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Apple Fabricates 'Evidence' to Ban Linux Devices



Summary: Apple caught lying in a way that can get Apple -- not Android makers -- deep in hot water for lying to the German judge

"'Samsung vs Apple in Europe' for dummies" is the headline of this analysis from LXer, which disappointingly enough cites a lobbyist against Android, Microsoft Florian. "For everybody who understands less about the current Apple/ Samsung battle in EU than I do," writes the dutch author, "here's my attempt to share the few things I understand with you. I'll briefly discuss the situation in both Germany and the Netherlands. The article should be especially suited for those who cannot read Dutch / German and are not up to date with what has been happening the last few days."



"This story is a good fit because the company is based on a marketing lie, a delusion, a distortion of reality."Meanwhile, Dutch/German sources suggest that the whole ban was based on fabrication and that this battle remains to be played (the ban might get reversed). To quote Slashdot: "The Dutch site webwereld.nl has found incorrect evidence submitted by Apple (Google translation of Dutch original) in the EU design-right case against Samsung. In the ex-parte case, a German judge recently issued a temporary injunction against the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the whole EU except the Netherlands. The faulty evidence is a side-by-side picture of an iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab. The Tab is scaled to fit the iPad2, and the aspect ratio is changed from 1.46 to 1.36, which more closely matches the iPad 2 aspect ratio of 1.3, according to webwereld.nl."

Here is what IDG has to say. "It's just getting worse for Apple," remarks the person who gave the link. "Apple Offers Flawed Evidence in Lawsuit against Samsung" is the headline and "it appears that Apple has failed to provide the German judge with accurate evidence. At least one of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 pictures that Apple provided as evidence in the German case is either wrong or manipulated. Photographic evidence submitted by Apple, found on page 28 of the German complaint, shows two pictures: the iPad 2 and the alleged Galaxy Tab 10.1, accompanied by Apple's claim that the "overall appearance" of two products is "practically identical.""

"Take a look at the pictures on the link -- obviously the Galaxy picture was tampered with," remarks the person who gave this link, "squashed down to make the Galaxy Tab 10.1 look to be shaped like an iPad2. What sleazy, lying assholes they have at Apple." In our Wiki we have had a page titled "Apple Deception". This story is a good fit because the company is based on a marketing lie, a delusion, a distortion of reality.

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