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I wonder how long it'll take for Apple to violate Samsung's patents, when product bans will be proposed, and when those bans get overturned.
by ihsw 13y ago
I wonder how long it'll take for Apple to violate Samsung's patents, when product bans will be proposed, and when those bans get overturned.
- wtallis 13y agoThat's not funny. This isn't the market where Apple and Samsung compete, it's the market where Apple is a huge Samsung customer, where a few years ago Apple was responsible for an outright majority of Samsung's sales.
- dba7dba 13y agoWhere did you get that number? During the last few years, Apple provided about 3% - 8% of annual revenue of Samsung Group as a whole. Samsung Group is huge. Their Samsung electronics is huge but so are other groups. Samsung Shipyard is building 2 floating natural gas plants, each costing One Billion US dollars.
- revelation 13y agoSamsung is a gigantic company, a South Korean Siemens. They are active in any number of markets, and Apple certainly didn't provide for a majority of their sales.
- wtallis 13y agoRead my comment again. I wasn't making any statements about the Samsung conglomerate as a whole. I was only discussing the flash memory market, and in that market, Apple was indeed responsible at one time for purchasing more than 50% of Samsung's production of flash memory (this was during the heyday of the iPod Nano and prior to mainstream SATA SSDs).
- dba7dba 13y agoWell you didn't say Samsung Electronics or Samsung Semiconductor. Nor mention Flash Memory. And Samsung Electronics makes a lot more than just Flash memory.
- makomk 13y agoRumour has it Apple have been trying to move away from Samsung for components, though.
- mullingitover 13y agoI doubt the patents for this are going to end up in a standard that forces Samsung to license them under FRAND terms.