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| Apples is deperate as Samsung blows by them; A Jobs-less Apple is not the Apple of a couple of years ago | |
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| Pat | Mar 15 2013, 03:23 AM Post #1 |
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I have the Gallaxy S3 or S something. It's a little over a year old. A daughter has a later edition, and her screen is even bigger than mine. This new S4 sounds like a winner. And my daughter dumped her I-phone 4 for the Samsung. I don't know anything about seamless this or that, I know we have a bunch of Android phones and tablets in the family, and we could have had Apple products if we chose, but we didn't choose Apple after checking their offering out. If you recall, when Apple fired Steve Job years ago, the company soon went into a tail spin. they tried different leaders and set ups and nothing was saving them. It was Steve coming back that saved their bacon. Well Steve is no more, he is pushing up daisies and again, Apple is taking a nose dive. Look at their stock, lol. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/apple-defensive-samsung-launches-huge-phone-145732269.html Apple On The Defensive As Samsung Prepares to Launch Huge New Phone By Henry Blodget | Daily Ticker – 4 hours ago There has been lots of action in the mobile industry this week. First, Samsung is launching a much-anticipated new smartphone in New York this evening--a phone that many observers think will vault it ahead of Apple (AAPL) and the rest of the smartphone industry. The existing version of this phone, the Galaxy S3, has already put Samsung on a par with Apple, with many phone buyers preferring the Galaxy's large screen to the smaller one on Apple's iPhone 5. Samsung's new phone, the Galaxy S4, will be even bigger, and it is also expected to have several other new features that may make the iPhone look old and boring in comparison. Related: Everything You Need to Know About The Samsung Galaxy 4S Samsung, the Korean TV giant, has come out of nowhere over the last few years to become the world's largest smartphone seller. This rise has surprised both Wall Street and Apple. Apple's stock has tanked. And with Samsung now poised to leap past Apple, Apple executives are suddenly on the defensive. This week, in a surprising move that has rubbed even Apple fans the wrong way, one of Apple's senior executives, Phil Schiller, gave interviews to The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg in which he trashed the Android operating system that powers Samsung phones. "When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with," Schiller told the WSJ. "They don't work seamlessly together." He went on to say that "Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone and the experience isn't as good as an iPhone." The points that Schiller made about Android--that it is fragmented into different versions and that it's not as simple to use as Apple's operating system--were reasonable. But coming as they did on Samsung's big launch day, the comments seemed defensive, classless, and even desperate. Apple's founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, was famous for trashing his competitors' products. But Jobs' picked his spots carefully. His criticisms came on Apple conference calls or at Apple events. He didn't try to steal competitors' thunder on their product launch days. Also, in the days when Jobs was ridiculing the competition, Apple really was miles ahead of everyone. But it no longer is. So the sudden show of bravado seems even more tone deaf. The last big development in the smartphone industry this week is that the executive who has built Google's (GOOG) Android operating system from the ground up, Andy Rubin, is being replaced by another Google executive. Google appears to want to "unify" its two operating systems, Android and a laptop-based operating system called Chrome. This move makes strategic sense: In a world in which "mobile" is now a continuum between laptops and phones (with tablets in between), it's silly to maintain two separate operating systems. And it looks as though, in this unification, Google has chosen between two executives and decided to have the new combined effort led by Chrome boss Sundar Pichai. In a trend that is reminiscent of the PC industry in the 1980s and 1990s, the Android operating system has become the dominant global mobile operating system over the last several years. Apple's operating system, meanwhile, iOS, has been reduced to a niche player. In "platform markets" like these, in which third-party companies build apps and services that run on top of these operating systems, market share is very important. So if Samsung's new phone is a big hit, and Google's Android continues to gain global market share, Apple's challenges are only going to increase. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 15 2013, 04:20 AM Post #2 |
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I am not worried about Apple. They are sitting on billions. The iPhone and iPad will sell. Quality is there. They will adapt to the market. I have had android and iPhone I prefer iPhone at this point. But have no loyalty to either |
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| retired | Mar 15 2013, 04:40 AM Post #3 |
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I have the venerable Samsung 125 hosted by tracfone. My wifey has the Samsung charioted by Verizon soon to be a flipper by tracfone. Now if you wanna talk washing machines my Sammy is the best on the market. Both my daughters, SIL and GD hav I phones which carry a gazillion pics on them and can load a text message of the bible. Steve would be proud of them. I know Verizon is. |
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| tomdrobin | Mar 15 2013, 11:40 AM Post #4 |
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I have a Samsung convoy flip phone. I don't particularly care for it, but the price was right (free), so I can't complain. I've resisted the "smart phones" because I don't want to pay those extra monthly fees. |
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