Comments on: Apple to spend $11bn on Samsung parts in 2012 claims exec http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: guest http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-233130 guest Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:03:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-233130 Actually if you read up on it Apple buys a ton of technology from other companies then markets it as their own

]]> By: zeth006 http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193536 zeth006 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193536 Funny, I must have read it differently. Apple’s TV may prove to be another strong product, but after that, it’s curtains. The iPhone is already becoming an “also-ran” and Android tablets are quickly catching up, soon to repeat  smartphone market history. Apple’s best days are behind them. Without Steve Jobs, they’re done like dinner in a few years. 

]]> By: zeth006 http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193532 zeth006 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193532 Funny, I must have read it differently. Apple’s TV may prove to be another strong product, but after that, it’s curtains. The iPhone is already becoming an “also-ran” and Android tablets are quickly catching up, soon to repeat  smartphone market history. Apple’s best days are behind them. Without Steve Jobs, they’re done like dinner in a few years. 

]]> By: Haris Radzi http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193509 Haris Radzi Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:59:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193509 Fanboy perspective. pffff…

]]> By: jakers_ugly_brother http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193488 jakers_ugly_brother Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:35:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193488 The biggest problem with your plan is that Samsung doesn’t operate in a vacuum. They have competition. Maybe LG couldn’t pass Apple’s QA on the display panels for the new iPad this year, but they ARE making hi-res panels, just not good enough panels…yet.  It’s a safe bet that LG is working very, very hard to make sure that they can be a quality panel supplier next year, and for lower cost than Samsung.

Apple is putting a lot of money into new factories that are owned by Samsung’s competitors. Right now, today, Samsung is king of the component hill. But when their biggest customer is explicitly trying to push them off the hill, it won’t be long before Sammy goes tumbling down.

I agree with one point: my money is on Samsung’s CPU and panel operations going bust by 2016 as well. It’s a special kind of stupid when companies openly compete with their largest and best-paying clients, and Samsung is soon to reap the stupid that they’ve sown.

]]> By: James Hwang http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193483 James Hwang Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193483 but it’s also a reminder that the company’s own products have yet to achieve anywhere near as much success.—
If you’re going by sales, Samsung beat Apple for handset sales in 2011 and was second place by 0.5 million handsets in Q4. So yes, in that sense Samsung has nearly as much success as Apple.

]]> By: JulianRivas http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193423 JulianRivas Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193423 Sapple, Really? Apple designs an Invents much of is tech, Samsung just produces it. Many other companies buy conmponents from Samsung because they have the power to mass produce it for a good price, they FABRICATE not creates Apples tech

]]> By: JustaTester http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193392 JustaTester Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193392 Samsung is a massive conglomerate, where each division operates as a mostly independent company, and where what happens between Samsung Mobile and Apple has exactly zero to do with what happens between Samsung Screen & Chip Fabrication and Apple. Nor are you taking into account that Samsung (the conglomerate) deciding to break the contract might wind up costing them several times the cost of the contract (in addition to the cost of the lost business).

]]> By: Mark Rodriguez http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193367 Mark Rodriguez Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193367 If I were Samsung I would just terminate all supply contracts with Apple and see them go down the chute. So much for their ’innovation’ and ‘technology’, without Samsung Apple will be nothing. They are arguably the greatest plagiarists and stealers the IT industry has ever seen, spanning 3 decades of ripping off and knocking off other people’s ideas and technology and rebranding them as their own.
Never fear though, they can hoodwink Joe public for only too long and soon they will be uncovered for all the laughable sham that they really are.
My money is on them going bust by 2016. 

]]> By: thereasoner http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193337 thereasoner Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:54:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193337 Where would Apple be with out Samsung? There is so much Samsung tech and innovations in Apples stuff they should just rename the company Sapple. 

]]> By: charlitos http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193332 charlitos Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:36:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193332 Samsung wants Apple to buy their OLED panels more than Apple cares about OLED.

]]> By: Haris Radzi http://www.slashgear.com/apple-to-spend-11bn-on-samsung-parts-in-2012-claims-exec-13218118/#comment-193318 Haris Radzi Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:46:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=218118#comment-193318 I wonder how will Apple fanboy reacts to this. Last year they said, who need amoled, its too saturated, blablabla. Bagh, who’s laughing now

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