Samsung Wants to Emulate Apple's Ecosystem
While Samsung and Apple may be locked in over 10 patent disputes around the globe, the former has expressed its admiration for its rival's ecosystem.
During an interview with MIT Technology Review, Samsung's Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn discussed how services such as Apple's iCloud inspires the South Korean technology giant to offer an equally impressive service to its users.
He even went as far to admit he utilizes Apple devices outside the office. Sohn stresses that a critical point within Samsung's future is dependent on creating an open ecosystem such as iCloud should the company continue its success.
Samsung, which utilizes Android for the majority of its mobile devices, recently finished work on two new research and development facilities in Silicon Valley, with Sohn explaining what he hopes for the new branches to achieve.
"We make really great devices. But actually if you think of our future, it's in answering the question of how we put it all together and how we manage the data that's coming out of these devices and encourage the innovation ecosystem for our platforms."
He added that Samsung would be looking into growth areas constituting of cloud and mobile ecosystem technologies. "If you look at the strengths of Apple, in a way it's not the product per se. It's that consumers like their ecosystem such as iCloud."
"[The Samsung Galaxy Nexus] is a better phone, in my view. It's a better display. It's faster. But eventually the connected ecosystem is really critical. [If] you think about our experiences, it's device-centric. It's experienced by itself. It's not experienced in a connected way. So we think we can provide a lot more things than what we are doing today with an open ecosystem with our partners."
Samsung, who is expected to debut a "complete new look" during CES in January that is said to compete with Apple's "vibrant" international brand image, recently teased an unveiling for the event by telling consumers to "get ready" as "the world is waiting".
Every time someone says they want to "directly compete" with Apple on something, that company's new products soon become useless crap. Look at Windows 8. Seriously, does anyone EVER learn from others' mistakes?!
All Zak did was.slap a misleading title on and cherry pick quotes to work you up, and its working. Go read the actual interview ffs.
jcesmi, when the hell did south Korea become a 3rd world country? Foxconn causes cancer, US factories have caused cancer. Manufacturing involves carcinogens. At least south Korea deals with it.
Every time someone says they want to "directly compete" with Apple on something, that company's new products soon become useless crap. Look at Windows 8. Seriously, does anyone EVER learn from others' mistakes?!
All Zak did was.slap a misleading title on and cherry pick quotes to work you up, and its working. Go read the actual interview ffs.
jcesmi, when the hell did south Korea become a 3rd world country? Foxconn causes cancer, US factories have caused cancer. Manufacturing involves carcinogens. At least south Korea deals with it.
Another point (rare for most these days) but slow internet services make cloud storage less than viable. With internet that takes a few minutes to upload or download each song, a sync-cloud system is just not usable even if it is desirable.
Still, I can see that some people would like a closed, syncing system for there device so my advice is to buy Apple. If not, buy Samsung/other-not-mentioned-here-companies.
Please Samsung listen, we do NOT want to be locked into a closed system.
It is better for all Manufacturers to get together and figure out a joint system.
Yes, that means you may loose some potential customers to a competitor. However, that works both ways of course; in an open and compatible system you will also be able to attract new customers from your competitors.
Let the better product win because it is better, not because the cost of switching to a better system is prohibitively expensive.
Listen Zak, learn to write unbiased articles and stop trying to get cheap publicity
Samsing isn't talking about mirroring everything about Apple, thank god!!
I what way does Samsung want to contribute to The "Ecosystem" and the cloud that already isn't there in Android?
Android has always been much more into the cloud even from the beginning compared to Ios, with everything synced up to your Google account.
And the Google Play store is also doing great being as big as apples Appstore now and will pass it soon.
So , this sounds like they are trying to fix a problem that really isn't there.
And, as many said, when it comes to the streaming of really big files in the cloud , like music and video, I don't think it is something that is practical, since most subscriptions are data limited and even if not, the bandwidth varies a lot and sometimes you lose the connectivity (like in tunnels and some other areas).
The thing is that we as customer's don't have to lose the open,
noless-quality-control, anything-goes, side-loading, Android ecosystem that is so beloved for Samsung to improve their ecosystem. It seems like its more for us...not less. Try not to be so caught up in iHate as to be deluded.I think what we've seen lately only confirms this. Yes, if you want just the facts you'll have to dig deeper, it is what it is but I don't hate on Zak for doing as instructed.
You got it right. probably I'll stop commenting on his news articles, only if there was a way to know who is publishing the article before clicking in tom's, I would not even click in his articles.
Good luck with that on Google's Android platform.
The closet thing is Google's Nexus which is all Google.
Okay?! See benchmarks -> http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/50573191ecad04294c000016-800-903/apple-iphone-5-benchmark-test.png?maxX=610