The limited ability to introduce major hardware improvements puts more pressure on Samsung to address one of its biggestweaknesses in its fight against Apple: software.
The biggestweaknesses regarding hourly billing that law firms should seek to address are that there is no certainty over the final cost (according to 94% of in-house lawyers), and that the arrangement provides no incentive to be quick and efficient (82%).
Ms Gelmini's supporters hope that she will use it to redress the crippling imbalances in education, which is one of Italy's biggest structural economic weaknesses.