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Apple is the largest buyer of SSDs in the world, but their largest supplier has been Samsung, a company they've been increasingly at odds with in the phone busi
by apike 15y ago
Apple is the largest buyer of SSDs in the world, but their largest supplier has been Samsung, a company they've been increasingly at odds with in the phone business.
In one day, it is announced that Samsung has sold this business, and that Apple has purchased a competing SSD supplier. Just like that, the shape of the market shifts dramatically.
- forgottenpaswrd 15y ago"In one day, it is announced that Samsung has sold this business, " Not really, they had sold the hard drive business, but not the SSD business. Read the article, you will notice it says that it provides Seagate a LINK with the SSD business, not with the business itself.