Samsung-Apple War, A Mixed Flavor But Certainly Deadly For Android Application Development

There is a tough battle going on between Apple and Samsung right now in around eight countries. You will find the fight going on in Australia, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Korea, Japan and Netherlands. The fight is intense and most of the decisions are going in favor of Apple. Recently, Samsung lost a fight in one of the American court. However, it won at its home in Seoul. This is unbelievable and there is full right with us to question, how one judge can have different opinion on same case. This is not the first time this has happened and you will find that on many occasions this has happened. This is a threat to the Android market as well as Samsung has been the reason for the growing popularity of Android smart phones. Samsung does quote on Court’s decision in America that, “It is good for Apple but not good for American customers as they will now have lesser number of choice, low innovation and will have to pay higher price”. The CEO of Apple must be over the moon right now. It is really a big win for them. However, Android Application Developers are surprised by this decision.

I have written a lot about the trademark and patent laws and this certainly seems to be the biggest case of all time as far as the patent law is concerned. Samsung will now have to pay around 1.05 billion dollars and this might increase, as Apple is demanding for more than 3 billion right now. Apple does have the plan to get the ban for Samsung in America and that is going to be the subject in next few hearings in American court. The two features like the Zoom Text with finger touch and bounce back features after the end image is certainly being found to be copied by the American court.  Apple right now is demanding for around 2.5 billion dollars. They claim that the total turnover of these copied models has been around 8.1 billion dollars after 2010. Samsung has won in South Korea but still it has to pay some find over there as well. Samsung has to pay around 25 million in South Korea to Apple for the Bouncing back feature. Android Application development is in danger.

However, Apple has been asked to pay around 40 million Korean currencies, which is around $35,400. The court did found that Apple has infringed some of the Samsung wireless technology and hence they have to pay this amount. It does look like that the fight is heading towards the win of Apple but it is going to be a big loss for the Android Market.

  

If you are in mobile world as well as you are one of the Android Application Developers and working with the Samsung Galaxy SII then you can easily feel that it is a great device. However, the court has ruled the decision in favor of Apple and if everything goes in favor of Apple then in that case you are going to find that Samsung devices might be eliminated from American Market.