“Heir apparent Jay Y. Lee wants to transform the world’s biggest tech company into most innovative,” Adam Lashinsky reports for Fortune.
MacDailyNews Take: The world’s biggest patent- and trade dress-infringer (fixed that for ya, Adam) is magiacally going to become “innovative,” much less the “most innovative?” Pfft!
“Among Lee’s priorities, these executives and others say, are to simplify a dizzyingly complex corporate structure, to prod Samsung’s leadership to be creative as well as relentless, and to globalize what has stubbornly remained an essentially Korean company that just happens to sell products around the world. Lee and his coterie of powerful executives know there will be plenty of resistance to these changes. After all, Samsung has successfully employed its traditional ‘me-too’ approach for decades,” Lashinsky reports. “But the fear inside Samsung’s executive suite is that its success, especially in the realm of technology, could be fleeting. Leadership in tech markets tends not to last, as Samsung’s recent dip in smartphones shows.”
“To avoid such a fate, Samsung today is hyperfocused on innovation—with an emphasis on game-changing advances,” Lashinsky reports. “What it has not achieved is the creation of new industries, à la Apple. To increase the chances of a major breakthrough, Samsung Electronics spent nearly $14 billion on research and development last year—or easily more than twice the $6 billion that Apple devoted to R&D in 2014.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Applying Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: No.
BTW: We’d have absolutely no problem with Samsung, were it not a festering den of thieves.
Good luck turning that pirate ship around, Lee. You’re going to need it. It’s one thing to say you’re going to do something, it’s another thing entirely to get a huge chaebol packed to the gills with unscrupulous patent- and trade dress-infringers schooled in decades of patent- and trade dress-infringement to actually do it.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
They can get even more innovative at copying? Well, their shamelessness knows no bounds. By that measure, they have lots more potential.
If success in technology = copying, they are by far the leaders, so no worries there, sleep tight
Android User – You do know the longer you gaze in the artificial vivid color setting that Samsung phones promote your rods and cones are being programmed to to only fire those same garish intensities in the real world. Just saying.
Wait, wasn’t it just last year that all the pundits were saying “Apple has ceded the crown to Samsung”, as if it were a fact that everybody accepted and agreed on?
They weren’t WRONG, were they? I don’t recall seeing the retractions anywhere…
Pundit by definition is an expert. If some said Apple has ceded the crown to Samsung, they aren’t pundits. Choose another word.
How about idiots
Drip under pressure = spurt
Has been drip under pressure = ex-spurt
Scumsung is for the scum people like Laporte and Ihnatko.
Ihnatko is a tech junkie. The only thing he’s more obsessed with is food. He needs instant gratification. I want to like him, but he seems intent on proving he’s no Apple fanboy- what’s worse, however, is he has no soul. He’s literally, a glutton for punishment. David Pogue is the same way- too many wives, kids… once my tech guru, I can no longer trust him because he’ll suck up to anyone in order to join their VIP entourage. Nice resume, Pogue. But why can’t you be more… consistent?
I don’t like Samsung, Android, Microsoft, Google, Tidal, Flash, or subscriptions. For very valid reasons.
Next on their copying agenda, The Samsung Store…Can I help you find and phone, TV or forklift perhaps?
Samsung has already fallen far enough. i doubt a new leader will revolutionize things.
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“…fallen enough” ???
No way
Let’s hope there is some truth to this. If Samsung does become innovative, look how it will keep Apple on its toes and bring more rapid innovations. It’s a win-win for us.
One thing that they’ll never have is customer service. that is totally nonexistent for many of their products.
Is anyone surprised by the bravado of a large company that’s been getting its ass kicked, is making leadership changes and claims that “this time it will be different”? Yawn.
It’s easy to predict what’s going to happen in a “dizzyingly complex corporate structure” like that.
There’s going to be some focus on a new product/feature. It’s going to make it all the way to pre-production (or maybe it’ll just get to the “vaporware” stage. Regardless, it will be presented, leaked, or even advertised. It will also be totally lame and useless after a little thought.
Then Apple will release something that’s thought out and has been produced before they even announce it. Samsung will dump the entire project at the last minute and knock off the Apple product while trying to spin it as if they’ve been working on that same product the whole time too.
To the detriment of Samsung shareholders, the young Mr. Lee has just managed to gain a controlling share of the Samsung holding company that Samsung Electronics falls under. Through murky dealings the family managed to get enough shareholders to back the deal even though it has diluted the value of Samsung shares. Basically, the Lee family just stole billions from the shareholders with their tacit endorsement. Wow!!!
One could conclude that it serves them right for owning shares in such a corrupt company (and what chaebol isn’t corrupt). It doesn’t bode well for the future of Samsung if someone were to hope they would change their thieving ways.
Mr. Lee — ask for Elop … I’m sure he could help with the visioning thing.
The 14 billion spent on R&D is nothing when spread over all their categories of products.
Slumdung is a steaming pile of explosive gastric distress. They can copy all they want. Unless Apple licenses iOS to run on their equipment (can’t happen) they are going nowhere with Android. It’s like DOS vs GUI. The experience is the benefit of Apple. Slumdung can’t match the user experience. I have met many people who get it…only after being stuck in a contract with an Android phone that they ultimately end up hating. Been there, done that. We pay for a better experience and we get it most of the time.