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Hahaha nope, the US is desperate to continue its dominance over the market to sustain their surveillance apparatus and will deal with anyone, company and org that attempts to prevent their surveillance capabilities in a highly aggressive manner.

They just sabotaged the phone manufacturing process to create room for Googles Pixel and Apple. Samsung is just incapable of handling the level of sabotage that was dealt against them.

This is just part for the course for the US, and I'm a bit surprised Samsung is this negligent in preparing for these types of actions that were highly suspected for a while.

Edit: for background for those other than the fanboys and tech bros, corporate sabotage is such a norm in American business the FBI has an entire division dedicated to investigating it, as do military intelligence for companies involved in military contracts. SpaceX and ULA is one such example where military intelligence is involved in investigating corporate sabotage.

Many major companies have teams and processes for this purpose.

As for Samsung, they seem to have picked up extremely bad business habits, and themselves are also known to participate in sabotaging their competitors as stated by other Koreans unfortunate enough to challenge them.