Posted on 04/26/2013 7:16:01 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Gangnam style is trouncing Cupertino’s when it comes to high tech pre-eminence. You may remember the wild popularity of Psy’s video celebrating the upscale Gangnam shopping district of Seoul, Korea.
And a look at Samsung’s latest financial report suggests that Cupertino-based Apple is falling behind fast. After all Samsung — the world’s leader in computer memory chips, televisions, mobile handsets and LCD panels — took a huge chunk out of Apple’s hide in the first three months of 2013.
How so? According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung took about 33% of the global smartphone market in the first quarter to Apple’s roughly 18%. And while Samsung’s smartphone sales surged 56% to 69.4 million units, Apple shipments grew a mere 6.6% to 37.4 million units.
And Samsung is not giving up profit as it gulps Apple’s market. According to the New York Times, about 75% of Samsung’s profits came from “the division that makes smartphones, tablets, personal computers and cameras.”
And compared to Apple, Samsung’s revenues and profits are soaring. While Apple revenue rose 11%, Samsung’s sales spurted 17% to $47.6 billion. And as Apple’s net income fell 18%, Samsung enjoyed a 42% profit explosion to $6.5 billion.
What is behind Samsung’s massive success? It certainly doesn’t help that Apple is turning into a lumbering dinosaur — it has no plans to introduce any major new products until the fall of 2013. And if the iPhone 5 that it introduced last fall is any indication, that may not be much to get excited about.
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There's no sign of innovation from Apple anymore. It's really just a cash cow to reaped. In fact, the management has so little idea of what to do, they're buying back something like $75 billion of Apple stock. Sounds like they'd be smarted to buy Samsung stock.
Here’s a i7/2.9/4000 Mac for $1,679
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834100229
Here’s a similar Sony with a better video card for $1,200.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834127875
True. But Samsung has been basically copying Apple. I don't see a huge gulf opening.
Apple has the advantage of owning the entire operation, which will always give them an advantage on usability and prettiness.
I buy good stuff, I don’t care where it’s made. Some is from here, some is from elsewhere. Aim for quality, the manufacturers worry about where it’s made.
They were never really that innovative, what they always did well was figure out what other people were doing wrong in a market that was going to “emerge” as soon as somebody did it right. And then they’d do it right and get credited with being first, even though they weren’t, though they were often the first to do it well, and definitely the first to sell millions of it.
Thanks for the tip.
Didn’t think there wAs an iMac that came with only the 4000. iMacs usually have discrete graphics.
I never mentioned an iMac. I mentioned a Mac Mini. I think you have me confused with someone else.
Two or three years ago I thought apple would do for tv what iPod did for music. Today the tech guy said on the radio apple backing off. Amazon Netflix and others seem to be the next tv thing. Or maybe direct or dish will offer something spectacular.
Been with apple since 1986. Love my iPad-phone-desktop, but don’t know what they can or will do next.
I think a watch and glasses are too small and gimmicky. Don’t see the market.
Got the 5 phone, but almost went gal 111. Apple fits in my shirt pocket better.
You are correct. Apple purposely gimps the mini so it does not compete with the iMac and MacBook Pro. It angers me, and is a reason I’ll not get a mini.
A couple years ago when they did have discrete GPU, it was the prior generation AND had half the amount of RAM for the GPU than anyone would deem a minimum amount.
It’s not just the GPU. They use laptop processors. Dual core i5? Please.
gang=river, nam=south
South of the River
It is a place, not a description
Notice that the apple one is out of stock? Yeah, last year’s model and last year’s price.
Got a link to this year’s model?
Starting this year it is really hard to compare apples to apples (er... anyone else). They removed the optical drives from all their laptops and made them thinner. This means now their main line stuff falls somewhere on the product spectrum between an ‘ultrabook’ and a high end laptop... except everyone else’s high end ones have a DVD drive and are thicker. So to compare them you have to mentally estimate how much the size versus features are. It has ALWAYS been possible to buy thick and fast laptops cheaper than thinner slower ones.
Once you buy into Android, you're loaded up with Samsung's uneraseable ching-bong-wang gookware apps, plus a bunch of other shitware from your service provider (Looking at you, Sprint PCS), and these apps all end up fighting with each other for the simplest tasks like launching a maps app or streaming music to a bluetooth headset. Lots of Samsung trash flat didn't even work, like 'Kies' desktop connectivity and the lousy embedded GPS hardware that can never find or keep a signal. Some of it's regional: Works in Europe and Asia, but unsupported in North America. Or, it's available on AT&T but not on Verizon or Sprint PCS. Just terrible.
When Google releases a new version of Android, you can pretty much forget about ever getting it on whatever Galaxy device you presently own. Only the people buying the latest new Samsung phone will get the new OS, and maybe if you're lucky Sprint/AT&T/Verizon will get their tailored version of Android-OS on your phone a year later. Once they get the new Android version, that's all they'll ever get. I had a Galaxy IIs that Sprint didn't roll out the new Android OS for until it was two versions and over a year behind, and even then they had to even rollback all the installations to fix bugs that crippled phones, erased data, and wouldn't let you restore from backup. Samsung blames the service carriers, and the service carriers blame Samsung, and then Samsung and the service carriers blame Google.
Who wants to go through this for a PHONE? It's like the and PC architecture form factor insanity of the 1990s is back in the year 2013 only for your Samsung/Sprint/Android phone: "Oh, your 16-bit ISA card needs to have IRQ7 because it's conflicting with your HDD controller in ISA slot 4, but you can't change the jumper. You can't put that 478-pin Pentium4 in that old PGA 423 socket. Hey, maybe if you changed your port addresses on COM:1 over to 02F8, then your sound card will work... Hey, can someone copy over the MS-DOS 6.22 version of io.sys to this boot floppy so I can boot my phone?"
GET. OUT. OF. HERE.
Fortunately, my Sprint contract expired and I told them to shove it up their butts and I went and got an iPhone. It works every time, seamlessly, and connects to every other Apple device I have. If they push a system update, I wake up and it's just on my iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Glorious.
Anyone buying Samsung garbage is just wowed by the big screens. Give it awhile, and they'll learn the hard way. Buy Samsung and you're boning yourself in the butt. It's a PHONE.
Finally, let me just say this: Anyone who owns a Microsoft Windows phone is just plain retarded.
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