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April 27, 2006

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Apple loves Samsung; PortalPlayer devastated

Posted Apr. 27, ’06, 5:58 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iPod

Apple Loves SamsungIt seems like just yesterday that Apple was breaking up with PortalPlayer, but really it was a whole week ago. And Apple was so over it, anyway, already trolling the markets for new chip suppliers while PortalPlayer was crying into tissues, curled up in the fetal position on its bed.

And now Apple’s going around with Samsung? Maybe it’s just a rebound relationship, but I don’t know: Apple and Samsung have some serious history together. Remember that time Samsung sold Apple a bunch of flash memory for the iPod nano? Maybe Samsung’s had their eye on the central chip for the iPod this whole time. Devious, Samsung. What do your executives have to say for themselves?

“I knew PortalPlayer would take a dive,” said Jon Kang, senior vice president for the technical marketing group at Samsung Semiconductor Inc. “I knew that we would win this design.”

Kang referred to the company’s chip as the “PortalPlayer killer.”

Have you no mercy, Samsung? No compassion? No, I suppose not. Good luck, PortalPlayer, wherever you are.

[via Engadget]


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