This reminds me of Schiller's abandonment of Instagram after they ported to Android. Strange to see such an influential and successful company acting in such a childishly vindictive manner.
I cannot believe that people don't talk between Samsung's mobile division and their semi-conductor fabrication business (regardless of NDAs). I think being Apple's supplier and themselves being in the business of making phones and tablets, has worked to Samsung's advantage.
That being said, I think Samsung is a really powerful company and they'll be able to hold their own (i.e. revenues from product sales etc.) without Apple's business.
We have the patent system to thank for this. If you want a smartphone that doesn't suck, you will have to give money to Apple, live with the product's shortcomings... and pray they don't alter the deal further when the next iOS version ships.
Are you claiming that other phones are shitty because Apple has patented all the good ideas?
Patents don't exist to help the little guy; if they did, we'd have gotten rid of them a long time ago. An argument in defense of patents is inevitably an exercise in defending companies that make hundreds of millions in profits before they even begin to enforce those patents.
The profits should be enough.
But yammering about starting nuclear wars isn't child-like at all. Straight out of the Sloan School of Management, right?