Apple became the world’s most valuable company, sign of trouble emerged. Although Apple enforced its intellectual property in a legal dispute with Samsung, it entered into a licensing agreement with HTC, a Taiwanese maker of mobile phones. Some argue that Apple under Steve Jobs’ leadership would never have entered any agreement that would allow direct competitors to benefit from Apple’s proprietary technology. Despite Apple’s courtroom victory against Samsung, Samsung sold more smartphones than Apple in 2012. With its Galaxy S3 model running on Google’s Andoid system ,sale prove that Samsung has a viable competitor against Apple’s iPhone 5. In 2013, Samsung introduced the new Galaxy S4 model, further intensifying the head-on competition with apple.