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Best Buy Reportedly Rolling Out Dedicated Samsung Store-Within-a-Store Concept

camnchar said:
Has Samsung had an original idea in their entire existence?
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camnchar said:
Here, I found an image of Samsung's new store-within-a-store concept:

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Are you trying to paint them off as blantant ripoffs for any particular reason? You could say the same about Apple. At least Samsung advances the field in a variety of ways, tech (you know...since Apple doesn't really make anything, just assembles), as well as keeping Apple on their toes

I am not against this at all, in fact I welcome it
 
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princigalli said:
It will be hard for Samsung people having to deal with customers complaining about things that just don't work, like many of my Samsung purchases.
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Less than Apple though..

"My battery doesn't a day" to which Apple Responds "Your phone wasn't designed to be used that much"

"I get 1 bar instead of 2" to which Apple Responds "You are holding it wrong"

"My phone came with nicks from the factory" to which Apple Responds "So ??"
 
I'm not sure about the rest of the country, but here Best Buy has their laptops separated by brands, one for Samsung, one for Sony, one for HP, etc. The tables are usually divided in half with one company on each side. Funny thing, the do their cell phones the same way, with each carrier having their offerings grouped together.
 
Page after page of people here insulting Samsung and yet when I suggest in another thread, we all boycott buying Samsung's other product lines I get spat upon? Who can figure out this site?
 
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Point-of-Purchase displays/kiosk/etc is nothing new.
 
Makes sense. Best Buy wants people to come in, buy products they like, then leave and tell their friends, all as quickly as possible.

Thus, Best Buy wants the best products to be easiest to find. There's hundreds of crappy mobile products, few people want most of them though, so they grab the best products and put them under some nice signage. They've done it with Apple for a long time, now they're doing it with the next best product. Now 90% of shoppers in the market for a new mobile device can easily find exactly what they're looking for, IE, either an Apple product, or the best not Apple product.
 
This is going to be confusing for consumers to compare Samsung products to competitors.

Macs have in most stores always been in a separate area. Whether there was an Apple section among computers, or a Mac department entirely. It made sense to treat them differently in the past due to the vastly different OS. Today, it makes less sense but still the OS and Applications are fairly different.

Samsung is just another Windows OEM or Android OEM. By moving them to their own section, it makes it harder to compare them to HP, Sony, HTC, whatever side-by-side.
 
oneMadRssn said:
This is going to be confusing for consumers to compare Samsung products to competitors.

Macs have in most stores always been in a separate area. Whether there was an Apple section among computers, or a Mac department entirely. It made sense to treat them differently in the past due to the vastly different OS. Today, it makes less sense but still the OS and Applications are fairly different.

Samsung is just another Windows OEM or Android OEM. By moving them to their own section, it makes it harder to compare them to HP, Sony, HTC, whatever side-by-side.
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If you go to Best Buy now the laptops are grouped by brands. You may have to move to another table to compare a Samsung to a Sony, so this should make little difference, IMO.
 
Fun fact, Samsung don't just make computers and phones.

They've been around before Jobs was born making products for industries that Apple have no clue how to operate in. There's a reason Apple buy components from Samsung and not the other way around. Because they are market leaders in areas of all kinds.

And appliances, ships, aircraft, military, engineering design, manufacturing etc. etc.

So anyone basing their opinion of Samsung solely from their phone business, is frankly a naive idiot.

Apple didn't invent every product area they are in now either. Apple Stores both as in-store and independent B&M, are not a new concept by any stretch of the imagination.

And if Apple move into any area that Samsung have been operating in for over decades (say, televisions for example ...) I guess people will be slating them for copying too eh? :rolleyes:
 
Renzatic said:
Because if there's one true innovation Apple's brought to the technology scene, it's that making great products and building a rapport with your customers isn't enough...

...you also have to have an enemy to hate.
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Well, they're Apple's, not mine...

And before I get flamed by nerds, I don't have any interests in Samsung, and have the full "iKit"... (MBP, aTV, iPhone 5, iPad 3, Time Capsule, etc), I just don't get the deep hatred...
 
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