Given that Apple loves to "hate" Samsung's Android phones, won't they also want to target S3 once it arrives states-side? Does S3 already has a different way of handling that particular patent? Or this customs/patent issue was only unique to HTC?
There's no evidence that Apple made the call to the US Customs and the ITC to put a stop to the HTC devices.
For all we know, this could just simply be the result of the case that HTC lost, as previously mentioned in this thread.
there is no evidence they didn't tho
there is no evidence they didn't tho
It was unique to HTC as in it was the result of a ruling that was set to go into effect April ____. All parties knew it was coming. There is no such ruling against Samsung at this time.
As for HTC, it might have been beneficial had they attempted to prove they removed the patent violation prior to launching the phones in the first place though. Now they pay with their stock price and a lot of pissed off consumers.
I dunno about their stock prices nor have I talked to anyone that ordered these phones, but if it was more, I'd just be more pissed off at Apple (or is it @$$hole?). Can't blame HTC for trying to sneak it by as that's something Apple shouldn't have been able to patent anyway. Come to think of it, it did piss me off at Apple even more and I didn't buy one!
Its kinda funny...
On my Epic Touch 4G, what exactly crApple is doing to HTC, TouchWiz does the same exact thing. When you click on a link or phone number, it opens up a pop asking you which program you would like to open with the link... I haven't checked on an ICS build to see if it has been changed, but on my work RAZR Maxx running AOKP it does the same thing. I know in Sense 4 they have changed it for the US versions.
This whole thing is a total BS mess. HTC is smaller than Samsung, and Apple chose to pick on the smaller company with less lawyers, and doesn't want to go after Motorola, as its "unofficially" owned by Google. Its basically what is boils down to.