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Samsung vs. Apple feels like the Yankees vs. Red Socks or insert your favorite sports teams. Instead of rooting for your favorite sports team, you're rooting fo

Samsung vs. Apple feels like the Yankees vs. Red Socks or insert your favorite sports teams. Instead of rooting for your favorite sports team, you're rooting for your favorite phone manufacturer or tech company. Also, shipped vs. sold makes any time a company brags on how many phones they shipped very misleading. Many companies are famous for channel stuffing to get the PR boost and to "fake it til they make it". In Samsung's case, the sell through rate is probably pretty high, but still nowhere near as accurate as when Apple says how many devices they sold (as Apple only has 5 days inventory at any given time, Samsung probably maintains months of inventory).

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mratzloff 14y ago
Samsung vs. Apple feels like the Yankees vs. Red Socks or insert your favorite sports teams. Instead of rooting for your favorite sports team, you're rooting for your favorite phone manufacturer or tech company. I find the fanboy oneupsmanship from both "sides" highly tedious. As if someone can't praise both Apple and Samsung.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Some of us have tried both and prefer Samsung, fwiw.
  - sigzero 14y ago
    Some of us have tried both and prefer Apple, fwiw.
    - jarek 14y ago
      Some of us have tried neither but by god I will tell you my opinion!
    - hammersend 14y ago
      Sme of us have tried both and love 'em both. Galaxy Nexus phone and iPad is a hard to beat combination in my opinion.
- smashing 14y ago
  Both Apple(1) and Samsung(2) appear release the source code for their products, so it is amazing in a way that the two market leaders in mobile are so open. (1) http://opensource.apple.com/ http://opensource.apple.com/ (2) http://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp http://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp
vacri 14y ago
Samsung probably maintains months of inventory Given how quickly the models iterate, I'd be surprised if this was the case. Actually, given how much modern management likes JIT production and loathes tying up money in warehouse stock, I'd be very surprised if this was the case. The primary reason for sales pipeline reports is to figure out what you need to build for them.

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mratzloff 14y ago

Samsung vs. Apple feels like the Yankees vs. Red Socks or insert your favorite sports teams. Instead of rooting for your favorite sports team, you're rooting for your favorite phone manufacturer or tech company. I find the fanboy oneupsmanship from both "sides" highly tedious. As if someone can't praise both Apple and Samsung.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
Some of us have tried both and prefer Samsung, fwiw.
- sigzero 14y ago
  Some of us have tried both and prefer Apple, fwiw.
  - jarek 14y ago
    Some of us have tried neither but by god I will tell you my opinion!
  - hammersend 14y ago
    Sme of us have tried both and love 'em both. Galaxy Nexus phone and iPad is a hard to beat combination in my opinion.
smashing 14y ago
Both Apple(1) and Samsung(2) appear release the source code for their products, so it is amazing in a way that the two market leaders in mobile are so open. (1) http://opensource.apple.com/ http://opensource.apple.com/ (2) http://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp http://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp

vacri 14y ago

Samsung probably maintains months of inventory Given how quickly the models iterate, I'd be surprised if this was the case. Actually, given how much modern management likes JIT production and loathes tying up money in warehouse stock, I'd be very surprised if this was the case. The primary reason for sales pipeline reports is to figure out what you need to build for them.