Easy Tim... save the hate for your personal affairs. Doesn't belong in the biz world.
It's not about hate. It's a strategic business decision to prevent your largest rival from continually ripping off your intelectual property.
Easy Tim... save the hate for your personal affairs. Doesn't belong in the biz world.
So, move that $7-8 billion to other Chinese firms and hope they don't follow in Samsung's footsteps through consumer iDevice knockoffs? Chinese firms flush with new cash NOT creating knockoffs? Think about it.
The revenge of "hurting" Samsung just creates several more Samsungs.
Disagree. Apple need to learn how to work with companies.
Samsung will never forget what Apple did to it (him) and there will never be peace between these two companies again.
If Apple avoids using Samsung merely because of the IP cold war between the two companies, then it certainly hurts Apple. Having fewer component manufacturers to negotiate with reduces Apple's bargaining power, may increase component supply costs, and could limit Apple's access to the best available components. I, for one, hope that this is not true.
In the end this is probably hurting Samsung more than Apple
please tell me your joking or a shareholder.
This clearly hurts Samsung more than Apple. Sure, Samsung makes great displays and chips. But, without fore knowledge of what Apple is designing, the next "innovative" Samsung product will hit the market much later.
Samsung doesn't "create" much of anything, really.
I own Apple (or, more accurately, a tiny piece of it).
Apple exists to take money out of your pocket and to put it into mine. So far, they have been doing that quite well. Apple can get away with just about anything, and people keep buying and buying and buying, because they know that owning Apple products means that they are cooler and better than other people.
So trust that those new Chinese partners won't want to follow Samsung's very profitable lead into consumer iDevice-like products? Trust Chinese companies won't use the new cash to fund knockoff iDevices? Don't those new partners already make Android-based phones?
Is that why Apple has become the biggest and most profitable company in the history of the world? Do tell!
Most people probably don't realize that this hurts Apple more than Samsung. Bad business move by Apple.
it's called cutting your nose off to spite your face
If Apple avoids using Samsung merely because of the IP cold war between the two companies, then it certainly hurts Apple. Having fewer component manufacturers to negotiate with reduces Apple's bargaining power, may increase component supply costs, and could limit Apple's access to the best available components. I, for one, hope that this is not true.
Is that why Apple has become the biggest and most profitable company in the history of the world? Do tell!
In the end this is probably hurting Samsung more than Apple
How can keeping your main competitor from being able to hold you supply hostage be a bad thing.Most people probably don't realize that this hurts Apple more than Samsung. Bad business move by Apple.
Won't this cause big problems for Samsung's profits? It was my understanding that Apple pays Samsung millions of $ to produce parts. I know Samsung will probably stay afloat with TV and smartphone sales but they're surely become a whole load less wealthy because of this?
Agreed, Apple with the removal of the YouTube app(I know it's in the AppStore), Google Maps, and now the shift to lower quality displays seems to have forgotten about the consumers needs, and wants. This is all to spite the competition, and nothing more. Sad really.