

  (Source: Cult of Mac)






Apple v. Samsung



Galaxy S IV


Samsung hopes to sell 390 million smartphones this year.

Source: Samsung

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RE: Profiting off of fragile phones
By Lord 666 on 4/27/2013 5:30:08 PM , Rating: 2
Liar? The 12 people with SG3s are all corporate issued by myself. Did all of them break; nope. Learn how to read.

What part am I missing that you have "this suspension of disbelief?"

At no point did I say the SG3 suck. The phone has its place and increased Android market share. My only question was of Samsung's sales, how much of it is from conquests and same-phone replacements?

Where did I even bring up iPhones?

RE: Profiting off of fragile phones
By cyberguyz on 4/28/2013 7:22:20 AM , Rating: 3
Dude, sometimes when a smartphone falls and hits a hard surface, it breaks. I don't care who makes it. That will hold true for any smartphone - not just the SG3. They are ALL fragile of mishandled.

Now that Samsung has people who broke their phones coming back to them for another of the same phone tells me that Samsung is doing something right. After all there is no real reason why most of those people can't go out and buy something else line an HTC One or iPhone to replace it, right? They are going out and buying another Galaxy.

You call it profiting off of fragility. I call it Samsung making their customers so happy they keep coming back. That to me sounds like good business.

RE: Profiting off of fragile phones
By retrospooty on 4/28/2013 3:05:09 PM , Rating: 2
Exactly... There have been 50 million GS3's sold. If it were epidemic, the internet would be on fore complaining about it. All phones break when dropped in certain ways at certain percentages... The GS3 isnt on the top of that list, but isnt on the bottom either.

RE: Profiting off of fragile phones
By rob19478 on 4/29/2013 6:11:21 AM , Rating: 2
Only smartphone I had so far is the Nokia 710 which falled twice but is still as new. All of my friends and colleagues have smart phones, most of them are cheap android phones mostly samsung/htc none ever had a broken screens. The couple friends I have with an Iphone had no broken screen either. Actually I know no one with a broken screen, even the users with sg3. Thus i really think that OP of this thread is just a fat liar and invented the whole anecdote to troll.

By retrospooty on 4/29/2013 8:19:33 AM , Rating: 2
LOL... Well, I am not going to say he is lying, but his sample size is rediculous... Well, I know 8 people with GS3's and zero have broken so therefore it is the most stursy phone ever built?

Snd if any One person broke 3 phones and lost another in less than 1 year (The GS3 came out last May) they have a problem. FFS 3 phones broken in a year? He mentioned getting things done before "Hurricane season" above so I am thinking these people are in some type of job that may be a better fit for a ruggedized phone with a smaller screen. Less surface area will always be less brittle... Science man!

