I agree with StevenJ... "That being said, I don't feel sorry for Samsung, Only Samsung customers who can't get a device now. "
I'm not really worried about the financial impact on Samsung but the inconvenience to customers wanting to get one of these banned products.... and for any other company trying to bring innovation to the mobile computing market. What ever happened to Apple's new CEO (Tim Cook his name?) saying he'd drop the war against Android?
Apple pulled this same stunt and got the older Galaxy phones banned in the EU because of some idiot judge in Germany. Their distribution channel was based over there, so getting it banned in Germany blocked sales to all of the EU. During that case, if I remember right, Samsung showed slides of a very iPad looking device in both "Star Trek" and "2001 A Space Odyssey" claiming that Apple indeed was not the first or even second entity to come up with the idea of a tablet-type computer. Not sure how much difference it made in the case but it's a very valid point nonetheless. iPad wasn't a revolution in itself; getting the hardware components small enough to make a device like that possible was the only innovation on their part. Which itself is made far less impressive knowing the conditions their Foxconn factory workers are under and their lack of a comprehensive environmentally friendly policy for their product life cycles. Many smaller companies focus much more on environmentally friendly manufacturing, distribution, and product recycling programs.