From China we receive information that Apple and Samsung have broken their relations in one more aspect in this soap opera in which the common history of the two companies is becoming. Now it seems that the Koreans will stop providing batteries for iPad and MacBook to those of Cupertino.
The media have picked up a story given by Chinese Business News in a very different way. The information that the Middle East collected was the process of recruiting battery manufacturers that those of the apple are doing in China for these two products. According to this newspaper, Amperex Technology Limited and Tianjin Lishen Battery they would be the chosen ones to start releasing batteries for American devices. Some media are betting that it has been Samsung who has made this decision due to the insistent belligerence of the American company in the courts and for the decisions they have made regarding the supply of screens, which happened in iPhone 5 to Sharp, LG Display and AU Optronics and the one from the iPad to LG, and processors, where they plan to move production of the A7 chip to TSMC.
According to this line of argument, Samsung has reacted by raising the price of the processors that it continues to manufacture for Apple up 20% and, in this case, stopping the supply of batteries sharply to generate problems for those of Cupertino.
However, others assure that this is another of the steps that the American company is taking to free yourself from dependence on your main rival in stores and contender in court.
How we see this is a fight with scratches and hair pulling in which anything goes and from which we can foresee several consequences. The first is that it is doubtful that other companies can manufacture with the reliability and speed that Samsung was offering to Apple. The superb quality of Cupertino devices may start to decline. The second is that new manufacturers will have opportunities to enter a market full of life and that consumers benefit in the long term.
Source: ZDNet