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Apple’s 2010 License Offer to Samsung: Pay $30 Per Phone and $40 per Tablet

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by Justin Crouch on
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A recent document has shown that back in 2010 Apple offered licensing agreements to Samsung. The agreements would require Samsung to pay $30 per smartphone and $40 per tablet. Usually this type of information stays under wraps as companies don’t like to disclose their royalty deals with the public, however, the document was presented by the Cupertino based tech giant at their trial with Korean based Samsung. If successful, the deal would have required Samsung to pay $250 million in royalties to Apple. Now in fairness, the deal was not one sided, Apple had prepared to give Samsung a 20% discount on the mentioned deal if they would be willing to cross license some of their patents in return. As you know, Samsung denied.

The complete document revealing this information is one of many that have been made public in the current Samsung vs. Apple trial. The trial is expected to last the rest of the month, and if Apple is successful, Samsung will be required to pay $2.5 billion. I can honestly say I have no clue who’s going to win this one as Samsung has also pointed patents back at Apple and that will surely complicates things. What do you think?

source: c|net

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  • Steve

    Things dont look good for Samsung. Wonder who will win. Apple, based on what I have read, has already humiliated Samsung in almost every way posible, with the legal accusations and evidence.

  • RTWright

    What do I think? I think you sir need to go to work for Apple, all of your articles have been heavy on Apple’s side, you do not talk often enough about anything Samsung is doing in the courtroom unless it’s negative against them. I do think this is an Android website and if you’re going to report on it, do both sides. I’ve been noticing your leaning more towards Apple in your articles. At least when Robert reports in his articles it does show both sides more equally than yours.

    • RTWright

      Ugh, no delete option! I didn’t see it go through so I re-wrote the dang thing…. Bah!

  • RTWright

    I think Justin Crouch needs to go to work for an Apple related site. His articles always lean more in favor for Apple. When he writes about Samsung it’s always what weighs against them, never anything about what Samsung is trying to do in the courtroom. I’ve noticed this trend in his writing for a while now and this one seals it in my opinion. You should cover both sides equally or go to work for an iPhone site. Because this is an Android site and if anything you owe the people here both sides not just one.

  • JustinCrouch

    You think
    I need to work for Apple? HAHAHA. I own a mac but I will never personally own
    an iOS device, I won’t even upgrade to 10.8 at this point because there is no
    major innovation. Just iOS crap they are adding. I hate Apple for what they are
    doing. In my posts I simply try and convey that I want each company to produce
    and win the hearts of people, not fight it in the legal system. Thanks for the heads up. I will definitely watch out for that.

    • RTWright

      Hmmm either you’re not the actual author of this Article ( Because you’re spelling your name as a single word here and not two like in the article ) or you’re a very lame attempt at being a fraud because you’re formatting is not nearly as well thought out and I’ve never seen a Author of this site get so snide.

      There isn’t but one person Authoring on this site both sides and not making their story Apple heavy. Oddly enough he’s one of the head people here, I can respect him at least on how he puts his views into words. Yours and one other however always focus more on Apple and to me that’s making it a one sided story. Need to view both sides without prejudice so people reading can get a better idea of what is really happening.

      Personally I don’t care if you use an iPhone, Mac or anything else Apple related, has nothing to do with what is going on here in that court case. Fact of the matter I’m for people using what makes them happy, not what Apple says makes them happy or any other company for that matter.

      • RobertNazarian

        Hey RT, thanks for the comments about myself.

        That was definitely Justin. He’s one of our newer authors which usually means trying to be neutral for the first few articles. Sometimes that results in the impression of favoring the dark side too much.
        I think he’s okay, but I better go back and check his credentials though just in case he might be a fruit spy :-)