Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins
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[QUOTE=General Blog]This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple's headquarters in California. Initially, the security company that protects the facility said the trucks were in the wrong place, but minutes later, Tim Cook, Apple CEO received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.
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The funny part is that the signed document does not specify a single payment method, so Samsung is entitled to send the creators of the iPhone their billion dollars in the way they deem best.
This dirty but genius geek troll play is a new headache to Apple executives as they will need to put in long hours counting all that money, to check if it is all there and to try to deposit it crossing fingers to hope a bank will accept all the coins.
Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, told the media that his company is not going to be intimidated by a group of “geeks with style” and that if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it.
You can use your coins to buy refreshments at the little machine for life or melt the coins to make computers, that’s not my problem, I already paid them and fulfilled the law.
A total of 20 billion coins, delivery hope to finish this week.
Let’s see how Apple will respond to this.[/QUOTE]
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Not only was this proven to be false, but it is also fake news that is from last week.
Isn't this a satirical article that emerged on one blog and then spread everywhere?
On top of that, apple can actually refuse payment in that form.
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[QUOTE=Jedi_Rayne;37503388]Not only was this proven to be false, but it is also fake news that is from last week.[/QUOTE]
Didn't hear that. Terribly sorry. I'll PM a mod now, then.
This was confirmed a [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1208634]hoax[/url]. [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1208747]Twice[/url].
I read about this before, but then I saw many people saying it's fake.
Anyway, that would be funny if true.
uhh this was confirmed...fake?
[URL]http://www.droid-life.com/2012/08/29/no-samsung-did-not-pay-apple-their-1-5-billion-in-damages-in-nickels/[/URL]
holy late clocks batman
why would you think this is even real
[QUOTE=thisispain;37503430]why would you think this is even real[/QUOTE]
For one there's the fact that Samsung has enough power to pull something like this off and then there's also the fact that both Samsung and Apple have been acting like two spoiled children towards each other so it wouldn't really surprise me in the least :v:
If only this were true, that would be fucking funny to see. Some "payback" for that patent bullshit win that Apple won.
I read a news article that explained you'd need over 2000 trucks to do this
I PM'd Hexxeh ~15 minutes ago to close it.
Obviously, nothin yet. Should I PM another?
Even though its fake it still made me laugh, a company should actually try doing this one day just for the hell of it.
[QUOTE=DeanWinchester;37503532]For one there's the fact that Samsung has enough power to pull something like this off and then there's also the fact that both Samsung and Apple have been acting like two spoiled children towards each other so it wouldn't really surprise me in the least :v:[/QUOTE]
The biggest question about all this is how they would get a billion dollars in nickels, like, that's 20 billion coins, where the fuck would they obtain that much
I'm disappointed that this is fake.
holy shit how many threads are we going to get on this
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;37503813]holy shit how many threads are we going to get on this[/QUOTE]
30, with five replies each.
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