phone that copies a feature that makes the iPhone's Siri virtual personal assistant so compelling, Apple Inc. told a US appeals court. "This was the beat-Apple strategy," Apple lawyer Mark Perry of Gibson Dunn, said yesterday in arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington. "This was the top of the line, Cadillac phone they trotted out to compete with the iPhone." Samsung lawyer John Quinn said Apple, which has the biggest share of the US market, wasn't harmed by the "minuscule" sales of the Galaxy Nexus, so there's no threat if the phone remains on the market. Apple reported that it sold $16.2 billion worth of iPhones in the third quarter ended June 30. By contrast, Quinn said, Samsung sold $250 million of the Galaxy Nexus device in the first two quarters it was on the market.
Apple is trying to remove the device from the market, but those from Samsung are defending themselves by saying that they had poor sales with this device, and their strategy calls into question the high sales numbers presented by analysts. Although we are only talking here about the US market, the Galaxy Nexus would only capture 0.5% of the American market and considering that we are talking about a terminal also promoted by Google, the device does not seem to have had the success that many were presenting.
Apple says that Samsung copied in the Galaxy Nexus a technology for unified searches in iOS, and in the US the terminal was temporarily removed from sale based on a court decision. Now Apple is trying to impose a permanent sales ban, but it is premature to say whether it will succeed or not.
I am surprised by the small figure of 0.5%, taking into account the fact that the galaxy nexus was and still is one of the best phones (if not the best) that a person interested in Android can have.
Well, it seems that it is not really that good and interesting.
If it didn't have such bad autonomy, it would have sold much better. I can see the nexus owners on the forums comparing the battery from the mexus with the one from the iphone, and it turns out that the one from the iphone lasts "much longer", it makes me laugh. The iPhone used intensively and with 3g in my case does not last from morning to evening. So a nexus would be absolutely useless, it has to be charged twice a day. It is practically impossible to sell a sane and calculating person a phone that needs to be charged so often. In terms of functions and operating system, the nexus clearly beats the iPhone. I for one would take a nexus if it had better autonomy.
@ Emil, Nexus has very good autonomy. However, there are also cartotasi who say that it doesn't have one. I have 3 friends who have nexus and their battery lasts easily for 2 days.
@zaone I ask you one more time, maybe you can answer me, is there a big difference between nexus and galaxy s3? Personally, I like the nexus better, but you don't know which one to decide on. to have an android. Thanks.
@ Alin Cristian - I read on forums about gnexus and users complain about autonomy. I am a smartphone user who really demands his phone. 5 contours email in sync, fb, twitter, I read dozens of blogs daily, I play, I use protube a lot, and many other tasks. If gnex could last me at least a day as autonomy, I would take it, but the opinions of the users did not convince me.
@Chebac Claudiu: I haven't tested the nexus. On paper, the difference is big.