When you're using cores that are mostly designed by Samsung(minus ARM obviously designing the base Cortex-A?) you don't have much of a choice.

Hopefully this time samsung have the bull by the balls, or maybe they are to stupid to not crush apple´s plans

I would laugh if these chips failed within a month as Samsung's way of getting back at them.

That would has astronomical financial consequences for them...

All depends on how the contract is written. A deal is only as good as the contract that accompanies it.

As a savvy businessman once said: "Advantage Burns!"

Inside iPhone 4S
- A5 Application Processor: Samsung
- IPS/Retina Display: LG
- Dram/Sram Memory: Samsung
- Battery: Samsung SDI
- MLCC(Multi Layer Ceramcic Condenser): Samsung
- Chip Varistor: Amotech (Korea)
- FC(Flexible Circuitry): Interflex (Korea)

Your move, Apple.

The old "keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

Couldn't put it better myself

So basically, the businesses are working together fine but the legal departments were bored so they thought "let's have a court battle across several countries and lets see who win" and samsungs legal team said "hell yeah!".

While the directors of the companies are like "so this is why we have a legal team?!".

Apple + Samsung = Keep your friends close, and your enemy closer

Apple is the smallest player in town in mobile phones world and just want's to turn Samsung which is pretty much the biggest player into becoming his *****. So the little guy Apple want's to control the big guy Samusung and want's to transform it into it's SLAPPING ***** or CHIP COW that do only and whatever Apple wants.
Samsung would be a fool if it let this happen and would have a serious attitude problem if it doesn't slap back Apple where it hurts it the most.

This is weirder than Tandy building Atari 400 units back in the 1980s. Weirder by several powers of magnitude.