There are so many things wrong about this post.
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Samsung is not making their sales solely in America. Actually most of Samsung sales come from (wait for it gasp) out of NA . In Europe and Asia people mostly buy their phones unlocked or even from the carrier the price is the same for an unlocked version.
Was there a point you were trying to make?
They do this better than any of their competitors and always have. Motorola learned that after being jerked-around for months by Verizon's asshat management telling them to redesign the Q. Samsung waltzes in and introduces the copy-cat BlackJack and its all good with Verizon's execs.
In North America you sell to the telephone company execs, not consumers.
In the rest of the world Samsung relies on the sheer weight of their marketing and advertising.
And cheap plastic? Have you ever even owned a Samsung phone?
Yes, three, as a matter of fact. Most recently a Galaxy Nexus.
The Galaxy Nexus I had was a disaster. Aside from the fact that it had a mysterious firmware/hardware bug that would cause it to reboot twice a day after overheating spontaneously (check out the xda developer forums for how many people had this same problem), that wasn't the worst of it. Every once in a while it would just decide to silently go off the cell network. I'd check my phone and find out that I was missing texts and calls all day without knowing it. Quality!
On top of that, someone else discovered that if you press gently on the back of the Galaxy Nexus, it'll lose power and reboot - probably because the battery leads lose contact with the battery because of the case flex. They foolishly pushed the case design beyond the limits of what a plastic enclosure can tolerate. Because it looked 'cool' - form over engineering. Quality!
Don't get me wrong - I loved the software. Android 4 ICS was da ****, and I'm sure its only gotten better since. It was the first version of Android that you could buy without being a sucker or vehemently and irrationally anti-Apple. It addressed most of Gingerbread's worst shortcomings (horrible touch-screen and rendering lag, ugly system widgets, ****** bundled browser, etc) and kept all of Android's traditional strengths. I'm quite comfortable saying that Android as an OS is well ahead of iOS 6 in most respects - and I wouldn't hesitate to buy another Android phone in the future - as soon as my carrier makes an Android visual voice mail app that doesn't suck (and the current one does).
But Samsung didn't have anything to do with the software, did they?
In fact I've probably owned more Samsung products of all kinds than most people have. And I don't think that I've had a single one of them that didn't die or malfunction badly before having owned it for 2 years. One of my Samsung TVs died 11 months after I bought it, got serviced under warranty by a Samsung tech, and then died again in a different way 2 months later, just out of warranty. Quality!
Samsung is the king of DRAM and NAND flash. They make solid feature phones, their displays are the envy of the industry, and I've heard they make good refrigerators. Props to them.
I just wouldn't buy one of their phones again.
When I had my gs2 and note 2 I dropped it numerous times. And not even a scratch on the plastic. And current gen of Samsung phones like gs4 and note 2 are hybrids of plastic and aluminum.
Bully for you.
It kills me when isheep go on rants about Samsung phones and have no clue what they are talking about.
Did you really just say 'isheep'? Seriously? Am I debating an adult?
When they can't innovate anymore they litigate. Motto of every huge cooperation.
Does rhyming help you to understand difficult concepts?
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Ha Ha. Big spliff. Are they as big as this?
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That's what you've gotta smoke to feel good about working for the phone company. 
