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 12:38
Now, cook can swim through the coins like uncle Scrooge :-))
posted on 29 August at 12:38
Apple doesn't need to count them one by one. Using the weight machine they still can complete the counting in few hours.
posted on 29 August at 12:38
Protip: 5 billion coins weight more than you think.
posted on 29 August at 12:26
Oops ! seems like samsung found a new way of sending money here. Hehe
posted on 29 August at 12:24
LOL. They finally showed some Creativity
posted on 29 August at 12:16
Apple should melt down those coins and use them to build a monument.
posted on 29 August at 12:11
If that would be the case Apple should check if all the coins are counterfeit. A copycat is a copycat however good or bad the resulting copy.
posted on 29 August at 12:04
I should support Samsung, because with same technology samsung is providing cell phone in lower price.
posted on 29 August at 11:45
I am wondering if samsung was not able to pay this amount, they should have taken loan from bank or something .. but the went after BEGGING and collected this amount in cents ... i wonder how many samsung employees went for begging ...
posted on 29 August at 11:21
I see Ban Ki-Moon, Teo Chee Hean and Donald Rumsfeld having a good time in the picture, along with 2 obviously military men. Are people really so ignorant that they believe this story?