In an Australian federal court on Tuesday, an agreement between the court and Samsung means Apple will continue to be able to sell its iPhone 4S Down Under throughout the holiday season and into 2012 before facing the possibility of an injunction.
Samsung agreed with a suggestion from the court to change its request for a temporary injunction into an expedited application for a full injunction, the legitimacy of which will be determined at a hearing in March 2012.
Samsung released a brief statement (via The Australian) about the decision, indicating that it’s happy with the arrangement:
Samsung is pleased with this outcome as we believe expediting the main proceedings will be the most effective way for Samsung to protect our intellectual property rights and bring about a final resolution to this case.
It’s unclear whether Illinois moron Michael Alan Skopec was drunk beyond belief or had just returned home from a lobotomy, but either way, he was angry! Why? IPHONE NO WORK. So, naturally, he called 911. Repeatedly. Here are the tapes.
The Smoking Gun got its hands on the pathetic, slurred, semi-coherent pleas for help after police released them to a public eager to laugh at drunk people. “How ‘bout I smash this phone on the floor?,” Skopec asks. We wonder—what phone was he calling from? A second iPhone? A landline? Was the iPhone really broken, or had he tried to drink part of it?