Most young guys focus on hardware (their own plus their toys) rather than ease of use or design.  Chris is unaware that the iPhone’s success rests on its operating system and availability of quality apps — i.e., software.  His sole mention of his own phone’s operating system (Jellybean) was in the context of software he could boot.  Triple boot!

Very few of the comments from other readers (below) are pertinent to Chris’s outburst.  He’s a man-child, so he’s gotta act like one. 

Nuff said.

Another classic troll FAIL.
I do hope Samsung aren’t paying you.
What a waste.

‘Mad’ as in INSANE.

Classic trolling.
Classic troll FAIL.
You have fun with your Samsung, miserable little liar.

How exactly has Samsung ‘adapt’ed to the Apple iPhone boom? There is nothing honorable or adaptive about robbery. You prosecute the crooks and put them in jail. Some adaptation strategy there, eh South Korea? Does that make you feel proud and satisfied with Samsung? If so, I think you need to FURTHER evaluate your business culture problems; MUCH further.

The Japanese continued this fine tradition in the 60s and 70s, China in the 90s and 2000s, and who knows how long the Koreans have been doing this–Apple’s just the highest-profile example that we paid attention to.

So yes, copying others can and does work when your home base doesn’t enforce IP laws. It might not be ethical, but then big business has zero ethics beyond what the law and courts are willing to enforce.

Oddly enough, none of this comes up in conversations with our family and friends, only on tech sites.

If you are trying convince anyone on the Android forums that Apples quality is lower…you will look quiet ignorant. So just imagine what you look like here!

So the iHaters in America hate Apple and that makes them root for a corrupt company in a country that has literally taken millions of jobs from America? Samsung literally owns Korea (20% of the entire Korean economy). The CEO/Chairman of the Samsung Group was convicted and sentenced to a jail term for bribery, fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to cover it all up and then got pardoned by the president.

Samsung grew fast during the 60′s~80′s as it was heavily subsidized by the dictatorship governments of Park Chung-Hee (assassinated in 1978) and his successors. Samsung and all the chaebol conglomerates have a nasty history of working with the government to limit imports and just focus on cheap exports. That’s how Samsung, Hyundai and LG all got so big.

They were essentially nationalized businesses but then as they got very profitable, they paid back the debts to the government before real democracy finally set in during the 90′s. Korea is still an infant as far as democracy is concerned. Before then, it was a full-on dictatorship and these companies like Samsung benefitted through their privileged relationship with the government.

How do I know this? I was born there and lived a good deal of my life there before moving to the US. The “liberal” governments in Korea of the previous administrations before the present one even tried to split up these huge sprawling family-owned conglomerates that collectively account for over half of the Korean economy but they couldn’t do it. The conglomerates are now too powerful and are simply too entrenched in every facet of the Korean economy, politics, culture and the society in general.

It’s a pretty sad situation in Korea. You think the gap between the rich and the poor is bad here in the US? It’s nothing compared to what it’s like in Korea and Samsung is the richest and the most powerful of them all there. Samsung also builds oil tankers, builds apartment complexes, produces commuter buses, runs a department store chain and luxury hotels, sells life insurance, trades securities, operates the country’s top hospitals, and virtually anything else you can think of.

Apple isn’t even 1% of the US economy while Samsung accounts for 20% of Korea’s. So who’s the bully? These haters and Samsung lovers should go live in Korea for a while. You’ll see a good chunk of the population there hate Samsung way more than all of these frivolous Apple haters hate Apple.

Google stole key technologies which Apple developed. Sure Apple used tech which was around for awhile, it even licensced tech from Nokia, Microsoft etc (paying royalties or cross license. Lawsuit against apple for patents are usually due to apple being unfairly charged for FRAND licenses) but the KEY tech that developed the modern touch screen phone was patented by Apple which google stole.

the tech BEFORE apple research produced blackberry type devices at best: look at the original Goog Phone demoed at Mobile World 2008 (http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/265131/Samsung-aims-for-Google-phone-by-early-2009)

and earlier (http://www.talkandroid.com/108155-prototype-google-phone-resembles-a-blackberry-was-set-to-arrive-with-a-9-99-unlimited-data-plan/)

THE ORIGINAL GOOGLE PHOINE WAS A BLACKBERRY CLONE.
schmidt on apple’s board stole the prototype iPhone info and changed it.

Google engineers testifying said the Google did a rapid change when the got word of the prototype iPhone. that’s why Android interface unless using very fast processors is laggy due to the ORIGINAL BUTTON interface design – the touch interface was quickly layered on top – as revealed by Android Engineer Andrew Munn. Munn : “It’s not because Android runs bytecode and iOS runs native code. It’s because on iOS all UI rendering occurs in a dedicated UI thread with real-time priority. On the other hand, Android follows the traditional PC model of rendering occurring on the main thread with normal priority (ideal for a button type interface).

This is a not an abstract or academic difference. You can see it for yourself. Grab your closest iPad or iPhone and open Safari. Start loading a complex web page like Facebook.”).

appleinsider on the Nunn revelations:
“According to Munn, the reason behind the design change is that the original Android prototype didn’t have a touchscreen, as it was meant to be a BlackBerry competitor. As such, Android’s architecture is meant to support a keyboard and trackball. Munn further claimed that after the original iPhone arrived in 2007, Google rushed to complete Android, but “it was too late to rewrite the UI framework”

and as for

‘SET IT FREE FOR THE MASSES’

SO IF I COPIED GOOGLE SEARCH ALGORITHMS AND USED IT FOR MY OWN SEARCH ENGINE GAVE IT TO THE MASSES WITHOUT ADS GOOGLE WOULD BE OK WITH THAT, WITH ME STEALING ITS IP ?

(by your arguments the idea of search was all over the place. Yahoo was out first for example).

PLEASE GET GOOGLE TO REPLY TO THAT SAYING “IT’S FINE”
i bet you by next week there would be 10 search engines in Asia and Europe with Googles algorithms and search would be ‘cheaper’ (less ads) so why DON’T YOU CONVINCE GOOGLE TO DO IT FOR THE GOOD OF THEM MASSES?

(truth is Google threatened to sue Msft for Bing when it thought msft was using google to refine it’s search engine. Not copy but just use it to refine bing… )

I think people who participate in online tech conversations often don’t realize that none of us represent the average consumer. To think that the average smartphone buyer cares (or even understands) to run multiple operating systems is foolish at best.

Look, I once was a serious geek/hacker, but I got older and busier, and now just don’t have the time or inclination to do such things (sadly, it isn’t even fun anymore). I’m in the tech industry still, so I get it.

Hell, I once was one of those “Linux on the desktop” guys many years ago. We see how well that worked out.

Every time I am there, someone is getting an iPad and iPhone replaced every 10 mins.

Whatever floats your boat.