Apple has changed suppliers because Samsung stopped selling them batteries, according to report.

Samsung is a major supplier of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch parts and components to Apple. From processors to screens to memory to batteries — Apple is heavily dependent on Samsung (the supplier) to keep Apple products flowing. Because of its ongoing legal disputes with Samsung (the smartphone and tablet maker), Apple has been trying to lessen its dependency on Samsung parts by moving to other suppliers. Indeed, Apple has recently shifted a significant portion of its supply chain away from Samsung and to other companies, such as sourcing more screens from LG than from Samsung. In the case of batteries, however, it seems like Samsung has thrown the first punch by simply refusing to supply Apple.
According to China Business News, Apple has decided to purchase batteries for iPads and Macbooks from two Chinese suppliers (Amperex Technology Limited and Tianjin Lishen Battery) after Samsung stopped selling the batteries to Apple.


It isn’t entirely clear why Samsung has stopped supplying Apple (assuming the report turns out to be true) nor do we know if this is an isolated incident or the beginning of a bigger breakaway between the two tech giants. However, we do know one thing: Apple is so dependent on Samsung because Samsung is one of the few companies that can supply Apple with the quality and quantity it desires, and Samsung makes a whole lot of money by supplying Apple. So legal issues between Apple and Samsung (the mobile device maker) spilling over on the relationship of Apple and Samsung (the supplier) is not a good sign for either company.

Something is brewing in the labs... Apple

Something is brewing in the labs of Cupertino. Apple is testing the next version of OS X for already some months, but in January the computers involved in this trial have grown from a few dozen to thousands. The sites that have been identified tests have also multiplied, and that may mean that we could see an official launch of OS X 10.9 soon.
In the absence of official data which we only have rumor: OS X 10.9 would be called Lynx and integrate some iOS platforms as Siri and Apple Maps. If present at some point in the first quarter could see an official release in the summer, just a year after the departure of Mountain Lion OS X market and meeting many maqueros theory had become: Apple wants to move faster with OS X than it has been doing since its beginnings. Currently we can only wait for Apple to confirm something. Mountain Lion came without warning a year ago on the official website of the company without press event or anything, would not surprise me to return to spend something. OS X 10.9 was the tenth formerly known interaction of Mac OS X, and is likely to continue moving closer to iOS with everything learned on the iPhone and iPad. What is sure to be a response to Windows 8, which has radically changed the look and the way the system works rival of Microsoft.