Comment Re:Pro-tip: Read the retraction before posting... (Score 2) 151
The company's blog actually contradicts this: http://www.nt-k.com/blog/
This started back in November 2010, when customs blocked import due to a request from Apple. An official notice was sent to the spanish company from Apple requesting they destroy the tablets. (Funny how they expected this to be done if they were blocked by customs...).
On the 9th of December Apple officially fully took the case to court as they'd warned they would unless the action (destroying the blocked import) was taken.
The spanish company is now seeking compensation as they've had their import blocked for a full year, and have actually apparently been added to a blacklist of importers. They're a small company, and deeply troubled by the fact Apple has been able to manage to do this.
Notice they aren't the manufacturer, but a small distributor. They've probably incurred a great loss on this. One full year of market value at least, plus missing delivery dates on their customers.
This started back in November 2010, when customs blocked import due to a request from Apple. An official notice was sent to the spanish company from Apple requesting they destroy the tablets. (Funny how they expected this to be done if they were blocked by customs...).
On the 9th of December Apple officially fully took the case to court as they'd warned they would unless the action (destroying the blocked import) was taken.
The spanish company is now seeking compensation as they've had their import blocked for a full year, and have actually apparently been added to a blacklist of importers. They're a small company, and deeply troubled by the fact Apple has been able to manage to do this.
Notice they aren't the manufacturer, but a small distributor. They've probably incurred a great loss on this. One full year of market value at least, plus missing delivery dates on their customers.
