Samsung Quietly Continues To Conquer The World

Is there anything Samsung doesn't do? The same week I bought myself a shiny new Galaxy S II, they launched a solar-powered netbook for use in the developing world. Unlike any American or European company, Samsung Electronics manufactures smartphones and their memory chips, TVs and their screens, computers and their hard drives. They're the only entity that's both arms dealer and aggressor in the midst of the biggest arms race the tech world has ever seen. (Meanwhile, their sister companies in the Samsung Group build ships and skyscrapers, sell life insurance, and operate theme parks.) Their revenue exceeds that of Apple or Microsoft, and their global reach is unparalleled. Sure, they're fighting a massive patent war with Apple around the world - but at the same time, every iPhone is 26% Samsung; even if they lose every legal battle, every iPad/iPhone/iTouch sale will still cha-ching in part into Samsung's coffers. Their flagship phones and devices are Android, but they also maintain their own entirely separate Bada smartphone platform, and have even kept their fingers in the MeeGo pie. Oh, yes, and they're also apparently launching a Windows 8 tablet any day now. Six months ago this seemed like a pointless lack of focus -- but now that Google has bought Motorola, and there's a real risk of other Android vendors becoming second-class citizens, it seems like wise long-term thinking.

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