"samsung doesn't care about Apple"
Except that Apple is Samsung's biggest customer! In Fact if you have been paying attention they have recently cancelled plans to build a new fab plant
presumably due to decreasing chip sales!
The reason these companies are in business in the first place is they steal American ingenuity and than make inferior inexpensive versions of American
products and because the average American consumer could a give a crap
if their phone is a plastic cheap copy as longer as they save a few dollars.
What innovative product has come out of Korea lately?
IMO Japan and the US spend all the money on innovation, research and
product development and China and Korea take advantage of the work already
done for them without expecting to pay for the technology!
It seems everyone has a really poor memory! I remember the time before the iPhone came out and no phone had gestures or looked anything similar to the iPhone now every smart phone Samsung makes looks like a clone!
What about tablets? Was samsung making any touch screen based tablets before the iPad came out? Have you ever seen a galaxy in person? If that isn't a direct copy you must be blind and drinking the cool aid of samsung.
Shame on anyone taking the Samsung side that is exactly the underlying reason there has been a decline in this country. Everybody wants things for free or as cheaply as possible and does not recognize or reward hard work and ingenuity!! Think about the poor software engineer who gives his life at Apple
working 16 hour days developing "gestures" for the touch interface only to have his or her ideas stolen and used by other companies with no royalty paid or cost to the company!!!!
Be careful my friends since most manufacturing has already left the US all we have left is our intellectual property and if that is not protected we have nothing!!!
You clearly live in a fantasy world where apple actually gives a damn about the US economy ? They don't.
Who is building factories in the US and pumping billions in them ? In austin texas ? That's samsung, not apple. All apple did for the american economy is build a data center, a data center, seriously ? How many people does that employ ? Very little.
How many taxes does apple pay with their offshore accounting ? Not a lot.
How many people does apple employ outside of apple stores ? A lot of korean and chinese people yes.
Samsung (electronics / buildings / logistics) are pumping more money in the american economy than apple does, that's quite sad but true.
All apple does in the US is bring up the stock market, but the stock market is pure smoke to our curreny sick and real economy.
Just look at the apple stock, -20% in a month after a new product launch ?
That's just when "real" economy gets back at you.
Samsung hires about 25% of the korean people, they build whole cities and give jobs to hundreds and hundreds of people. Is Apple doing the same in its home country ? I don't think so.
Same goes on patents, Samsung has more money in R&D than the whole US research fund on technology and diseases. Meanwhile what is doing Apple ? Ho yea, sit on a 100bilion capitalization that is used for NOTHING and congratulate themselves and shareholders that a bubble stock is going up at wall street.
Americans can't just take all the benefits of global capitalization (hiring foxconn and low cost production suppliers to make their products and sell them at 300% of margin) and ask afterwards to their competitors or the US government to be protective with them. That's not honest in any way.
Apple could build the iPhones in the US if two years ago they had invested their market cap in factories and hiring people to do what foxconn is doing. And that would have a been a pride for america to work for Apple. They would build an iphone for maybe 300$ instead of 175$ but hey, wake up, they are selling them 700$, thats still about 400$ for R&D (which apple's is lowest amongst all companies) stocking and shipping PER iphone sold. Thats about 3 billion of cash in the box on the iphone 5 launch week end alone.
So please open your eyes and face the fact that Apple and Samsung are just two big corps who are there to make money out of your back. You don't have to love them, in fact you should hate them.
is not buying them, then it makes no difference if they can make them or not. Regardless, there are other people that make these things, It's just that at the moment it is better (for whatever reason) for Apple to source from Samsung.