“For the past few years, Apple has seethed as it watched Samsung grab the buzz and market share lead with its Galaxy phones,” Chris O’Brien reports for VentureBeat. “It wasn’t just losing that bothered Apple. It was getting spanked by a company Apple felt had essentially copied its best smartphone and tablet innovations. Apple launched a global patent litigation war against Samsung that produced a few victories but failed to fundamentally change the competitive dynamic.”
“Now, it turns out, Samsung appears to be in free fall. And it’s collapsing all on its own, without any help from Apple’s legal eagles,” O’Brien reports. “Samsung has warned that its third quarter earnings were going to be even worse than previously expected. In a press release, Samsung said revenues would fall by 20.5% and profits would drop 59.8%.”
“The questions about Apple’s future revolve around how fast it will grow,” O’Brien reports. “That’s the kind of problem Samsung would love to have right now.”
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An iPhone with a larger screen option will hurt Samsung immeasurably more than myriad, unending traipses through the legal morass. – MacDailyNews, May 2, 2014
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