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Apple Inc. Is an American company that designs and produces electronic equipment, software and online services. It has its headquarters in the Apple Park, in Cupertino (California, United States) and the European headquarters in the City of Cork (Ireland). Its hardware products include the IPhone smartphone, IPad tablet, Mac personal computer, IPod Portable media player, Apple Watch smart watch and Apple TV digital Media Player. Apple software includes IOS operating systems, MacOS, watches and TvOS, the itunes multimedia content Explorer, the IWork Suite (productivity software), Final Cut Pro X (a professional video editing suite), Logic Pro (software for Audio editing on audio tracks), Xsan (software for inter-server data exchange) and Safari Web browser.

The company operated, in May 2014, more than 408 own stores in nine countries, thousands of distributors (standing out the premium distributors or Apple premium resellers) and an online store (available in several countries) where their products are sold and provided Technical assistance. According to Fortune Magazine, Apple was the most admired company in the world between 2008 and 2012.

Samsung is a conglomerate of multinational companies based in Seoul, South Korea. It is the largest South Korean business group, with numerous subsidiaries covering businesses such as consumer electronics, technology, finance, insurance, construction, biotechnology and service sector among others. The group was founded in 1938 by businessman Lee Byung-chul as an import and export company, and would later expand his business to other sectors. Since then it has become a benchmark for the economic model of large conglomerates that drove South Korea's economic transformation.

The most important companies that control are Samsung electronics, the second largest electronic revenue company; Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second largest shipbuilder; Samsung C&T, dedicated to civil construction; The Samsung Life insurance insurer, and the advertising agency Cheil Worldwide.

Samsung has had a great influence on the economic, political, media and cultural development of South Korea. It is estimated that all its affiliated companies represent one-fifth of the country's exports, while its income accounts for 17% of the national gross domestic product.