Google's CFO: No rift between us and Samsung

6. joey_sfb posted on 03 Mar 2013, 20:50 5 0

Both companies have to screw up very badly for them to part ways. Samsung is good at ignoring partners competitive behaviors but to compete head on. Proven as apple main supplier till apple themselves give Samsung the boot.

Google with their open source mentality are less protective and support innovation in general never hear them sue another company because they out innovate google.

29. gmracer1 posted on 04 Mar 2013, 09:18 2 1

Nice. misuse of. periods.

31. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:46 0 1

First thing u need to know is ''samsung is nothing without android'' move on to wp and nokia will do the same thing they did for 14 years, dont get me started on tizen. its ugly, even pa doesnt like it, tizen is a waste of r&d cash just dump it and focus fully on android, and hopefully nokia doesnt zip past you

8. joey_sfb posted on 03 Mar 2013, 20:56 0 1

And they won't. Tizen is a bargaining chip with Google.

32. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:47 0 1

A worthless 1 at that

40. ph00ny posted on 04 Mar 2013, 21:31 0 0

it's html5 based. How much more devs do you need for it?

33. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:48 0 1

Its what we say when we are high ''im not high man, just faking it''

16. urtard (banned) posted on 03 Mar 2013, 22:40 0 1

you're probably trolling, but this is possible

22. Ruckus posted on 03 Mar 2013, 23:46 0 0

Urtard not gonna lie.. It's possible but I was indeed trolling.. :-X

My bad..

15. sithvenger (banned) posted on 03 Mar 2013, 22:16 0 2

Back up yours.

34. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:50 0 0

You can see samsung's future without android, just take an honest look at touchwiz, that's tizen, launcher in disguise

17. urtard (banned) posted on 03 Mar 2013, 22:43 0 1

Tizen is open source, so it likely won't end up like Bada. On top of that, Tizen is more of a back up for Samsung. It's not good to rely on Android solely, just like how it's bad for Nokia to rely on WP only.

19. parkwaydr posted on 03 Mar 2013, 23:00 0 0

I know tizen is open. I was just pointing out that there is no guarantee that it will be successful. When I said end up like bada. I meant that there's a possibility that it won't be that successful/widespread. Like bada was.

35. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:53 0 0

Whats the benefit of being open source if it doesnt have a robust api? Devs also have the right to love a platform you know, they wont just jump on cause its open source

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30. willard12 posted on 04 Mar 2013, 10:37 0 0

Doesn't Samsung also make WP8 devices?

21. spideyhead256 posted on 03 Mar 2013, 23:16 0 1

smart stay and smart rotation certainly are a gimmics :P the non-geeky audience fancy such things

36. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:55 0 0

Gimmicks do sell phones, alright, you can ask apple

26. GALAXY-STORM posted on 04 Mar 2013, 00:48 2 0

Smart stay and rotation are not gimmick. I have the custom rom running on my s3 in 4.2.1 v. They work like a charm and even the s-voice have improved.
I still got a few more new features like the daydream mode, multi notification bar, magnification gesture. Even the ui is more fluidic now.

38. jroc74 posted on 04 Mar 2013, 17:50 1 0

"Samsung is not innovative by any stretch of imagination."

Wow.

I suggest you really research their smartphones, tablets, the features, their mobile device screens.

While you're at it.....research their HDTV's, their appliances, their dvd, blu ray players, their monitors, their hard drives, their ram....did I miss anything?

Oh I did miss something....there is a reason Apple partnered with Samsung for the chips inside iDevices.... Samsung is one of the few companies that can make their own SoC. Ever heard of the Hummingbird and the Exynos?

"In fact, no one in android camp seems to be innovating."

Where have you been the past 3 years? I will help you a lil bit:

3D phones, dual screen phones, Samsung and LG had tilt to scroll, zoom, pan in their UI's. How many other companies are doing that? Article today about the GS4 might have scrolling based on eye movement.

Yes....thats the same Samsung you claimed...isnt innovative by any stretch of the imagination....

lol.

37. hiBreed posted on 04 Mar 2013, 15:59 1 0

Google can survive without samsung, alright(that will leave enough space for lg, sony, htc and the like), sadly, i cant say the same thing about samsung. Wp is nokia's territory, firefox is unproven, tizen is $hit... Welll, maybe ubuntu, or sailfish