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No Love From Ars For Samsung's New Smart Watch
Despite the number of companies shipping or promising them, smart watches aren't the easiest sell, and Ars Technica's review of Samsung's entry illustrates why. Despite all the processing power inside, the watch is "sluggish" even for the kind of at-a-glance convenience features that are touted as the reason to have a phone tethered to an (even smarter) phone, and for the most part seems to weakly imitate features already found on that phone. There are a few features called out as cool, like a media control app, but for the most part reviewer Rob Amadeo finds little compelling in the Galaxy Gear.
The Galaxy Gear actually exists. You can criticize it, fine, but you can't come along with a reference to a Kickstarter project and say, "I wish the Galaxy Gear was more like this one - imaginary."
" Except Apple aren't king of the hill any more, they have less than 20% of the smartphone market. "
Which is quite irrelevant. They never had more than 20% of the smartphone marketshare. Marketshare is largely irrelevant for Apple
The are still king of the hill in profits and of mindshare. No other phone creates that frenzy. 9 million smartphones sold in 48 hours. No one else does this.
" And they've repeatedly missed the boat on what smartphone buyers really want. "
Not really. Otherwise they wouldn't have sold so many of them.
"Copy-paste,"
Covered. And better than all others.
" big screens"
The phablet market is tiny despite all the noise from tech forums. According to google the phablet market is just 10%. 90% of all Androids(!) are sold with screens of 4" or less.
", folders, notifications, etc etc. "
They have all of it.
The Verge thought it was shit too
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
20% of the market and probably 50% of the profits
Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits
Apple has fallen off the profit throne.
Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/07/26/samsung-dethrones-apple-in-smartphone-profits/
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
20% of the market and probably 50% of the profits
Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits
Apple has fallen off the profit throne.
Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/07/26/samsung-dethrones-apple-in-smartphone-profits/
Try again. This has been debunked: http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/27/samsung-has-not-dethroned-apple-in-mobile-profits
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