Friday, March 1, 2013
Samsung Dominates Apple #10
Samsung's latest offering, the Galaxy Note 8.0, had a fantastic showing at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The product is directly competing with the iPad mini that was recently been launched. The Note features an 8 inch screen compared to the iPad's 7.9 inch and a higher resolution than the Apple product. Likely to launch in late April or early June of this year, Samsung boldly claimed that they will double their tablet sales from last year. Interestingly, Apple was nowhere to be found at the week's international conference despite the fact that it has been trying to find growth opportunities in the BRIC markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. In India particularly, Apple is struggling to take the lead against Samsung. At the MWC, Samsung also introduced the Samsung Wallet, which will be launched on March 7th, and is directly aimed at Apple's passbook. With the leaders in the industry striving for more market power, it is interesting to wonder what tactics they will chose to implement: offensive innovations or defensive patents? Perhaps it is up to the consumer to decide which they respond to more.
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Very nice read Aviv. I do think Samsung will overtake Apple in the tablets pretty soon as they seem more reliable. You should read the article I posted on my blog. It was about how Samsung failed to block Apple's sales of iPads/iPhones in Japan.
ReplyDeleteI still feel like the Apple iPad is unrivaled, but if there was a company out there that could unseat Apple in the tablet market, it would be Samsung. I own the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 "Phablet" (phone/tablet) and I love it! That said, I feel like Apple has too prominent of staying power in the tablet market to be overtaken any time soon.
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