Apple Gets $1 Billion From Samsung—Nothing Changes - Businessweek

Excerpt from a bigger-picture Apple/Samsung perspective piece

"It is not a struggle, however, in which any one company is going to get destroyed or put out of business in court. Competitors are using the courts to figure out the terms of cooperation—whose intellectual property is worth what. Eventually they will get back to ordinary competition in the marketplace. Indeed, Samsung is one of Apple’s main component suppliers for mobile devices; these  companies are quietly collaborating, even as their lawyers bash one another’s brains out."

Apple Gets $1 Billion From Samsung—Nothing Changes - Businessweek