This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple’s headquarters in California. Initially, the security company that protects the facility said the trucks were in the wrong place, but minutes later, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.
the funny part is that the signed document does not specify a single payment method, so Samsung is entitled to send the creators of the iPhone their billion dollars in the way they deem best.
This dirty but genius geek troll play is a new headache to Apple executives as they will need to put in long hours counting all that money, to check if it is all there and to try to deposit it crossing fingers to hope a bank will accept all the coins.
Lee Kun-hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, told the media that his company is not going to be intimidated by a group of “geeks with style” and that if they want to play dirty, they also know how to do it.
You can use your coins to buy refreshments at the little machine for life or melt the coins to make computers, that’s not my problem, I already paid them and fulfilled the law.
A total of 20 billion coins, delivery hope to finish this week.
Let’s see how Apple will respond to this.
You didn’t think this could be real right? but hey! you loved it
posted on 29 August at 16:00
Apple had their hard work stolen and they're somehow the bully?
posted on 29 August at 15:55
What a clever way to pay Apple! hahah.... very smart people from Samsung :-) Lol
posted on 29 August at 15:38
what apple will do? Donate it out for charity lol
posted on 29 August at 15:30
All you apple fans be mad. Just suck it up. Don't be hurt, you poor babies ;(
posted on 29 August at 15:27
They must send 30 trucks of red applesĀ
posted on 29 August at 15:26
Guys read the LAST line of the article :/
posted on 29 August at 15:18
I love reading the comments and see that people actually believe this. Oh and Juan Daw, please explain to me how being an apple user is being a 'geek', it sounds more like you can't think for your self and gobble up whatever new is "nice and shiny" on the market. Enjoy your outdated technology in a shiny metal cover.
posted on 29 August at 15:06
Wish this were true. I read one article saying it came from one of these funny joke sites. I just calculated it.
of Coins needed: 21 billion
Total Weight: 105,000 Tones
Trucks/Lorries Needed: Probs about 7000
So yea i dont think so. :P
posted on 29 August at 14:57
If my math is correct: EACH truck would need to be able to carry 460,000,000 meters cube of nickels to be able to pull that off... sounds impossible
posted on 29 August at 14:38
If they send 30 trucks with one container each packed with nickels full capacity, every day, it takes about 65 years to complete the one billion fine...