apple sure does know how to ruin itself doesnt it? make an enemy to a globally godlike company = goodbye bussiness
samsung holds almost majority of technology manufacturing from dram chips to lcd displays, make a mess with that and you`d be getting inferior products from other manufacturers. in shorter terms, apple is gonna get ugly, literally.
samsung could even drive their connections that have connections on apple to get disconnected, by waging twice the profit for apple's disconnection. who wouldnt want a better alliance over the world's largest electronics company? it`ll make you more profit than clinging to a half-hearted company like apple.
if i`d mention that samsung could just buy apple's company then it`ll be like nuking an ant out of irritation.
speaking of nukes, samsung could even buy a nuke and nuke apple off the map tho that'll be illegal.