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

30 November, 2012
A speculated hunt by Apple for a new semiconductor manufacturing partner could be a long and complex process.

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  • 01 Dec 2012

well samsung should of done this years ago. i cant believe apple suing the company who supplies them with chips.

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    • Anonymous
    • j1H
    • 01 Dec 2012

    Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Apple is money eater company.It uses more than 90% of othe... moreYou've never actually looked at the history of Samsung have you. Most people outside of S. Korea don't understand the power and corruption of chaebols.

    Samsung was built on price fixing, gov't official bribery (which gave them favorable treatment) and copying others. The Verge even had an recent article on it. It's easy to succeed when your protected in your home country from foreign competitors (ala WIPI).

    http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3709688/samsung-25-years-lee-kun-hee

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      • q8Q
      • 01 Dec 2012

      emmory, 01 Dec 2012you are way back with how techs works..... samsung, Lg ,son... moreNo. It's just as they said. You gotta wise up and realize that Apple does not invent all those parts. If they really designed all them then could've just started making it all themselves. But they don't and can't. Plus on top of that they wouldn't be the other companies product. It would be a special new apple product which is 99% never the case. It's either a replica of the companies or a slightly altered version. So where is Apple designing? And if Apple manufactures nothing while all others are innovating and inventing hardware and such then what's stops ty out from thinking apple e'er is buying their parts???

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        • Nw6
        • 01 Dec 2012

        Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Apple is money eater company.It uses more than 90% of othe... moreyou are way back with how techs works..... samsung, Lg ,sony may have the tools andb machnes of productions but may not have an inovations of what to produce. Apple does the researces of what you be place and how it should be and then leave it for samsung to make...its just the case of an Engineer and a technicians

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          • utb
          • 01 Dec 2012

          Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Apple is money eater company.It uses more than 90% of othe... moreexactly said

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            • Anonymous
            • ttv
            • 01 Dec 2012

            Apple is money eater company.It uses more than 90% of others parts with great technology ,mind,innovation and hard working of others and pretends to have been a pure.What are inside iphone,just samsung,lg,toshiba,sony,sharp etc.FOOL baby apple.

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              • AnonD-44743
              • ttv
              • 01 Dec 2012

              its easy to walk on some one foot rather than their own.am with apple, go a head and your own.........

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                • XuN
                • 01 Dec 2012

                By that time apple will only be known as a fruit nothing else.

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                  • Denzo
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                  • 01 Dec 2012

                  wwa, 01 Dec 2012if apple stop the lawshit then there would b less ihaters.Bro, Samsung now sues a lot of people too. Everywhere not just Apple. Get your facts straight.

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                    • YcF
                    • 01 Dec 2012

                    if apple stop the lawshit then there would b less ihaters.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • nD$
                      • 01 Dec 2012

                      dreck, 01 Dec 2012apple is leader in smart phones from the starting point whe... morelol, apple make profits.

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                        • t7X
                        • 01 Dec 2012

                        Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Apple's Net Income: 2010: $14 bil 2011: $25.9 bil 2012:... moreok troll. that's the income but

                        year.- unit sold
                        2010 - 47%
                        2011- 37%
                        2012- 32%

                        and according to news those who owned apple phone just updated into new iphone and others left.


                        when I combine the falling unit sold to the raising income. does that mean apples increasing price every year just to keep their pot full of money. poor ifans

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                          • t7X
                          • 01 Dec 2012

                          Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012There is a world of difference between: "inventor"... morewell explained. agree

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                            • t7X
                            • 01 Dec 2012

                            Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012So I guess you also hate Android since it belongs to Google... moreI thought americans are just capitalist. android/linux was first developed by a finnish. now you have an idea why nokia have had ruled the phones before.

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                              • 01 Dec 2012

                              dreck, 01 Dec 2012apple is leader in smart phones from the starting point whe... moreWell samsung makes almost all kinds of electronics and all of the electronics that apple makes 80% of its part are from samsung also samsung produce the latest smart tv which apple could not do

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                                • iLH
                                • 01 Dec 2012

                                AnonD-15085, 01 Dec 2012get it right for god sake- 1 iphone is not a smartphone any... more"so in conclusion" I think you've never heard about something called " jailbreak " .

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • sR1
                                  • 01 Dec 2012

                                  dreck, 01 Dec 2012apple is leader in smart phones from the starting point whe... moreWhat brsin do they have when they used other company lens for their iphone..........Msybe Cowbrain....

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • sR1
                                    • 01 Dec 2012

                                    dreck, 01 Dec 2012apple is leader in smart phones from the starting point whe... more...wrong....apple always thing they are superior and no one can have their compete with them, especially the Asians. Unfortunately The Koreans had made Apple to wake up from their dreams and to face with the nightmare......
                                    ...and more nightmare are awaiting them as The Koreans are coming up with their own and more superior chips.....

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                                      • a3u
                                      • 01 Dec 2012

                                      Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Apple is Apple, Samsung is Samsung, both corporations conce... moreI complettly agree with you! These(I mean all) companies only think up ways to rub out money from our pockets, they produce a new phone with just some thing new and charge you more than last time!
                                      Once I was a fan of nokia but they even dont let me(and all iranians) to download stuf from their app store, why should we like them when they dont like us!

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                                        • 01 Dec 2012

                                        dreck, 01 Dec 2012apple is leader in smart phones from the starting point whe... moreget it right for god sake- 1 iphone is not a smartphone anymore than Nokia with it's e-series or n-series phones and they have been around for longer so it's not the real leader that would be Nokia closely follow by RIM at the time of the 2g,3g phones. 2 apple copied RIM's app icon design and Nokia's design pattern with the black back and silver banded edge among others, and LG KE850 Prada had a capacitive touchscreen before the iphone. 3 I have a 4s and it's still not a smartphone, it has smart apps like siri but that's not really smart PLUS it's constantly tethered to itunes with no other way to import and export music apps and others to and from PC's and other phones from different manufactures and it's a money magnet for Apple and app creators, I've never seen so many adverts in so many app including bought one on any other device OS. so in conclusion the only smartphone is a a phone that makes calls, that's all of them... AS FOR COPYING LOOK AT HOW MUCH APPLE HAS COPIED FROM OTHERS.. Just remember Apple will fall and maybe the next smartphone giant will come from China or Belgium at a third of the price, Who knows!!!! Wishful thinking