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Apple co-founder Wozniak does not agree with Samsung's $1 billion patent defeat

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he hopes the new iPhone 5 will take better photos than the ones he captures with his Samsung Galaxy S3.


“I am always excited about every iPhone product because there are always good advances,” Wozniak said in an interview in Shanghai today. “A better quality on the pictures will mean a lot, because when I show people pictures on my iPhone 4 and my Galaxy S III, they always say the Galaxy S III, or even the Motorola Razr, pictures look better.”


 


Samsung suffered a major defeat in a patent lawsuit with Apple last month. It was ordered to pay Apple $1 billion in damages, when jury found it copying Apple’s product. While Apple’s current CEO Tim Cool was pretty pleased with it, company co-founder Steve Wozniak is not.It was the crusade of other Apple founder Steve Jobs that he wanted a wage a war on Android. He famously complained that he felt Google had copied Apple’s iPhone and vowed to destroy Android. Part for the same, Apple is suing almost all the major Android manufacturers for infringing its design and software patents. Despite the decision against Samsung, it has not got any other major victories around the globe.

While Jobs was fine with the idea of crushing the patent infringers, Wozniak thinks otherwise. “I hate it,” Wozniak told  Bloomberg when asked about the patent fights between Apple and Samsung.


He is even sure that the $1 billion decision of California court will be rolled back in appeal. “I don’t think the decision of California will hold. And I don’t agree with it — very small things I don’t really call that innovative. I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody’s technologies,” he added.


Apple isexpected to sell  58 million units of the iPhone 5 by the end of the year, according the average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. That could generate as much as $36.2 billion in sales for Apple.


Wozniak also said  “I think they took some very important steps, “I’d like to get a product, use it myself before I judge it and compare to others. I’d like to have it myself and tell what’s good and bad about it.”


While, Woz’s wishes might come true in a utopian world, it is highly unlikely that it will happen in our world. However, we did hear about the reports of Tim Cook talking to Google CEO Larry Page to get to a solution for the patent disputes, but nothing is official till now.


Apple, which is the world’s most-valuable company right now, was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 in a California garage. Its relations with Google were quite decent and search giant’s current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt was even on Apple’s board, but everything went south when Google decided to launch Android.




Apple co-founder Wozniak does not agree with Samsung's $1 billion patent defeat

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