COMMUNITY THREAD: 20 miles to King & Trucks!

[anarchy24]

Thanks. I actually saw that when the Lakers traded for him. Guys switched their name.

[Wavy Q]

hey guys i just signed up but i feel like i know all of you

[Doormatt]

hey guys i just signed up but i feel like i know all of you

youre a ****

[Kalidogg24]

I hate this weather in So Cali sometimes.

It's gets cold enough at night that you have to close the window or else you'll have the sniffles throughout the day and during the day it's like 100 degrees. SMH

oh jeez


i thought we agreed that those of you from southern california aren't allowed to complain about the weather anymore

Lolololol


Yea you right. My bad and My condolences to all you guys out in the Midwest, south and east coast.

Well hey , at least you guys don't have to deal with these random earthquakes lol.






P.S drinking any alcohol beverage while your recovering from the flu = 3am post on realgm

[Gek]

I'm not into doing illegal things.

ive never done illegal things.

I bet you've jaywalked.

*Snickers* Okay, you caught me.

[hermes]

Hermes, I'm not American, so I can't answer that. I just randomly pick this name, and stuck with it, I use it on all possible place I can sign up on. 24 is for you know, Kobe. So it has nothing to do with my political view.

If I have to pick, I say Obama? (puts on flame shield)

they don't vote in your country?

[anarchy24]

hey guys i just signed up but i feel like i know all of you

I signed up last May, RealGm has this X amount of days before you can post. And I've forgotten I can post now. I've been reading here though.


@Hermes, yes they vote here. I thought you were referring to the US elections.

[Gek]

f*** walking - I'm flying.

[hermes]

hey guys i just signed up but i feel like i know all of you

I signed up last May, RealGm has this X amount of days before you can post. And I've forgotten I can post now. I've been reading here though.

really? you can't post for a while after you sign up?

how long has that been going on? did i have to do that?

[Sofa King]

[Sofa King]

[Sofa King]

Lady and Genteman,

I present the digital release of Ventucky: Dan Grimm: Ventucky

[Kalidogg24]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKM77utVa0&sns=em[/youtube]

[Jetset]

Late on Friday night in California, Apple made more legal filings against Samsung (we’ve embedded them below), in which it is requesting a further $707 million in damages related to the $1.05 billion verdict against Samsung in Apple’s patent case — and along with it, a request for a sales ban on all of Samsung’s Android handsets — potentially far more damaging to Samsung longer term. The text of one of the filings makes a couple of references to something that is of great concern to Apple, and is particularly timely given that the filing was made just as Apple went into its first weekend of retail iPhone 5 sales: it doesn’t want Samsung to get an edge on brand loyalty among first-time smartphone buyers, which it considers a “highly coveted group.”

Apple’s makes a couple of longish arguments in reference to this. The first is in Apple’s explanation of how it is losing market share to Samsung because of devices that have been found to infringe on its patents:

“‘[E]vidence shows that Samsung is now Apple’s largest smartphone competitor worldwide and is rapidly becoming Apple’s largest competitor in the U.S. market,’” Apple notes, citing dockets from its earlier patent case. ”The direct competition extends particularly to consumers who ‘are looking to make first-time smartphone purchases,’ who both account for a major portion of new Apple and Samsung customers and are a highly coveted group. “

It comes up again in a discussion of losing future and downstream sales:

This Court has recognized that this is a critical transition period for the mobile phone market, because a large number of potential customers are abandoning feature phones for smartphones. (Dkt. No. 452 at 31-32; Apple II, Dkt. No. 221 at 71-72.) These first-time smartphone purchasers are likely to develop brand and platform loyalty that will affect future sales and market share for years to come (id.), which makes the harm to Apple from loss of follow-on and downstream sales particularly severe.”

Currently, several developed markets — including the U.S. and many in Europe — have just passed or are approaching smartphone tipping points, in which there are more smartphone users than there are feature phone users. Apple has been doing very well among those early adopters (although it would argue that it could have done better if Samsung and others hadn’t been stealing its thunder; at the moment Samsung leads in worldwide smartphone sales).

But with mobile sales in general slowing down in the last year, competition for new users is getting particularly tight.

In this light, the non-smartphone-owning public is a crucial demographic for Apple. There are still millions of feature phone users out there — and millions who don’t own any mobile phone at all. But this is a demographic at which they are at somewhat of a disadvantage against Samsung. The Korean giant has a huge business in low-cost feature phone devices, which it has managed to leverage into a smartphone user base with a large range of smartphones that include low-end “entry-level” Android devices.

Yes, Apple has its older iPhone models, which have become like the lower-end part of its range. With fewer features than the newer iPhones, they can often be found free when you buy them on contract. But just as importantly it has its newest device, making its retail debut this weekend. The launch of the iPhone 5 is a key moment to pick up new users yet again, especially in a quarter following one in which Apple saw a softening in sales due to people anticipating Apple’s newest device.

Apple has been shown to demonstrate that it has high brand loyalty, and their big worry is that they won’t be able to work that magic if they don’t get a look in from the start.

Florian Mueller has a good breakdown of how Apple arrived at its $707 million figure. The case related to this filing is due to be heard on December 6 in Judge Lucy Koh’s court. Reuters reports that Samsung has responded by asking for a new trial:

“The Court’s constraints on trial time, witnesses and exhibits were unprecedented for a patent case of this complexity and magnitude, and prevented Samsung from presenting a full and fair case in response to Apple’s many claims,” Reuters quotes from Samsung’s filing. ”Samsung therefore respectfully requests that the Court grant a new trial enabling adequate time and even-handed treatment of the parties.”

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/22/apples ... -concerns/

cliffs:
- last night apple filed a legal complaint against samsung in the amount of $707 mil in damages that apple's previous $1.05 billion lawsuit cost the company.
- apple's trying to ban sales on all samsung android phones (s2, s3, note 2, s4, etc.)
- samsung responds by asking for new trial

[Kalidogg24]

Damn!!!

It feels like Apple is acting like that crazy baby mama who is trying to take everything including the kitchen sink.

Samsung comes out with this amazing Phone and Apple is not having it.

Evil Empire or just Good Business?

[Doormatt]

who cares. id be shocked if this isnt thrown out immediately.

[LaLa]

Relaxing on a nice Saturday...life is gooooood.

Sup

[DEEP3CL]

Chill'in also......Jack and Coke, nice and cool.

[Gek]

Chill'in also......Jack and Coke, nice and cool.

Solid while grilling with a cigar.

I'm trying to finish up this fifth of wild turkey honey. it is so sweet it's hard to drink.

[Hunter103]

Thats what I was nervous about happening, I don't think it will be granted though.

Damn splitting headache this morning knocked me out.