The ‘Apple sues Samsung over iPhone patent’ news sure is a shocker. I mean, why do it only now? But that’s not the most important thing over here. The important thing is, Apple is Samsung’s second biggest client after Sony, and Samsung supply a huge amount of parts to Apple. Who would ever sue their own parts supplier, especially one that supplies so many critical parts to you?

Statistics show that Apple spends $5.7 billion on Samsung, which is around Samsung’s 4-percent revenue last year. Samsung supplies many things to Apple, from NAND chips to processors and mobile RAMs, and possibly will supply Apple with iPad 2 display panels soon.

What’s fascinating here — and illustrative of the psychopathic nature of corporations — is that in spite of this massive interdependency, Apple’s lodged a broadly worded patent assault on a major prong of Samsung’s business (smartphones and tablets) and now Samsung’s been quoted as saying it has “no choice but [to] respond strongly.” A company official has apparently expressed the belief that Apple may be infringing on some of Samsung’s wireless patents, which means we can probably look forward to another fat batch of papers being submitted to the Northern District of California court.

Woot, this is really a big dog fight we’re seeing here.

SOURCE via Yahoo!News