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Apple, Samsung continue complex relationship as patent wars grind toward stalemate

Originally published: February 10, 2013 9:45 AM
Updated: February 10, 2013 10:19 AM
By REUTERS

An image from July 2010 shows Samsung's Galaxy

Photo credit: Getty Images | An image from July 2010 shows Samsung's Galaxy S mobile phone, right, and Apple's iPhone 3G at a shop in Seoul, South Korea.

It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare.

A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones and tablets that closely resemble the iPhone and the iPad. Samsung starts gaining market share, hurting Apple Inc's margins and stock price and threatening its reign as the king of cool in consumer electronics.

Jobs, of course,...

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