PaperBlog – 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.
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The amount of nickels required to make up $1 Billion would be the same as 84% of all coins currently in circulation.
…would have been cool if it were true.
False! Just did a quick calculation. That would be 7,652 standard loads for a 13 tonne dump truck. Clever idea ‘though!
Really Samsung peoples use cheap tricks. now they shown they real face. thats the thing i hate samsung..
Well how got caught with their pants down?
A five cent piece weights 5.0gram, just weight the container empty, weight it full, substrack the weight of the container from the total and then divide the rest by 5.0gram, that’s how many 5cents pieces are in there. Take that number and then divide by 20, that’s how many dollars are in the tub. C’mon samsung… that’s so childish.
Hahah, that’s great. Kind of like something The Onion would publish.
USD$1.05B = 21 000 000 000 nickels.
The average nickel weighs 5g.
An average dump truck in the US can carry 13 tons.
It would take 8077 dump trucks to carry that many nickel.
Renting a truck and driver costs $90/h. Lets assume each load takes 2 hours and that there are no break-downs, and no one has to go for gas (all very generous assumptions. That would cost Samsung $726,930. That’s basically a quarter-million dollar prank.
WIN!
Lulz!!!!
epic win
tooo funny, lmao
so gullible story…….
iOS – incapacity of samsung!)) Let the coins rain, the currency count
HE WOULD BE DEAD
The value of this Billion Dollars in nickels would LARGELY surpass it’s face value. Imagine how many ”errors coins” with some of them valued well over $1000 apiece, could be contained in 20 Billions of coins.
I am sure that Apple will come up with an app that can count all the nickels that Samsung sent over using Square!
Now why in the world would I want to follow a blog that carries false stories??? *fail*
samsung is filing an appeal
If this were true apple would have made out great. A nickel is worth $0.07 in raw material so not counting what it would have cost Samsung in freight costs they overpaid by 400 million.
21 000 000 000 billion nickels is 81% of all the nickles the us mint ever created. this is a lie.
It is an childish act, out of frustration ?
Apple will keep Samsung smart phones out of US market as well.
See who is laughing.
Lesson learn: Create your own, DO NOT COPY, Chinese will be next.
I would guess it is pennies also.
If I were in charge of the pay back operation I would use about 50% pennies and a fraction of Susan B’s and a few 50 cent pieces. This would prevent Apple from being able to count their payment by weight and it takes special auto counters to receive those coins.
are you people really that sad to go on
about a fake story and turn it into a math
lesson. grow up and stop feeding the twats who made the story up.
Oh come on now.It’s funny!
Weigh the coins and do some sample checks if there are fakes coins inside. If yes sue them again….
The people who fact checked this and did the math are awesome, the people who got upset about this being fake are ridiculous (OF COURSE IT’S FAKE… but it’s FUNNY), and those who actually believed it are retarded… as well as probably republican since they will believe anything and have absolutely no critical thinking skills.
The picture shows 1c coins which are copper. 5c coins are silver….. not to mention that they would have needed a lot more trucks than 30….. this article is a fake.
who knows if they are even coins. they could be punch outs from electrical boxes used by electricians for all you or any other democrat knows…pennies are not even copper anymore and 5 cent coins are not copper color. so my guess this is more bull$@*% to read like the rest of the news.
You gotta be a total idiot to first post this and second believe it!
hahahhaahhahaa………. this is crazy…….
Cant believe the amount of people so sad and with so little to do that they are actually taking the time to do the math.
Did they actually believe this? I guess so
That is a lot of coins, if it was true.
this is a viral post!!!
Thanks for this- it made me laugh!
it’s obviously fake, apple could have just refused the ‘nickels’ as it wouldn’t be legal tender, also that picture is of pennies
That’s probably the most original thought that Samsung has ever had.
its possible? its true?
Fuck Apple, hope all aplle users die in pain, or cancer crush their childs
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