Samsung to launch flagship Galaxy S4 at March 14 event - Page 3

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Originally Posted by hfts 

He made a claim that Samsung SOLD 10,000,000 Notes, yet Samsung NEVER divulges numbers sold, EVER.

Sure they do.  Samsung gives numbers when they pass major milestones.

Mar 2012 - Samsung announces 5 million Notes sold

Aug 2012 - Samsung announces 10 million Notes sold

Nov 2012 - Samsung announces 5 milllion Note 2s sold

A few people constantly make themselves look foolish, by claiming every time such a milestone is announced, that "Oh all those units are sitting on shelves".  Uh, no.  Stores don't continue to buy millions of units over a year's time, if they're not selling them through to end users.

Those posters are also usually confused, and don't get that sales and shipments are the same thing in these cases.  Both Apple and Samsung include sales to retailers.  Apple counts sales when shipped to the retailer.  Samsung counts sales when they are delivered to the retailer.  

In both cases, the number given is not end user sales.  That number only becomes more apparent after the next sales announcement, when a slowdown is seen or not.

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Originally Posted by nikon133 


This is not really fair, IMHO.

Apple is improving raw hardware performance every generation as well - faster CPU, faster GPU or both. I haven't seen too many sarcastic posts from Apple followers. In fact, I've seen none.
 

No, they aren't sarcastic at all. On the contrary, they are very direct: Every time Apple bumps specs, naysayers come out on these forums to complain that Apple is no longer innovating.  "It's looks the same all they did was speed up the processor and give it more memory and improve the camera and add image stabilization and panorama and boost the sound quality and made the screen slightly larger and thinner and lighter and improve battery life and lightning connector. But where's the innovation???"

If specs bumps ARE innovation for Samsung, why can't they be innovation for Apple? That's the point of my sarcasm.

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Originally Posted by Slurpy 

My prediction:

An Android phone with a shitty skin, a massive screen, and an extremely shitty plastic case, that will neither change nor advance a single thing in the smartphone industry- which will be backed by an unprecedented multi-billion dollar marketing campaign, and whored out by every single carrier out there.

So the iphone 5 as a better casing...  and thats pretty much it.  Apple getting his butt kick out of the high market is not funny imo. When you charge a premium for a product, you need to lead, not lag.

IF they continu to entrenched themselves behind that 4" size is better for everyone, they are going straight to the graveyard.

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Originally Posted by herbapou 

 

 

So the iphone 5 as a better casing...  and thats pretty much it.  Apple getting his butt kick out of the high market is not funny imo. When you charge a premium for a product, you need to lead, not lag.

 

IF they continu to entrenched themselves behind that 4" size is better for everyone, they are going straight to the graveyard.

"butt kick"? Not according to last quarter's numbers where BOTH the iPhone 5 and the year old 4s "kicked" the SIII. With the SIII declining in sales from the previous quarter.

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Originally Posted by KDarling 

 

Sure they do.  Samsung gives numbers when they pass major milestones.

 

Mar 2012 - Samsung announces 5 million Notes sold

Aug 2012 - Samsung announces 10 million Notes sold

Nov 2012 - Samsung announces 5 milllion Note 2s sold

 

A few people constantly make themselves look foolish, by claiming every time such a milestone is announced, that "Oh all those units are sitting on shelves".  Uh, no.  Stores don't continue to buy millions of units over a year's time, if they're not selling them through to end users.

 

Those posters are also usually confused, and don't get that sales and shipments are the same thing in these cases.  Both Apple and Samsung include sales to retailers.  Apple counts sales when shipped to the retailer.  Samsung counts sales when they are delivered to the retailer.  

 

In both cases, the number given is not end user sales.  That number only becomes more apparent after the next sales announcement, when a slowdown is seen or not.

IIRC some one previously  noted that while Apple's unit figures are from audited financial submissions Samsung's are not, just their press releases and/or inferred from more general financial statements.

Personally, I don't see spec jumps as major innovations.   Specs always get better over time, and hardware fads come and go.

To me, innovation is now far more about the software, what it does, and how integrated an experience it is.  

Smartphones haven't really changed that much since the first one in 1993.  You open an app.  You use it.  You open a different one.  Repeat.  Or you look at a screen with multiple smaller apps, like a notification screen, screen with widgets, or the old WinMo "Today" screen.

Now what's slowly starting to happen, is software that's more aware of the user's habits, preferences, and anticipated needs.  That's where the real future lies.

IF the report is true and IF it works as intended, Samsung might actually do a little innovating with their next Galaxy handset. One of the new features being reported is called "Eye Scroll". Supposedly the smartphone will track your eye movements to determine when to scroll to the next page in a multi-page doc or webpage. There's also supposedly another not-yet-described feature called Eye Pause. FWIW some of Sammy's previous "software innovations" sounded better on paper than in practice.

In any event the source said the emphasis will on software, with the hardware improvements being somewhat insignificant. 

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/samsungs-new-smartphone-will-track-eyes-to-scroll-pages/?smid=tw-nytimes