A rchive Date
[ 17-10-2003 ]
Category
[ Information Technologies ]
sub-Categoy
[ Samsung ]
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[http://business.financialpost.com/2013/02/28/samsung-could-be-the-new-apple-analysts-say/
Samsung could be the new Apple, analysts say
Simon Magus
Before I reduce what I think these discussions in the Forums / Comment sections are about regarding the intelligence of Apple-Product users vs Google, Samsung, etc .... I must must first respond to Velayutham Mathivannan's (obviously not intelligent!) comment on the subject.
I suppose that persons of his ilk must somehow subscribe to the notion that if you can't beat (outsmart?) your competitor then the next best alternative is to copy their tactics (products), put it out to market; and so start competition on another front. It's also said that when one is flattered it's best to check that your galoshes are on and the sensitivity on the B.S Meter is set to Extra-Sensitive.
I am not, have not, nor will I willingly become an owner of an Apple product. This goes way back to the evangelistic days of the Apple (MAC) vs Microsoft (PC) / Windows vs Linux days of yore. Some people like driving automatic vehicles. Other prefer Stick-shifts. I'm in the latter category. After all, with Automatic, what's required of you amounts to - 1 hand, 1 foot (preferably your right) and 1 hand (again, preferably your right). In fact, even a chimp will be sufficient.
Back in 1997 when Apple was equated with the MAC(intosh) - Jobs era, dominating a niche market comprised of bit players (like Samsung and the other computer hardware manufacturers), its back against the wall and on the verge (Apple, that is) of becoming an even smaller bit player in a now expanding personal computing universe.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/08/opinion/the-apple-of-microsoft-s-eye.html
Microsoft had previously gone into the ring with Big Blue and came out on top. But, in the end, got slapped around by the Anti-Trust judgements that started in the U.S. Microsoft had become the New IBM and after their bout with the Anti-Trust enforcers became much like Apple in its own pond. Microsoft entanglement with the Anti-Trust movement was like Tyson taking down Holyfield in 1996 (this Holyfield 's comeback to boxing after retiring in 1994).
The fight between Tyson (then the WBA Heavyweight Champion) and Holyfield was initially arranged in 1990. It was predicated on Tyson defeating James Douglas. Douglas, however, handed Tyson the 1st defeat of his career. He stopped him in the 10th round. However, Douglas in his first defense of the WBA Title lost the title to Holyfield in a third-round knockout.
Point is, while the ABM (Linux) crowd was snapping at Microsoft's heels, Apple's back was up against the wall and Big Blue still had its tail between its legs (IBM and Microsoft - ( http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001... ). Anyone remember OS2/Warp?)
Yet, Microsoft (Bill Gates) invested $150M in Apple. Small price to keep the (ABM) hounds at bay. Throw a bone at a drowning friend and hope that the dogs become distracted. Seems to have worked. ( http://bgr.com/2012/03/02/stev...
That said, I'll (grudging) admit that Apple consumer products do exude a certain 'coolness' that manufacturers of similar products do not.
But before Apple's IoS became the O/S darling of the technologically jaded techies and fan boys the battle lines were drawn between corporate giants such as IBM, Unisys, Unisys Univac, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Fujitsu, NEC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell etc. in the Big Iron marketplace. This was followed by IBM, NEC, HP, Microsoft, Commodore, Atari, Dell, Compaq, etc in the personal computing sphere.
So, while much has changed - whether it AIX, Unix, OS X, AmigaOS, MS Dos, Windows, Linux, IoS, Solaris or FreeBSD - each were inspired by or directly evolved from the Unix Operating System developed at Bell Labs in the late 1960s.]
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