“The smartphone market Apple spent the past seven years dominating has matured, and there’s increasingly less to differentiate an iPhone from the competition,” Adrian Covert writes for CNNMoney.
“As a result, Apple has spent much of 2013 taking a hit in the stock market, with its biggest detractors citing a lack of innovation in the past few years.
This has led for some to suggest that Apple needs to rethink its smartphone a year strategy, lest it wants to suffer the same fate as BlackBerry,” Covert writes. “They say Apple needs to take a page from Samsung’s playbook and offer more; big phones, small phones, cheap phones, and rugged phones.”
Covert writes, “That would be a mistake. Virtually every strategic decision that Samsung has made in the past three years lies in opposition to what has made the iPhone so popular.”
Read more in the full article here.
Samsung takes the components that were not bought up by clients and just uses them to build their own products, it’s a win/win for them because they would otherwise take a loss on those components. Simple. They can’t afford not to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. This has been their M.O. forever. They make every possible model they can and throw it on the market – hell they even make copies of competitor’s products as well.
Their phones run Bada, WindowsPhone, Android and they’re working on Tizen! This is a company without focus and is just steamrolling their way through the market. They are the new Microsoft.
Meanwhile, Apple continues to strengthen and focus on its platforms (which Samsung does not have), only expanding when the time is right – basically meaning the back end support is there.
If Apple wanted to copy Samsung, then Apple would need to slavishly copy Apple.
I disagree with the big phone. Apple can certainly afford to have that in their lineup. Reason? Lots of people do want the extra screen estate (many who wouldn’t get a tablet, would get a phone with a larger screen for that purpose). They are willing to live with a larger phone in their pockets; women carry them in their handbags anyway.
Would there be a big enough demand? I’m no expert, but I’d say yes. Where I’m living, a couple of years back, iPhones were the de-facto smartphone you’d see on the streets. But the advent of the larger screen phones has changed all of that. They are the dominant ones.
Perhaps this phenomena only applies to Asia, but even so, that’s a large enough market for Apple to at least consider the virtues of having a larger screen in their lineup.
Yes… a 4.5 inch phone would be nice…
I still see people happy with their iPhone 4 and 4S… because there is nothing compelling enough for them to leave iOS… JUST because of a bigger screen…
And yet i have no doubt that a bigger screen iPhone will draw those that left iOS for that reason and likely a bunch of Fandroids.
OMG, the Android is wonderful posters on that article are just going gonzo on defending Android. Mostly using false data or misrepresenting the truth.
I am learning not to worry any more. THe ranting of children with no money to spend does not affect me.
However the ranting of idiot wall street (so called) Anal….ysts seems to affect many people. I guess some never grow up.
OS well.
the ranting of idiot wall street (so called) Anal….ysts seems to affect many people
The herd looks for leaders. The herd stampedes when spooked. It’s all about manipulation and scamming the suckers these days.
there’s increasingly less to differentiate an iPhone from the competition
Yeah, quit reading after that. Sure, there’s not much to differentiate the iPhone, until you, y’know, turn on it and start using it.
Seriously, this is the same bullsh*t we got duing the Mac-Windows war era. “Duh, they’re both phones, and they’re square. There’s no difference!”
——RM
Apple should be wise enough to recognize a good idea when one is obvious. Apple isn’t the sole source of intelligence and innovation on the planet.
People that are using the larger phones are always complaining about carrying it. They like the bigger screen but they are not happy about heaving a waffle all day long.
BTW, since when do stocks determine how Apple should design? Article is stupid.
If Apple ever wants to go into the business of selling cheap knockoff crap, I’d say go ahead and copy Samsung!
Until then, may it never happen, Samsung is entirely ignorable. Except, Samsung satire is terrific fun!
The “rugged phones” bit made me chuckle. We’re talking about cheap, plastic phones as rugged here.