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 14:31
Hoax
posted on 29 August at 14:29
apple comeback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHdh6LiBKZM
posted on 29 August at 14:21
i like more samsung is better
posted on 29 August at 14:14
Cmon, scientific speaking is a troll. 1Bld / $50perKilo / 1000 / 50tones per truck = ?
posted on 29 August at 13:53
Is this for real? This seems like a hoax
posted on 29 August at 13:34
lie but fun, by the way they miscalculated the weight, each truck gotta carry 3000 tons to carry them all...
posted on 29 August at 13:33
Shane's mostly right. First, there's only 861 million nickels presently in circulation, so sourcing 20 billion would be a bit of a problem for Samsung. Second, a nickel weighs 5.000g. 20 billion of them would weigh 100 million kg or 220 million pounds. The maximum load weight for a tandem axle semi trailer is about 45,000lb. Transporting 220,000,000lb of nickels would require 4889 semi trucks if the loot were delivered in one go, not 30.
posted on 29 August at 13:07
bwahaha! really now sum geeks* lmao.
posted on 29 August at 12:54
Very creative from Samsung co,
posted on 29 August at 12:48
You do realise that this never actually happened don't you? Samsung are appealing the court's decision, and no court would permit this kind of payment.