Read the linked Note3 article, they list the apps that get this boost. There is nothing but benchmark apps(no games, productivity apps, anything-else)

Bingo! They only boosted benchmarks. In the linked article they didn't mention it, but in the Note3's benchmark breakdown they list the exact apps that are boosted(only benchmark apps). http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/galaxy-note-3s-benchmarking-adjustments-inflate-scores-by-up-to-20/

• com.aurorasoftworks.quadrant.ui.standard
• com.aurorasoftworks.quadrant.ui.advanced
• com.aurorasoftworks.quadrant.ui.professional
• com.redlicense.benchmark.sqlite
• com.antutu.ABenchMark
• com.greenecomputing.linpack
• com.greenecomputing.linpackpro
• com.glbenchmark.glbenchmark27
• com.glbenchmark.glbenchmark25
• com.glbenchmark.glbenchmark21
• ca.primatelabs.geekbench2
• com.eembc.coremark
• com.flexycore.caffeinemark
• eu.chainfire.cfbench
• gr.androiddev.BenchmarkPi
• com.smartbench.twelve
• com.passmark.pt_mobile
• se.nena.nenamark2
• com.samsung.benchmarks
• com.samsung.benchmarks:db
• com.samsung.benchmarks:es1
• com.samsung.benchmarks:es2
• com.samsung.benchmarks:g2d
• com.samsung.benchmarks:fs
• com.samsung.benchmarks:ks
• com.samsung.benchmarks:cpu

Not only is the ideal cloud hard to understand, it's very expensive and hard to implement. Just looking at the one piece of software he mentioned, Jira, it's rather difficult. Jira at least has a cloud based product, but it has different features(e.g. no project imports) which will disrupt their business and force them into different workflows... Setting up good data replication and backups can be difficult(often blind faith when dealing with these fully portable clouds) and testing portable-cloud backup systems usually requires some kind of voodoo.

The actual printing cost of any paperback where more than a thousand coppies are produced is a buck or two. You can print a single copy of a 6"x4" 100page paperback(color cover) for $5.25 at http://www.lulu.com/calculators/bookCalc.php?cid=publish_book

Publishing Newspaper and Magazines is one of the stereotypical tycoon industries..News/Magazine advertising revenue has plummeted since smartphones became popular. http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/04/free-fall-adjusted-for-inflation-print-newspaper-advertising-in-2012-was-lower-than-in-1950/

Compliance costs... like dealing with subpeonas from Parliament.

Employees cost at least 2x what their salary is, which is one of the many reason programmer freelancers get paid MUCH more.

The actual multiplier is ~2.7X http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-cost.html

The linked article doesn't say it, but other articles say Google may appeal this decision.

I hope they do appeal and don't let this sit as precedence, although it will likely cost them more than $200K just to try to fix this.

It's pretty screwed up that anyone could lose $200K for saying something thats true; sounds like the English/Australians should petition their governments. I'm glad I have no legal ties to those countries.

Actually, the USA version has twice the RAM(2GB vs 1GB) and is much faster per core so single-threaded things are much faster. The Benchmarks for quad core phones are nice, but real-world usage shows that a fast dual-core CPUs make a lot more sense(for both speed and power use).

I do hate how Samsung brands a bunch of different phones with the same tag... I'm guessing they are lumping them together for sales numbers. There were roughly 3 extremely different "Galaxy SII" phones stretching 2 CPUs, 3 GPUs, 2 screen sizes. The "Galaxy SIII" has two major models(so far) with either 1GB or 2GB of memory, quad or dual core CPUs, and 2 GPUs. While it's neat that Samsung lets you easily pull out the battery, it's probably easier to do it on an iPhone since you have to sort through at least a dozen incompatible batteries for the "Galaxy SII".

One thing to know is even the fastest microSD cards are much slower than the internal flash on an iPhone... Sadly, most Androids just use regular microSD tech for their internal storage.

Read Speeds

• microSD: 4-23MB/s
• Samsung Galaxy SIII: 11.8MB/s
• HTC One X+: 21.5MB/s
• iPhone4s: 38MB/s
• iPhone5: 100MB/s

iPhone benchmarks
microSD benchmarks
Android Benchmarks

That's definitely what happened last time

Be interesting to know how many times they can do this...

I think it's very possible he didn't intentionally lie. He did talk about a more-recent lawsuit he'd been involved in and the contract dispute was nearly 20 years ago(Samsung took a stake in Seagate in 2011).

Samsung is probably due a new trial for this though.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120923233451725

Even if you actually believe the numbers on the Shadowstats site, the month-month stats put the 90s between 5-10% and 2000-2012 is 5-13%.