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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by stock_toaster on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @02:03AM (#4321394)
I thought samsung manufactured large portions of the first iphone. I am sure apple spent more than a few months testing, designing, and working with manufacturing partners to build parts to spec, etc.

I make no assumption on whether they did or didn't, but couldn't samsung have cribbed some notes during that timeframe?

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by blinkingled on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @08:51AM (#4322565)
From the recent comments of Samsung design chief the Samsung subsidiary making parts for Apple is different and independent from the one that makes smartphones. Samsung smartphones division competes for parts same way Apple does -- they don't always use Samsung made parts in fact.

Other problem is that Samsung only makes some parts of the iphone -, there is no reason to think they had finished product design before the iphone was announced.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by stock_toaster on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @12:47PM (#4324006)
Ah. Great info thanks.
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