Samsung Not Worried About Apple’s TV: “TVs are ultimately about picture quality”
In what may, in a couple years, be remembered as a telltale remark of overconfidence, Samsung's AV product manager said today in an interview "TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How smart they are...great, but let's face it that's a secondary consideration." Pride goeth before a fall, Samsung!
It's true in a way. But only in the dumbest possible way. Yes, TVs are about picture quality. Because that's all Samsung and Sony and Sharp have been willing to improve for the last half a century. As soon as someone comes along and changes what TVs are "ultimately about," it's going to be a bloodbath. Will it be Apple? I don't know. But it sure as hell doesn't look like it's going to be Samsung.
source: techcrunch.com
14 Feb 2012
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