Apple cuts back chip orders from Samsung, the war rages on

07 September, 2012
Various sources claim Apple is reducing the volume of its mobile component orders from Samsung.

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  • 11 Sep 2012

Is the garbled interpretation of "prior art" how the nine jurors decided that Apple deserved $1 billion+?

The software on the Apple side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art, and vice versa. That means they are not interchangeable. That changed everything right there. Got that? Yeah, neither did I.
If Apple was planning to do something "insanely great" with the upcoming iPhone 5, this might not matter. The first iPhone earned that label, but each successive release seems to set the bar a bit lower.

The last time Apple found itself Jobs-less, it fell into the habit of protecting its margins at the expense of real innovation.
Steve Jobs isn't around to help Apple should it eventually stumble again. The company has to get over its defensiveness and be insanely great instead of just insanely litigious.
I drive a Hyundai i20. I hope Apple don’t ban this car. Maybe Apple owns the letter i, or maybe they copied that along with all the other stuff they copied and now claim they own all the rights to...

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    • 11 Sep 2012

    i5, 11 Sep 2012mate i think that using a iphone has effected your brian. ... moreSorry, you need to be looking at after tax profit, cash on hand, market capitalisation, and essentually profit per mobile. Certainly Apple generates a far greater margin on their mobiles than does Samsung. Samsung is like a retailer of food - it is a volumes game to them. Luckly for Samsung they can also build WP8 devices which are likely to blow the market apart, with Android and Apple left behind. The market is a fickle and Apple seems to be resting on its laurels and with WP8 on the go that has to been a dumb move on their behalf. A new iphone 5 might be too little too late if it cannot even match or be better than the hardware and software of the Nokia Lumina 920. In other words, Apple may have already lost the percention it is the innovator. Pity really.

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      • Anonymous
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      • 11 Sep 2012

      lets be real here apple makes a very decent product( well they get others to build it for them.) but alot of companies make decent products. but these apple lawyers and execs are going crazy suing every major player in the industry. there is no reason for that. apple is against innovation, and competition. but i give them credit for bringing out the original iphone, for a first attempt it was very well rounded off, and very user friendly( maybe it was for the american crowd) and the competition took notice.

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        • Anonymous
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        • 11 Sep 2012

        apple choose samsung to be their major parts supplier because samsung is reliable and make the best quality products in quantity. i think apple is making a mistake on letting its lawyers go crazy. soon none of the big players are gonna want to do business with them. and apple lost alot of creditbility with the consumers.

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          • Anonymous
          • sfQ
          • 11 Sep 2012

          apple is all hype. they are great at 2 things. marketing and suing.

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            • Anonymous
            • sfQ
            • 11 Sep 2012

            apple is full of lawyers, maketing agents, and accountants. they didn't know what a mobile phone was 5 yrs ago and they still don't know how to make a phone by themselves. that is why they need all these other manufacturers to put their phone together.

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              • 11 Sep 2012

              ken, 10 Sep 2012But Apple have more money than Samsung. Maybe they'll just ... moremate i think that using a iphone has effected
              your brian. if u hink apple has more money then samsung

              apple share price 670.00
              samsung 1275000 Korea market convert to us 1027.00 per share
              price.

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                • 11 Sep 2012

                Only 2 days prior to new iphone announcement.
                This new iphone better be smarter, larger screen, more advance and cutting edge than Galaxy S3.

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                  • 11 Sep 2012

                  will lee wanta, 10 Sep 2012hmm... allow me to correct you iphone is not the first mob... moreYou have both misunderstood my point. Of course, they weren't the first to put a music player in a phone. They were the first to provide a seamless interface within the software, with an extended battery life, and a relatively large storage space.

                  This I think sums up the iPhone as a whole.

                  I am not saying it was the first to individually display these features in a phone. However, they were the first to put them into a seamless package that was attractive to the markets beyond geeks and older children.

                  You may hate the iPhone and Apple (I am certainly not a fan), however you must allow it to stand for the ground it broke within the mobile market.

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 11 Sep 2012

                    johnmathias22@yahoo., 10 Sep 2012one among of phone i priciacion to used is i phone 5 is a... morefor you it just might be a revolution.
                    perhaps with iPhone 5 you could create better sentences? or perhaps iPhone can help you with your grammar and spelling.
                    hahaha
                    it's iCrap for people who have brains. :)

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                      • 11 Sep 2012

                      Such a greedy corp like Apple still need Asian company to provide CHEAP components and also CHEAP manufacturing cost but sell their products at high price.

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                        • 11 Sep 2012

                        Anonymous, 10 Sep 2012apple didn't even know what a mobile phone was just 5 yrs a... moreExtremely agree with your opinion, I hate them.

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 10 Sep 2012

                          Anonymous, 08 Sep 2012samsung is dumb...they rather spend millions n millions fig... moreYeah let us tell you. Its so dumb to fight back and defend yourself to a bully relentlessly attacking as opposed to just sitting there and letting them take you for everything you are. Glad there are smart people like you

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 10 Sep 2012

                            Anonymous, 08 Sep 2012Not quit... you see since "Sammy" sucks... and Go... moreWow.....lol. example of true patheticness

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                              • 10 Sep 2012

                              one among of phone i priciacion to used is i phone 5 is a revolution of communication human being how can succeed communication, i phone 5 campony is become to beat samsung and ather phone, can,t compare iphone 5 is clear

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 10 Sep 2012

                                Anonymous, 08 Sep 2012Designed by AppleWrong.

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                                  • 10 Sep 2012

                                  Anonymous, 10 Sep 2012hmm... what does apple have for them to brag?? they only h... moreBut Apple have more money than Samsung. Maybe they'll just buy Samsung and then shut them down! And just keep the factories for making iphones.

                                  Would you like that?

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                                    • Anonymous
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                                    • 10 Sep 2012

                                    Adomas, 07 Sep 2012You're kidding right? Since when did samsung start producin... moreSince they started making products. Uduh. Since when did you think you had brain cells?

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                                      • john mathias
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                                      • 10 Sep 2012

                                      i phone5 is very fantastic phone can,t compare with athors phone, i priciation a i phone 5 is revolution of communication, iven we need remember that man who call stive is among who lets us to know idea of human being how can building mind and done best things like iphone 5 my conclusion is lets us to to provide cooparation how can buy iphone 5 lets us big market,God keep peace ertenal stive amina

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                                        • 10 Sep 2012

                                        AnonD-49280, 10 Sep 2012Samsung have Bada which is their own?They should stick to andriod and or windows. Bada never flew off.