“In January, I wrote a story for Forbes called Is Samsung Invincible, predicting that the South Korean manufacturer might just have carved itself a defensible Number One spot in electronics, achieving an ambition that has eluded Sony, Panasonic and many others,” Michael Kanellos writes for ReadWrite.
“So what could change all this?” Kanellos writes. “Petulance.”
Kanellos writes, “It won’t happen for a few years. In fact, expect to see the company enjoy a temporary surge of popularity. But then you’ll see the backlash begin to sink in: Buy a Samsung? Ewwww. Don’t know why, just ewwww. An investment bank will make a prediction about Samsung quarterly shipment declines. Others will pile on.”
“The company will also eventually find itself on the horns of the killer product dilemma. Samsung has always been a great fast follower. It aspires to have the most feature-rich or best designed products in the majority of the high-end price bands,” Kanellos writes. “But it doesn’t create truly new products. Comb the company’s product catalog and you won’t find a Walkman, or an iPhone, the first $1,000 PC or the first laptop. You’ll find the digital equivalent of John Kerry.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Looking like you’re paying off judges in order to secure a ridiculous “apology” while losing billion-dollar judgements for infringing Apple’s patented intellectual property isn’t going to help, either, Samsungorea. (It sounds like a disease because it is.) Neither will trying to confuse the ignorati by suing Apple over standard essential patents (FRAND abuse) in order to obfuscate your wholesale theft of Apple’s design patents and product trade dress. Eventually, the truth will win out.
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I don’t know which is worse: Samsung’s slavish copying or that there are tens of millions of dullards and/or morally-crippled consumers who would buy such obvious knockoffs. What kind of person rewards thieves, especially such obvious ones? What kind of person hands over their money to make sure that crime pays? What’s wrong with you people, exactly?
It makes me sad that there are outfits like Samsung Electronics on the planet, as I was with Microsoft before them. People who work for Samsung Electronics should be ashamed. It makes me even sadder to see people supporting blatant criminals, whether it be blindly or, worse, knowingly. To those people I say: Get some morals, will you, or how about at least acquiring a modicum of taste?
What you’re doing is supporting criminal activity. It’s like you’re buying knockoff Coach handbags, but you’re paying pretty much the Coach price! Not too smart, eh? Oh, sure, you might have “saved” a bit upfront on your fake iPhone (maybe you got one of those Buy One Get One or More Free deals), but you’re paying the same data rates – after a couple years, you’ve pretty much paid the same anyway! So, in the end, you’re saving little or nothing while:
a) depriving the company who basically inspired your inferior, fragmented product;
b) depriving yourself of the real deal and the real experience, and;
c) rewarding the criminal, encouraging them to steal even more.Not a lot of sense being made in any aspect of your toting around that Android phone, is there? Oh, right it’s “open.” Smirk. And, yes, every one of us with the real thing knows that you’re carrying around a half-assed fake, you tasteless wonder.
Didn’t you people have parents? If so, what did they teach you, if anything? Sheesh. – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, August 6, 2012
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Samsung Mobile chief ‘designer’ denies that Samsung’s instinct is to slavishly copy Apple – March 23, 2012
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Missed SJ’s take before. Nice.
And if Samsung continues to bait the courts with jokes like its latest egregious knock-off of Passbook, they stand a chance of having them wake up one day and actually take a stand to protect IP the way the law intends.
http://themacadvocate.com/2013/02/27/another-day-another-shameless-samsung-larceny/
Petulance or arrogance, not sure which one is better.
It’s hard to fall lower than Samsung’s ethical standing.
Coz it wil be like Apple . High margin and profit slowing .
I mean lower magin and profit slowing
I want to know how I can short Samsung ? I am damn sure Samsung profit will become slower .
Buy Puts.
Where can i buy?
regular people (most buyers of samsung) dont know they are purchasing a knockoff or that they are doing a stupid purchase. I think Apple through a campaign should explain the kind of company samsung really is and what its really going on. Millions would be shocked to learn the truth we know. Unfortunately people that visit mdn are probably less than 1% of the population
Samsung is currently spending BILLIONS on advertising in addition to BILLIONS in special commissions and ‘product support’.
So people are bombarded with their message, then they go to the store and the sales peeps are pushing that which greases their palms the most.
I see what Apple should do with some of that money wallstreet is lusting after…
‘Thieves never Prosper’. Sooner or later you will pay the price for your dishonesty no matter how hard you try to cover up and or justify your crimes.
That’s mean to John Kerry. I mean really?
Yeah I don’t understand that analogy at all. John Kerry is an admirable man whose election in 2004 might have helped this country avert the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. He’s now winding down a long, steady career of public service to this country as the 68th Secretary of State at a crucial and perilous juncture for our foreign affairs. Where the hell is the comparison to the scandalous, shameless, unethical global conglomerate succubus known as Samesung?
Kerry is a lying ass dog. He was revealed for the stinking liar that he really is by the swift boat vets. HIs is a low class tax cheat liar as well, hiding his boat in a neighboring state to dodge taxes like the little asswipe that he is.
The ‘swift boat vets’ political attack was orchestrated and paid for. Who is missing integrity in this situation? I can tell. Why can’t you? And I’m no Kerry fan.
No, Derek, it was not. The Swift Boat Vets rose up on their own and WERE NOT COMPENSATED or funded. Almost to a man, they agreed that John Kerry’s story was false and exploits in Vietnam Nam did not ring true. I have spoken with many of them and some of my work was included in one of the few books published on the events: To set the Record Straight, by Scott Swett and Tim Zeigler. It sets forth the facts, with the evidence and documentation and sworn statements from the other Swift boat commanders that contradict Kerry in every detail. . . and others from the men who served with him. Get it, read it. Think about it. Kerry claimed he threw his medal back at the protests… Got lots of cheers for his integrity for doing so. Later in his political career, he proudly DISPLAYED his medals and every chance he got, he reminded people “I served in Vietnam” for the less than six months he was there! Where is HIS integrity????
Sorry about this off-topic correction, but its something I know about intimately.
They just jumped into the market at the same time Apple had partnered; contracting Slamdung to build iPhones.
Back stabbing criminals.
Slamdung didn’t even make their own OS.
Boycott Samdung!
I was on Verizon so I did not get an iPhone for a while. At the time I was in love with Blackberry, so when they came out with the Storm, I bought one. It was terrible. It was really as bad as they come. I made the mistake of getting one for the wife too and she hated it with a passion. We couldn’t wait for me to get rid of them. I almost completely wrote off touch screen phones after that. Next Verizon offered the Samsung Fascinate, an iPhone clone, and it was pretty good actually. I mean compared to the BB Storm.
So after living with a Samsung phone for two years, I have very little to gripe about. They make great phones. Not better than the iPhone, but not bad. As long as they continue to make good phones that favorably compare with the iPhone they will continue to dominate the Android market.
Yeah? But Samsung is a parasite company. You’re using an iPhone ripoff. It’s as simple as that. So support the parasites! Not a good idea.
Verizon now offers the iPhone, so yeah. I agree. As long as the iPhone is superior.
The debacle with Samsung is probably good for Apple in the long run. Apple, just like very other company, require competition. I can’t actually call Samsung a competitor except in the few things they themselves have actually invented. But the effect at least of the parasitism is competitive.
I’d much rather see another creative powerhouse company arise and rival Apple. That would be perfection. (BTW: That company is not Google).
Samsdungfuckheap is the worst company in the world. They are simply lying ass dogs, copy ass dogs, and now they get their stupid fcker lackey judge in the UK to do their illegal work. Listen you judge … you are an asswipe piece of shit.
What a great vocabulary you have grandma!
Rave on, MDN and all who slavishly follow. But the reality is staring you in the face – with every passing day, every passing day, Samsung’s phones are being perceived as better than the iPhone. And, even if it’s a lie, the sales team in EVERY phone store, regardless of the brand on the door and regardless of their motivation, are reinforcing that myth. So, the question is – what’s Tim Cook’s company doing about it? Crickets. Oh, wait, that’s wrong. He says there’s some great products in the pipeline. That’ll do it. AAPL soaring again, right?
I was read what you wrote, then I heard drool splattering on the floor and remembered: You’re our pet troll. 😆 Happy hating ppeterson, or whoever you are behind your coward’s mask.
Error correction. Please read: “I was READING what you spewed…”
Peepee go kaki with iMaki
IOW: It is fairly consistent that trolls are teeny kids looking for some negative anarchistic perks.
– If you don’t invent anything,
– if you entire business is based on either being told what to build or building what you ripped off from others,
– If your biznizz management style is based on FUD,
– – -> Your mask will fall, your biznizz will fall, and you won’t get up.
Hello Samsung! 😛
Gangum style Samsung
Please folks..Don’t get down too hard on Samsung. Wasn’t it Apple that recently was fined 368 Million bucks for stealing from Virtnex? The iPious really make me laugh. Apple has ripped off so many other companies it isn’t even funny. As far as that judge working or offering a paid legal opinion, wasn’t he the appellate judge and hadn’t Apple already lost the case in UK? Owning both an iphone and a Note II, I can tell you that my Note II gets far more use and is a better phone by far IMO. Apple is facing stiff competition and doesn’t like it. Huawei will hurt BOTH Apple and Samsung in the future as they will gain and gain in the Chinese market. It is fine if you like your phone, but Samsung and HTC and Motorola all make great phones. Expect more from more competitors. Enjoy your phones and stop trying to make everything non Apple some sort of an evil thing. Apple makes a good phone, albeit too small for my liking and I will never own anything I can’t easily replace the battery in the future. Have a great day. This site seems like a propaganda site for Apple.
“This site seems like a propaganda site for Apple.” – how in the world would you ever come to that conclusion? Hang around a little while longer and you can share the badge of honor as soon as the sophomoric posters here pen the “troll” label on you along with endless profane, obscene, and other labels of hate. They do that because they have ABSOLUTELY NO LEGITIMATE, adult response to anything about the reality of where Apple devices stand today up against competing products that have gained such favor among the consuming public today. They also are in denial about the future of the company under the hapless, clueless leadership of Tim Cook.
Re: Virtnex verdict. I just spent about a half an hour ATTEMPTING to read the patent in question. I have an IQ of over 150 and am well versed in things computer and network, as well as fairly fluent in ‘patentese’, and I found this patent so obtuse and filled with technical networking jargon, that I get bogged down in less than two minutes after I got into the description and claims, of which there are pages and pages of acronyms and reference numbers to 37 flow charts and graphics, all having to do with securely connecting one device with another over a network.
The references section had PAGES of patents referencing inventions that do something similar! Now, my esteemed keembo, how can ANY jury wade through that morass of technical gobbledygook, which I defy ANYONE to even prove WORKS, and then decompile the lines of code in iOS to show that Apple is using THIS particular method to make the connection secure. (Virtnex has filed suit against Microsoft on the same issue. . . do you think BOTH Apple and Microsoft stole the SAME tech? Or is it just possible the jury saw a David and Goliath scenario and not being able admit they’re too stupid to recognize a con job of a patent, they decide to give the win to the little guy. . . who just happens to be a patent troll with NO WORKING OR MARKETED PRODUCT. . . Just a patent on securely connecting cell phones to make text messages—something we’ve been doing for at least since 1992—that he applied for in April of 2007, granted in 2011. Gee, you think his patent is valid???? The idiot judge in the ROCKET DOCKET does. . . But he’s as stupid as his jury.
You mean as stupid as the jury in Cupertino that couldn’t even follow the judge’s instructions. As I have always said…Thank goodness Apple had nothing to do with the automobile invention, or anything with 4 wheels would be paying royalties to Apple and two wheeled vehicles would get away with only 50% royalty.
I don’t crave Samdung products anymore. I have only purchased one product from them, before all this madness. Now they are K-Mart to me.
Didn’t Apple ripoff Konfabulator with Dashboard. Just asking.
Read this please:
Dashboard vs. Konfabulator, By John Gruber
The post-WWDC peanut gallery is atwitter with the idea that Tiger’s Dashboard is a blatant rip-off of Konfabulator. You can’t read anything about Dashboard without hearing that it’s a Konfabulator rip-off . . . . Bullshit. Dashboard is not a rip-off of Konfabulator…
Instead, Konfabulator was a web code enabled elaboration upon Mac OS v1.0’s Desk Accessories. John Gruber details at length exactly why.
No. Konfabulator ripped off Apple’s System 6 Desk Accessories.
Google’s completely asleep at the switch, and Samsung is milking Android for all its worth. Samsung is nobody’s lackey. And it’s using those Android billions to build its own brand at Google’s expense. Samsung wants to be Apple and Google is in its way. Can a Samsung OS and search be far behind? Google has a tiger by the tail. It’s a highly unstable relationship. And both Google and Samsung have proven to be unreliable partners. Remember the iPhone.
Five years from now, the mobile market will include Apple, Samsung, and Google, in that order. And that’s on a good day. Without its own hardware to compete with Samsung, Google will end up mostly begging to get on other hardware platforms. Think Google Maps. Larry and Sergey better stop reading their own publicity notices, stop throwing around Pixel dust, and get on with the real work of business.
Can a Samsung OS and search be far behind?
Samsung is already demoing its new, rudimentary Tizen OS. Guess what it looks like! iOS.
Samsung also had its own previous OS, except it sucked next to Android.
I see Samsung’s fall coming from Japan rather than California. Apple will carry on doing what Apple does, but Sony have recently shaken themselves awake and are now out for Samsung’s crown.