The Samsung South Korea has decided to fight fire with fire. Faced with the fierce policy promoted by Apple, the Asian firm has decided to fight back using exactly the same weapons. Thus, taking advantage of the excellent results it always achieves in its native fiefdom, Samsung has decided to initiate the procedures to prevent the marketing of the iPhone 5 in South Korea.
The local newspaper The Korean Times has been the one that has unveiled Samsung's plan. In an information that echoes the statements of a manager of the firm who has preferred to remain anonymous, they refer to the moment when the iPhone 5 is presented and reaches Korean lands. Then, a series of patents registered by Samsung and dedicated to the use of wireless technology that Apple uses in its devices will be used as arguments.
Thus, the fierce strategy of those from Cupertino will be counteracted, who have blocked the commercialization of Samsung's latest generation mobile products (including the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab), a ruse with which they now want to continue in Australia, where Samsung is already preparing to defend its products.
The disagreements between the two companies have not only been noted in stores. Trade relations between Seoul and Cupertino have turned icy, and as proof of this, in recent days it has been known that Apple has terminated the contract that until now linked it to Samsung in relation to the purchase of chips for the processors they install the iPhone and iPad (the A4 and A5 with one and two cores, respectively).
The also Asian Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is Apple's new concessionaire to provide processors for the Apple firm's portable devices, thus certifying the divorce between the Korean and Californian firms. That being the case, a front is definitely opened that Samsung has confirmed with the announcement of its maneuver in South Korea, and that makes it clear that any attempt by Apple to request supplies from the Asian firm would fall on deaf ears.
We refer to the rumor that at the beginning of the summer arose about a possible visit by Tim Cook to Seoul to negotiate the sale of a game of AMOLED screens for the iPad 3. There is no real evidence as to whether that hypothetical meeting, which could have served to bury the hatchet, and if it had been held, should not have ended well, judging by the direction in which these winds of war are blowing.
