Comments on: Why Samsung is about to become the smartphone king

By: John

John — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:54:38 +0000

To be honest, samsung is just a shadow of Apple. My daughter boutht the Galaxy, big mistake. IT was in the repairhope after two weeks, just like our T.V. Samsung will always just be shoddy
junk that looks good for a while, but in the end collapses.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:23:57 +0000

Right, hopefully the courts will allow Apple to stop samsung from stealing its technology. If they don’t, then that’s government fail.
Secondly, Google has also stolen Apple’s technology, and the courts should stop them.
Thirdly, the decline of the dollar is due to government incompetence and constantly printing money to fund irresponsible spending.

So, in the end, if AmericaFails’ as you predict, it will be the federal government’s fault.

If people don’t believe in patents, then ammend the constitution and let companies start keeping their secrets secret. They can compete on that playing field fine, and Apple will kick ass.

The anti-patent people want the revelations of the patents being published so things can be copied, but don’t want the innovators to be allowed to profit.

In short, they want something for nothing.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:03:06 +0000

Pretty simple really. “How do we not be like everyone else where we only compete on price?”

By: AmericaFail

AmericaFail — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:51:35 +0000

Let’s cheer for Samsung success at stealing the innovative ideas from Americans. Let’s thank Google for giving free technology to Asian companies.

Woohoo we’ll all be unemployed with a dollar worth a penny soon.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:05:43 +0000

I keep telling myself that, but I’ve been hanging on to my Nexus One for 18 months now. And the HTC Sensation is a worthy upgrade…. UGH! ;)

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:32:07 +0000

It’s worth the wait Kevin. :)

By: Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:54:14 +0000

When will Samsung offer a dog-friendly smartphone?

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:49:40 +0000

Thanks Nigel, and nice write up of the Galaxy S II – of course, now you’re making me look forward to it even more and my patience is already waning! ;)

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:14:15 +0000

Spot on! The surprise is that it’s Samsung that seems to have come up with a winning formula, instead of HTC which is the company everyone was focusing on until recently. The new Galaxy SII is a real beauty of a product (http://www.redferret.net/?p=27708), and if Samsung can continue on this form, they’ll hold the crown for a long time.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:06:43 +0000

Things can move vary fast in this industry. I agree that Samsung will become the #1 smartphone seller. The question is how long do they get to hold the title. With all the speculation of a much cheaper iPhone tied to the new iCloud service Apple could be in a position to again experience huge growth.

It is good to see Samsung building it’s own ecosystem but I think they will not be able to keep up with Apple. Apple is able to get licensing deals with the media companies that no one else can for the moment.

My last thoughts are that Apple is still a vindictive company, it has softened this over the years but it is still at it’s heart. I expect Apple to move it’s processor fabbing to someone other than Samsung as soon as it makes business sense. I also expect it to be making large payments to component suppliers such as Sharp and Intel to move both their memory and screen supply away from Samsung. They wont risk there supply chain but they will change it.