Will Steve Jobs absence benefit Samsung Electronics?

Korean firm says Apple is its top supplier, hoping for CEO’s prompt recovery

By Kim Yoo-chul

Is Samsung Electronics smiling at the health troubles facing Apple’s brain, Steve Jobs?

Jobs’ innovations — the iPod, iPhone and iPad — are setting the global standard, sending Korea’s top tech powerhouse scrambling to go head to head with it.

Thus, conventional thought is that Samsung may be grinning when left alone away from the public eye, believing that Apple would be weaker without Jobs, giving it a great opportunity to pass its nemesis and win the title of world leader.