“Instead of partnering with a big services company to help business users, Samsung has decided to go it alone,” Shara Tibken reports for CNET. “”
“The South Korean electronics giant on Tuesday unveiled its first entrée into services, called Samsung 360 Services for Business,” Tibken reports. “The operations will allow it to support enterprise customers using everything from smartphones to printers — and the devices don’t even have to be made by Samsung. It will be a one-stop-shop for enterprise customers who need tech help as more of their employees bring their own devices to work and as the company supports more technology vendors.”
“With its move, Samsung is taking on some of the biggest companies in tech, namely Apple and IBM. The two giants in July unveiled plans to work together to push Apple’s products with business users,” Tibken reports. “IBM operates a sizable consulting and services business, and it also will optimize its cloud computing services, such as device management, security and analytics, for Apples iOS mobile operating system.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If your company chooses Samsung over Apple+IBM and it isn’t named “Samsung,” you obviously already have even bigger problems to deal with than the promise of inferior, insecure hardware and software.
And Samsung, as seems to be typical for the serial IP thieves, are deluding themselves that they’re something far more than they actually are.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “boecherer” for the heads up.]
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Samsung 360 Services Will have its customers chasing their tails in circles just like the old beach ball hahaha💢
A hat without the rabbit methinks
Worse. A hat is useful if it rains. Rabbits are dumb, and furry, just sit there and twitch their noses. It’s a rabbit without a hat.
Haha Samsung causing confusion: Samsung 360 vs. Microsoft 365 means trademark lawsuit in 321.
SamDung knows what will happen when they partner-up.
Going it alone because everyone that counts is smart enough to tell them “No thanks!”
When the IBM 360 came out, people trusted it. I don’t get the same feeling with XBox 360, Office 365, or Samsung 360. Shameless copiers!
Samsung may sneak into a lot of companies by undercutting the Apple+IBM alliance. Money is, after all, a bottom line and many simply don’t understand that they get what the pay for. Those without the means to pay for quality wind up with inferior products (which, in some cases, may be “good enough”). So Samsung might find some success in this (especially in South Korea)…
What’s started in South Korea should STAY in South Korea. We don’t need their thieving corporate poisonous culture elsewhere.
ALL US troops, personnel, military-logistics-infrastructure, support, and money OUT OF SOUTH KOREA — NOW !!!
We have better things to do with American money and military than prop up thieving scumbags.
Tell your congressman !
Like MDN says:
” If your company chooses Samsung over Apple+IBM and it isn’t named “Samsung,” you obviously already have even bigger problems to deal with than the promise of inferior, insecure hardware and software.”
Who’s going to partner with Samdung and get their IP stolen?
So, they are going to start stealing from IBM now?
How to let criminals into your organisation. How many of these supposed service agents are actually corporate spies?
Samsung is quite desperation sorry to late big copiers
“Everything from smartphones to printers”? Oh, maybe they mean tablets as well. But Linux servers? MacBooks? Windows desktops? Cisco routers?
… And in English? French? German? Spanish?
… the credibility gap here is ginormous. Perhaps if Samsung hadn’t resorted to ip-theft instead of serious work on their own products people might take them seriously…
business people think:
Samsung was Apple’s supplier with insights to Apple’s plans. Samsung then stole Apple’s tech (it’s no longer a controversy as it has lost law billion dollar lawsuits ). This is equivalent to if you’re a writer, your PRINTING company steals your book and sells it under it’s own name! They have also done other stuff to other companies too many to mention. Chairman Lee has been sentenced to jail before and sued by his own relatives.
Unfortunately because of sheer volume Apple needs Samsung to make chips etc, nobody else in the world has enough capacity but you Business people have a CHOICE…
Do you really want to integrate your most important operations and trust you secure business info with Samsung systems?
Who else is in that space? Oracle, HP, SAP, Infosys and the other Indian IT shops? HP may be open for a partnership, and MSFT always is. Or maybe they’re hoping to follow the Indian IT model.
To me it sounds more like a Google type initiative– throw it against the wall and see if it sticks…
So….maybe this is where the 500 software engineers are being redeployed….!?!?
$ame$hame’s solution for headache: shoot self in foot! 🙂