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The funny thing is that despite being caught out doing this a while ago with the S4, they have no choice but to continue doing it regardless how embarrassing it becomes. If they don't, their next generation devices may score only slightly more (or less than) than the current gen devices.

They painted themselves into a corner from which there is no escape. And they only have themselves to blame.

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But it's not like the market punished them at all. They are still selling lots of them.

Apple is the only that held them accountable in court, at least a little it. These b*stards are shameless http://cdn.mactrast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Samsung-A...

Your proof that "Samsung are bastards" is because they have a connector that is either a PDMI connector, or something that looks suspiciously similar?

How is this standard called: http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Sa... ?

A cube?

While I don't agree with the assertion that "Samsung are bastards," they very obviously used a PDMI connector because it looked more like Apple's dock connector at the time.

Not only did they not use micro-USB like most manufacturers, I recall reading that their PDMI implementation was non-standard (i.e., not-quite-PDMI). There was no reason for them to choose such an incompatible connector other than the shape resembled an Apple connector.

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