Samsung/Apple aftermath - who benefits?

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no one.

Apple receives a lot of negative press and people (ya know the mass market sheep who know nothing of tech) see Samsung as identical to Apple for less money.

Samsung loses billions and allows the US courts to set a precedent that will fuck all the other OEMs, including MS.

Google has to keep pouring billions into helping its OEM partners (who clearly should of listened to them day one and changed the look/feel of their product to be less like the iPhone) instead of future innovations.

Other OEMs have to immediately avoid litigation by handing Apple licensing due to this stupid precedent.

Consumers (regardless of what you like) are forced to be raped by the higher costs all around. Apple will only increase their price and offer less innovation as they seal more market. Android OEMs have to charge more to cover Apple/MS licensing.

Patent system needs to be changed big time and furthermore software probably shouldn't be patented at all. So long as its not copy/paste source, its a different thing. Doesn't matter if the functionality is the same, its a different fucking solution!

Furthermore, many of the patents supposedly breached are being reviewed right now to see if they even should be patents in the first place.

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