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Samsung's Share of Smartphone Market Drops to Lowest Level in Nearly Two Years
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Well Samsung was making 6 billion profit a quarter so I suspect there will still be a bit of that left after the note 7 expenses are taken away...
Plus.. what a weird thing to say, would you be happy if every other company folded. Leaving no competition. Innovation would die and prices would sky rocket. What a dumb thing to say!!
While competition is good, like any company Apple is going to innovate and advance or it will decline. They are going to do their own thing. Assuming they are going to follow Jobs philosophy of "skating to where the puck will be", they assuredly have a vision for the future. Most of things that Samsung has done are nice but they are hardly innovative.
Phone design doesn't include the chips or OS? I'm not sure it really makes sense to say that. However, if you just want to talk about the screen or ceramic case on the Xiaomi, then you'd have to admit that it's being produced in tiny quantities, which means comparing it to the 7 is kind of moot. Xiaomi said it's only intended for sale to hardcore fans of Xiaomi in China. That's due to the fact that it isn't feasible to produce in quantity in 2016. So there's a very good reason Apple wouldn't do a design like that for a phone that needs to ship tens of millions of units around the globe in 2016.
How can there be when Apple's flagship large phone can hardly be found anywhere across the United States. There's currently not a Sim Free Black 7 Plus 256GB available anywhere in the country that I can find.
Yes, it most certainly IS.
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LOL. They apparently had plenty of warning and data on this. The problem appears to be more than just "rushing to market".
That'll be the easiest part. 'Fixing' consumer confidence and their reputation will take much longer.
It's discussed in the article. Late release of the 7 and production ramp up. Should be back up in Q4.
Man, I really do not care about company profits and whatnot.
Call me self-centered or whatever, but I want the best devices available on the market, for everyone.
The iPhone is not all things to all people. I am really mad at Samsung for screwing up this device so royally, because (aside from the obvious) the Note7 was perfect.
It was beautiful, fast, expandable, customizable, water-resistant, and hey, it even had a headphone jack!
It was everything I wanted in a phone (although they need to bring back the removable battery), and had features unavailable anywhere else.
A shame.
Hopefully, they get spanked so hard that the Note 8 will be spectacular. Nothing drives excellence like failure.
Something Apple sorely needs. The Apple of today was built out of the ashes of Steve Jobs's failures. He came back with guns blazing.
Looks like Microsoft is doing the same.
Let's see what happens in a couple of hours on the Apple event (can't wait)!!
Call me self-centered or whatever, but I want the best devices available on the market, for everyone.
The iPhone is not all things to all people. I am really mad at Samsung for screwing up this device so royally, because (aside from the obvious) the Note7 was perfect.
It was beautiful, fast, expandable, customizable, water-resistant, and hey, it even had a headphone jack!
It was everything I wanted in a phone (although they need to bring back the removable battery), and had features unavailable anywhere else.
A shame.
Hopefully, they get spanked so hard that the Note 8 will be spectacular. Nothing drives excellence like failure.
Something Apple sorely needs. The Apple of today was built out of the ashes of Steve Jobs's failures. He came back with guns blazing.
Looks like Microsoft is doing the same.
Let's see what happens in a couple of hours on the Apple event (can't wait)!!
Everyone believed Samsung woes would wind up with waves of people running to the iPhone, looks like it didn't happen, instead they ran to the "discount brand androids" . Even iPhone sales dropped showing that overall demand for them is lower than before. To me it looks like the high end market is starting to collapse a little.
When you can buy a $500 flagship from the midrange that doesn't sacrifice on the experience anymore, selling a 650 phone becomes harder.
This is evidenced by the insane growth numbers that the Companies like Heuwei have seen.
When you can buy a $500 flagship from the midrange that doesn't sacrifice on the experience anymore, selling a 650 phone becomes harder.
This is evidenced by the insane growth numbers that the Companies like Heuwei have seen.
Between the Pixel release and the disaster that is the Note 7, 4th quarter for Samsung Mobile is going to be rough.
Except that if this were Apple you would be declaring, “Good riddance, Samsung rulz!” Right?
as if no one saw that happening, i wonder if anyone has made heads roll for messing that phone up so bad?
In fact, if you want to know what specs the new iPhone will have just simply go back and look at an older Samsung Galaxy phone..seriously.
Actually, if you look at his/her post history, they're a pretty loyal Apple user who usually mocks Samsung.
Nothing quite like the sheer stupidity of a rabid Apple fan attacking his own group if they dare to say anything non-negative about Apple competition.
This whole thread reeks of immature responses.
Actually, it is. If two different companies sell an identical product, that's good enough to classify as "competition".
Why does marketshare matter when your company is making 90% of the profits for the entire market?
Why does the profit share matter at all? Is that metric even backed up by anything substantial? For huge companies like Google, Samsung, Huawei etc it's very hard to discern how much profit they make on selling a single phone, at least from the public filings. This information can be well hidden and actually very hard to compute to begin with.
Even if it were true that Apple makes 90% of the profit, that mainly tells me that Apple's smartphone products are grossly overpriced, and in any case it doesn't paint a pretty picture about its customers.