Saturday, 8 October 2011

Why We shouldn't afraid that apple is afraid of samsung

SAMSUNG VS APPLE. WHY APPLE IS AFRAID OF SAMSUNG

My today's reading is an article about why Apple company is afraid of Samsung company. The main reason why Apple is afraid of Samsung is because that Samsung is a large company that penetrates into almost all industries while Apple is restricted to only IT products. Furthermore, Samsung innovates, produces and exchanges faster than Apple, which is the source to wealth and income. Besides, the leadership within Apple has suffered after Steve's dead. The interesting point that I found from this article is that instead of using the typical argument of why Android is a better system as an open source, the author actually uses principles of economics to explain why he thinks that Apple is afraid of Samsung.

Some of the questions that I like to ask is that,
1. We talked about specialization improves the people wealth as no-one knows about everything and by produce in mass quantity through specialization and exchange what they produce. Then is it that open source market that Android is currently using resembles a lot about "invisible hand" as well? Android opens up its source and let everyone contributes what they know a little bit about the apps and system and let them modify themselves.

2. Why in current era Apple is afraid of Samsung when Apple is the one more specialized in IT product than Samsung? Does it show that it is not sufficient that for a person to be just "specialized" in one single field when everyone can be specialized in your own field?

3. What if Apple fails to lead the innovation edge again, should we be afraid of the Samsung products invading US? Should we bother to save Apple?

My conclusion to this article is that we should be glad that Apple is finally afraid of something, because competition encourage innovation and better quality products. Consumers is going to get benefit from this in the end, in regardless which company reigns as the final king over the IT market.


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