How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple

Re:How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple by cageface on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:09AM (#4563173)

Happening already:

The Korean Times is reporting this morning that "Apple has reduced purchases of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for tablet computers from Samsung Display amid the deepening patent disputes, said a leading market research firm, Friday. Market experts said that the move is aimed at minimizing its reliance on Samsung parts."

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/09/apple-cu...

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Re:How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple by beedogs on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:29AM (#4563212)

At a certain point, Apple is going to run out of partners to piss off.

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Re:How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple by enraged_camel on Monday September 24, 2012 @01:01AM (#4563288)

They have over $100 billion in the bank. With that amount of money, there will always be someone willing to partner up with Apple.

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Re:How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple by simonh on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:19AM (#4563849)

There have also been reports that Apple offered to purchase exclusive access to some of TSMC's foundry capacity in order to diversify away from Samsung for processor fabrication, but TSMC prefer to keep their options open. Apple's problem is that only Samsung operates at sufficient scale to be able to guarantee delivery in the volumes Apple needs.

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Re:How Apple's Obsession with Google Is Hurting Apple by ankushnarula on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:36AM (#4563232)

Speculative at best. High density display sales are ever-increasing across the market - it makes sense for Apple to diversify the supply chain. That said, it makes little to no sense to feed your competition purely from a business standpoint. Samsung can of course continue to sell their parts to other OEMs.

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