I wonder how this would affect patent applications, since after such an event, some countries might not respect patents for their internal markets.
But I don't think the other players want that order to live forever, so we will see. I just hope we don't get WW3, and that's good enough for me.
So, my thinking is that there could be less patents, because they’re less likely to share the technology and patents might let others copy stuff.
Which iPhone?
https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone-pictures-1827.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s-pictures-311...
Samsung was the original manufacturing partner for Apple, which allowed them to amass incredible amount of knowhow to create their own, and before that they were not even in the phone market much, yet alone launch their own phone.
Samsung was just better at marketing and other business aspects.
> and before that [Apple] were not even in the phone market much, yet alone launch their own phone.
This applies to Apple, too. Samsung learned how to make them. As did HTC, Sony, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus, etc, etc. Turns out, making smartphones is a very competitive business, but a lot of companies were good at it, at least for periods of time.