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How is Samsung able to get the best technologies for their phone?

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Yongsta said:
LG, a Korean company was the first to bring out a touch screen phone (Prada) and LG accused apple of stealing their design for the iphone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth/
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So what? Thats only one company. Also what kind of OS was that LG Prada running? From what I'm reading it was based on Adobe Flash Lite and it could only view videos and basic documents. The OS was a toy compared to iOS1.

When the iPhone debuted in 2007 with iOS1, the UI and OS was straight up out of star trek at the time. LG was foolish to think they had any kind of design leg up on Apple with their Prada.
 
akugami said:
Basically I'm saying that there is more effort on creating new or innovative products to jump to the front of the pack when you're a developing nation and hungry. This is opposite of developed nations who have many corporations already at the front of the pack. Their philosophy is more about maintaining the status quo and not losing their position. In many cases this is about locking in consumers rather than generating new markets.
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You're living in a fantasy world. That is not how the real world works. Creativity and innovation doesn't just require the ideas, but the capital and investment as well. Innovations come out of two places, established corporate systems that invest heavily in R&D labs, such as the ones at Google, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, etc. Or they come from individuals who are able to nurture those ideas into actual products and businesses from capital investments. It's what makes America so good at innovations, almost anybody from college dropouts to those working out of their garage can turn an idea into a business. You don't have that foundation in a developing nation. Developing nations are more limited in capital, so whatever they do have, it's easier to copy other well-established ideas then to risk it on new ideas.

Again, give me some examples of these innovations coming out of developing nations.
 
akugami said:
Specifically, I can't give you many examples but Mad Design based out of Beijing would be one. The thing is, are you going to claim that during the "copying" process people become brain dead and there is no creativity? I think that claim would be silly because creativity may be stifled but you can't shut it out. The only way a nation in the "copying" stage advances, IMHO, is as they are in the industrial/copying stage they have leaps of creativity that allows them to jump to the forefront of the global market. There has to be some creativity and innovation that allows them to go from being just another developing nation to one that is considered a developed nation.

Basically I'm saying that there is more effort on creating new or innovative products to jump to the front of the pack when you're a developing nation and hungry. This is opposite of developed nations who have many corporations already at the front of the pack. Their philosophy is more about maintaining the status quo and not losing their position. In many cases this is about locking in consumers rather than generating new markets.
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the only two companies in the DJIA that have always been there are GE and 3M. and in both cases their businesses today are different than what they were over 100 years ago. in fact most companies don't survive past 10 years.
 
cheezy321 said:
Some hyundai's are blatant rip offs of other cars. Are you serious?
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I assume you mean they look like hondas? I really never can tell some cars apart unless I look for the make. Some toyotas, hondas, hyundais even some fords, all look alike.
 
Oyeve said:
I assume you mean they look like hondas? I really never can tell some cars apart unless I look for the make. Some toyotas, hondas, hyundais even some fords, all look alike.
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while a lot of cars look alike, hyundai takes the cake when it comes to making a blatant copy. It is really bad.
 
samsung has been a longtime manufacturer for a great number of parts that are sold to many manufacturers for use in all kinds of electronics. its natural that they have developed into a pioneer for new features, because they are the ones who make the parts that enable those features to work in the first place. i think thats why theyve been hit with so many patent infringement cases, because a lot of their ideas are just innovations... albeit good ones.
 
JS80 said:
The Chinese/Japanese wish they could replicate a BMW for 2/3 the price
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Do you enjoy throwing bomblets into the conversation and then running away and watching how people respond? I've noticed that you never argue your point but make wild claims and let others thrash it.
 
Dari said:
Do you enjoy throwing bomblets into the conversation and then running away and watching how people respond? I've noticed that you never argue your point but make wild claims and let others thrash it.
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Lol. Just look at his avatar. Of course he does! 🙂
 
This forum is neither Politics and News, nor is it The Garage. Please get back on topic - which is Samsung and mobile technology.

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MrX8503 said:
Kia, Hyundai, Samsung, they all aren't very creative. Japan is pretty creative and innovative though.
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I find it ironic that other car companies (Toyota, Nissan, GM) are hiring Korean car designers http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121311527578861039.html / http://www.prefecturatarija.org/korean-car-designers-set-to-conquer-auto-industry.html/ http://news.drive.com.au/drive/moto...aming-in-such-a-retro-way-20110519-1etkd.html and Korean companies (Kia, Hyundai) are hiring non Korean car designers http://www.kiamotors.com/experience-kia/design/chief-designofficer.aspx




There's a warning just above this post saying that discussions of cars, and politics are off-topic for this thread, and this forum, and then you post a discussion of cars below it...

Infraction for posting in the wrong forum for ignoring the warning that I put one post above yours.


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Samsung seems intent on dominating the mobile space, and they're doing a pretty good job so far.

They realize how important it will be to have a big footprint in mobile, and that if the industry follows what has happened in many other sectors, one player will end up dominating, and the others will be left with the crumbs.

IMHO, Samsung's biggest problem in the past was to simply ignore issues with it's devices, with the attitude of, "So the GPS doesn't work, we'll have a newer device out in a couple of months where it will." and simply buried the issue.

I think in the future, their problem will be covering the entire spectrum of mobile, by producing inexpensive devices that are not of the quality of the higher end devices, and risk brand quality erosion. If they can move their segment of the industry upscale a notch or two, they'll have it made.
 
Pliablemoose said:
Samsung seems intent on dominating the mobile space, and they're doing a pretty good job so far.

They realize how important it will be to have a big footprint in mobile, and that if the industry follows what has happened in many other sectors, one player will end up dominating, and the others will be left with the crumbs.

IMHO, Samsung's biggest problem in the past was to simply ignore issues with it's devices, with the attitude of, "So the GPS doesn't work, we'll have a newer device out in a couple of months where it will." and simply buried the issue.

I think in the future, their problem will be covering the entire spectrum of mobile, by producing inexpensive devices that are not of the quality of the higher end devices, and risk brand quality erosion. If they can move their segment of the industry upscale a notch or two, they'll have it made.
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I think they just got to a point where they said "Hey we make all the things people are using to make these phones and theres an off the shelf OS ready to go. Why not.".
 
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