Comments on: Samsung Style

By: google

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By: gprovida

gprovida — Thu, 15 May 2014 16:13:33 +0000

Kind of neat to look 1.5 years later and Apple supply chain still vibrant (sans Samsung) and providing competitive advantage to Apple. Samsung is compartmented in what commodity parts it provides while Apple invests and partners with the supply chain competitors that Apple uses. Apples selected investments explicitly exclude other companies for a period of time e.g., aluminum machining. When these technologies become commodized, Apple is moving on to the next big thing e.g., Sapphire.

In the case of SAMSUNG, their Galaxy Tabs are a bust, Galaxy S4 and now S5 are not a great success in selling/profit due to design, features choices, and build quality.

I thnk Apple did “learn” from Samsung-Sony and Asus-Dell and the supply chain operations investments and design focus reflect the differences between them and other companies.

By: Design is About Intent | Rampant Innovation

Design is About Intent | Rampant Innovation — Tue, 13 May 2014 22:30:28 +0000

[…] Copying others’ design choices is the most obvious way to abdicate forming your own intent and having to make decisions yourself. That didn’t stop Google from fundamentally redesigning Android after the iPhone was unveiled. Nor did it stop HTC from replicating the iPhone’s UI features or colors. Most shameless of all, of course, is Samsung, whose list of appropriated products, features, and even strategies is so long that one suspects the tendency is deeply entrenched in the company’s culture. […]

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:58:40 +0000

Sure they can. Why not? Samsung has already taken over Android effectively. People do not buy Galaxy because of it’s running Android, they buy them for Samsung brand. In their mind Android ecosystem equals Samsung ecosystem. Your average user does not even know his Galaxy phone is running Android much less which version. All he cares is whether he can install his choice apps and games on his phone. Don’t believe me? Just go out there and ask a random passerby who carries a Samsung Galaxy.

Seriously, what’s tying a consumer to Android ecosystem? Most of Android phone owners do not pay for apps or medias, they either download free apps or pirate them, which brings me to the next point: the only reason Samsung has stuck with Android is because it is a free mobile OS with zero development cost and there is already an ecosystem they can tap into. That does not mean Samsung is dependent on Android. They can easily switch to an alternative OS which is compatible with existing Android apps. At worst, they can fork Android. And you know what? Developers will still follow Samsung, they follow the money after all.

By: John R. Moran

John R. Moran — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:03:50 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I agree but the only analogy James and I were trying to make was operational – that Samsung has the ability to rapidly develop high-quality smartphones, ramp up production to enormous volumes, get them into the hands of consumers all over the world, and then ramp them down at the end of a short lifecycle without lots of inventory left over. That’s no mean feat and a key to Apple’s success that Samsung seems to have replicated.

On the software side, I agree that without full control and integration of the OS they won’t be able to match Apple. The key questions, then, are 1) whether this will hamper Samsung’s success long-term, or whether a large segment of consumers will be happy to keep buying Samsung/Android devices, and (2) if not, whether Samsung could “fork” Android the way Amazon did with the Fire to create a custom OS.

I recommend checking out Horace Dediu’s blog Asymco.com for some analysis on these options.

By: Zidni

Zidni — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:35:32 +0000

The problem with this analogy is.. TV doesn’t require significant software. Samsung probably “learns” (copies) a lot from Apple but they have no idea how to write software like they do.

And Samsung’s current rise is banking on Google’s Android, which is no longer special now that Google bought Motorola.

Do you think this part of the entire ecosystem Samsung can pull off as well?

I would only believe James Allworth & your argument if Samsung currently develops & controls its own software. Until then, I don’t think Samsung would disrupt all the way.