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Editorial: Why Microsoft Surface isn't growing after seven years of trying
Surface Hub is nothing amazingly worthy of its price tag. Most time, it’s sitting there as white elephants.javacowboy said:Honest question: Have any of you actually tried Surfaces, for work or otherwise?What are you impressions? What are the distinct pros and cons?Like Samsung, Surface Hub is just a compilation of some functions and services available on Windows (eg Skype for Business) throw into an unrefined hardware. It does none excellently.
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Apple working on ways to securely present government ID from an iPhone or Apple Car
Good direction to move towards in a not-to-distance digitised world. However, security is paramount and I will not trust any Android device with such highly sensitive personal information (at least right now I do not see possibility in my lifetime).
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Apple Pay overtakes Starbucks for in-store mobile payments
Guess the Americans should travel to China and other parts of Asia where mobile payment is a norm. -
Editorial: Samsung hasn't copied Apple TV+ yet, but it's only a matter of time
Bingo. Samsung, even after more than a decade, still is pretty lousy in software development, esp. for non-Korean language/UI. There are very good reasons being so and those reasons are well entrenched into its DNA.davidmalcolm said:The thing is Samsung generally doesn't do content. They had a music streaming service, but that is shut down. They had something for ebook reading, but that is shut down. Which is kinda crazy to think of since they sell so many phones and tablets that people use to do music and books. It's also worth noting that Samsung is pretty lousy at software. Sure they make software but it isn't well respected. Nobody brags about having a Samsung product because of its software. -
Editorial: Samsung hasn't copied Apple TV+ yet, but it's only a matter of time
Go deeper into their 'DNA' and you know the history of its origins, how it started to undercut Japanese technologically more advance. Like you have shared, Samsung is not new to the game of copying. But that's the previous decade or two. Now comes others who are up and rising to do similarly but at much lower cost than Samsung. Make a guess who these new bred are...gcv said:Samsung probably will offer a knock off of Apple TV.I have been reading about Samsung’s corporate philosophy for years. Not only does Samsung copy Apple products, but the company copies patented designs and technology of several small companies even though it knows it is doing so illegally. That is Samsung’s definition of R&D ( research and development). It researches the ideas of other companies and incorporates that theft into its own products. Samsung does this because it has the financial resources to drag out patent infringement law suits for several years. Smaller companies can’t afford to continue their law suits, so Samsung either reaches a settlement for pennies on the dollar, buys the companies or their technology after driving those companies’ market value into the ground, or simply keeps the lawsuits going for years until the competitors - whose ideas Samsung stole - go bankrupt. THAT is how Samsung has become a top business in Korea.
It is a rare thing when Samsung gets into a lawsuit with a company that has comparable financial resources to fight back. That is one way in which I admire Apple. It actively fights back against Samsung's theft of intellectual property. I made myself a vow a few years ago to NEVER buy anything made by Samsung. Doing so only encourages unethical and illegal behavior, but it stifles technology advances and puts other competitors out of business.
Samsung is a shark who swallows minnows, but with respect to Apple it is two sharks competing for food.
Give them a few more years and Samsung will have a good taste of its own doings. 
