“Things are not looking so good for Samsung in the smartphone market, especially as it faces its Apple nemesis,” Matt Hamblen reports for Computerworld.
“Samsung is likely to see Apple iPhones rise to the top spot in 2015, pushing Samsung and its Galaxy and other smartphone models into second place,” Hamblen reports. “What’s more, Apple is releasing in April its first Apple Watch, which could knock the wind out of smartwatch competitors including Samsung, which already has several models on the market. ‘No question, 2015 is going to be a challenging year for Samsung,’ said IDC analyst Ryan Reith.”
Hamblen reports, “Samsung seems to miss something basic that Apple is really good at: Long-term market research about what technologies matter most to buyers and the ability to act on those insights.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Samsung has no ecosystem of which to speak. Even after years of trade dress and patent infringement, Samsung simply cannot compete with Apple because they don’t offer anything unique that users value.
MDN has a strong point. As a producer of Android phones, Samsung has no true ecosystem of its own. Google has gradually been making it more and more difficult to fork Android in any meaningful and useful way. And Tizen has not panned out for Samsung so far.
Samsung is heading here:
“Samsung is likely to see Apple iPhones rise to the top spot in 2015”
Hamblem seems to overlook the fact that it’s already happened, unless he imagines that vague estimates based on claimed shipped numbers are in some way the same as actual sales.
Apple doesn’t need smoke and mirrors to make it look like it’s doing well. It sells desirable products in vast numbers and makes serious profits from doing so. Apple doesn’t need to be vague about it’s sales numbers. Apple doesn’t need to cheat benchmark tests. Apple doesn’t need to wait and see what others are doing before bringing out new products. Apple is in a league of it’s own.
I would say that MDN’s take is an exaggeration. Android is not without some value. But the risk of Android is high, and iOS has much more value.
SamDung Offers SHIT. End of conversation.
Tizen ….. hahahahahahaha!
Apple should stop doing business with samsung if they want to hurt them badly .
I doubt Apple does the long-term market research he suggests. I think they build the best ideas they can come up with.
SamScrewed
The Register came up with their own new name contortion yesterday:
SamSUNK! Korean giant’s electronics biz takes punch to the smartphone profits
Samsung’s phone business takes an even nastier dive
Shower down oh schadenfreude!
ScamDONE!
Let’s hope their other divisions nosedive too. Schadenfreude working overtime at their expense.
SamSUNK! I like it! lol
Wait, I thought the Microsoft phone was going to overtake the iPhone in 2015. hehe
…while Lucy Koh counts her bribe money. Nice try, Lucy.
The False Prophets (Dell, Microsoft & Samsung) are slain or dying. Now can focus on the devil himself: Eric T. Mole and Google.
shit, shoulda made that “The False Profits.”…what’s that French term for thinking of the right thing to riposte while walking on the way home? Glenda, you know?
Sure and I know it well, it slips my mind however after an old-fashioned or two, you know me. You are on the money re: Google. They worry me more than Putin or Rasputin, or Raspberry or Blackberry.. Where was I? Oh yes, the absence of Total Recall.
L’esprit de l’escalier
thats it! thank, knew you’d know.
^you
IDC can’t figure out who they are going to pimp for now that samdung can’t pay them.
Maybe they’ll go homeless, and we will be able to ignore their cardboard signs with a suitable gesture of disdain, whilst motoring.
Even when the pundits have positive things to say about Apple, it’s still so obvious that they don’t get it. Apple’s advantage does not lie in any long term market research on”technologies.” In fact, that’s probably exactly what has led Samsung to the position it’s in today. It’s about Apple deciding the kind of user experience they’d like to have for themselves and for their families and then engineering products which can provide that.