Samsung is doomed
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........ will their products blend?
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........ will their products blend?
What else is there to innovate? At some point the cell phone market is going to plateau and handset makers are going to have to look at other places to expand. Same happened to PC's, and MP3 players and I don't doubt the same will happen to phones some time soon, I'm not one to say that Samsung's performance is reflective of the entire industry as a whole, but I wouldn't be surprised if handset makers started reporting flat sales or slower growth. I think that's the reason why Apple is rumored to be making a smart watch, it's another way for them to grow sales.
Exactly... They even have too many TVs at this point too! If you do a search at BestBuy.com they currently sell 68 models of Samsung TVs... and that IS NOT the complete line.
It's madness.
That never happened, for several good reasons. Plus it was not 1 Billion dollars, but only 929 Mio. after the latest court rulings.
...so when Samsung comes out with a monitor with a higher resolution they are innovating?
That is literally what you are saying.
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Uh, what's your question? I made my points very clear.
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My precious Android? How is it "mine" and why is it "precious"? Sorry that I have a less biased opinion than you do.
No, 64-bit isn't innovative, it's iterative.
TouchID is bordering on innovative because of the way it is used, but I seem to recall fingerprint scanners being on laptops for the better part of a decade.
I'm sorry you feel that way about Android's UI, but that's your opinion. I'm also sorry you feel that way about competitors' performance, but there are plenty of competing devices that benchmark at or above Apple's devices of the same generation. Not many, but some.
Mobile 64-bit is innovative!
Touch ID is awesome!
AirDrop destroys obliterates NFC!
FYI fingerprint scanner works totally different then the sensors on the laptops. Apple's way is totally innovative!
Translation:
'After we finished copying, we have no idea what to do next, so we just threw a whole bunch of stuff against the wall, put out $10 billion in really awful ads, and hoped for the best.'
'After we finished copying, we have no idea what to do next, so we just threw a whole bunch of stuff against the wall, put out $10 billion in really awful ads, and hoped for the best.'
I think we'll just see a shift from a subsidized model to a NEXT/EDGE sort of model..As long as smartphones continue to get better, we'd see consumers want them..it simply boils down to smart financial engineering to get maximum consumers to afford the phone ( or get the perception that they can afford the phone
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If you buy phones based on benchmarks alone, you're doing it wrong, really wrong. Especially when companies like Samsung cheat at them anyway. Real world performance is far more important. Benchmark scores aren't reassuring if your UI lags. Even when looking at performance benchmarks, I'd look harder at single core performance, (where Android devices tend to lag a little). Most daily tasks aren't going to use all 4 or 8 cores.
PS: plenty and many are synonyms. How do plenty, but not many, devices benchmark at or above Apple's devices of the same generation?
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That must be why there is a significant time gap between Apple's ARM based 64 bit solution and everyone else's.
Both the innovative part for apple is putting all the tech into a neat little package and making all the different technologies work together. + apple has plenty of in house innovations .
really? my nexus s (end of 2010) is running faster than ever on kitkat (end of 2013)
the only reason there is MS software for OS X i because apple needs it
Maybe you missed the part where the poster said "few". Which doesn't mean none and it doesn't mean all.
I often see so many people using loose incorrectly in this forum instead of lose, I often wonder if this is autocorrect or just confusion.
TOTALLY wrong!!!
Really wise businesses always put customers' interests on the very top, because over time customers will realize that and ditch other businesses that put businesses' own interests on top.
If Apple set its profit margin at 15-20% (instead of >80%) when it first released iPhone, it would be at a much safer situation now, while still earning a lot of money because of much larger sales volume.
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Not sustainable? You call 5 billion quarterly profit as "not sustainable"? In comparison, a high profit margin is much less sustainable!
As previously noted, smart phone market cannot sustain its growth.
Lower end devices still have a huge potential for growth and it suppose Chinese middle class growth could fuel growth for aapl's iPhones too.
But I feel like devices such as galaxy s5 will be squeezed.
Niche devices such as note3,4 may not suffer as muchc.
Lower end devices still have a huge potential for growth and it suppose Chinese middle class growth could fuel growth for aapl's iPhones too.
But I feel like devices such as galaxy s5 will be squeezed.
Niche devices such as note3,4 may not suffer as muchc.
According to that same article (but not repeated here), South Korean currency value changes were responsible for 700 billion of missing revenue, a large part of the missing 1 trillion.
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Sorry to disappoint you but businesses only pay lip service to the idea of "putting customers' interests on top." Apple professes that they're all about the consumer, but in reality, they want to make a profit. They simply see making products consumers like as the most important factor in achieving the goal of making a profit.
As a consumer, the profit that a company makes has no bearing on my buying decision. I'm trying to get the most value out of the money I spend. Let's a say a product costs "x" amount of dollars. If I think "x" amount of dollars is too much to pay for that product, it doesn't matter if the company that manufactures it is making or losing money on that product by selling it for "x" dollars. I'm not buying if I think the product isn't worth the money I'm paying for it.
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Though also reflect that if the company is consistently losing money it won't be around in the long term to make any more of those items or support the one you bought. Depending what the item is, a computer or a cheesecake, you may or may not care about that.
It is you that is not completely correct. There are basically three strategies to be successful as a business:
- Product leadership - producing the absolute best products in all respects on the market
- Customer Intimacy - what you are referring to
- Cost Leadership - being the most cost effective in the industry
Organisations that are really successful often focus on two of these. Often customer intimacy and cost leadership. A good example is Easyjet that has excellent customer focus while having some of the most competitive flight prices in the industry. Ryanair only focuses on cost leadership.
Product leadership is the hardest, but Apple excels as it. They have in most respects the best product on the market. Apple beats most other producers in terms of build quality, internal components and packaging.
Customers are often willing to pay a premium for those products as it gives them piece of mind (little repairs and problems) and provides status in some respects. Pricing is for this category a secondary factor. That is why Apple can get away with $100 prices to go to the next RAM tier in iPhones etc.
I recommend you to read this article. It has turned into a classic in business education.
Reading it you will realise that pricing isn't everything. Interestingly Apple is very good at each of the three value disciplines, a feat that only very little companies are successful at.
Sure as a customer, you dont care about the profit margin, but you do care about the price, so another business making similar products but with a lower profit margin will sure win your business, leaving the companies with high profit margin to death.
Sorry Tongxinshe, but the situation is (thankfully) much more complicated than that, and there is consequently much more needed to understand this than your narrow view on pricing.
Examples are ecosystem value and gravity, price elasticity differences between Apple and competitor products, branding etc.
If it were so simple, than Apple would have lowered its prices long ago. As it happens, the iPad is the best selling tablet on the planet and probably also the most expensive based purely on its functionality and performance.