[josteink]

So Apple has successfully ruined one competitor's ability to compete, innovate and bring products to market. And lost.

In a free market that should be the most punishable offense of all.

How much is that going to cost Apple? How many billions will they be forced to pay in punitive damages?

Will they be banned from making similar claims in the future? Have they lost "karma" so when serving the next "ban kthx plz"-request, they will have to prove their case more thoroughly? Will their existing, similarly baseless claims be re-investigated and maybe denied or withdrawn?

What have we (as people, and as a judicial system) learned from this which means we can punish abuse and avoid having cases like this happen again?

This is after all in the US, and in the US we do not want anything to hinder the free market, right?

[nachteilig]

Let's not only criticize Apple for this. Samsung is attempting to do the same thing even now with the iPhone 5.

[ubernostrum]

So, out of curiosity, are you for or against the existence of anti-trust law?

[josteink]

I assume you are asking due to my comment about "most punishable of all offenses". I'll be honest and say it was a wee bit tongue-in-check. That said, I'm for anti-trust laws in principle.

For me to support them in practice, execution needs to be delicate. As for in so many other fields, this is the hard part.

[killahpriest]

The Galaxy Tab was not destroyed by this ban. The Galaxy Tab was destroyed by itself.

If you've ever used a Galaxy Tab, you would know how terrible of a device it is.

[RyanMcGreal]

If it's not competitive, then let it lose in an open market instead of hobbling it with an unjustified sales ban.

[maskedinvader]

not sure which galaxy tab you are talking about, but I am proud owner of the galaxy tab 10.1 wifi and Its a beautiful device. The hardware was definitely comparable if not better than ipad 2, id agree the OS (honeycomb) was totally a let down but once I got ICS, the tablet has worked well for me. So yeah I'd beg to disagree (atleast for 10.1)

[killahpriest]

I'm talking about the 10.1. Agreed, the hardware is nice. The implementation of the OS is terrible, absolutely terrible.