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

Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012http://www.cultofmac.com/202858/heres-how-insane-apples-pro... moreDo you realize this only proves our point of Apple selling badly overpriced products, and YOU my friend, and your kind stuff Apple's pockets full of cash, whereas we regular folks caring about OUR OWN pocket buy those brands that's price tags are close to what their products and content are ACTUALLY WORTH - hence the lower profits.

Do you realize we are making the intelligent choice here, whereas you're desperately trying to justify your yearly $400 burn (that's what you pay for the logo)? Pat yourself on the back, your $400 has a great place in Apple's ocean of profit.

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    • Rn6
    • 01 Dec 2012

    Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012http://www.cultofmac.com/20285...ition-graph/ not clos... morehttp://www.cultofmac.com/202858/heres-how-insane-apples-profits-have-been-in-2012-next-to-their-competition-graph/
    woops sorry

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      • Anonymous
      • Rn6
      • 01 Dec 2012

      Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Don't you guys see that Apple needs Samsung desperately in ... morehttp://www.cultofmac.com/20285...ition-graph/


      not close sir. In fact, it's the exact opposite.

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        • AnonD-31444
        • tsJ
        • 01 Dec 2012

        Aplle main competitor is samsung! Where is samsung on the chart? Above apple so samsung is cut out? Beside, that is no surprise, the website is cultofmac, where isheep worship iSaint.

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          • Anonymous
          • Jh{
          • 01 Dec 2012

          Don't you guys see that Apple needs Samsung desperately in order to survive since they buy most of their components from them, while Samsung is kicking strong since 1938 the year they got founded they just have grown bigger and bigger since then.
          Apple is so tiny compared to Samsung that is even hard to compare.

          And those at Apple are nothing but a bunch o liars and deceivers and they spread their lies around the globe and try to deceive everyone, the lie being the biggest sin.
          But don't worry the day of God's judgment is close and all the liars and deceivers will receive God's wrath.

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            • uRF
            • 01 Dec 2012

            Apple doesn't want to Samsung to copy their tech and upgrade it while Apple send them the spec to Samsung to manufacture it. Samsung scare to lose so they know the Apple spec and so call "IMPROVE" it on their stuff.

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              • Anonymous
              • Rn6
              • 01 Dec 2012

              http://www.cultofmac.com/202858/heres-how-insane-apples-profits-have-been-in-2012-next-to-their-competition-graph/

              This is more less of a response to the trolls who think apple is going down.

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                • Tkt
                • 01 Dec 2012

                Fruitcake, 30 Nov 2012Samsung ought to dump Apple immediatly an make them Struggl... moreEver since apple entered the market all we have had is boring souless slab touchscreen smartfones...I am wholly bored with tapping at piece of glass,cheers apple you ruined the market for design all fones look the same,,sodding boring.

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                  • 01 Dec 2012

                  Samsung and Apple should be friends to fight of the WP.

                  Sue the tiles as copied Android widgets but in square blocks and Apple to sue for M$ using a touchscreen phone combining this into a product against Apple.

                  HOX+ uk user club (where lag is now a lie)

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                    • Yhd
                    • 01 Dec 2012

                    jinga, 30 Nov 2012relationship between the two companies has now gone from ba... more100% agree with you

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                      • Anonymous
                      • mc6
                      • 30 Nov 2012

                      Anonymous, 30 Nov 2012There is something very very special about SAMSUNG watch ou... moreThank you for showing the mindset of Samsung fanboys. It's to the point of cult/religious worship. You actually try to fit God into Samsung name.

                      I guess that why you guys get unreasonably angry when anyone commits blasphemy against your God.

                      (Of course, by assuming the apple is part of the Original Sin story, you're saying non-Abrahamic religions are also godless heathens. But we'll leave that topic for another day.)

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                        • 30 Nov 2012

                        Anonymous, 30 Nov 2012There is something very very special about SAMSUNG watch ou... moreAPPLE = sign of the biggest SIN and of the FALLEN ONES.
                        samsung= shamesung
                        but sony like no other

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Jh{
                          • 30 Nov 2012

                          There is something very very special about SAMSUNG watch out this:
                          SAM+SUN+G
                          SAM (ordinary man) + SUN (sun in the sky) + G (comes from God)
                          So SAMSUNG's name represents the order of things in this world.

                          While APPLE represents:
                          APPLE = sign of the biggest SIN and of the FALLEN ONES.

                          So SAMSUNG can only RISE while APPLE can only FALL.

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                            • 30 Nov 2012

                            Anonymous, 30 Nov 2012There's not enough chip Fabs in the world to supply the dem... moreExactly. The only one who'll get into trouble by ending the relationship is Apple, who'll have to work and spend very hard to come up with a new partner (expect all sorts of compatibility and reliability issues too), whereas Samsung will just say "next" and sell it's parts to whoever is in front of the line. Probably earning more profit too since Apple demands notoriously low discount prices I'm not sure they'll get it anywhere else, and after these lawsuits, Samsung won't offer any discount either. They effed with the wrong company, now they'll get what they asked for. It's inevitable.

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                              • 30 Nov 2012

                              Samsung is the best player here, as it manufacturers their OWN chip. Apple problem is that due to outsourcing to foxxconn now it is out of the market as lack of innovation on hardware. Android is nowadays TOP1 , the king, and for a long time.

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                                • 30 Nov 2012

                                Samsung ought to dump Apple immediatly an make them Struggle,ever since Apple as joined the Mobile Market we keep getting more Court cases than ever,they think they are more Superior than Anybody but they are not an they can not stand any Pressure put on them an the Samsung Galaxy S2 an S3 are more Popular than there iPhones now,an the S4 will put more pressure on Apple an they will end up more Sour than Ever

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • Jh{
                                  • 30 Nov 2012

                                  Slow but steady Apple is going down the shitter. LMFAO

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • MWW
                                    • 30 Nov 2012

                                    Samsung doesn't need Apple, as the world is adapting to OLED display technology, samsung will generate mass profit from OLED alone, being the world's largest oled maker.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 30 Nov 2012

                                      There's not enough chip Fabs in the world to supply the demand for CPUs, GPUs, mobile chips, RAM, NAND, Flash, etc. in short therms if Apple goes to TSMC or Global Foundries those companies don't have enough Fabs to supply their demand and their actual customers demands at the same time so if Apple goes to TSMC or Global Foundries their actual customers like NVidia, AMD or Qualcomm will have to come to Samsung to make their chips since Samsung is almost the biggest chip maker in the industry second place after Intel.
                                      Samsung lose a customer and gains another 2 or 3, what a pity. lol

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                                        • 30 Nov 2012

                                        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.