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Why Apple and Samsung Still Get Along, Behind the Courtroom Battles
After suing each other for the last few years in various courts around the world, you'd think that if Apple and Samsung were human beings they would have walked away from their rocky relationship a while back. The Wall Street Journal explains (beside the larger fact that they're both huge companies with complex links, rather than a squabbling couple) why it's so hard for Apple to take up with another supplier. Things are starting to look different, though: "Apple's deal this month to start buying chips from TSMC is a milestone. Apple long wanted to build its own processors, and it bought a chip company in 2008 to begin designing the chips itself. But it continued to rely on Samsung to make them. ... TSMC plans to start mass-producing the chips early next year using advanced '20-nanometer' technology, which makes the chips potentially smaller and more energy-efficient."
Samsung's phones might be more cutting edge at launch. But in 1+ year, the iPhone will still be supported by (decent) software updates, and the Samsung phone will be long forgotten for the latest and greatest.
Interesting I have seen a launch of what is dubbed "Google Play edition phones"(including samsung) from a few manufacturers that come with stock android. In response to this very issue. They now come with Vanilla Android and will be easier to update. Apple conversely is expanding their product line instead of using older models as a product line so expect support lengths to drop dramatically.
It's telling you are speaking outside your area of expertise, there's a rather large optimization gap between Apple's in-house iOS vs Samsung's use of Android.
http://www.primatelabs.com/blog/2013/03/samsung-galaxy-s-4-benchmarks/ The analysis shows the new Samsung flagship is significantly faster than competing phones including the HTC One, and its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S3. However, the S3 also benchmarked faster than the iPhone 5.
So slower than the last generation of Samsung Phones
'Or are you too dumb not to question why a company that makes the CPUs and retina displays for Apple can't use them in their own product line.
Apples CPU's are measurably slower tham the Samsung Galaxy SIII Samsung last generation product and retina Display has become synonymous with Low DPI as 1080P becomes the new normal for Android.
Samsung's stock took a 6% hit, or $10B in market cap lost, when it was RUMORED they were losing Apple chip contract last year:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-samsung-chips-idUSBRE84F0BT20120516
Perhaps Samsung doesn't *need* Apple, but they are a major customer and a major source of revenue. Kinda like saying WalMart doesn't *need* to have stores in Texas or California.
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Apple uses their own custom-designed ARM CPU core.