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Posted on 01/30/2015 5:30:07 PM PST by SamAdams76
January has been a very good month for Apple.
First Mac 1999 last Mac from my cold dead hands.......lol
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.
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.
Xiaomi can’t be exported from China because it contains a vast amount of pirated software.
in before the whining Samsung/Android fanbois!
Hm as opposed to the apple fanboys who have their heads up Apple’s ass?
“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...]
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.
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
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.
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
It’s a metaphor.
Strangely, they do seem to have a corporation, and thermonuclear weapons.
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Great article ... thanks!
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.
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.
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