A match made in "heaven", indeed.I don't get Beats. Seems like all brand and no substance. I guess these companies deserve each other in a way. Apple really seems to be reaching for its lost mojo and I wager they wont find it here.
This acquisition makes sense....... Both are products which have nothing but marketing power and brand recognition power on them. They are a good fit actually.....
i just don't see how they can make any profit on it after 3 billion in purchase price... I mean...
This acquisition makes sense....... Both are products which have nothing but marketing power and brand recognition power on them. They are a good fit actually.....
Apple has 18% of the mobile market share... the laymen (or fandboy) will say that's tiny. Apple pulls 18% with a dozen products... Android/Google/Samsung pulls 80% with 1,000+ different devices. Apple must be doing something right.
"I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with any company dumb enough to pay me $3 billion," said Jimmy Iovine.
This acquisition makes sense....... Both are products which have nothing but marketing power and brand recognition power on them. They are a good fit actually.....
Apple has 18% of the mobile market share... the laymen (or fandboy) will say that's tiny. Apple pulls 18% with a dozen products... Android/Google/Samsung pulls 80% with 1,000+ different devices. Apple must be doing something right.
1) there are not 1000s and BTW, that is called choice! Something you know nothing about.
2) Samsung alone beats Apple's market share which is around 15%. Once again Samsung offers choice and Apple does not.
Samsung has been b slapping Apple since the Galaxy S2. Dream on Otacon72!
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This acquisition makes sense....... Both are products which have nothing but marketing power and brand recognition power on them. They are a good fit actually.....
Apple has 18% of the mobile market share... the laymen (or fandboy) will say that's tiny. Apple pulls 18% with a dozen products... Android/Google/Samsung pulls 80% with 1,000+ different devices. Apple must be doing something right.
1) there are not 1000s and BTW, that is called choice! Something you know nothing about.
2) Samsung alone beats Apple's market share which is around 15%. Once again Samsung offers choice and Apple does not.
Samsung has been b slapping Apple since the Galaxy S2. Dream on Otacon72!
Alert to the moderators, KRO2 is Otacon72 who is a highly abusive poster banned under dozens of accounts!
Apple smartphones have destroyed Samsung's not even a competitions since the S2.
As a business Apple is a lot better than Samsung, both in profit since the S2 release.
If you compare high end products to high end products Apple has more marketshare than Samsung. Samsung has more total marketshare because it makes a gizzillion crappy plastic phones for the developing world to buy for cheap.
Too bad marketshare != dominance. Just ask GM, Chrysler and Ford that had more marketshare than BMW how well did those companies do from 2006-now...
This acquisition makes sense....... Both are products which have nothing but marketing power and brand recognition power on them. They are a good fit actually.....
Apple has 18% of the mobile market share... the laymen (or fandboy) will say that's tiny. Apple pulls 18% with a dozen products... Android/Google/Samsung pulls 80% with 1,000+ different devices. Apple must be doing something right.
1) there are not 1000s and BTW, that is called choice! Something you know nothing about.
2) Samsung alone beats Apple's market share which is around 15%. Once again Samsung offers choice and Apple does not.
Samsung has been b slapping Apple since the Galaxy S2. Dream on Otacon72!
Alert to the moderators, KRO2 is Otacon72 who is a highly abusive poster banned under dozens of accounts!
wemakeourfuture :This acquisition makes sense....... Both are products which have nothing but marketing power and brand recognition power on them. They are a good fit actually.....
Apple has 18% of the mobile market share... the laymen (or fandboy) will say that's tiny. Apple pulls 18% with a dozen products... Android/Google/Samsung pulls 80% with 1,000+ different devices. Apple must be doing something right.
1) there are not 1000s and BTW, that is called choice! Something you know nothing about.
2) Samsung alone beats Apple's market share which is around 15%. Once again Samsung offers choice and Apple does not.
Samsung has been b slapping Apple since the Galaxy S2. Dream on Otacon72!
Alert to the moderators, KRO2 is Otacon72 who is a highly abusive poster banned under dozens of accounts!
Apple smartphones have destroyed Samsung's not even a competitions since the S2.
As a business Apple is a lot better than Samsung, both in profit since the S2 release.
If you compare high end products to high end products Apple has more marketshare than Samsung. Samsung has more total marketshare because it makes a gizzillion crappy plastic phones for the developing world to buy for cheap.
Too bad marketshare != dominance. Just ask GM, Chrysler and Ford that had more marketshare than BMW how well did those companies do from 2006-now...
Having had both an iphone and a Note 3 I can tell you that in terms of the guts and performance in real life and in benchmarks it is very close. Premium phones have reached a point that they are no longer hampered by weak guts. I would take my note 3 every day of the week over the iphone because of:
1. The glorious screen size of the Note 3 which makes carrying around an ipad no longer necessary. I pity poor iphone users stuck with antiquated screen sizes, until of course the next iphone, since Apple has at long last seen the light and will make a larger phone, at which point iphone users will find some kind of fig leaf in saying that the way Apple makes a large phone is better after screaming for years that that tiny little screen was 'the perfect size'. LMAO at that.
2. The Google integration and the Google search widget and voice search which makes doing actual business on the phone vastly better than on an iphone.
3. The fact you can carry extra batteries (without having to put some sort of lame excuse for a combo battery/case on it..)
4. The huge storage capacity - sorry but being stuck with 64 gig is lame and to get that you have to pay a HUGE premium. I have 96 on my Note thanks to being able to put in a cheap SD card.
5. The fact that the Google cloud is amazing compared to Apple's lame excuse.
6. I will say that Apple phones have a certain quality look and feel, brittle as all hell if you drop one, and so easy to scratch that NOBODY actually uses a naked iphone and instead of seeing and feeling that quality construction you must feel and see a cheap case - no phone looks so cheap as an iphone because the iphone in a case looks cheap. As always Apple sacrificing practicality for some sort of ideal notion of design perfection.
It's Apple and Beats. Both companies put extremely high markups on their products. They'll make their money back faster than you can sneeze.i just don't see how they can make any profit on it after 3 billion in purchase price... I mean...
Samsung announced a few months ago that they sold their 200 millionth Galaxy S phone. Over the exact same time period since the original Galaxy S, Apple has sold 413 million phones. It's not even close - Apple sells 2x as many flagship phones as Samsung does.
Since the Galaxy S Samsung has sold some 1.5 billion phones. 200 million Galaxy S, and 1.3 billion "others". When people say Samsung sells a lot of low-end phones, they're not kidding. It's over a billion so far.