Samsung determined to oust Apple to become number one in iPo...

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[1macker1]

Wow, those are some lofty goals. But the more comp. the better. I love price wars.

[Daveway]

YEPP', whatever. :rolleyes:

[Sunrunner]

YEPP', whatever. :rolleyes:


Samsung should just run home now, they have no hope of beating out Apple with products like those....

[rikers_mailbox]

YEPP', whatever. :rolleyes:

heh. nice. couldn't have said it better myself.

The company said it would launch dozens of new MP3 players. . .
Great. They're going to water-down their own product line and drown themselves. The more I look at the iPod product matrix the stronger it gets. Good luck to anyone who tries to break into it.

[Sunrunner]

They're going to water-down their own product line and drown themselves. The more I look at the iPod product matrix the stronger it gets. Good luck to anyone who tries to break into it.


Exactly, all "over a dozen products" means is that they are not going to spend enough time on any one of them to make the product quality anything above mediocre.

Stick to memory Samsung....

[JohnHummel]

Interesting that Samsung is determined to out Apple in the <em>iPod</em> market - not the MP3 player market.

Hm.... I sense a problem right there.

[stoid]

Also on the shelf were flash-based fashionable wearable MP3 player YP-F1, HDD-based PMP YH-J70, smaller HDD-based PMP YH-J50, and two flash models _ YP-T8 and YP-D1.

With catchy product names like that the iPod doesn't stand a chance! </sarcasm>

At least they aren't stupid enough to predict the total decline of Apple, but rather expect that the market will start growing faster than Apple (ala original Apple computers). However, I don't see 35 - 45 million units per year to be a sustainable rate of sale though.

[montex]

The bigger they are the harder they fall. :D

[SeaFox]

"The Korean electronics giant, currently the world's largest memory semiconductor and liquid crystal display (LCD) maker, but eighth in the global MP3 player vendor market, said Thursday it would secure a 25-30 percent global market share and 50-55 percent of the domestic MP3 player market by 2007."

Saying and Doing are two different things.

[KREX725]

Yeesh, another major electronics manufacturer makes this claim... [yawn]

Didn't we just read the same story about Sony last week...and iRiver the week before...and Dell the week before that...and...

:rolleyes:

Someone posted a great fill-in-the-blanks press release a couple of weeks ago that these companies could use. It sounds like they are! :p

[macridah]

You got to be kidding me samsung ... First you have to come up with a cool player, then one that is compatible with iTunes Music Store, one that has many third party accessories, and one that car makers like enough to include as an option, one that car makers make adaptors for ... and be original.

Samsung: don't hold your breath.

[J-Squire]

Not sure if anyone else read the article last year that stated that Samsung's goal for the end of 2005 was to be a more dominant electronics manufacturer than Sony.

These guys have "high" hopes. What do they smoke in Korea?

[Sharewaredemon]

Interesting that Samsung is determined to out Apple in the <em>iPod</em> market - not the MP3 player market.

Hm.... I sense a problem right there.

It's so true, the iPod has become synonymous for the MP3 player, people refer to an MP3 player as an iPod, or an iPod "knockoff" (there's a better word than that).

[angelneo]

I don't understand why would companies want to announce to the world that they are going to beat the top BEFORE they do it (if they can). Doesn't it makes more sense to take action first and then announce it once they have the result. To create hype? most likely will backfired. Frankly speaking, Samsung has became a lot stronger in these few years.

Hmm... speaking of beating iPod, where's Creative?

[backspinner]

A dozen players? That's not the number of different products but the total number they will sell!

[SPUY767]

Isn't EVERYONE planning to beat the iPod by [insert arbitrary year here]?

[kettle]

Samsung will definitely need to be determined.

[Tinhead]

It's so true, the iPod has become synonymous for the MP3 player, people refer to an MP3 player as an iPod, or an iPod "knockoff" (there's a better word than that).

Yes, I've noticed this also. One could claim that it's solely because of the iPod's popularity, but I think there is more to it. Apple from day one pitched the iPod as a new kind of a music player, never emphasizing that is was a music player dedicated to the mp-format (among others) or giving it some arbitrary XYZ-123 name. Their slogans say "X (amount of) songs in your pocket", not "X GB in your pocket". They really market the iPod the average consumer in mind, not just the ones who are engineers or computer experts. This low level of complexity is further emphasized with the great UI. It's a really smart move and I think plays a huge role in why the iPod has become so successful, well-known, and well-understood.

One can only hope they will use this approach with their Macintoshes and OS X soon as well!

[lmalave]

Not sure if anyone else read the article last year that stated that Samsung's goal for the end of 2005 was to be a more dominant electronics manufacturer than Sony.

These guys have "high" hopes. What do they smoke in Korea?

Uh, they've arguably already left Sony in the dust. Sony is NOT doing well, which is why they just sacked their CEO. Lately it's Samsung that's been setting the pace in the electronics industry, especially in the high-end products that require significant R&D investments (e.g. 7-megapixel camer phones and 80" LCD screens).