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Still think Samsung and Microsoft cannot innovate?

The fact is that no company can survive or thrive in the CE space without some ability to innovate. It just happens at different levels at different companies. And different companies achieve different levels of success in delivering their innovation as a packaged products.

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Originally Posted by Robert Mark 

Video games are not allowed in my home and never will be. The glazed look in the eyes of the young people playing the games in the video is just sad. Go climb a tree, read a book, or go for a walk.

My favorite digital games are Photoshop and Word and the only "level" I want to get to is to create something new and hopefully a little unique and exciting.  The idea of mucking about in someone else's pre-defined scenarios of wham, pow, bang and crash has never appealed for a micro-second.

I believe it was Steve Jobs who first described personal computers as "power tools for the mind" - but whoever it was, I've never been able to get why so many willingly spend so much time on this form of "digital crack" which, however sophisticated and visually impressive it becomes, instead of empowering, reduces them to zombies with controllers......  ....and I never will.

On the other hand, not claiming any "superiority" here as I have subjected myself to more than a fair amount of crap on TV......  ...but on the whole I try to aim for creative or educational or physically fit recreation.....

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Originally Posted by stelligent 

Still think Samsung and Microsoft cannot innovate?

 

The fact is that no company can survive or thrive in the CE space without some ability to innovate. It just happens at different levels at different companies. And different companies achieve different levels of success in delivering their innovation as a packaged products.

The beauty of a strategy of throwing darts in every which direction: sometimes, you accidentally hit a target.

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Originally Posted by stelligent 

Still think Samsung and Microsoft cannot innovate?

Exactly. They are incapable of innovation. Is that clear enough for you?

Do you really think this lame crap is innovation? A display technology from years ago, still with no practical use? An "EXTREME"TM  blue sky design concept video of a product that doesn't exist? Surely you didn't swallow the pitch,

"Microsoft Chief Technical Strategy Officer Eric Rudder also showed off video from a lab test in which a display was projected onto an entire room, allowing a player to become more fully immersed in an Xbox game."

This video is not the product of a "lab." It's the product of some desperate marketing morons who forced their minions to produce some eye candy to give to their moron boss. Nothing will come of it.

Just so you know MS and Samsung have definitely invented some things. But neither company has ever innovated anything in the way of consumer products. Ironically enough, you nearly had the correct notion of innovation when you said, 

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Originally Posted by stelligent 

. . . success in delivering their innovation as a packaged products.

In truth, "successfully delivering usable and useful technology as a valuable packaged product" is essentially the definition of innovation.

If it's not successfully delivered, it's not innovative. If it's not a usable and useful product, it isn't innovative. If users don't value it, it isn't innovative. If you aren't leading the way, the differentiating value doesn't exist, and it isn't innovative. That last thing — following innovation, that's what Samsung and Microsoft (and most successful companies) do very well. But actual innovation, that's rare.

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Originally Posted by jason98 

Wow, rounded edge-to-edge screen is a holy grail of smartphone design.

Since when? 

...America did not have presidents who blew their load over their teenage intern's dresses while doing unspeakable things with a cigar. Yes Bill, you certainly restored the pride that Americans had in the highest office in the land. It's difficult to think of a more appropriate icon to represent a children's charity.

You MUST see this flexible-screen concept video Samsung showed at CES.  

(When the last guy opened his phone, the crowd laughed and cheered.)  

Personally I'm drooling for the foldable tablet phone idea.   Enjoy:

Bill Clinton was there in support of Samsung's "Hope for Children" initiative, as part of the Clinton Foundation's worldwide public health and educational efforts.

"Hope for Children" provides technology for children's classrooms, hospitals and charities.

Best Buy, Lowes, Sears, PC Richards and other major companies are also partners with Samsung on this.

As a longtime supporter of  SmileTrain child facial reconstruction, I'm glad that celebrities and companies like the above contribute towards these worthwhile projects.