“CEO of Cyanogen Kirt McMaster’s company has recently partnered with Qualcomm, the company that makes the chips inside just about every non-iPhone. The deal sees Qualcomm offering manufacturers the use of the Cyanogen software with any device that uses their chips, making it easy for any new brand to come into the market,” Harry Tucker reports for News.com.au. “This ‘turnkey’ style deal is what Mr McMaster believes will be the downfall of big manufacturers like Samsung.”
The tier one OEMs like Samsung are going to be the next generation Nokias in the next five years. They’re going to be slaughtered. We think long term Apple itself will have problems because they’re just not good at competing at the low end… It could get pretty bad pretty damn quick [for Samsung]. This is often the case. Look what happened to Research In Motion. Look what happened to Nokia. Last summer Micromax surpassed Samsung as the dominant feature phone player in India. We’re talking literally in eight months this occurred. — Cyanogen CEO Kirt McMaster
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MacDailyNews Take: Cyanogen’s CEO needs to take a course on demographics. Apple’s iPhone isn’t affected by low-end cheapo Android junk. Apple’s iPhone has already cornered the market in the only metric that matters: Quality customers. Chinese or Korean shitset maker of the week can amass all of the junk market that they want. Apple doesn’t care. McMaster should rein in his hubris regarding Apple; he sounds silly.
Samsung, on the other hand, can easily be usurped as the world’s highest volume maker of handsets for little or no profit by the next Apple patent- and trade-dress-infringing iPhone knockoff peddler(s).
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Glenn Holland” for the heads up.]