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  • Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet & Aaron Sorkin pick up Golden Globe nominations for 'Steve Jobs'

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    sog35 said:
    Just proves that Oscar nominations are all about politics of hollywood.

    Pathetic
    Sog, the globes are bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (GoldenGlobe≠Oscar) The SAG awards and the Oscars are loaded with insider politics, but the HFPA are just idiots. ;-) http://pagesix.com/2015/12/10/hollywood-foreign-press-association-thinks-america-ferrera-is-gina-rodriguez/?_ga=1.173243306.805554919.1437740151
    Soli

  • Samsung Mobile smartphone profits decline; unit sales to shrink for 2015

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    Originally Posted by boredumb View Post

     

    So...it turns out that derivative, second-tier junk does sell!

    ...It just doesn't make much money - who knew?

    Samsung teaches us yet another elusive business principle...

    we have so much to thank them for...:no: 




    I agree, and you know it's amazing they didn't see this coming. Google took a page directly from the microsoft playbook (though with a slightly different monetizing schema) All of the "android" manufacturers have been commoditized, always claiming they will "make it up in volume". (the same "marketshare fixes all" argument that the commodity PC manuf. espoused) They are riding the wave... straight down the bowl, while google rakes in the cash made possible by their products. Nearly the exact scenario we had with Microsoft. Google has created a commodity market for smartphones, no HW manufacturer can succeed (other than the pennies on the dollar commodity OEM's) Samsung is just the LAST android vendor to wind down to barely profitable. They perhaps had a chance, once. But once they selected android, that chance was gone. (and I'm doubtful at this point (maturing market) ANYONE can launch a legitimate new platform)

     

    Samsung has two choices at this point, accept it's role as a commodity manufacturer (an hand most of the profits for it's effort to google) or stop making phones.

    IanMC2