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Apple Inc's thermonuclear assault on Samsung vaporizes Android's remaining profit pillar
Apple Insider ^ | January 29, 2015 | Daniel Eran Dilger

Posted on 01/30/2015 5:30:07 PM PST by SamAdams76

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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.

1 posted on 01/30/2015 5:30:07 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

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


2 posted on 01/30/2015 5:33:29 PM PST by Johnny_cash (10 out of 10 idiots support 0Bama!)
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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.


3 posted on 01/30/2015 5:38:18 PM PST by TomGuy
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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.

4 posted on 01/30/2015 6:00:29 PM PST by montag813 (ue)
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To: SamAdams76

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


5 posted on 01/30/2015 6:14:16 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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in before the whining Samsung/Android fanbois!


6 posted on 01/30/2015 6:15:27 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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Hm as opposed to the apple fanboys who have their heads up Apple’s ass?


7 posted on 01/30/2015 6:38:20 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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“Hm as opposed to the apple fanboys who have their heads up Apple’s ass?”

No. Not opposed to anything. Just Samsung/Android Fanbois.

[BTW... I’m not scientifically trained in botany, so I could be wrong, but I do not think Apples have asses...]


8 posted on 01/30/2015 7:03:49 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: montag813

As a former Sony fanboy, there are too many models with incomprehensible names to keep track of, and the specs are too often corner cutting where robustness matters. There is no sense of loyalty to the customer. Spec sheet points seem little more than checkboxes, rather than something that may actually matter to the customer.


9 posted on 01/30/2015 7:04:17 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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> Samsung lost me as a customer. When I see the Samsung name, no matter how good a deal, I pass it by.

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

A few years ago I spent about $3500 on two Samsung TVs. Both died suspiciouly just slightly after the warranty expired and they wanted an arm and a leg to repair them. I tried speaker to supervisors but they wouldn't budge; $800 just to repair one of the set! They get no sympathy from me. In fact they deserve it IMHO

10 posted on 01/30/2015 7:13:21 PM PST by jsanders2001
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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.


11 posted on 01/30/2015 7:28:26 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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> Samsung lost me as a customer. When I see the Samsung name, no matter how good a deal, I pass it by.

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

A few years ago I spent about $3500 on two Samsung TVs. Both died suspiciouly just slightly after the warranty expired and they wanted an arm and a leg to repair them. I tried speaking to supervisors but they wouldn't budge; $800 just to repair one of the sets! I said h*ll no and went out and bought an LG and it had better picture quality and features anyway. It's still going 4 years later; 3 yrs after the warranty. They get no sympathy from me. In fact they deserve it IMHO

12 posted on 01/30/2015 7:33:57 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

It’s a metaphor.


13 posted on 01/30/2015 7:34:15 PM PST by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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[BTW... I’m not scientifically trained in botany, so I could be wrong, but I do not think Apples have asses...]

Strangely, they do seem to have a corporation, and thermonuclear weapons.

14 posted on 01/30/2015 7:39:07 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: SamAdams76; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
Samsung's collapse in profits caused by Apple, not Xiaomi — PING!


Apple Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

15 posted on 01/30/2015 8:44:33 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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16 posted on 01/30/2015 8:49:56 PM PST by Begin
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To: SamAdams76

Great article ... thanks!


17 posted on 01/30/2015 10:02:26 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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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.

18 posted on 01/30/2015 10:04:46 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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19 posted on 01/30/2015 10:16:51 PM PST by Begin
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To: SamAdams76; Swordmaker

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.


20 posted on 01/31/2015 1:49:30 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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