Samsung is a little depressed about their lack of success in the notebook industry. So much so that they may abandon the market… oh well.
The reasons for Samsung’s failure to date are simple. Launching in the USA is no guarantee that they will hit the magic number either if they continue to make boring products.
- Rather than applying their considerable design talent to Samsung notebooks, they slap their name on generic ODM looking units.
- Samsung is an R&D powerhouse especially in the area of Flash RAM and display technologies. How is it then that rival notebook makers got all the recent publicity for SSD and LED back light adoption? I can understand the Flash and display divisions not wanting to compete with their clients, but come on. What ever happened to innovation?
- Where is the advertising? Samsung is like Sony now. They sell an image as much as a product. Folks that buy Samsung LCD TVs and cell phones might buy a Samsung notebook if they knew that such products existed.
I am all for seeing fewer passionless, soul-less consumer products on the market. Dell learned the hard way that a line up full of plain grey boxes was a recipe for disaster and now they are designing their way out of second place in the worldwide PC market.
Samsung, it was nice knowing you. But you heart was never in it so its probably better that you leave.
