[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]apple, as much of a stereotype it is, has a built in user base that will guarantee millions of sales even with minimal marketing. the marketing they do put out is geared twards making people who arent at the zealot stage, think apple is the best ever, and mostly due to the iphone, they now have an extremely large user base who will buy the next whatever they make. samsung verywell has beat the apple in the phone and tablet area with its products, but people dont know it, even if they sunk a billion into marketing (a worth while amount, seeing it will seed the future of their products) they still probably wont convince enough to get it to make severing ties with apple viable option. remember this is a coperation that has stocks, if the investors dont like a move, such as dumping someone who bought 200+million products, it would be a worse fallout than just the initial apple revenue stopping. to top it off, potential buyers are getting locked out by injunctions and such.[/citation]
Well lets not get carried away. The tablet and S2 from Samsung are not even comparable to the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S - they are cheaper, not as good alternatives, no more no less.
If Samsung refused to produce Apple products, Apple would simply move production to another manufacturer (something which they have already taken steps towards), or invest some of their massive, massive stockpile of money to make the products themselves.
Samsung would lose out way more by refusing to manufacture products for Apple than Apple would. Take away that production volume and the prices of their handsets go up too. Lose lose for Samsung.