Apple have just posted up it’s so called ‘apology‘ to Samsung as forced to do so after a UK court ruling following apple’s recent case against Samsung. This cheeky statement is not even remotely apologetic and cleverly manages to slate Samsung and its Galaxy Tab by quoting a remark from the judge that the Galaxy Tab is ‘Not Cool’!

The Samsung Galaxy Tab

The Apple Ipad

The post itself is titled ‘Samsung/Apple UK Judgement’ and begins by summarising the result of the appeal with the court ruling in favour of the Galaxy Tab which does ‘ not infringe Apple’s registered design …’.

The statement then goes on to quote the judge firstly stating the design of the Ipad:

“The extreme simplicity of the Apple Design is striking”

Again to quote the judge:

“It’s a cool design”

Apple then cleverly quote the judge in reference to the Galaxy Tab vs the Ipad:

“Samsung Products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design.”

“They are not as cool”

Those are direct references from the judge that ruled in favour of Samsung.

Apple finally go on to emphasise the fact that cases in Germany and the US ruled in favour of Apple resulting in over 1 billion US Dollars in damages to Apple.

The closing statement summarises apples remaining stance on the matter:

“So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully copied Apple’s far more popular iPad.”

It will be interesting to see if Samsung respond to this cheeky statement by Apple. Samsung’s original response to the ruling is below:

“We continue to believe that Apple was not the first to design a tablet with a rectangular shape and rounded corners and that the origins of Apple’s registered design features can be found in numerous examples of prior art.”

The My Gadget Tree Office is literally filling up with stock, we are literally surrounded by boxes at the moment. We’re expecting a busy Christmas this year if last year is anything to go by! Keep an eye on the store and the blog over the next few weeks for our christmas specials. You can order GummyLamps and Android Collectables at the My Gadget Tree store now.

Since our last blog post about our new Android Series 2 Mini Collectables we have had a number of enquiries from customers asking for specific designs. So we have listened and opened a few boxes for you, now in addition to the blind boxes we now have all of the regular designs available on the My Gadget Tree Site. Each item has been re-opened for verification and re-sealed:

Android Toys Series 2 Mini Collectables Individual Designs available from £8.99

Remember when we were kids we used to love collecting stuff like marbles, footy stickers, pogs (remember them?!!). Well now you can relive that exciting you used to get when you bought your pack of stickers praying that you had the extra rare sticker that everyone wanted so you could impress all your mates at school. Or is that just me?….

Introducing Android Toys Series 2. These ultra cool 3″ figurines are based on the Google Android Mascot and feature designs from many big name artists such as Andrew Bell, Doktor A, Gary Ham, Scott Tolleson and even Google themselves. Each toy is packed and sealed inside a blind box, so you won’t know which design you have until you open it..sound familiar?

We have just 160 of these cute little figures in stock and we are pretty confident these will go quick. UK stockists are rare so buy them now before they go!

If you like them a lot and I suspect you will you can even purchase a full case of 16 Android Toys if you wish

Heres a taster of some of the fantastic designs available: