[Star Traveler]

Uh-oh ... Samsung ... :-) ...

[Star Traveler]

Samsung cutting back ... because it’s not getting as much of the “pie” ...

[newfreep]

Something I learned many moons ago as a young MBA who eventually became an officer in a $400M corp...

1. Sales are good.
2. Profits are better.

3. But CASH is KING!

[Zathras]

I am hearing qualcomm is doing the same thing but for different reasons.
Process problems with fabs.

[jalisco555]

you’re probably in need of public assistance for watching too much Faux News

And that's when I stopped reading the article.

[Autonomous User]

Kate MacKenzie: Apple leghumper emerita.

[mylife]

Apple does well selling to the people who have to be ahead of the Jone’s.

For the rest of the world, Android works fine.

[The_Victor]

If you guessed Apple, you’d be so far off the mark that you’re probably in need of public assistance for watching too much Faux News and reading Business Insider.

The article's slanted leftist agenda leaves me skeptical. The statements might be true, but I'll wait for an objective source.

[rlmorel]

Apple has traditionally spent a lot on development, IIRC.

[kiryandil]

...watching too much Faux News...

Sounds like Kate is part of the Obama News Media Centipede:

Obama excretes > News Media ingests Obama's excrement, excretes > Kate & her ilk ingest News Media excreta

[DaveyB]

Samsung has cut back on the number of smartphone and tablet models...

Obsolete lines dropped, oh the inhumanity! Simplify offerings -- OH NO! Quick buy an apple before your friends find out you are not cool!

[BuckeyeTexan]

“Here’s what happens when the money begins to run out.”

A liberal wrote that? How funny. What do liberals know about the money running out?

[Codeflier]

“Faux News”...Apple is the only thing democrats love more than Obama. The progressive worship of Apple marches on.

[dsc]

Why does anyone care what this woman thinks? Her mind is completely under the spell of the evilstream media, so much so that she scorns Fox for only lying part of the time.

And if you think people can swallow what CNN et al. dish out and remain rational, just try to convince a PBS fan that the media outlets they trust are actually liars.

Then, for a laugh, get them started on how “religion” is based solely on “blind faith.”

[Dr. Ursus]

I wonder how Tony Flowers would feel today?

[dsc]

Why does anyone care what this woman thinks? Her mind is completely under the spell of the evilstream media, so much that she scorns Fox for only lying part of the time.

And if you think people can swallow what CNN et al. dish out and remain rational, just try to convince a PBS fan that the media outlets they trust are actually liars.

Then, for a laugh, get them started on how “religion” is based solely on “blind faith.”

[jsanders2001]

After they produced all those defective TVs that went bad right after the warranty cutoff period and then wouldn’t honor the warranty and wanted to charge half ofehat the cust brand new I’d say they had it coming. It happened to two Samsung TVs I had and all within a short time after my wannty went out which I found suspicious. After going online and finding some (not satirical) posts about thousands of them going out in similar fashion on consumer reporting webites (in addition to seeing an article about a chip that could actually cause electronics to go defective using an embedded timer and a routine that would create an open circuit on the date programmed) I said no more Samsung. Ocurring once; coincidence or $hit happens. Two coincidences; I think I just need to stop buying their products

[adorno]

Guess which high profile tech company is doing all that?

It’s not Apple. It’s Samsung.

Eventually, even the Apple loyal will begin to realize that, they're paying a premium price for what most others get at much lower prices.

Loyalty to a brand makes no sense, and loving a company makes even less sense. Quality is nice, but, like some people here have already stated, good enough is all that's needed, especially with gadgets that are meant to become obsolete in 1-2 years, or that people will feel the "want" (not the 'need'; the 'want') to upgrade to the latest-and-greatest.

When (not if, but when) Apple reaches the point where their loyal fan-base begins noticing how they didn't really need the iPhone to feel cool, then, Apple will be in worse shape than Samsung; Samsung is a more diversified company than Apple, where Apple's fortunes are mostly dependent on one device, that being the iPhone. But, writers as the one who wrote that article, don't really understand that companies need to worry about long-term success, rather than short-term WOW!-type figures.

[Wuli]

Is not Japan Inc. (and next all of East Asian “Tigers”) an example of the pending crisis of racing always just for market share, versus profits?

[Gator113]

I have owned my iPhone 6 for about 2 weeks and I love it. My wife’s DroidX finally died, so she now has my 2 year old iPhone 4S and she is very happy.

I put an orange and black Otter Defender case on my iPhone6, so now I look very cool too. LOL

Heck, its a phone, by what you like. Now if Porsche wasn’t so expensive, I would already look even cooler than I already do. ;>)

[jaz.357]

For MY money, Samsung is the best on the planet!