I don't follow your logic. If it is the components that are the key to making a superior phone, there would be demand for those components even if Samsung didn

I don't follow your logic. If it is the components that are the key to making a superior phone, there would be demand for those components even if Samsung didn't make a competing phone with them, unless you are assuming that all of the other phone makers would overlook the opportunity to beat out their competitors by refusing to use components that would allow them to make superior phones.