Samsung shifts strategy from copying Apple to copying the chutzpah of a company that Apple put out of business
Samsung AV product lead Chris Moseley, circa today:
TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How smart they are…great, but let’s face it that’s a secondary consideration. The ultimate is about picture quality and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on picture quality.
Palm CEO Ed Colligan, circa 2006:
Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company — including the wildly popular Apple Computer — could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
Graph has been updated to show that Motorola is now suing Apple (Apple’s #1…most sued) and also because apparently Microsoft and HTC settled their lawsuit. Done updating. The point was to improve upon the original, not constantly keep it up to date.
John Gruber linked to an article earlier today which includes a chart depicting “who’s suing who” in the technology sector. He wasn’t impressed with the design of the chart so I took a stab at recreating it.
Two stabs, now. Here’s my first attempt.
Each circle is sized based on how often they’re being sued. Smallest size is for those who are being sued the least. Interestingly, Kodak isn’t being sued but is going crazy suing other people. Several of the companies aren’t suing anyone at all on the chart, so I went ahead and shaded them in purple.
Here’s another recreation by Design Language News. (Much prettier and cleverer than mine, for sure.)
And another set by Paul Conigliaro. (I like that he showed the data in two ways, but I do think that color coding does that without having to actually make two charts.)
