Why Samsung Is The Next Apple→
Samsung, and to some extent the other vendors, have finally cracked it. For most of the past few years they’ve watched as Apple ran circles around them in terms of media sharing and remote control. Obviously Apple’s systems have been limited to iPod/iTunes/iPad/Mac but Samsung, a major player in both the white goods and the mobile markets, can now have it all.
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Samsung’s success isn’t a sure thing. Incumbents rarely survive the revolutionary tidal wave of Apple’s design team and if history is any guide when/if the “real” Apple TV appears all of Samsung’s hard work will be forgotten as accolades roll in for Apple’s amazing (and I’m just guessing) retina display screen, built-in coffee-maker, and Scent-Surround smell emitters. However, if your Samsung phone and tablet can talk to your Samsung Smart TV and your Samsung aquarium pump, you may be inclined to stay in a single family when it comes to CE choices.
I’m not sure it’s fair to call Samsung “the next Apple” (or why there even needs to be a “next Apple”). Why not just “the first Samsung” — though that probably wouldn’t generate the same pageviews. Either way, the bottom line is that Samsung has been killing it and has really come a long way since the days when my parents used to buy their inferior products (at the time) simply to support their motherland. They’re a legit contender now, and the future is looking pretty bright. [TechCrunch]
