FreedomEclipseIf samsung stopped hiring a massive arena, a few actors and a few hundred staff to run catering, event marshalls and security every time they release a new phone then im sure they will start making a profit.

Not everyone wants to see that shit. get some PR people to make a video talking about the phone and its features etc etc pay google to get it trending on youtube... you'd save a lot of money on overheads. problem solved.

dial back on the marketing/PR campaigns, spend less money so you can offer the fone up at a more reasonable 'affordable' price otherwise you are almost doomed to fail.

People used to joke about chinese phones but companies like Xiaomi, Oppo and a few others are absolutely destroying the market when it comes to bang for buck.


Pocophone F1 is about $300, and the specs are almost similar to the more expensive samsung S9 which is $800-1000+??? you get so much phone for your money for $300 with the F1.

ssdproReading these comment sections is becoming unbearable. Purposeful agitation, wild conspiracy theory, jealousy, and ignorance fuel more than half of the posts. Look at some of these quotes:

"It's amazing what a nice bit of price fixing and market collusion will do for your financials!"
"Crooked company. "
"android is no good" (in an article about Samsung mind you)
"Memory manufacturing is better than printing money, especially when you control the market prices."
"They cheat customers in every corner of the world out of hundreds of Billions of dollars, how can that not be criminal."

All of this from users that can't even imagine the engineering and cost of producing complex memory that continually needs to update and change. It seems to me memory is still wildly cheap considering the tasks it handles. The whole concept of price fixing can;t even apply here. Price fixing needs to involve a valuable item that is a necessity for a small fixed set of consumers. The price can be set so high the consumer in need cannot afford and thus incurs damage. Memory is so wide spread and necessary the market sets the price consumers will pay and maintains the highest profitability possible.

R0H1TPocofone is also cheap because Xiaomi sells millions of SD425~660 phones (most are overpriced IMO) in the $200~400 price bracket. While I agree that SS needs to reduce its prices, their cost of operations is also higher. Not to mention the Chinese have to spend way less & have virtually non existent after sales support.

ZeDestructorSamsung also sells millions of $100-400 android phones, just not in the US, but rather in India and China. This is alsow hy Samsung is losing marketshare: when things like the pocophone, zenfone 5, or even the increasingly expensive oneplus cost half or less than half when their flagships cost, all of a sudden the cachet of buying samsung slowly erodes.

Minus InfinityNo surprise Samsung TV's aren't doing well. They have lost a huge amount of market share since they eschewed OLED and went for QLED instead. People don't want them. Their phones have barely changed in 4 generations, big deal newer SoC, better camera, much higher prices.

stimpy88Bullshit. It costs almost nothing to build memory. It's just capacitors and a few transistors. It is the reason that whenever a new manufacturing node comes on line, the first thing they do to test it, is make a few dense memory chips. It's cheap and easy, and no, it hardly ever changes, that's the reason why it's so simple and cheap. Why don't you take the time to read up on how its made, before trying to spread your ignorance.

You must be living under a rock not hearing about the Chinese government opening an investigation as to collusion between DRAM makers... Or maybe you enjoy paying $160 for some middle of the road DDR memory, I however, remember when it cost nearly a quarter of that, and they were still making big profit then!

Just go back to sleep now, before lashing out at the more informed, more money conscious people here.

R0H1TXiaomi already has multiple assembly plants in India, they also enjoy huge tax breaks. Sammy on the other hand is still importing the vast majority of their products, in India, from China ~ where they've lost huge marketshare thanks to the domestic competition. The landing costs are higher, hence the price. The marketing & "mindshare" of Chinese brands in India is also better wrt Samsung, wrongly so IMO. So while you're right about the top end of Samsung being OTT in terms of price, the mid range from Xiaomi or BBK electronics isn't much better. Though again the latter two have lower cost of operations & enjoy much better margins thanks to local tax breaks & direct/indirect assistance from China.

The point I'm trying to make is that Samsung can be criticized for some of their absurd pricing, not all of it is due to their "greed" & a large part of it goes to their after sales support ~ which in India is way ahead of any of their Chinese rivals.