Samsung SUCKs || GALAXY NOTE 7 VS. IPHONE 6S SPEED TEST

DF :

Hard to say how much of this should be attributed to the A9 SoC (hardware) and how much to iOS (software), but it is impressive that a year-old iPhone blows away a brand-new top-of-the-line Samsung.

Samsung Caught Using Apple Watch Design Figures in a Recent Patent Filing

via DF:

The illustrations aren’t just similar to Apple Watch. They’re exact illustrations of Apple Watch and several of its distinctive bands. In a Samsung patent filing. See for yourself. You can’t make this stuff up.

Crass Journalism

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BusinessWeek Profiles Jhony Srouji

… the notion that at the end of an article whose central thesis is that Apple has the industry’s best mobile chip design team, Businessweek needed a quote from someone saying it’s all just marketing hype and that Samsung actually designs better CPUs. That’s nonsense. Nobody who knows what they’re talking about disputes the fact that Apple’s in-house-designed A-series chips lead the industry.

What are the odds that the Linley Group has Samsung as one of its consulting clients?

New York Times Removes Passage On China From Story On Apple/FBI Encryption Fight

Edward Snowden noted the following passage from this NYT report, but it was subsequently removed from the article …

The Best Way To Convince A Fool That He Is Wrong Is To Let Him Have His Own Way ( Josh Billings ) || Samsung Schadenfreude And The Fall Of The Church Of Market Share by John Kirk

via theLoop

Samsung Schadenfreude And The Fall Of The Church Of Market Share:

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Pundits have predicted, correctly, that hardware would inevitably become commoditized. This, they proclaimed with confidence, would cause Apple’s prices to fall while Samsung, with its good-enough and better-than-good-enough hardware and its lower prices, would usurp Apple’s market share, relegating Apple to niche status. Ironically, commoditization DOES apply to Samsung — the favorite of the Priests of Market Share — but it DOES NOT apply to their favorite whipping boy, Apple. Why? Differentiation.


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Samsung’s Shamelessness

David Howard, Microsoft deputy general counsel:

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After becoming the leading player in the worldwide smartphone market, Samsung decided late last year to stop complying with its agreement with Microsoft. In September 2013, after Microsoft announced it was acquiring the Nokia Devices and Services business, Samsung began using the acquisition as an excuse to breach its contract. Curiously, Samsung did not ask the court to decide whether the Nokia acquisition invalidated its contract with Microsoft, likely because it knew its position was meritless.

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via DF

Fitting the Facts to the Narrative

DaringFireball:

Of all the publications that credulously reported the debunked Strategy Analytics claim that Samsung has passed Apple in phone handset profits (and there were many),

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The right way to do this is to draw the narrative from the facts. The wrong way — but easy way — is to force the facts to fit a preconceived narrative.

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TeamCoco Weight In On Apple : Samsung Stop Copying Us

Sam[scum] by Jim Dalrymple from The Loop

The Loop

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The cell phone and nascent smartphone industry hadn’t changed in years when Apple showed the iPhone in 2007. If developing a new way of doing things was so easy, why didn’t Samsung do it earlier? Why did they wait until after Apple showed the iPhone to develop their phones?

The answer is simple — because they copied Apple.


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And that is Samsung’s strategy. Watch what Apple is doing, copy that design as closely as possible in hopes of confusing the consumer and then sell millions of devices. It’s illegal and makes you a scumbag, but they thought they could get away with it.

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It’s impossible to argue that this lawsuit is about rectangles. Samsung ripped off Apple’s design because it wanted to confuse consumers and they though they could get away with it. Samsung’s designed changed remarkably in 2007, after the iPhone was introduced.

That’s not a coincidence. That’s theft.