I don't claim to know the details of Samsung corp structure as much as hocuspocus does but all this internal competition makes sense. And kinda normal.
Few examples.
There's a lot of friendly and unfriendly competition between different branches of US armed forces.
During World War 2, Japanese Army and Navy absolutely hated each other. It was so bad that Japanese Army built a few naval carriers for their planes, all because Japanese Navy didn't want to cooperate readily with the army.
When an organization is big enough, such fracturing/competition within the organization seems inevitable...
Few examples.
There's a lot of friendly and unfriendly competition between different branches of US armed forces.
During World War 2, Japanese Army and Navy absolutely hated each other. It was so bad that Japanese Army built a few naval carriers for their planes, all because Japanese Navy didn't want to cooperate readily with the army.
When an organization is big enough, such fracturing/competition within the organization seems inevitable...