For those of you who don't read the fine print on the articles that get published here, Samsung, nor Apple dropped anyone. They couldn't come to terms on price because Samsung needed to get more margins to offset the USD currency crash (evidenced by a doubling of prices for food, fuel, metals) by D-FEDGOV deficit spending, and to cover the increased labor costs in Asia (^15% annually). Apple tried to compress those costs and they came to an impasse.
Apple also is tightly controlling costs on their remaining suppliers who are lucky if they have 10% margins.
I think Samsung is an evil, unethical copycat, and is good at it, but they are also at the same time, a world class quality manufacturer with massive capacity.
They are the ones starting the war based on specs and price, not winning the war based on overall device capability and value.
When consumers pick sides in that war they are funding their "team". Choose wisely not blindly.
Rocketman