{"id":59928,"date":"2018-03-03T05:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T05:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=59928"},"modified":"2018-03-03T05:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T05:33:03","slug":"samsung-has-one-clear-advantage-over-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/samsung-has-one-clear-advantage-over-apple.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Has One Clear Advantage Over Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Samsung Has One Clear Advantage Over Apple<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Samsung\u2019s eagerness to be everything to everyone all of the time means it has one clear advantage over Apple, its near total lack of commitment to a design decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Samsung has proven time and again that it is happy to reverse design and feature decisions in order to keep the tech press and customers happy. It spins this as being a good listener and putting customers first, but there\u2019s always the faintest whiff of panic when Samsung does a very public U-turn or holds onto a feature long after others have ditched it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Removing expandable memory in the Galaxy S6 is the perfect example. Samsung\u2019s reasoning was that including expandable memory slowed down the phone\u2019s overall performance, but other manufacturers like LG and HTC managed to make it work that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Korean company took some flak, bore the wrath of Samsung owners on product forums, and eventually bought the SD card slot back in the Galaxy S7, with no performance related issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Elsewhere Samsung likes to make a lot of noise about keeping features Apple has ditched, or it likes to tout how much better its similar but-definitely-not-copied features are. It may look desperate but, ultimately, for the customer, it\u2019s nothing but good news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Why? Because not only do Samsung owners get to keep much-beloved features like the headphone jack, but they get to try out an earnest attempt at popular iPhone features without switching to iOS &#8211; like AR Emoji. Also, this makes the transition from iPhone to Android slightly less painful, which is a market Samsung aggressively operates in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Moving the fingerprint scanner is also entirely based on consumer feedback, which Samsung was happy to oblige. These changes and reversals end up as excellent marketing material for the company, and lets it bill fairly basic features and small design changes as massive, empowering wins for customers. You spoke, we listened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It\u2019s almost the polar opposite of Apple\u2019s strategy. Where Apple breaks new ground (in some areas) and makes considered decisions about its features and design choices that are part of a larger evolutionary plan, Samsung plays to the crowd and its whims. It\u2019s comfort food versus a healthy meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">As long as you have an opinion and its shared with enough people, Samsung will listen. Which means you get the phone you always want, but perhaps fewer forward thinking ideas that you didn\u2019t know you needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jaymcgregor\/2018\/03\/02\/samsung-has-one-clear-advantage-over-apple-galaxy-s9-offers-specs-release-date-price-headphone-jack\/#11652fae2e71<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/samsung-has-one-clear-advantage-over-apple.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Has One Clear Advantage Over Apple Samsung\u2019s eagerness to be everything to everyone all of the time means it has one clear advantage over Apple, its near total lack of commitment to a design decision. 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