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This is remarkable, even though it's obvious to any of their phone users (myself included) that Samsung's software development is shoddy at best, despite its excellent hardware. Which is a huge pity, but may well have something to do with the culture of corporate deference and rigid hierarchy. http://www.asianews.network/content/feature-samsung-debacle-...

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Let's not pretend that people here in extremely permissive environments don't build hugely buggy things that wouldn't survive a similarly superficial test.

why would that only affect their software, but not hardware?

While I agree that Samsung is at its core a hardware company and software engineers are still treated like second-class citizens, you can't just expect them to compete with Google or Microsoft overnight, IMO. I'm disinclined to believe that their military-like corporate hierarchy is to blame.

I don't know: perhaps that the company's structures work better for their core expertises, hardware, but software development, perhaps something that came somewhat later and lower down the hierarchy, doesn't work so well in that context?

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