Apple Diversifying Memory Suppliers Too, Moving Away from Samsung [Updated]

That's what you get for biting the hand that fed you, Sammy.

Why doesn't Apple just make a factory, and make it? Not like they are poor or anything....

i live in asia and sell tshirts for a living, tshirts i mean about 30.000 pcs every month.

i can build my own factory and have 200 asian workers if i want to, but i prefer to design the tshirts in my company and give the designs to the factory that managed by other people so i don't have to deal with the workers.

it's a pain in the ass to deal with the workers and it will give me stress.

so i better let other company handle the production, give them a profit too and that means less profit for me but the stress life is non existence.

Until Windows 8 takes the tablet market by storm.

Save that for when it happens. The same was said about Android, RIM, and webOS. Those cheerleaders have quieted down as of late.

Until Windows 8 takes the tablet market by storm.

Personally, I think the Windows 8 tablets will only take away from Android tablet sales.

Or, more likely, that Apple screws itself by divorcing itself from one of the largest and most innovative suppliers.

I just hope Samsung becomes MORE innovative, bringing consumers NEW designs (like Motorola and Microsoft have lately done) and copying less from Apple. They’re not copying Apple’s designs because they have to, and not because that somehow means more “choice.” They’re doing it because it’s more cost-effective to copy than to innovate, so they innovate less and copy more. As a consumer, I surely don’t benefit from that. So I hope Apple succeeds in shifting Samsung to a more innovative approach, whether through buyer pressure, defending patents on things Apple actually did invent, or just making it not worth the bother to copy them any further.

Good thing Apple fans aren't waiting for the iPhone 5.

It will be interesting to measure the time between the next iPhone’s very first announcement and users having it in their hands, vs. the time between Microsoft’s very first Windows 8 announcement and users having that in their hands :D Windows 8 was announced before the next iPhone. Will it ship before the next iPhone, or after?

But none of those can hold a candle to Windows in the marketplace.

They can all hold a candle to Windows 8, since they’re out there now, whereas Windows 8 won’t ship for ages—like a year or longer). And Windows has been “in the marketplace” on tablets for years upon years, yet still lags far behind iOS after Apple re-invented the tablet.

Until Windows 8 takes the tablet market by storm.

We're all waiting, I'm sure. After all, when it comes to MS, that's all consumers do: wait.