and not nickels? Is this satire?

...Satire: trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly.

This story is just a figment of someone's imagination. Given the weight of a nickel, multiplying by 20,000,000,000 and then dividing by the capacity of a standard dump truck (26 tons), more than 3,500 trucks would be required.

As far as the coins in the picture, they look like pennies and probably are pennies.

But you have to sell your soul to AT&T in order to use it.

How fucking childish.

...is even more childish. Shit, I was creating icons with rounded corners long before anyone had ever thought up the iPhone.

people love to hate Apple

As a proud owner of two Samsung Galaxy tablets and a Samsung smartphone, I salute them!

suggesting that, like the iphone and ipad, these coins have curved edges and that the US mint had infringed on Apple's intellectual property.

Do you know what this country needs today?

A seven cent nickel. Yes siree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near 100 years daylight saving. Now why not give the seven cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we can have an eight cent nickel. Think what that would mean? You could go to a newsstand, buy a three cent newspaper, and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a life-time.

Samsung's vowed to appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court; until the case is finally decided for good nobody's paying anybody anything.

Not the judgement itself.

Apple would have had the last laugh. Every nickel contains about 6 cents of metal. Worth the effort to melt down that many.

Even as they're looking at a shipment of pennies, they buy into the nickels story. Amazing.