I’ve seen the future, and its name is … whatever the name of its phone is.
Whatever it is, I’m sure it will have an awful name. But. Cool.
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Samsung's Fifth Straight Record Quarter
HTC’s Q4 profit: $21 million.
Samsung’s Q4 profit: $8.3 billion.
HTC Income Falls 91% Because Samsung (Not Android) Is Winning
Tim Culpan for Bloomberg on HTC’s most recent quarter:
Fourth-quarter operating income for the period was NT$600 million ($21 million), compared with the NT$1.11 billion average of 20 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Net income was NT$1 billion, the Taoyuan, Taiwan-based company said in a statement today. That’s the lowest since 2004 and less than the NT$10.9 billion it posted a year earlier.
Not good, But Bloomberg dances around the truly stunning number, Sky News does not:
The Taiwanese firm, whose phones include the Butterfly, said net profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 had missed forecasts and plunged 91% year on year.
Ninety-one percent.
The Android ecosystem isn’t alive and well, the Samsung one is. Expect to hear a lot more out of this story in 2013.
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Student of many. Master of none.
I think laptops can benefit from touch screens, but that doesn’t mean we should consider them tablets. Laptops, phones, and tablets all play different parts in my work or play. And, for me, they each need to be no compromise machines.
It’s very interesting to see Microsoft (becasue those are Microsoft even though it is an HP machine) and Samsung advertising with the word “best” in reference to a device they’re trying to say does two things.
And you can eat the cake too, right?
Play it again, Sam.
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“We’ll be launching a 4-inch Galaxy S III on the 11th in Germany. There’s a lot of demand for a 4-inch screen device in Europe. Some call it an entry-level device, but we call it ‘mini.’”
JK Shin, the head of Samsung Mobile at a press conference today.
Can’t imagine where they got the “mini” name from…
HTC Posts Record Profit Drop
Tim Culpan for Bloomberg Businessweek:
HTC Corp., Asia’s second-largest smartphone maker, posted a record 79 percent drop in quarterly profit as competition from Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. drove down sales of the Taiwanese company’s devices.
Yet another sign that Android isn’t winning, Samsung is.
As Apple and Samsung dominate, Japan’s tech giants are in a free fall
Chico Harlan, reporting for The Washington Post:
The pace of problems is accelerating. Sony hasn’t made a profit in four years. Panasonic has lost money in three of the past four. Along with Sharp, the companies’ combined market value, according to Bloomberg, is $32 billion — making them one-fifth the value of Samsung and one-twentieth the value of Apple.
The smartphone angle here is obvious. So is the pricing squeeze angle. Not-so-obvious: the complete and utter failure of each of these companies to understand the importance of software tying in with hardware.
Copy this, Samsung!
Damn. Them fightin’ words.
The Samsung iPhone Maybe?
Samsung ran a Facebook campaign asking people to respond with what device they would take with them if stranded on a desert island.
Zach Epstein:
Among the 50 most recent responses as of the time of this writing, we count 40 people who said their device of choice would be Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone, and one who said he would take an iPad.
Whoops.
