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It could take Apple 12-18 months to break ties with Samsung

30 November, 2012 | Read the news | Post your comment
It could take Apple 12-18 months to break ties with Samsung - read the full textIn light of all the recent legal drama between Apple and Samsung, it's rumored that the Cupertino-based tech giant could be in the search for someone else to manufacture the proprietary Ax SoCs found in its smartphones and tablets. Tech analyst Amit Daryanani says that the steps need to overhaul...

 

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Samsung earns about 1% of it's yearly revenue from sales to Apple,yes they are their biggest corporate customer but can easily afford to lose them.Apple are too short sighted and hypocritcal for words in everything they say and do in the business world and I have to admire Samsung for being as patient with them as they have been.
Samsung got this contract because no one else could meet the quality control standards,the delivery times and quantities demanded by Apple.Why would anyone be stupid enough to cut off business relations with their greatest asset? I know if I was running a manufacturing company,I'd be VERY careful who I made my friends and who I made my enemies.

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  • 2012-11-30 21:39
  • 3GCn

in a way its all Apple fault they started with the lawsuits
i really hope that this step will take them years back

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  • 2012-11-30 21:30
  • S0Cm

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-11-30 20:12 from 3apr - click to readapple isn't going with intel either, theyre alreadying ditching them in their macbooks

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  • 2012-11-30 21:29
  • q{pE

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-11-30 21:09 from 3KX% - click to readiDevices pull-down notification, camera shortcut on lockscreen, reject phone calls with messages, etc are all stolen ideas. Apple can't even come up with their own names. Apple from Beatles Apple Corp., iPad, iPhone, iPod, Lighting.

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  • 2012-11-30 21:25
  • Bqx5

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-11-30 21:09 from 3KX% - click to readDude, Samsung makes mobile phones since year 1988 that's 19 years ahead of the Apple which only started making their first mobile phone named iPhone in 2007.
Instead Apple was almost bankrupt in that year while Samsung was already envisioned a bright mobile future.

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  • 2012-11-30 21:25
  • Jh{d

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-11-30 21:09 from 3KX% - click to readiDevice components including batteries, flash memories, processors and displays are made by Samsung.

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  • 2012-11-30 21:18
  • Bqx5

> In reply to [deleted post]Samsung is the biggest and stupid copy cat company in the world.
Second, Samsung don't make quality products.

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  • 2012-11-30 21:09
  • 3KX%

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-11-30 20:13 from 4$ve - click to readI don't have a single Samsung product, so now what?

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  • 2012-11-30 21:04
  • M{4I

> In reply to Ass Kicker @ 2012-11-30 20:18 from 7qCS - click to readYes, but that's not the only reason. Samsung doesn't want to stop selling chipsets to Apple because Apple is probably their biggest customer and they're probably making billions of dollars a year. You wouldn't want to lose your biggest customer, right?

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  • 2012-11-30 20:56
  • p@BC

They will do fine, as Apple, for some strange reason was able to develop their own a6 chip.

also this just in

http://9to5mac.com/2012/11/28/...t-for-apple/

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  • 2012-11-30 20:36
  • Rn6R

Hi, i love android and i already have a galaxy s2, but i don't hate apple. Coz there is no need to be a hatter.and i think that both companies will be affected in bad way.it is only my opinion.

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  • 2012-11-30 20:28
  • Hxi2

would it be better to say samsung will break tie with apple, haha :)

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  • 2012-11-30 20:24
  • t7Xk

> In reply to Bone @ 2012-11-30 19:36 from M{4I - click to readDo you think samsung is such a dumbass or money hungry to proceed HW manufacturing for apple evn after these issues ? No they Both have signed the contract agreement.Otherwise sammy would have given them a fk off sign.

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  • 2012-11-30 20:18
  • 7qCS

> In reply to Bone @ 2012-11-30 19:36 from M{4I - click to readI cant believe how dumb u are? Do know how big fines Samsung as a vendor would end up paying Apple for the move like this? How old are you? 10?

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  • 2012-11-30 20:14
  • 0Fm5

> In reply to Bone @ 2012-11-30 19:36 from M{4I - click to readIt would be so interesting if some of you overly emotional Samsung fanboys actually ran the company. They would be out of busIness in a couple of years max.

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  • 2012-11-30 20:13
  • 4$ve

if apple does leave samsung totally or they don't go with intel, for one thing apples quality of their chips will go down hill and it'll take them years to get back to where they are now and probably by that time apple will be broke so they are planing their own destruction

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  • 2012-11-30 20:12
  • 3apr

relationship between the two companies has now gone from bad to worse. Situations like this never favours any one, the time frame for Apple to resolve this issue is not one month! Samsung needs the money as well because in business, a cent is important. Consumers on other hand is affected by all of this. For God sake ' APPLE and SAMSUNG', STOP THIS!!! Is taking us no where!!!

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  • 2012-11-30 20:02
  • N9@T

Not good for either company.. at the end of the day it means less money in the short term.. someone is going to lose here.

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  • 2012-11-30 19:51
  • sy9x

If Apple would do so they realy keep up the act of drama queen they currently do. I guess it will hurt the semiconductor part of Samsung for a while, Apple is a big customer. Money talks, we will see where this ends.

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  • 2012-11-30 19:50
  • n%fU

Is there have any place in the world where s3 and note 2 not makes there makes great positions.then what apple will do there.

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  • 2012-11-30 19:47
  • t}AJ
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