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Samsung Troll Apple :D

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eu.exodus
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
South Africa1186 Posts
August 31 2012 17:11 GMT
#1
YOYO!!!


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.



http://en.paperblog.com/samsung-pays-apple-1-billion-sending-30-trucks-full-of-5-cents-coins-294795/


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A guy can wish right? That would be so fucking epic!!!! Just thought I should share this...


Happy Friday everyone (in my part of the world anyway) Hope everyone has an awesome weekend! Play hard... Party harder!!!


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theBALLS
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Singapore2935 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-31 17:14:28
August 31 2012 17:14 GMT
#2
I hope you don't actually believe this story

ok i guess not!
If you lose the stick, you'll always have theBALLS.
eu.exodus
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
South Africa1186 Posts
August 31 2012 17:16 GMT
#3
On September 01 2012 02:14 theBALLS wrote:
I hope you don't actually believe this story

ok i guess not!


LOL no way dude! If ever there was a way to give Apple a gigantic Fuck You, this would probably be the best way
6 poll is a good skill toi have
Vaelone
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Finland4400 Posts
August 31 2012 17:44 GMT
#4
I wish this was true so bad but we can't have all the good things, still made me smile.

In theory would 30 trucks even be enough for billion worth of 5 cent coins?
amazingxkcd
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
August 31 2012 18:00 GMT
#5
24 trucks would do the trick, but 30 trucks is a safe measure so that coins don't fall out during the ride there
The world is burning and you rather be on this terrible website discussing video games and your shallow feelings
Iranon
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States983 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-31 18:12:21
August 31 2012 18:07 GMT
#6
On September 01 2012 02:44 Vaelone wrote:
I wish this was true so bad but we can't have all the good things, still made me smile.

In theory would 30 trucks even be enough for billion worth of 5 cent coins?


Haha, I doubt it. Unless I screwed up the calculation, 20 billion nickels is about half a million cubic feet of coins, and weighs over a hundred thousand tons.

Edit: for those interested, a nickel weighs 5 grams, and is about 700 mm^3... Also, I doubt think there even are that many nickels in existence. Edit 2: ah, the post below me looked this story up -- interesting to know that there are nearly almost many nickels in existence, that's a bit surprising.
MaxSteel
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
78 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-31 18:11:49
August 31 2012 18:09 GMT
#7
For the few who actually believe this story - here you go:
[image loading]

TL;DR;IALA
(I'm a lazy ass)
It'd take 1352 "magic" tracks, and 4269 avarage tracks.
And after all that, Apple has the right to chose the method of payment, so they could leave the tracks with all their nickels and request a check.
Herpaderp
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
August 31 2012 18:41 GMT
#8
There was already a thread on this a few days ago and the response was split between LOL and Not Real. GMarshal (I believe) closed it eventually on the grounds that it was not real.
우정호 KT_VIOLET 1988 - 2012 While we are postponing, life speeds by
Gladiator6
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden7024 Posts
August 31 2012 19:04 GMT
#9
It gave me a good laugh
Flying, sOs, free, Light, Soulkey & ZerO
iTzSnypah
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1738 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-31 19:28:37
August 31 2012 19:06 GMT
#10
If they do it, they should be in dimes. Smaller coin and worth twice as much.

EDIT: Also a semi truck pulling 2 trailers can gross out to 105,000 pounds (in Washington state) while still being legal, so if they used those instead of dump trucks it would only take ~ 2200 trucks.

EDIT2: A Dime weighs 2.268 grams. 2.268*10.5B=52500883.11lbs

So it would only take 500 semi's of dimes...

EDIT3: Each semi would hold 2.1M worth of dimes. The security and rate the truck driver would charge, you're probably looking at about a transportation cost of $10,000 per truck. 10000*500=5,000,000 in just transportation costs... Thats an extra .5% cost to Samsung, not worth the troll value.
Team Liquid needs more Terrans.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44447 Posts
August 31 2012 20:13 GMT
#11
On September 01 2012 03:09 MaxSteel wrote:
For the few who actually believe this story - here you go:
[image loading]

TL;DR;IALA
(I'm a lazy ass)
It'd take 1352 "magic" tracks, and 4269 avarage tracks.
And after all that, Apple has the right to chose the method of payment, so they could leave the tracks with all their nickels and request a check.


Bitches all just got math'd. Mwahahaha ^^

Even quarters would make no sense, by the way.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
wtfSurprise
Profile Joined August 2012
United States12 Posts
August 31 2012 22:05 GMT
#12
Hats off to the guy on facebook who actually calculated this out. Too bad samsung can't/won't do this, would be epic.
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