[SamAdams76]

Fairly lengthy article but the Reader's Digest version is that Apple continues to maintain a high pricepoint, which is allowing it to pour profits into R&D. Meanwhile, Samsung is selling at low margins and still owes Apple about $1b from that lawsuit they lost in 2012.

January has been a very good month for Apple.

[Johnny_cash]

First Mac 1999 last Mac from my cold dead hands.......lol

[TomGuy]

Part of Samsung’s problem is crappy products and service.

I had a Samsung DVR that died not long after the warranty.

I had an i7 Samsung Win7 laptop that died of a motherboard problem a month after the warranty. Due to the cost, I tried to get it repaired locally. Local repair shop contacted Samsung, but Samsung had no replacement motherboards. Thus, I have an $800 Samsung doorstop.

Samsung lost me as a customer. When I see the Samsung name, no matter how good a deal, I pass it by.

Lexmark is another brand I will never buy again, either.

[montag813]

That claim was supported by misleading benchmarks that obscured the reality that Samsung's Note 4 shipped with screen resolution that its processor wasn't engineered to handle, further dinged by Google's lackluster OpenGL performance in Android.

All true. Meanwhile the Sony Xperia Z3 has the same screen that blows away specs from both the Note 4 and Apple 6 Plus. Yet no one knows about it.

[Steely Tom]

Xiaomi can’t be exported from China because it contains a vast amount of pirated software.

[RegulatorCountry]

The wheels appear to be coming off the old Apple-knockoff strategy. It’s been going on since at least the 90’s if not before. My take is that given all the complexities of technology and media, Apple succeeds because the user experience is the most seamless and pleasant. Not because of feature-creep that doesn’t really mean anything to the average user. There are those who like to tinker with their phones and those are the avid Android phone buyers, particularly the higher-end models such as the ones getting killed in the marketplace from Samsung. The rest of the Android market is good-enough cheaper phones, and they’re clearly not making it up on volume. Whether this was a master-stroke of business strategy by Apple or just pure happenstance, they’ve certainly done a number on Samsung.

[Swordmaker]

Samsung's collapse in profits caused by Apple, not Xiaomi — PING!

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[Star Traveler]

Great article ... thanks!

[RayChuang88]

In effect, the ONLY reason why Samsung gained traction in the cellphone market was the fact the Galaxy S II and S III models offered something that Apple could not offer at the time--namely a bigger screen. In short, the late Steve Jobs' mantra of being able to operate most of the functions of the phone with one hand was why the iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5/5S ended up with smaller screens compared to the Android competitors.

But once Apple rolled out the iPhone 6 and 6+ with its 4.7 and 5.5 inch touchscreens, it erased Samsung's biggest advantage, and that's why Apple sold 74.5 million iPhone 6/6+ models in the October to December 2014 time frame.

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[dayglored]

My video monitors (all six of them), and my big screen smart TV, are all Samsung. When monitors were tubes, I bought Sony. LCDs, I buy Samsung. Never have had a bad one, and some have lasted for 8 years of daily use — they’re all still in service.

But my computer hardware is Fujitsu and Apple, and my mobiles are all Apple (prior to smartphones, I bought LG).

I really like Samsung, for monitors. If I could justify the cost I’d buy Apple monitors because they’re the only ones better, but they’re overkill for the type of work I do.