5 daysYeah sure. The 1200€ phone yields no profits… Poor Samsung can’t catch a break
- 5 days
Damn, poor Samsung, they certainly havent advertised and pushed for AI usage at all in their products! Oh and they certainly havent had record profits in other divisions!
- Thatuserguy@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Pretty sure the S26 was selling record numbers for them.
To be not turning a profit despite how expensive their phones are and being the only serious android manufacturer in the US, you’re either lying, or so incredibly poorly mismanaged it’s gotta set a new record somehow
being the only serious android manufacturer in the US,
…? Does “serious” only include companies that make the worst and also most expensive phones or what?
- NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish5 days
Ask an average non-tech person about phones and they’ll only know Apple and Samsung. They can suck but they’re the only company that’s serious about brand recognition and consistently making new generations of phpnes
The non-tech people I know have been buying Google phones for years. Which have their own issues, but as products they seem light-years ahead of Samsung.
Op seems to be denying that Google phones exist, or that anyone knows about them? Which is odd to me, they’re quite popular actually.
- 5 days
They can go f*ck themselves.
I stopped using Samsung products when they locked the bootloader with the One UI 8.5 update and before that I probably only skipped a couple of generations of Galaxy Note and Ultra phones.
I understand wanting to keep customers inside your ecosystem, but that should be done through convenience, not by holding hostage the hardware I already paid for.
- pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
All they really mean, but won’t say, is that memory makes them more money than phones - so they no longer give a fuck about phones.
Samsung Mobile division is complaining here that memory is so expensive they can’t afford to put a phone out at a set price for more than a few weeks without starting to lose money.
Samsung Memory division meanwhile: our profits are so obscene that we’ve raised the entire company profits 800% this year.
Its literally two divisions in the same damn office, their directors sit in the same boardroom - Samsung Electronics.
- smeg@feddit.ukEnglish5 days
The reason for the reduction is, of course, the surging price of memory.
Maybe this will finally force lazy developers to optimise their programs a bit more. For decades we’ve had computers getting significantly faster every year so you didn’t need to bother optimising your code for lower resources.
