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The comparison to Apple makes no sense. The article shouldn't be "Why Samsung Is The Next Apple", it should be, "Why Samsung Is Positioned To Be Successful".
by adriand 15y ago
The comparison to Apple makes no sense. The article shouldn't be "Why Samsung Is The Next Apple", it should be, "Why Samsung Is Positioned To Be Successful". For example:
* it says that Samsung controls a lot of appliances in the home. That's nothing like what Apple does. Apple does not make and has never made washing machines.
* it says Samsung is "happy to use anyone’s OS as long as it puts phones into boxes and boxes into shopping bags". This is nothing like Apple, which is obsessed with control over the entire user experience, and which is extremely vertically integrated.
* nowhere in this article is any kind of revolutionary product mentioned. A smarter TV is certainly not revolutionary in the way that iTunes, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad were revolutionary. This appears to be yet another difference between Samsung and Apple.
So really, I'm not understanding this comparison.
- cube13 15y agoIt could be a shot at Samsung, with regard to all the lawsuits between them and Apple. That's about all I've got.
- polyfractal 15y agoUnfortunately, I think it is just crappy reporting and a link-bait title.
- billpatrianakos 15y agoSeems like a case of mentioning Apple to get people reading. Samsung isn't as sexy so they ride the Apple story trend. It's fun to see reporting that mentions Apple evolve. First it was cool to say Apple is dead, then it was cool to root for them as the underdog, and now it's cool to try to tear them down again. There's never a middle ground. It's always about handing out heaping helpings of praise to a company or tearing them apart when it's a TC article.