Originally Posted by antbikerjl
That also shows very little. You need to understand that Samsung is BEHEMOTH of a company. What you fail to realize is the profits Samsung was making when Apple was barely making any years and years ago. Also, based on how most Asian providence work, Samsung DOES NOT need to account for their subsidiaries in their revenue/income/profit reports. So in essence, companies Samsung fully owns in one sense or another are not accounted for their balance sheets and reports.
EDIT: Heres a small piece of information:
"Veiled revenue Consolidated revenue is the sum of the revenues perceived by the company and the revenues from its subsidiaries all together. In FY 2009, Samsung Group had a revenue of 220 trillion KRW ($$172.5 billion), financial results are based on parent companies. In FY 2010, Samsung reported 280 trillion KRW($258 billion) worth of revenue, and 30 trillion KRW($27.6 billion) profit.(* Based upon a KRW=USD exchange rate of 1,084.5KRW per USD, the spot rate as of 19 August 2011) However, they also do not contain the revenues of overseas subsidiaries, and no one knows about real revenues."
Either way you look at it, Apple would be nowhere without Samsung in terms of technology due to Samsung's history of innovating key components used in everyday electronics. However, the same could be said that Samsung smartphones may also not be how they are today without seeing success from the iPhone...
I love the downvotes on this post. Reminds me of ostriches with their heads in the sand, only that they're now also going "grrrrrr....".