“We are just on the verge of the launch of Samsung’s next generation Galaxy S5 flagship phone,” Ashraf Eassa writes for Seeking Alpha. “The rumors are running rampant and it’s hard to get a good read on exactly what this smartphone will feature or what it even looks like, but it’s pretty clear that it will be a state-of-the-art design from a hardware perspective. On the software front, Samsung is still well behind Apple, but could dramatically improve its ‘TouchWiz’ interface for the S5. At any rate, the key takeaway is that Apple can’t afford to wait until September to counter.”
“The innovation engine across the industry at large is already moving extremely quickly (even if the rest of the market is bludgeoning its margins in order to compete in this increasingly crowded market), so Apple is unlikely to be able to wait until September before it has to pretty aggressively cut prices on the iPhone 5s in order to maintain its market share at the high end,” Eassa writes. “Apple is going to need to ‘wow’ consumers with a next generation iPhone in order to fend off the Android hordes from eating into its outsized portion of the smartphone industry’s profits. There’s no question that Apple can do it – it’s proven itself time and again as the designer of the world’s best smartphones – but the question is whether Apple would rather milk the current design for all its worth or move quickly to a next generation design more quickly.”
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Wow. That’s total drivel.
“…state-of-the-art design from a hardware perspective…”
Is that what they call “copying” these days?
Copying with a dose of SMGH (smartphone growth hormone).
The media has cheapened the word “innovation.” The original iPhone is a good example of innovation. The whole Android ecosystem, especially the Samsung piece of it, is just a blatant copy with a few changes thrown in to make it sound new. But only a fool would call it “innovative.”
SPGH…
No… The article is correct. Samsung is eating Apples lunch as far as market share goes. Why lose any market share? Apple is giving it away. Apple is letting Samsung PROVE that you do not need an iPhone. Same with their tablets.. Wtf apple? what the hell is going on there? Yup. The new iPhone better wow the kids. And the same dunces will blame the analysts.
Apparently Ashraf Eassa forgot to look at Apple’s numbers for the last 7 years.
What a load of crap. People get it when someone tries to push all sizzle and no steak. And this “new phone” ain’t worth sh t
Meh… Sam-who… oh, the load of cheap parts in a easily fractured shell that is a blatant copy of anything they can find company… oh that one.
Naw… Apple hasn’t had to worry yet, why now?
i’ll bet .25 of a bitcoin that the s5 will have the same thin, cheap looking back panel that peels off like a dirty bandaid.
The key take away here actually is, you have no idea what you’re talking about
Wake me up when people line up around the block to get their hands on a first-day launch Samsung Galaxy. It’s a popular phone, by Android standards, but only hardware geeks and Android fans get excited by it. I really don’t think that Apple should be basing their iPhone strategy on what Samsung is doing with the Galaxy.
——RM
Let me get this straight.
Apple makes great products because they never rush products to market, Samsung still hasn’t got it right and now Apple should rush it’s next phone to market because Samsung is coming out with its next not quite right product.
Great advice. /s
Damn, I guess that does it then. DOOMED again!
Contrary to the sellers of other phone brands, Apple has no need to spam the market with devices, supports its existing devices well and earns more from its well curated ecosystem than several OEMs together.
A very dumb person.
TouchWhizz… Is that to help with bladder shyness??
If Apple would skip a version number and introduce the iPhone, it would be interesting to watch Samesong scramble to come up with the Galaxy 7s.
“…..it’s hard to get a good read on exactly what this smartphone will feature or what it even looks like, but it’s pretty clear that it will be a state-of-the-art design from a hardware perspective”
So is it hard or pretty clear?
“fend off the Android hordes…”
Oh, please.
Seeking Alpo is the American equivalent of DigiTimes.
OMG!!! apple better hurry up before they run out of extra cash !
(oh yeah the other guys are already out of cash…… )
give a way your new phone to get market share boys ! lets see how long your yellow stream will last !
I always thought TouchWiz™ was a Samsung brand of ‘golden shower’. Must have been wrong as the moron who wrote this is.
MDN: you forgot to add “…or Something” to the title.
Best to market always wins out over first to market. Remember when Steve in touting to iPhone said just getting 1% of the cellphone business would be a great accomplishment ? Look at them now. Pretenders come and go.
I for one would really like a larger screened iPhone. I’m an Apple fanboy but i think they should have offered this some time ago. Will it hurt them not too? Maybe not much. But I’m sure they have lost customers because of it.
The S4 was slammed even by Android fanboys for being cheap and plasticky with that horrible touchwiz. I guess we will see if they fix those issues this time around.
So Samsung theoretically catching up with bits of what Apple did a year ago puts Apple behind?
Samsung … could dramatically improve its ‘TouchWiz’ interface
Seriously? ‘TouchWiz’? You’re never gonna get ME to ‘touch wiz’. Sorry Samsung. Keep your urine to yourself.
Apple is going to need to… DO THIS and DO THAT and DO THE OTHER THING!!!
TechTard, hit whoring journalists fishing for suckers.
If you’re so tech savvy, Ashraf Eassa who writes for Seeking Alpha, why are you merely writing drivel for Seeking Alpha? Where’s your Apple? You’re a market analyst? Which requires WHAT specific technology skills? –ANY?!
Dime-a-dozen-dopiness.
Since when does the industry have an innovation engine aside from Apple?