Microsoft Has 'Nokiad' Samsung After Threatening and Suing Samsung With Software Patents
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.
Samsung, Going Broke Due to Horrible Economy and Microsoft Deals, Allowed Exceptions to American China Sanctions.
According to CNN, Samsung is going broke.
Their most recent statement shows profits down 78% vs. a year that was already pretty bad.
Like most “partners” that start smearing Microsoft crap everywhere, they lose customers to “clean” Android devices which don’t have the Microsoft junk and spyware on them, and then they complain that “chip sales” are down, because the phones which were contaminated with Microsoft and Facebook spyware are not selling.
Samsung complained that the economy is bad. Well it is, and that is certainly part of the problem.
It’s amazing that all these companies are blaming a bad economy where everyone loses their job, and pay stagnates, and nobody wants to risk buying anything, for their crummy sales.
They do this while the same “news” sites tout a “Biden Economic Miracle” that isn’t happening.
They claim that “people are reluctant to upgrade their devices”, but the real problem for Samsung is that when they eventually do, after they ride the Samsung phone into the ground, they switch to a Google Pixel, like I did, to get rid of the bloatware and incompetent Samsung code.
(Google has even called Samsung code incompetent, especially broken security features that Samsung attempted to hack in which actually added more security vulnerabilities than if they had just left Android alone.)
What Samsung has done to their phones kills value, and it’s certainly not helping that they keep demanding prices as-if they had a cult like Apple’s in tow, when they don’t.
Samsung’s junk, garbage, and bloatware, will also set you back the cost of two Pixel phones.
They’ve already done immense damage to their business and they need to stop it now.
The Biden Administration blew a hole in the US sanctions against China to try to let Samsung salvage part of their business, but it does not address the problem that people are leaving Samsung due to the Microsoft and Facebook junk and the high prices.
Samsung doesn’t get to price itself like Apple while promoting a disjointed, confusing, and slow phone.
One that is buried under the weight of all this crap Microsoft and Facebook told them to put in.
In the case of Microsoft, they got to ruin their second smartphone victim since Nokia, but it didn’t cost Microsoft anything this time.
They went to Samsung and threatened patent lawsuits unless they threw in the bloatware, so they did, and the customers went away.
Google will be less easy to shove around like this. For their part, they let other companies go broke and make all the mistakes to get Android out there and widely used, and then when Android became the de facto standard OS for smartphones, Google came back and cleaned up the mess and offered its own.
Google’s plan is to essentially say “Thank you, we don’t need you anymore, and we’ll take it from here!”, to the other vendors, and bleed all of the other manufacturers of their users, and to be the source of Android phones in a matter of several years, if that.
As to the Samsung mess you might say, “Hey, Google has bad stuff in there too!”.
Yes, and it’s all in the Samsung phones plus the Microsoft and Facebook spyware on top.
They’re still Google Play Certified, so now the privacy issues with a Samsung phone are three times as bad as buying a Pixel and at only twice the cost.
I doubt that Samsung will be a problem much longer.
To try to get themselves out of the MSRP mess they’ve made, they spam with these ridiculous fake discounts you get if you sign a 2-3 year contract with your carrier.
If these ridiculous tactics worked, they would help Samsung because they would get to lock you in for another ride and then make the phone more terrible with updates that you can’t refuse, or install in pieces.
But far from any smart or sane long term strategy, Samsung has managed to piss off their customers and put “Get rid of Samsung!” on the to-do list.
I can’t see this working out for them. None of Samsung’s financial data hints that it is.
Microsoft essentially convinced Samsung to self-destruct.
It would have been better to go to court and fight Microsoft than to eventually lose their entire smartphone business, and hanging in on marketshare for now due to customers whose phone hasn’t died yet and cost-cutting to the point of selling units at a loss.
(Let’s face it. Nobody is paying “list price”. When is the last time you walked into a carrier store and didn’t see the fake discounts of $500-600 on the Samsung phones? This limited time offer has turned into a rolling joke that has gone on for years.) █