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Samsung Woos Developers As It Eyes Tizen Expansion Beyond Smartphones
New submitter Manish Singh writes: Why is Samsung, the South Korean technology conglomerate which has the tentpole position in Android, becoming increasinglu focused on its homegrown operating system Tizen? At its annual developer summit this week, the company announced new SDKs for smartwatches, smart TVs, and smartphones, and also shared its future roadmap.
"Unlike Apple's Steve Jobs (RIP), there was never any visionary within the Samsung hierarchy, and for the foreseeable future, never will be"
Seriously? After accusing Samsung of copying, you cite Apple as an example of inivation?
Apple is almost always late to the game, both in introducing products and new features. They copy their competitors much more than Samsung, which lately has tried almost every size, shape, and design of phone, as well as innovative ideas like curved phones. If anything, the criticism against Samsung is that they try too many new things and just thrown them against the wall to see what sticks.
Apple products, on the other hand, are not innovative (ignoring the reality distortion field). Refined, perhaps, but not innovative.
And most of Apple's success was in marketing, not technology. Steve Jobs was a snake oil salesman. A damn good one, but still, one selling an inferior, overpriced product. Sure, it's refined, but remember that quote about polishing a turd?