Serious question. How does Samsung know what Apple is going to make? Are you implying that Apple, when sending over component requests, also include a file with their product roadmap? Or is Samsung able to figure out Apple's product information based on the specs of the components?
Genuinely curious.
Hey, can you supply 35 Million 5.5" retina displays a quarter starting with samples in March '14 and full production by May?
Also, can you build us 35 Million A8 processors? The schematics are attached.
Oh, and please quote 2GB of RAM at the same quantities.
I'm sure Apple obfuscates this as much as possible leaving competing products or specs as long as possible, but at some point they put in a build order and that is a raw information lead over the competitors. Sure Samsung says they have a firewall, but they don't even respect legal ones with regard to Apple, why would a self imposed one mean anything to them?