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Oh dear Apple, I know you’re bitter and twisted about having to apologise to Samsung and tell the world that it didn’t copy you, but at least you could do it right the first time eh? A UK Judge has slammed Apple for adding “untrue” and “incorrect” details to its apology.
Apple couldn’t just post a straight court-order apology; it insisted on sticking references to the ‘cool’ trial, and cases in Germany into the apology, in a direct breach of the court order. Judge Robin Jacob said today:
“I’m at a loss that a company such as Apple would do this. That is a plain breach of the order.”
Apple now has 24 hours to set things right, and modify its apology post on its site, despite Cupertino claiming it needed 14 days to affect such a change. 14 day to change something on your own website? You’ve got to be having a laugh Apple. Seriously, just play nice and do as the judge tells you, OK? [Bloomberg]
Image credit: Crying baby from Shutterstock
Not surprised.
I think we all must be psychic.
Your avatar is very fitting for this story.
I find it works 80% of the time 100% of the time.
Its made with bits of real Biddle so you know its good..
It was only a matter of time. As soon as I read the original, I figured someone would shaft them. Apple don’t much like losing, do they?
Oh, also:
http://tinyurl.com/nz54y2
Yep wasn’t surprised by this in the slightest, the original “Apology” didn’t come across as such at all
maybe i was naive but i had hopped the loss of jobs would mean that some of the macho egotistical side of apple would soften
you seem to forget that Apple is a massive corporation. Jobs may have been an egomaniac dickhead with a huge god complex, but there are plenty of other players that were happy to follow that company ideology and continue it after the dear leader’s death.
http://i.imgur.com/imibG.jpg
Bravo Hank, another masterpiece. I’m pinching it for my own collection.
Well, opening that link at work was a mistake..
There’s nothing nsfw about that, it’s just a guy who was surprised at how much lube can fit on top of a finger without dripping.
Lube? I thought it was maple syrup!
Doctor gets me with that every time.
I’ve just opened the link in a new tab… think I’ll close it before viewing the tab!
http://imgur.com/5ZY7w
Apple is a sad sad company.
http://goo.gl/U5f4y
Cupid stunts
Barclays bankers!
http://goo.gl/gIJJ2
“14 day to change something on your own website? ” – Remember Sam, this is the only company in the world that takes it’s store offline to make changes. If they have to do that for something they want to sell, imagine how hard it must be if it’s something they really don’t want to do at all.
The 14 days is so they can argue about who should sign the apology.
touche.
Actually Sony do it too, but they’re having problems, so I’ll let it slide…
The court told Apple that if they wanted to wait that long the court wanted Tim Cook to “make an affidavit about why that is such a technical difficulty for the Apple company”.
Well, strictly speaking they only take their store offline to drum up additional publicity, so that’s something I don’t think will be necessary in this particular instance….
Whoooooooooooooooooosh
They take their site offline as a pre launch publicity stunt, (altho its not as exciting as it once was). The rest is just Apples well documented appalling programming skills
he he. lets see how close to the 24 hour deadline they make it.
14 days sounds about right… 7 days to write the apology, 3 days after that to “revise” it so it reads faster, 3 days after that it gets another revision so the margins are thinner, 1 day after that another revision so the black font is sharper, then put it live…
They are arrogant beyond belief, as I pointed out before in their “sorry” statement they said in California the jury ruled in their favour, ignoring the fact that this was about tablets and the jury found the Tab not to be infringing on anything and the judge lifted an injunction on the product’s sales.
Bravo the UK justice system – Apple’s childish attempt to apologise was pathetic. And if they can’t even change the front page of their website within two weeks, well, I wouldn’t trust them with anything more high-tech than a pencil….
I think crayons may be safer, less of a chance of taking an eye out
Oh for the love of …..! Does anyone really give a crap (apart from Samsung). Feels like kindergarten all over again.
The comments on this page clearly demonstrate that people *do* in fact give a shit.
But do they give a crap?
Yes.
This whole apology/non-apology issue does nothing to affect how I purchase my tech. If I allowed unfair or frivoulous business practices to influence my decision, I’d have an emptier house.
It’s Apple that’s in the kindergarten. They brought the case in the first place, lost, then didn’t want to face the consequences so pulled the classic “Mum says I have to say I’m sorry” trick. They need to grow up, it’s called competition, so get on with it.
Competition? Well it might be if they actually spent a bit more money on R&D rather than 1/3 that of MS and the others..
If apple had turned up in the beginning and asked for the same $1 they insist Motorola’s patents are worth this whole thing would have never even earned the lawyers enough to cover their weekly coke habit.
The probably put it in small font so you barely see it, but we all Androids/IOS/Windows have pinch and zoom
Actually they were explicitly told that it had to be in a specific font! They did at least get that bit right.
Yeah they got that right because its not an apology but when it comes to a real one well its gonna be itsy bitsy small
Size 11 for the re-apology
Actually, according to the Guardian, they have to actually stick it on the front page now, rather than just a link in the footer!
Huzzah!
If the UK courts wanted to do this right, they should have told Apple exactly what they wanted to be posted on their website.
They did. They were given the exact wording, and the exact font and the exact point size and told they could add have it on a separate page linked from the home page. They were given an easy way out, but some genius in marketing thought he could have the last word by adding some extra fluff. Talk about a backfire.
The order was specifically to counteract Apples misleading statements to the public that the Tab infringed when it didn’t and to reassure consumers it was safe to buy one without legal risk. Instead Apple added text to reinforce the impression that it does infringe and that it was just the English court that was wrong. That was just contemptuous. Worse, by adding the text about the other court cases they were seeking to deliberately mislead. The US case the jury ruled the Tab did not infringe. The German case Apple admitted shouldn’t have been filed as the English court had already ruled on an EU wide basis and they promised the Appeals Court they would apply to have the interim judgement withdrawn.
So Apple shot themselves in the foot. If they had stuck to the wording given no-one would have noticed or cared. Instead they’ve made it worse for themselves.
Here here!
+1 I did not know they were given exact wording. Apple definitely got what they deserved, but should probably have been fined for being contemptuous.