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dipsydoodle

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Sun Feb 10, 2013, 06:05 AM Feb 2013

Insight - Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life

(Reuters) - It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare.

A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones and tablets that closely resemble the iPhone and the iPad. Samsung starts gaining market share, hurting Apple Inc's margins and stock price and threatening its reign as the king of cool in consumer electronics.

obs, of course, had an answer to all this: a "thermo-nuclear" legal war that would keep clones off the market. Yet nearly two years after Apple first filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung, and six months after it won a huge legal victory over its South Korean rival, Apple's chances of blocking the sale of Samsung products are growing dimmer by the day.

Indeed, a series of recent court rulings suggests that the smartphone patent wars are now grinding toward a stalemate, with Apple unable to show that its sales have been seriously damaged when rivals, notably Samsung, imitated its products.

That, in turn, may usher in a new phase in the complex relationship between the two dominant companies in the growing mobile computing business.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/02/10/uk-apple-samsung-idUKBRE91902320130210

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Insight - Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life (Original Post) dipsydoodle Feb 2013 OP
samsung makes the chips for the apples phones madrchsod Feb 2013 #1

madrchsod

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1. samsung makes the chips for the apples phones
Sun Feb 10, 2013, 09:17 AM
Feb 2013

the chip division is separate for the phone division and it was reported that the chip division was going to stay out of the fight. it seems that just recently they raised the price of the chips they send to apple.i guess the fight is`t over....

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