I’m lead to believe you read nothing said. It’s an ignorant business decision to deny a buy/sale because the buyer/seller is giving you competition in another market.

You’d be a horrible businessman.

True, but I’m sure its a factor, even if only slightly. It can’t be if you have to outsource basically everything.

But they are inherently different products. Just because say a Dell PC has a Samsung SSD doesn’t make it a Samsung device or even close to any of the devices Samsung actually does offer.

Companies like Samsung really rely on selling components rather than selling devices, thats how a lot of the companies actually make their money. Because of this, they aren’t going to turn down a sell in their cash cow when the buyer is going to give competition in their other markets. Thats just a horrible business decision. Competition makes for a healthy market.

This is one of the reasons why apple is a little more expensive than the rest. They use very few of their own parts while other companies can use a lot of their own. This is why most of the other companies can afford the “we accept all trade-ins” campaigns that actually take a decent chunk of cash off.

Also, the division that makes components is an entirely different division than the one that makes devices, so there’s that. They aren’t related. Same parent company, but entirely different entities.

And this is news to who? They’ve been using Samsung parts since the beginning.