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.
Keep up to date to see how Apple will
respond to this.
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