An influential Asian
manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to
create smart phones and tablets that closely resemble the iPhone and the iPad.
Samsung starts gaining market share, hurting Apple Inc's margins and stock
price and intimidating its reign as the king of cool in consumer electronics.
A series of recent
court rulings suggests that the smart phone patent wars are now grinding toward
a stalemate, with Apple incapable to show that its sales have been critically
damaged when rivals, notably Samsung, imitated its products. Samsung,
meanwhile, has benefited hugely from the market insight it gained from the
Apple relationship, and from producing smart phones and tablets that closely look
like Apple's.
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