http://recode.net/2014/01/29/after-...will-dial-back-android-tweaks-homegrown-apps/
That's awfully open of them.
After Google Pressure, Samsung Will Dial Back Android Tweaks, Homegrown Apps
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And while they are setting ground rules, I see an end run going on around them:
Lenovo CEO: ‘our mission is to surpass’ Apple and Samsung : http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/02/01/lenovo-ceo-our-mission-is-to-surpass-apple-and-samsung/
A day after announcing a $3 billion dollar acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google, Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang has made some bold claims in an interview with CNN Money. Stating an intention to sell over 100 million smartphones in 2015 (which would be more than double Motorola and Lenovo’s combined 2013 output), Yang declared that “our mission is to surpass” competitors Apple and Samsung.
Lenovo CEO: ‘our mission is to surpass’ Apple and Samsung : http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/02/01/lenovo-ceo-our-mission-is-to-surpass-apple-and-samsung/
A day after announcing a $3 billion dollar acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google, Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang has made some bold claims in an interview with CNN Money. Stating an intention to sell over 100 million smartphones in 2015 (which would be more than double Motorola and Lenovo’s combined 2013 output), Yang declared that “our mission is to surpass” competitors Apple and Samsung.
Do you know which "they" it is?And while they are setting ground rules, I see an end run going on around them:
The same way Google is concerned with Samsung. The company starts to enhance Android with features unavailable to other users. By shear numbers the tail starts wagging the dog for Android development.How can Lenovo do an end run around Google?! Google is the one who develops the phone OS that Lenovo uses.
Implausible, Samsung would have already done it.The same way Google is concerned with Samsung. The company starts to enhance Android with features unavailable to other users. By shear numbers the tail starts wagging the dog for Android development.
Lenovo will never surpass apple. But, it's a good attitude to have.And while they are setting ground rules, I see an end run going on around them:
Lenovo CEO: ‘our mission is to surpass’ Apple and Samsung : http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/02/01/lenovo-ceo-our-mission-is-to-surpass-apple-and-samsung/
A day after announcing a $3 billion dollar acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google, Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang has made some bold claims in an interview with CNN Money. Stating an intention to sell over 100 million smartphones in 2015 (which would be more than double Motorola and Lenovo’s combined 2013 output), Yang declared that “our mission is to surpass” competitors Apple and Samsung.
S-Beam - Android has NFC to exchange data between any Android device but S-Beam has the capability to exchange files using NFC to set up a direct transfer using WiFi direct. The ability to link devices so that any picture a Samsung takes can be automatically shared with other Samsung devices (instead of retaking the same group picture with everyone's cameras/phone).Implausible, Samsung would have already done it.
There are a few more but I'm not sure if they are unique to Samsung Android. This customization is why new versions of Android can take longer to migrate on different manufacturers phones. It makes sense to Samsung - they want distinguishing features that push their product higher than others. It could be that the concept of a universal Android O/S with Google as head chef could be perceived as at odds with Samsung's customization. I'm not sure of the reasoning but I have heard that Google has concerns with Samsung's surge to top of the market.
Google is now moving to rein in such customization because it leads to fragmentation and hence confusion. Samsung was in the best position to wag the dog but that ain't going to happen. Lenovo, with its much smaller share of the market and fewer resources than Samsung, is hardly likely to wag the dog.S-Beam - Android has NFC to exchange data between any Android device but S-Beam has the capability to exchange files using NFC to set up a direct transfer using WiFi direct. The ability to link devices so that any picture a Samsung takes can be automatically shared with other Samsung devices (instead of retaking the same group picture with everyone's cameras/phone).
There are a few more but I'm not sure if they are unique to Samsung Android. This customization is why new versions of Android can take longer to migrate on different manufacturers phones. It makes sense to Samsung - they want distinguishing features that push their product higher than others. It could be that the concept of a universal Android O/S with Google as head chef could be perceived as at odds with Samsung's customization. I'm not sure of the reasoning but I have heard that Google has concerns with Samsung's surge to top of the market.
I don't know much about Lenovo other than they are rumoured to have deep pockets and every little publicity fart seems to generate tremors in the NA tech market. They seemed to popup out of thin air.Google is now moving to rein in such customization because it leads to fragmentation and hence confusion. Samsung was in the best position to wag the dog but that ain't going to happen. Lenovo, with its much smaller share of the market and fewer resources than Samsung, is hardly likely to wag the dog.
Pop up out of nowhere?! I've known or heard of them since the late 1990s before they even went big on the North American scene by buying IBM's Thinkpad line. They're big but they're not on the order of Google, Samsung or Apple.I don't know much about Lenovo other than they are rumoured to have deep pockets and every little publicity fart seems to generate tremors in the NA tech market. They seemed to popup out of thin air.
That was in 2004. I'm an older guy and still trying to figure out why the new millennium wasn't just a couple years ago. In a couple years, (the blink of an eye) I expect to meet my first dancer who casually mentions she was born in 2000.Pop up out of nowhere?! I've known or heard of them since the late 1990s before they even went big on the North American scene by buying IBM's Thinkpad line. They're big but they're not on the order of Google, Samsung or Apple.
WTF was I talking about ....
Except, apparently, they suck at software - most of their SW "features" were panned with the last phone release (along with the awkward release).Implausible, Samsung would have already done it.
