Oh please….the void would be quickly filled.

Undos, takebacks and recants don’t go far, we all know that. Not newsworthy enough. Look at all the found-innocent sex offenders unable to get a job; the damage has been done.

HTC’s are better IMO purely on build quality. Neither do a good job at post-sales support, there’s little love for products a year or more old.

Whether the adverts are loved isn’t my point; the fact is they didn’t actually sell the product much. Just insult the competition and their users. Playground tactics.

@the_truth_hurts: You are so retarded it boggles the mind. Just do some research and compare which CPU/hardware is more performant. According to most trustworthy tech reports the latest iteration of the iPhone outperforms the equivalent Samsung product. And if that were not enough, the manufacturing quality of the iPhone is the highest in the world due to that special and exacting process Apple has put in place, whereas Samsung cares only in cutting cost as much as possible. Therefore you can only achieve significant cost reductions if you sacrifice manufacturing quality, which is exactly what they have been doing.

Now, i’m not a big fan of iOS or Android as i think that from a UI design standpoint they both suck big time.

That being said though, and to reiterate for the dense out there, knowing how Koreans like to cut corners at every possible opportunity to save as much cost as possible, Samsung products are always built as cheaply as possible, hence giving the end user not a premium quality product. For god’s sake, man, just look at the back cover of the Samsung phone: a cheap plastic cover. what a joke.

Therefore, what is left for a user to decide once they go shopping: (1) they have to compare functionality, but that ultimately rests upon the OSes, so they have to compare the OSes; and (2), they have to compare the hardware.

Since the OSes are pretty much equivalent (except the app ecosystem is larger and thus more diverse for iOS than Android), a rational user should base his decision on the hardware: one company puts together superior hardware (Apple), while the other is stuck in mediocrity land (Samsung). hence, if end users want a premium product (from a hardware standpoint, that is), they only have one choice and that is an iPhone. period.

Furthermore, if more people buy an inferior product, it does not logically follow that the product is better. In this case, it is cheaper and that’s the only reason why it might outsell the iPhone in some markets, not because the quality is higher than an iPhone. That you don’t even understand this goes to show how mindbogglingly stupid you are.

And as to the components that go into the hardware, Samsung is hardly the only chip manufacturing company able to produce decent level components. As a matter of fact, there are Japanese and Taiwanese companies that design better chips than Samsung. The only difference is that Korean companies compete on price and try to keep their prices as low as possible. That’s the main reason why they win market share, not because of superior quality.

Take it from someone who works inside the belly of the beast. I’ve seen first hand how they operate and it’s a disaster from the point of view of anyone who is quality conscious.

Finally, let me explain why i go on a rant regarding this: because i am sick and tired of hearing people who cheat, lie, plagiarize as the day is long cry foul and point the finger when they should first put their own house in order. Once Samsung creates something original for the first time, then maybe they will stop copying other companies. For crying out loud, their software engineering process is so pathetic they could not even get a mobile OS right for the longest of times and had to fall back on Android, and before that PalmOS, Symbian, and WindowCE.

Samsung owes Google everything. Without Google’s Android OS, Apple would have buried that stupid company. All that is needed now is for Google to assert their exclusive rights to Android, turn it into a commercial OS and start asking for licensing fees just like Qualcomm does for the hardware (Samsung has too pay billions to Qualcomm just to use the technology they failed to invent–here’s another joke for you). Now that would really be funny. I bet they’d hold emergency meetings for 15 hours a day for 2 weeks just to show that they are doing something but actually accomplishing nothing, just like they did when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 1. What a bunch of clowns.