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Samsung is definitely a software plaform company. It had Bada that it used in its Wave product line (which surely accounts for a small percentage of their profi
by bsaul 13y ago
Samsung is definitely a software plaform company. It had Bada that it used in its Wave product line (which surely accounts for a small percentage of their profit) and it will soon have Tizen.
Android is definitely one reason, and one could say that samsung AND google won against Apple. That what i meant when i said the business is much more complicated as it requires to be excellent and competitive both in hardware and software.
- randallu 13y agoBada is dead, Tizen looks likely to be DOA. By software platform company I meant a company that can sustain software platforms. It's really easy to ship a new platform every year; no third parties want that though. I agree with your point that Samsung really upped the ante on Android hardware. The GS1 and GS2 were a tipping point on Android hardware performance and quality -- now that Qualcomm is making high performance parts and everyone is doing competitive product design Samsung are less necessary to Android (but still dominating).