By Donald Kirk
Forbes
Mar 19, 2020
Journalist Geoffrey Cain leaves the reader hanging at the end of his book, Samsung Rising, out this week, wondering how Korea’s supreme court will rule on Lee’s retrial on bribery charges. The bet is still that Samsung is too big and too important for the judges to jail him again on much the same charges for which he’s already spent a year behind bars. But then, in the game of high-level Korean political and business intrigue, the future is never quite certain.
Cain captures the drama of Samsung in a book that reaches a climax, almost, in two great long-running battles. The subtitle of the book, “The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech,” is intended for a global audience caught up in Samsung’s battle with Apple, a rivalry played out in American courts. Samsung was ordered at one point to pay a mammoth fine for ripping off Apple’s ideas. Somehow, as Cain reports, the case dissipates in appeals and doubts and conflicts of interest, the most compelling of which is that Apple still depends on Samsung to produce some of the inner works for its fabled iPhone.
Read more about Geoffrey Cain’s new book, Samsung Rising at Forbes
See Also:
- Samsung Rising: Inside the secretive company conquering tech
- Samsung vs. Apple: Inside The Brutal War For Smartphone Dominance
