Samsung Creates Team of About 200 Employees Working Exclusively on Apple Products

[jerrycardsusa]

Haha. Nice headline. If I hadn't read the article, I would have thought this was a satirical article explaining how it takes 200 Samsung employees to copy Apple's products.

Same first impression of the head line myself. lol

 

[ActionableMango]

There is no "Samsung". There is Samsung mobile division which loves to copy Apple products instead of creating their own. And there is Samsung semiconductor division which loves to create parts for anyone in the world with the money to buy them, including Apple. Especially Apple, since they buy _lots_ of parts.

Both the Semiconductor and Telecoms Equipment divisions are part of a single company, Samsung Electronics, headed by a single CEO, Kwon Oh-Hyun.

 

[MikePLP]

No, its about registering a protest against the many here that think samsung are the devil.

Samsung CEO found guilty of tax evasion(hundreds of millions of dollars) and somehow got the president of Korea to pardon him(if anyone thinks money didn't get exchanged, you're an idiot).
Samsung paid students to bash competitors online(they even admitted it).
Samsung tried to squash media(korea) that tried to report the truth about their factory that killed their employees.
etc....

I'm not even talking about how they copy Apple(lots of companies do that).

 

[JTToft]

Haha. Nice headline. If I hadn't read the article, I would have thought this was a satirical article explaining how it takes 200 Samsung employees to copy Apple's products.

- I had exactly the same reaction, except it being satirical never crossed my mind...

 

[AlecZ]

I thought all of them were already working exclusively on Apple products

 

[skratch77]

Looks like an amoled screen in the near future for iphones!

 

[dec.]

No, it doesn't work like that, now they love Samsung, when someone eats at the same table as Apple, they also become idolised.

Strange. So far I've seen people bashing Samsung, people loving Samsung, people bashing Apple, people defending Samsung, people defending Apple. Who are "they" and what do you base your selection of "them" on?

On Topic: Nice to see that Samsung is putting in the extra effort to provide good material.

 

[GuyWithHighIQ]

Samsung CEO found guilty of tax evasion(hundreds of millions of dollars) and somehow got the president of Korea to pardon him(if anyone thinks money didn't get exchanged, you're an idiot).

And Apple was found guilty of stealing Samsung's wireless tech, but got the President of the US to pardon them due to "competitive issues". Now Apple is getting slapped by Ericsson for stealing technology without paying royalties. It seems Apple loves stealing technology.
This is more serious than Samsung "stealing" Apple's designs, since anyone can design a rectangle with rounded corners with $0 in R&D, but LTE technology required several billions in R&D that Apple is free-riding off of.
Just recently, Apple got slapped with e-book price fixing and anti-poach agreement fines.

Samsung paid students to bash competitors online(they even admitted it).

Who cares?

Samsung tried to squash media(korea) that tried to report the truth about their factory that killed their employees.
etc....
I'm not even talking about how they copy Apple(lots of companies do that).

Yeah, the semiconductor business is dangerous due to the amount of hazardous chemicals they use, so a few employees dying for not following safety protocols isn't really Samsung's fault.
Also, I want to see proof of Samsung trying to cover this up.

 

[SpiderDude]

Samsung has long been a component supplier for apple.

Well. Marriage does tend to last more than a fling.

 

[MacVista]

The make want to kill each other in court, and try to copy each other's ideas.
But when in comes to doing business...

That's the power of cold, hard CASH!

 

[whatos]

You know what my dream is? All the same displays, for all Apple products. The thinnest, greatest quality, Retina (I'd hope 4x) displays with anty glare and no air gap. The same display on every product, with no differences except for the screen size.

If possible Apple would make a huge profit over what they're already making.

 

[B4U]

Well that's 197 more people than Apple has working on iOS software.

And 199 more than the UI design team...

 

[macduke]

You do know that Samsung was going to use a fingerprint sensor from AuthenTec before Apple bought them out? We would still have mobile payments with fingerprint scanner even if Apple hadn't stolen Samsung's idea.

Could have, would have, should have, but didn't? I thought they were this amazing bleeding edge mobile hardware company that could poof any magic they wanted out of thin air? Instead they put a vastly inferior fingerprint scanner into their phones which was widely panned for having abysmal performance. But they put it on their phone knowing full well it was garbage. What a great company!

"Or the new tiered battery in the MacBook" - Doing wonders for its battery life, eh?

Show me any other laptop that thin which can run for 9-10 hours. You can't. The Air started out with lower battery and today rules the roost. But for now who honeslyt needs more than that in a laptop during most days? They made a battery that nobody else has done. Another show of their engineering genius: the asymmetrical fan in my rMBP which is much quieter. They're always coming up with stuff like that. They think different.

"Or Force Touch. Or Digital Crown." - Both gimmicks, and definitely won't catch on like the S6 Edge.

At this point it's difficult to discern if you're even actually being serious. I'm leaning towards no, but let's continue since you can't actually reply.

"Or motion co-processors" - And? Co-processors have been used frequently in the past to aid in specific types of processing like the PS4's ARM co-processor which aids in UI/OS functions. It's nothing new.

If it's nothing new but incredibly useful then why didn't Samsung do it first? After all they are the gods of mobile right?

"Or security so strong that even the NSA can't read our iMessages and complains about it." - Considering a bunch of basement dwellers from 4chan hacked Apple, I'm more than sure the NSA can hack Apple and read what they want. Security and Apple are strange bed-fellows.

Answering commonly available celebrity security questions is hardly hacking. You know that—don't be ridiculous.

The rest, I won't even bother as you're just spouting useless gimmicks.

Sounds like you just don't have an answer to the incredible amount of brilliant technology Apple has developed over the years. Talk about useless gimmicks—that "edge" screen ranks pretty high.

By the way, nice new title! Welcome to the forums. Hope to see you around!

 

[CB1234]

It's scheduled for 2020. You can also drive it.

But I would only buy it, if it ironed and pressed my clothes.....

 

[LordVic]

Could have, would have, should have, but didn't? I thought they were this amazing bleeding edge mobile hardware company that could poof any magic they wanted out of thin air? Instead they put a vastly inferior fingerprint scanner into their phones which was widely panned for having abysmal performance. But they put it on their phone knowing full well it was garbage. What a great company!

Samsung had been on pace to use AuthenTec's chips for fingerprint sensor. Apple however bought the company outright and then blocked all sales to competitors, leaving samsung and other manufacturers to invent on short order their own technologies without the years of research AuthenTec already had. This gave Apple a tremendous lead.

This is more a statement about Apple's business practices than anything else. You can sugar coat it all you want, But Apple really was playing uncompetitive in this regard. But using their own Technology, samsung has apparently caught up. (haven't tested the new one on S6 yet)

Show me any other laptop that thin which can run for 9-10 hours. You can't. The Air started out with lower battery and today rules the roost. But for now who honeslyt needs more than that in a laptop during most days? They made a battery that nobody else has done. Another show of their engineering genius: the asymmetrical fan in my rMBP which is much quieter. They're always coming up with stuff like that. They think different.

Actually, they haven't. What they did was take a different battery tech, a slightly less efficient one, but one that is more 'maleable' and put it in a new shape. Don't believe the marketting hype, and unfortunately, Battery results from reviewers aren't hitting the mystical 9-10 hours. most are topping out around 8.

They did a great job making a really sleek and sexy looking laptop. But they didn't re-invent anything with this thing. Especially once you see the internals and you realize most of the work was actually intel's


If it's nothing new but incredibly useful then why didn't Samsung do it first? After all they are the gods of mobile right?
i'm not sure you know what a co-processor is.

it is essentially using a 2nd processor to do activities to assist, or offload from the first processor.

This technology has been in use since the days of X86's (I had a math coprocessor on my 386, OWOHOOO THAT FLIED!)

Also, Samsung was using co-processors in mobile. bigLITTLE is essentially a co-processor technology where there were two processors (4 core each) that are available to the OS. a high end CPU coupled with a lower powered one. ARM consortium, also used by samsung announced the technology in 2011 and first available in 2013.

Samsung's Exynos chips in 2013 featured this setup.


Sounds like you just don't have an answer to the incredible amount of brilliant technology Apple has developed over the years. Talk about useless gimmicks—that "edge" screen ranks pretty high.

everyone needs to stop using the term gimmick. if it's a feature and anybody uses it for some sort of usefull functionality, it's a function. just because something is a gimmick to you, or to him, or to me, doesn't mean it's a gimmick to everyone. if you can't find a use for it in your workflow, fine, but to judge someone else cause of such is pathetic on both of your parts.

listen, I don't agree with everything both fo you are saying but if you're going to act childish at least be factual correct instead of relying on bias and opinion when its fundamentally untrue.