Samsung Misses Earnings Estimates as Apple and Others Pressure Mobile Sales

[SHNXX]

Well aapl disappointed too.
So much for my expectations.

 

[AnalyzeThis]

I have no idea what you just said there.

Well now you could decode it. It could be more obvious what I meant. Apple suck this quoter and Icann going to eat his own words now. Ha-Ha!

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AnalyzeThis? I've tried and failed.

For most advanced folks, now it the good time to figure out what it meant.

 

[APlotdevice]

Samsung announced that it would launch a new version of its flagship Galaxy smartphone by April, alongside the second version of its Gear smart watch.

I wonder what direction Samsung will take with their second generation Galaxy Gear? Will it just be a slight upgrade, or will they completely rework it with a much more energy efficient, if perhaps not a vivid, display?

DLNA functions - when watching video 1 touch of a button it plays on my Smart TV without buying an extra peripheral. I can also screen mirror my phone on my TV.

That's all well and good for those of you who have smartTVs, but for the rest of us a peripheral is needed anyway.

Widgets (i'm sure this will be shot down even though it's great), some have great functionality especially music player, torch, alarm clock.

There's already a music player, flashlight toggle, and quick access to the clock app in the control center.

 

[tongxinshe]

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.

Sure there are more factors, but the influences of them narrows down very quickly because of the nature of the modern electronics industry.

The biggest reason for Apple to lose smartphone market share so quickly in the last 1.5 years is that it didn’t adjust prices more flexibly.

There is still a quite obvious gap between iOS tablet apps and Android tablet apps, but that gap is narrowing down very very quickly. If Apple doesn’t adjust iPad prices better, it will soon go through the same disappointment it experienced in its iPhone sales in the last 1.5 years.

 

[SeaFox]

Samsung Pays Apple $1 Billion Sending 30 Trucks Full of 5 Cent Coins
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That never happened, for several good reasons. Plus it was not 1 Billion dollars, but only 929 Mio. after the latest court rulings.

It would only show the lack of business sense Samsung has if it was true. If they have to pay the (hypothetical) $1 billion to Apple, they should seek to pay it the cheapest way possible: electronic transfer. Paying in a large number of small-denomination coins is funny and obviously Apple has to sit there and process them all, but Sumsung had to process them all first, and pay to have them sent over by truck. So all they're really doing is wasting even more money on theatrics at that point on a fee their investors are less-than-amused with.