How the
iPhone actually gave Samsung freedom from carriers

A*July 2008 internal
Samsung presentation submitted into evidence during the second
Apple vs
Samsung U.S. trial revealed that the South Korean company
realized the*iPhone would*be a big threat to feature phone makers
just a few days after the iPhone 3G was released. **w, a second piece of evidence consisting of a couple of slides
from three years later
shows*that “beating Apple” was the “#1 priority” for
Samsung in 2011, and everything else had to be in the "context of beating Apple.” But the
iPhone also had a positive effect on Samsung: Apple's smartphone helped
Samsung get the carrier
freedom it lacked in previous years, or at least some carrier independence.
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