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Apple Cutting Back on Memory Chip Orders from Samsung
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False analogy. Do you buy your Fords from Honda? Do you ride Boeing airplanes made by Airbus?
Never trust all your component sourcing to one supplier. If so, you leave your business vulnerable from a negotiation and disaster standpoint.
It's just good business for Apple. Screwing Samsung is a side benefit.
It's just good business for Apple. Screwing Samsung is a side benefit.
Some truth in there, keep in mind though, that Samsung is a leading supplier for good reasons.
Some of their technology is industry-leading.
Don't belittle their parts quality, there's a reason Apple initially chose them over others.
Glassed Silver:mac
I'm using smartctl to query the values.
Using and older version of this document to decode:
http://www.micron.com/~/media/Docum... Storage/tnfd10_p400e_SMART_firmware_0142.pdf
The attribute ID for percentage of lifetime remaining is 0xCA.
While looking for it, it seems Kingston has one too for their SF-2000 based one. Dunno if it applies to all Sandforce firmwares since I don't have a SF-2000-based drive:
http://media.kingston.com/support/downloads/MKP_306_SMART_attribute.pdf
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The Macbook Pro Retina screens are from LG.
The screens with the image retention that are bringing the word "recall " to the lips of many are manufactured by LG.
The Retina screens that everyone wants are manufactured by Samsung. Some refer to this realty as the "Samsung Lottery ".
The only way a company like Samesung can learn to innovate, is to place them in a position where innovation is necessary for survival.
It starts now.
Let's see what they do.
My money is on Samsung going "litigation happy" and going back to business as usual. But I would love to be proven wrong.
It starts now.
Let's see what they do.
My money is on Samsung going "litigation happy" and going back to business as usual. But I would love to be proven wrong.
LOL, the children in this thread are hilarious.
Jeez, did Samsung come into your house and rape your family?
The children in here talk as if though they are the owners of Apple. Such blind loyalists.
http://beta.fool.com/kprogers/2012/09/10/why-samsung-doesnt-need-apple/11683/
Granted, I don't agree with the bada OS statement. That OS is pretty much a speck of dirt in the world of smartphone OS's.
Fact of the matter is, both companies need each other. You think any of these other companies can produce the quality parts and number of parts like Samsung? How are those Sharp LCD's coming along?
I can already predict the next replies in this thread.
"Apple should buy Samsung. Why doesn't Apple buy Samsung?"
HAHAHA.
Kids, enjoy technology. This is not baseball. We should enjoy all technology, not just one company's technology. Are we now rooting for our favorite technology company? Pathetic.
What's funny is that most of the Apple loyalists making all of these absurd comments in this forum only registered for this forum within the past year.
Jeez, did Samsung come into your house and rape your family?
The children in here talk as if though they are the owners of Apple. Such blind loyalists.
http://beta.fool.com/kprogers/2012/09/10/why-samsung-doesnt-need-apple/11683/
Granted, I don't agree with the bada OS statement. That OS is pretty much a speck of dirt in the world of smartphone OS's.
Fact of the matter is, both companies need each other. You think any of these other companies can produce the quality parts and number of parts like Samsung? How are those Sharp LCD's coming along?
I can already predict the next replies in this thread.
"Apple should buy Samsung. Why doesn't Apple buy Samsung?"
HAHAHA.
Kids, enjoy technology. This is not baseball. We should enjoy all technology, not just one company's technology. Are we now rooting for our favorite technology company? Pathetic.
What's funny is that most of the Apple loyalists making all of these absurd comments in this forum only registered for this forum within the past year.
Right. Apple's dependence on samsung this year alone increased 60% to over 7 billion. The most this will do is cut back on some of this years increase. I'm sure it will really hurt samsung.
Exactly. Apple cares no more about them than Samsung does. They are a profit driven company just as they all are, I will never understand how people think they are somehow a family member.
Buy, like and use the products but don't think they care about you except for your money.
On the other hand, Samsung is the school bully, with three convictions for price fixing this year alone, having used patents instead of innovation against multiple competitors in the last years, and now they try to get a monopoly on the LTE phone market through patents (which of course cannot work, since lots of companies, including Apple, also have lots of LTE patents).
So they copied Apple (school bully), Apple complains (little whining child), the teacher gives the school bully detention ($1bn fine), and the school bully threatens to beat up the little whining child (LTE patent threat).
At what point in this did you decide that Apple is a "horrible, horrible" company? Did you see how different Apple and Samsung react to reports of bad working conditions in China? Apple has for the last five years tried to find out about companies hiring underage employees, reported about it, forced companies to pay compensation, stopped contracts with companies that don't seem to learn, and as a result the situation has improved with Apple's contractors. Samsung however, just states that "we don't have any evidence of companies hiring underage employees". Because they don't give a damn, and they think that closing their eyes will get rid of the problem.
And, of course, less sales are always better than more sales, especially when we're talking about many hundreds of millions of dollars?
