"Apple's major foe is, however, still Samsung and it appears that there may be no settlement in sight for that dispute."
No kidding. Samsung lost the war. They're fast will a billion dollars in damages that they must pay Apple. They're going to do everything they can including spending that billion dollars on lawyers to avoid paying that billion dollars to Apple. In the end Samsung may lose twice over. Either way they're losers for having copied their customer's product and tried to sell it. This is making it so they're losing their customer too.
Regardless of whether or not they have to pay the billion dollars, they're not about to lose their customers. Just look at their profits from the last quarter.