They cited a specific case where Apple needed to come up with a highly specialized glass component for the first generation of the iPhone. Corning submitted a bid on the project, and by all accounts they would have been able to manufacture a glass product at their upstate New York plant that was superior in quality and no more expensive than what a competing Chinese manufacturer could make.
Apple decided to go with the Chinese supplier for several reasons, but the biggest reason was that the Chinese company would be able to get their facility re-tooled to produce the glass in a matter of DAYS -- while Corning would have to go through MONTHS of bureaucratic nonsense to get all the Federal and state permits to modify their existing plant.
Just sickening. Wow.
I saw that hit piece too. . . But its claims were completely false. Apple has been using Corning Gorilla Glass on all its products since the first iPhone. They still do. Corning makes glass they do not need to get permissions to make glass. Corning's president refuted that piece of nonsense.
The president of Corning was on stage with Steve Jobs at the into of the first generation iPhone. . . when Steve told about using glass. I saw it. From Wikipedia:
"(Gorilla Glass) It was brought into commercial use when Apple asked Corning for a thin, toughened glass; it was used in the new iPhone.
The New York Times had to print a retraction. They still won a Pulitzer for their poorly researched hit piece. More egregious "errors" were discovered in following days.