Current event #5

Samsung is ordered to pay Apple $290 million. 

Julianne Pepitone. Jury orders Samsung to pay Apple another $290 million. CNN. CNN, 21 Nov. 2013. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. <http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/21/technology/mobile/apple-samsung-damages/index.html>

Samsung is being accused of using Apples design, software, and hard ware ideas, this case has been open for about two years, it started in August 2012. The jury originally stated that Samsung would need to reimburse Apple with $1 billion however, Judge Koh said that the jury miscalculated and there was another trial putting about $450 million on the line. Apple was reimbursed with $290 million more, they feel that they should be granted even more money while Samsung feels that they shouldn't have to pay as much.

I feel that if Samsung did take Apples ideas then by all means, they should have to reimburse them. I feel that you can't just go around taking ideas that aren't yours, especially when they are copyrighted and you're in a big industry like this. Not only does it affect the other company, it affects your image and how other companies will see you. This event affects me because by seeing examples of plagiarism in such big, well know companies this could influence not only myself but others that it's okay to plagiarize.

This event impacts the world because we are taught in school not to plagiarize. If we see well known companies doing this then we might think it's okay for us to do so. Another way that this event affects the world is because if you pay for an iPhone and then you see another phone that has the same features but cheaper you are going to feel like you got cheated out of your money. "Apple accused Samsung of 'slavishly' copying both the iPhone and iPad for its own devices, including the hardware design as well as software features like double-tap zooming."(Apple. 2013.) If this is true then it only reinforces the statement that people who are paying money for iPhones and iPads are being cheated out of their money.