Steve Jobs also said that Apple wouldn’t do a video iPod, wouldn’t make a phone, tablets were a niche market and people don’t read any more. (wired/2010/02/steve-jobs/) These were all answers to questions about Apple’s product roadmap, and if you are taking Apple/Steve Jobs’ answers as a confirmation of their upcoming products, you must either be naive, dense, or a combination of both. Samsung can definitely score a few points from the ignorant and the bitter anti-Apple crowd with their recent ads, but they’re in trouble and I’m pretty sure they know that. At the low and mid-end, Samsung’s lunch is being eaten by Android OEMs like Xiaomi with better design and similar/better specs at a fraction their prices. At higher price points, sales of their supposedly high-end devices are already shrinking even before Apple moves bigger than 4. (bbc/news/business-28578781) If Samsung’s sales figures were less than ideal even when Apple didn’t have huge phones, Samsung is going to have a rough year with iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, and when companies like Xiaomi and OnePlus expand increasingly onto Samsung’s turfs all over the world. In all likelihood, they would remain profitable — much less so, though still an achievement in an industry where almost every player loses money — with their remaining markets of people susceptible to marketing (given they can still afford a huge marketing budget) as well as the fervent anti-Apple crowd (given that their emphasis on anti-Apple ads), but I wouldn’t be surprised that they might, in the longer run, find their business of supplying components to Apple more lucrative than selling pockmarked plastic phones.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:55:59 +0000
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