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jeffythequick said:

I hope they do well.  Nothing sparks innovation like competition and someone looking to take your lunch.

Samsung with innovation? Not their mobile unit. And not with that culture of theirs. Ask anyone who works in Samsung (not Samsung US) where it’s dominated by Korean leadership (meaning management levels are Koreans). That’s where true Samsung culture shows its tail (true colours).

Time will tell... Given there’s no subscription based video service from Apple yet, I would not be surprise if TV+ actually represents a flat subscription fee to gain access to both current iTunes movies etc contents on top of Apple’s own contents.

Key to that is how much is current sales and rental generating for content owners. If it’s been declining, why not like Apple Music, move towards subscription based.

krreagan2 said:

They waited until the last moment to pull the device!!?? I bet they have manufactured 10's of thousands of these and are now going to have to destroy or try to repair them.

They had to know about these issues for a long time inside the company! Yet they sent them out to reviewers anyway and no one inside Samesong said "Stop" we should not ship this crap!

Just freaking WOW!

If u know how the internal culture is, u won’t be surprised that this happens.

Yippee...Finally those China-brands are giving Samsung a taste of their own medicine...What goes round, comes round.

Disagrees with HSBC, esp. if their perspective is solely only considering US market instead of global markets.

The success of Apple's new services is dependent on one key element - speed to market. How fast Apple is able to roll out to tier 1 and 2 countries with approvals from their respective regulatory/censorship body will shape Apple's services success. Netflix took years to even reach my market (among tier 1 countries for almost all Apple launches). To-date, Netflix has only reach so few markets globally.

If Apple TV/TV+ is able to roll out within a year to all tier 1 countries and some tier 2 countries, it will be among the top few content services that have wide-spread presence. We don't even get direct HBO or Disney contents here. It's all through cable TV provider(s) who are slow to progress towards IPTV services. Apple can still be successful outside of US.