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Samsung Exec Admits to Using Apple Products

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Good. I think ~100% of Microsoft's problems stem from Steve Ballmer's culture of hatred towards all competition.

If you're a CEO/Executive and you use your competitor's products, you'll be in good shape to know their strengths and weaknesses. On the other hand, if you're like Steve Ballmer, you'll refer to your competition as "Cancer" and ban the use of all competitor's products. Then you'll never ever know that your products are 10 years behind, since you've intentionally prevented yourself from knowing that.

I think that "admits" in an odd word in the headline. I would be very, very worried if he didn't use Apple products.

Citations of Ballmer insanity:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_c...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6055250-7.html

2001? man, you're hanging on to some old school hate. let it go, Ballmer's lack of impact has been made clear in the lost decade.

i know plenty of people that tote Apple products and work for Microsoft. many of these same people actually really love their job, and I think it shows that Microsoft is trying to get their innovation engine going again. They are close, probably make a few missteps, but I was once a Microsoft fan and root for them.

A big reason why I also buy Apple products is for the hardware design. I just ran across a new Lonovo and it still looked like a brick. Good luck to them in that regard...

>If you're a CEO/Executive and you use your competitor's products, you'll be in good shape to know their strengths and weaknesses

Didn't Cook and Schmidt recently say they haven't used the Surface at all?

Q: "Have you played with the Surface or Galaxy?"

Cook: "I have, yes. Both of those—and some others. What I see, for me, is that some of these are confusing, multiple OSs with multiple UIs [user interfaces]. They steer away from simplicity. ..."

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85550-tim-cooks...

No, at least for Tim Cook, he said he tested both Surface and Galaxy (second question from top of the page) http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/tim-cooks-fr...

> “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.”

You could start by inter-operating with the rest of the Android community. I can't get a photo transferred from the S3 to GNexus over Android Beam. Drop this "S Beam" island nonsense. Communities Dominate Brands. Get on board.

> You could start by inter-operating with the rest of the Android community. I can't get a photo transferred from the S3 to GNexus over Android Beam. Drop this "S Beam" island nonsense. Communities Dominate Brands. Get on board.

Samsung will never do that. Unless you can differentiate yourself from the rest of the Android competition, you'll just be another faceless hardware vendor with razor thin margins (see: PC industry). In a year or two, once the Chinese manufacturers get rolling, what advantages would a Samsung have over a ZTE or Huawei phone, given identical specs/prices?

> Samsung will never do that. Unless you can differentiate yourself from the rest of the Android competition, you'll just be another faceless hardware vendor with razor thin margins

I believe you are confounding incompatibility/isolation and uniqueness.

The content of the article with the discussion about the ecosystem of Samsung mobile devices is far more interesting than the fact that Young Sohn uses Apple products. I'd really don't think that it should surprise anyone, nor do I think anyone should really consider it news-worthy.

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