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Comment by v0cab | Hacker News Reader

Samsung own the South Korean government. Samsung had the government delay the introduction of the iPhone to South Korea to give them time to clone it (the phone that Apple was paying them to manufacture!), so that they'd at least find it easier to break their domestic market with their clone.

Apple lost your respect for going against this?

If you were Apple, you would love to see Samsung win?

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Yes. Any entity can try to delay the deployment of a product that I try to sell to them. This entity can also try to reverse engineer my product.

If Samsung and South Korea had such a tie, that's a problem for them and their citizens. To Apple, they are an encapsulated entity, and Apple chose to deal with them.

Apple can try to get the US, or states within the US to blockade the import of Samsung devices in retribution, but again this is our problem. It harms the US consumers and innovators by restricting the sales of an "immitation". Apple is hurting my future as a potential mobile device innovator. Apple is hurting itself in exchange for short term profits, as it continues to extract profits via the wrong means.

Your future business may also be damaged if your potential American customers do not have money to buy your apps, because their jobs working at Apple in the US disappeared.

And what if you also found yourself unable to sell your apps in Asia due to the actions of protectionist governments there?

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