Xiaomi don't play that!
Posted on 01/16/2015 11:11:53 PM PST by Swordmaker
Samsung spent about 10 times more on advertising in 2012 or something than Apple did.
Samsung is the worlds biggest advertiser apparently.
I would rather buy something from South Korea than from China or San Fransicko
That is a lot of verbiage griping about a company “trying to be like Apple” when its clearly not being like Apple.
Xiaomi don't play that!
Ah, but Xiaomi is trying to be like Apple. The CEO of Xiaomi has even done keynote addresses wearing jeans and black turtlenecks emulating Steve Jobs. . . when he was showing Xiaomi phones that looked exactly like iPhone models down to the Android skins placed on the phones.
Lots of cash? Where? They reported only the equivalent $7 million in profit for the entire year of 2014. Where is the "lots of cash," DennisW? You never let those difficult things called facts get in the way of your Apple bashing, do you?
What you are ignoring is that patent infringement is RETROACTIVE and they will reap that if they attempt to sell their products in the rest of the world. The owners of those intellectual properties WILL prevail and will exact their payments retroactively for the sales made in the past. This has happened before and the penalties can be extraordinarily HUGE. Samsung is still fighting one through the European court system that if they lose will cost them EVERY CENT they made on sales in Europe! That's BILLIONS of Euros. . . and that's just on a couple of patents they were found to have infringed.
Operating Guerrilla fashion now gets you no-where if you want to break into legitimacy later. That's like a Porn Star wanting to win an Oscar. It ain't gonna happen. Thailand is a huge enforcer of patent law. . . and the rest of the world is very much in line with IP. . . because they want to have THEIR IP protected too. You really don't know what you are talking about. Keep blithering. It makes you looks so foolish.
He's infected with the BabbleFish form of MAPS:
Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new ICD-10 addenda:
90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.
If your words were prophetic about the HP Touch Pad, where is it? Belly Up. HP dropped it 49 days after they released it. As a prophet, your prophetic abilities are not as good as Xiaomi's profits.
The real problem in the Android market is differentiation. With those razor-thin margins, and having to pay legally required SEP licensing, there isn't much room to differentiate in hardware design or software. In the Android market, where customers are wiling to accept "just good enough" producing a "superior quality" phone is not going to be the differentiator. They have to come up with a gimmick. Xiaomi's was making phones that mimicked Apple's phones in looks and screens. . . if not operations. Their idea was they could sell their phones to people who wanted to look like iPhone owners but who could not afford iPhones.
Their advertising budget that year was over $14 billion. . . however, the media purchasing was only about $4.6 billion. The rest was spent on astro-turfing, blog spamming, and trolls. . . including some I think who post anti-Apple junk on FreeRepublic.
They did waste of a lot of money on that
Samsung pays me one million a year to post here. How much does Tim Coooks pay you?
If I was in China and (most of Asia) I would buy Xiomi. CRAppple stuffs too expensives, greedy Cupertino liberals! I doubt CRAppple can block Xiomi sales in places like Burma and Thailand. They will be sold black market anyways....lots of them
Xiomi prolly sell well in nations like Uruguay, Brazil, Bhutan, India. Stupid rich Americans have a distorted view of what the rest of the world wants in a smart-phone. And all that patent BS is not enforced in the third world and second world (Uruguay is Second World nation for example)
WAKE UP AND PAY ATTENTION. DENNIS!
Apple is not blocking the sale of Xiaomi's phones. Where is ANYONE Apple is even trying to block Xiaomi. Ericsson/Sony is the prime holder of the patents at issue, but CISCO, Microsoft, Samsung and many other technological companies that hold the PATENTS that Xiaomi has IGNORED are the ones blocking their movement into other markets.
Xiaomi does not sell well on any blackmarket in the nations you mentioned. The black market flows the other way, INTO CHINA and it is iPhones that are being smuggled in. China has a 17% value added tax that must be paid.
As for your statement "If I was in China and (most of Asia) I would buy Xiomi.(sic)" Of course you would. You take every opportunity to bash Apple, and frankly, by extension, American business. As for your comment in another thread about Samsung paying you "a million dollars a year", I would not be surprised at all that you were a paid agent for a foreign agent, and that that was one of the few times you have been truthful in these threads.
If you have such a distorted view of America and Americans, why don't you move somewhere else and do what YOU do best. . . support non-American companies at all cost against America. . . must be that million dollar payment. Move to South Korea.
They still are. Their 2014 advertising budget is not much smaller. . . and their entire profit for 2014 was only the equivalent of $25 billion in US dollars. An advertising budget that is 56% of your profit is, shall we say profligate?
very
but I guess it keeps a lot of South Koreans employed since Samsung is about 20% of their GDP
Apple never makes things. They assemble and pimp them to its loyal dupes. Apple is a marketing, advertising and distribution machine
Samsung makes stuff
You ARE delusional. . . and now an obvious and self-admitted paid agent provocateur, a troll, for the KOREAN economy against AMERICAN economy interests.
I’ve got many friends and acquaintances in engineering and R&D at Apple. Wait’ll I tell them they aren’t doing anything. They’ll be surprised to hear that.
Where is the hands on stuff such as actually making a chip or an LCD screen? Where is it dooooood???
Apple does none of this while Samsung does, so Sammy has my respect. They will get my money before some alleged Americans hucksters at Apple do. Anyway CRAplle brings in boatloads of foreign HB1 tech workers same as the other Silicon Valley companies. CRApple’s loyalty to American workers and American labor is zilch
I suppose some of the clowns on top are Americans at Apple
I already told you Samsung pays me one million a year. How much does Apple pay you???
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