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Samsung Sole Supplier for Retina Display in New iPad?
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Samsung should create a new product category instead of trying to compete and failing over and over.
Good for them that they have many subdivisions, which I would assume each run as a separate business. Their display subdivision is doing excellent.
It would be better if Samsung and Apple got along; they need each other (sort of, as Apple may never tie the knot to any vendor).
Samsung may have great technology but Apple has the brains to turn that technology into successful products.
I took his post as if he was trying to downgrade Samsung to supplier only title. Kinda like a cow(samsung) to macdonalds (Apple).
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well now that we know the next samsung tablet will have the retina display. I will be very interested to see how they handle the battery life without making their design too fat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
np. Clawfinger - the biggest the best
By numbers, Samsung is bigger than Apple. And they make A5 chips and iPads displays.
I own Samsung Galaxy S i9000 and Apple PowerBook G4
not typical FB but sure love OSX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
np. Clawfinger - the biggest the best
By numbers, Samsung is bigger than Apple. And they make A5 chips and iPads displays.
I own Samsung Galaxy S i9000 and Apple PowerBook G4
not typical FB but sure love OSXvery well said. Samsung just doesn't cut it when they try to design or innovate. Thinking about that Beam phone and the new tv 8000 something *shudder*
Wonderful, now someone less hypocritical can get their iPad sooner.
Oh, all those
devices you own... most likely paid for a good 2 hours of horse ***** patent attorney's time.But totally different right?
Wonderful, now someone less hypocritical can get their iPad sooner.
Oh, all those
But totally different right?
why are you continuing that conversation further? So what if he wants to cancel because he doesn't like a company.
If you had an opportunity to cancel a food order because you heard someone didn't wash their hands while making it. You would cancel it too.
It's not like no other companies will ever match the current Samsung retina either. If he wants to wait let him.
Most people probably don't really know much about the situation, so they're answering based on lack of factual information. Apple and Samsung have been working together on a component level for some time now. I like Sony televisions and swore I would never buy anything else, but couldn't resist a B.F. deal for a 46" Samsung, which everyone who see's it agrees looks amazing. I bought an iMac, it had an LG screen, which was always highly regarded for computer displays, and it had a yellowish tinge to it and a grey band at the bottom. I then bought a MacBook Pro and hated the LG screen that came with it, it looked washed out. Then I bought a MacBook Air and was amazed a the screen quality, as were others who seemed annoyed my Air looked more vivid than their MBPs, only to find out the MBA had a Samsung screen. Same goes with NAND flash, the Samsung SSD that I was lucky enough to get in my MBA is supposedly faster than the Toshiba equivalent some users received.
Point being Samsung makes high quality COMPONENTS, and to be honest are very good at "ripping off" the Mac aesthetic in the PC laptop market. Apple wants top notch components and Samsung makes them, end of story. Apple hates Samsung products that they feel are rip-offs of Apple designs, they don't hate the QUALITY of the products they make. Same goes with automotive partnerships. Look a Subaru and Scion (Toyota). They're competitors yet are releasing the SAME car next year both with slight variations sold under their own brands.
Stop whining and enjoy the new high quality Samsung retina display in your launch-day iPad3. If you hate Samsung that much, enjoy the one in your iPad2, if not, then boycott them all and enjoy the one in your Mac laptop!
Point being Samsung makes high quality COMPONENTS, and to be honest are very good at "ripping off" the Mac aesthetic in the PC laptop market. Apple wants top notch components and Samsung makes them, end of story. Apple hates Samsung products that they feel are rip-offs of Apple designs, they don't hate the QUALITY of the products they make. Same goes with automotive partnerships. Look a Subaru and Scion (Toyota). They're competitors yet are releasing the SAME car next year both with slight variations sold under their own brands.
Stop whining and enjoy the new high quality Samsung retina display in your launch-day iPad3. If you hate Samsung that much, enjoy the one in your iPad2, if not, then boycott them all and enjoy the one in your Mac laptop!
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I thought we were talking about Tablets and SmartPhones, weren't we?
They do have amazing and unique products, but it seems that some Samsung subdivisions lack creativity and prefer to become copycats instead.
You forgot the other comments - that Samsung doesn't invent anything or innovate. They just steal.
Am I the only one who read this comment and immediately concluded that this can only possibly be sarcasm and/or trollbait?
Because if it isn't sarcasm, then I cannot fathom the thought process which could have allowed any person to honestly believe that this position was rational and correct.
nice post. My next tv will probably be a Samsung just because they are the best display manufacturer. Dislike the morals of the company but it is not enough to stop me buying their TVs
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well the beam is a smart phone and i just mentioned the tv because it was relevant to my reply.
nice post. My next tv will probably be a Samsung just because they are the best display manufacturer. Dislike the morals of the company but it is not enough to stop me buying their TVs
I also can't wait to get one and complement it with an Apple TV 3.
Well you better throw your iPhone to the garbage bin because it has Samsung made A5 chip inside
Might as well throw his apple TV to a garbage bin.Well you better throw your iPhone to the garbage bin because it has Samsung made A5 chip inside
Samsung is spinning off the LCD unit. Coincidence?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57381351-93/samsung-to-spin-off-lcd-unit-to-focus-on-oled-tvs/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57381351-93/samsung-to-spin-off-lcd-unit-to-focus-on-oled-tvs/
Absolutely. I've been shopping for a new TV and was not very opinionated about the manufacturer since I am upgrading a Trinitron to a flat screen LCD. But then I saw a Samsung LCD/LED screen and was amazed by it.
Samsung probably secured billions of dollars worth of contracts to supply Apple with what they need. That spells a little death in the face of Samsung's display production competitors. Money from an enemy is still money baby!
Samsung sust split the company between consumer and components side for this reason. The guys on the components side of Samsung absolute love Apple because they make them huge commissions in sales. The folks on the consumer side of Samsung hate Apple. Apple always thought their status as "Samsung's best customer" on the supply side would keep Samsung out of the Android phone/tablet camp, but I don't blame Samsung considering Microsoft is just now getting ready to offer some decent licensable alternatives.
Actually, Apple is not a fan of anything Samsung does that runs Android: tablets or phones. They'd like Samsung to stick to TV's and components and Windows-based stuff. They especially did not like it when Samsung's consumer stuff looked too much like Apple's stuff (down to charing adapters and packaging). The rounded-rectangle thing is only a secondary reaction to the trade-dress stuff that raised Apple's ire. Nowadays, the Samsung stuff has mostly departed from that Apple-clone packaging.
I would certainly hope it was just sarcasm. No one in their right mind would think like that. If that was the case, don't buy from anybody, not even a PC or phone as Samsung also makes memory chips and more than you could imagine. LOL!
