Innovative Apple Inc. and slavish Apple copier Samsung “are world-class frenemies. Samsung is a major supplier for Apple, and they remain embattled in an ever-escalating global patent warfare,” Evan Niu writes for The Motley Fool.
“Apple’s not the only one with hostilities toward Sammy. Foxconn, one of Apple’s primary contract manufacturers, also dreams of bringing Samsung to its knees. Foxconn CEO Terry Gou recently said that its partnership with Japan’s Sharp would help it intensify competition with Samsung,” Niu writes. “Foxconn took a roughly 10% stake in Sharp for about $800 million in March, and Gou personally just acquired a 46.5% stake in one of Sharp’s LCD panel plants.”
Niu writes, “Samsung’s newest Galaxy flagship, the S III, has just launched to much anticipation…”
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, it’s on fire. Literally:
Niu writes, “Gou isn’t impressed, though. He says smartphone buyers should hold off and wait for the next-generation iPhone, which is expected in either September or October, adding that ‘The new model will put Samsung’s Galaxy III to shame.'”
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Oh boy! Yippee! Yea! Naw, who cares? Just keep building better stuff than Samsung. Take the high road. Act like you’ve hit home runs before. Fanboys will go goofy but the rest of us will just smile.
The dreadful experience of the three decades long windows fiasco is reason enough to care. Badly designed knockoffs like the crummy rubbish above are what makes life suck.
Lets add a couple of pictures of burning mac books too.
…in that context, Foxconn ought be on guard so that Samsung doesn’t suddenly buy a 20 – or 30% stake in Sharp. cos then what.
Waiting for some WinDroidTroll to bring up the report of an iPhone that caught on fire some time back.
Of course that incident was due to a screw left inside the device after being serviced by an unauthorized repair shop (and whose employees wouldn’t know the difference between sh*t and Shinola).
Can’t wait to see what caused the Samsung conflagration.
I didn’t realise the Galaxy is built so much like a cheap Nokia. Plastic body with little screws everywhere, plastic clip-over back cover. Not in the same class at all at all.
As much as I hate to say it, does no one else realize these copiers do help increase competition? Because of all the iPhone wannabes Apple is forced to continue moving forward and not able to just sit on their technology throne like Microsoft.
Very hard to argue this because others usually copy Apple, so there probably isn’t an instance where Apple has had a market to itself where you can say it did or didn’t sit on it’s laurels. However, from what I read, it was not in Steve Jobs’ nature to bear products that weren’t just right. Apple-tv was probably tolerated because it’s probably a stepping stone to something greater.