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you know back in the 90s I was a big diehard Sony fan and I guess it was ingrained by my dad loving everything Sony at the time but I couldn't say my dad was right or wrong they've made the Walkman the discman and when I was about 13 the first PlayStation that came out changing the gaming industry not to mention at the time Sony's line of XP our TVs were possibly the most amazing displays that you can see when you walk through Best Buy or Circuit City I was a fanboy at an early age and at that time Samsung to me was almost non-existent as I went off to college in 2000 brand loyalty kind of died and I guess because of growing up and maturing I just wanted what worked well even till today I don't consider myself as a brand fanatic of either Sony or Samsung neither Toyota or Honda in the car world you can say I just know they make good stuff in their own way but what intrigued me the most as I finished reviewing a Samsung tablet the other week I went down to my fridge to get some you know some food or a quick snack and BAM Samsung the logo was right in my face I walked upstairs back to my computer and noticed the monitors I bought years ago before I became a youtuber were pasal Samsung I recently upgraded my hard drives with a samsung solid-state and I bought them based on industry reviews and performance and lastly the holy grail is my TV it's a super slim 8000 series led by Samsung there's no pun intended but you kind of get the picture here so here's my look into Samsung where they came from what they've done and where they may be heading here's Samsung taking over Samsung located in our south of amazing Seoul South Korea an amazing place where new trends are created a leader in consumer electronics in home to hardcore gamers of StarCraft now Samsung like South Korea and anyone alike had humble beginnings Samsung early on was an insurance company and food exporter to nearby country of China but by the 60s Samsung developed Samsung Electronics in start of producing TVs washers and dryers with microwaves shortly in the 70s in 1987 Samsung's founding chairman William chhole Lee passed away after almost 50 years of running and transforming this company his son kun-hee Lee has taken over and ordered a restructure of the business demanding a stronger focus on consumer electronics and to rid the stigma of being that budget brain of things now by the mid 90s Samsung was almost everywhere but really wasn't known as the go-to product although the South Korean giant made some impressive innovations they were more behind the scenes you can say Samsung was the first to develop 64 and 256 megabytes DRAM they also were the first to produce 1 gigabyte of RAM as well beating the likes of micron technologies and all other Ram manufacturers at the time by now Samsung were in computers computer monitors cell phones air conditioning units fridges TVs you name it now with a new direction in quality and innovation samson eventually had won the best partnerships at the time and still possibly today in 2005 samsung agreed to manufacture memory chips for Apple in nearly ten years later they're still doing it today matter of fact Samsung is still a major supplier and manufacturer of the a7 processor currently available in the latest iPhone the 5s also in 2005 brand consulting company Interbrand from New York's Fifth Avenue measured and declared Samsung have surpassed the Sony and it became the twelfth largest and most popular consumer brand in the world and from there it starts to snowball to what we have here today Samsung unveiled their first ever Galaxy S phone in 2010 for me personally I didn't hear much about it since Apple was all over the media with their iPhone and soon to be released their first ever iPad now by the first quarter of 2012 Samsung became the best-selling mobile phone company overtaking global giant Nokia with their Galaxy S line and Galaxy Note phones today with the galaxy s5 you have some very innovative features that I wish were seen on some of the competitors phones as well now the multi-window is available for multitasking apps at the same time the phone although we still expected a higher resolution is the best screen quality / display mate comm which does vigorous testing and provides lab results for display quality the s5 features the latest processor from Qualcomm and additional features like a fast performance camera and although some say it's gimmicky a built-in heart rate monitor now / Gartner research firm which does market analysis on consumer electronics Samsung sold a little under three hundred million smartphones in 2013 making Samsung having thirty-one percent market share it's not bad at all but to put this in perspective Apple's sold nearly 50 percent less at a hundred and fifty-one million units while in third place of smartphone sales was Huawei which sold forty six point six million units samsung no question is in a distant lead now regarding tablets shifting from sales I want to talk about Samsung diversification Samsung isn't the number one leader in tablet sales unless it keeps moving inventory like they are currently the Samsung is clearly trying to diversify their product line the beginning of 2014 Samsung released their Galaxy Tab and note pro series designating the pro for productivity it features the best the best specifications that Samsung has to offer at the moment the Tab pro 8.4 inch features the highest pixels per inch on the market currently available all while the Tab pro series is possibly the thinnest tablet on the market today being actually thinner than the popular iPad air albeit just by 1/100 of an inch now same or similar features from their Galaxy smartphones and make their way here with the multi window for running apps simultaneously in Samsung is also the first to bring out the controversial 12 point 2 inch models as some have praised or dislike the unit for its size while a good handful disliked it for its high price now about the time of the release of this video you might start seeing the galaxy tab for Samsung's follow up to the popular selling and now more budget-friendly segment of tablets what you'll see hits store shelves pretty soon now they do offer lower resolution slower processors and less RAM however Samsung is well aware the industry is changing as an analogy if you look at BMW recently they have saturated every number in their lineup now offering the budget-friendly one series 2 3 and so forth all the way up to the $80,000 7 Series and Mercedes is doing the same thing with making smaller cars that are more affordable but still bearing the Mercedes brand in point in case HTC made an amazing phone last year and it's still an amazing phone this year with its latest model the m8 the HTC as a company has taken a severe hit in profit earnings just recently announced us last month it's largely due to loss of market share in the smartphone industry there's no other phones HTC has that isn't high-end at the same time you can say that's doing well by getting back to tablets here / Gartner research firm again Apple's market share of sales in 2012 was a little over 52% for 2013 now it has dropped to 36% and as were Samsung it was in second place for 2012 with 7.4 percent market share of sales with 2013 more than doubling to 19% with practically every other tablet manufacturer remain largely the same Samsung is no question going in the right direction the third quality I wanted to speak about was its innovation in my eyes as the average consumer sony was making some amazing TVs but when LED TVs came around after plasma Samsung came up with some amazing quality fast forward a bit to about 2009 or 2010 and Samsung began making some of the slimmest TVs and not to mention thin bezels on their flagship models now Samsung was one of the first to push for Smart TVs which we see in more TVs today allowing an user to watch Netflix or Hulu right on their set along with some other internet features now last year's model the f8000 series featured their first ever quad-core processor built-in and also offered hand gestures to navigate again might be gimmicky or my may be useful for some people there it's this type of innovation that at least people are hearing and seeing that makes consumers wanting to purchase a Samsung in general albeit a more budget-friendly model without those features now justice may the 2014 models of LED TVs are just hitting store shelves they might not be the first ones and of course not the only ones producing 4k TVs but they are one of the few producing a curved screen which I personally don't want but again in my opinion it helps with Samsung's marketing but Samsung has been working on flexible displays for several years now the TV panels are still glass but what I'm speaking of is the new flexible plastic it's thinner and lighter than glass and possibly shatterproof and Samsung for sure is working vigorously on this as OLED infocomm mentioned Samsung is currently bottlenecked with its development process the production is too hot for the plastic substrate and causing it to melt a process is not as efficient as the multi-layer sealing process is very slow now each panel takes six times in the evaporation chamber to seal the layers together now this is different from the TVs now offer this year but for phones I think this is a huge plus I don't care too much for curved phones as I really don't see much of a purpose and I don't think it's that much economic we better but just for the fact that the phone will be lighter thinner and shatterproof is enough to get me excited and imagine that technology soon on tablets then monitors and just imagine the possibilities so whichever way you put it Samsung is an 80-ton wrecking ball coming her way and it may be too soon to tell or maybe not if Samsung will surpass other companies whereas Samsung is doing well in so far it sounds so rosy and Samsung seems like the to be admired company but reading forums and people's responses Samsung also has its fair share of not so responsive customer service and bad press now although Samsung's flagship devices are very impressive in their own way but some have questioned their pricing in the tablet industry as being too high more expensive than the premium tablet the iPad and the fact that Samsung's latest phone remains plastic not curved not high of a resolution as expected some people not everybody we're somewhat disappointed and this is not my opinion but these are actual testimonials people feel about Samsung and it was just enough at least to be heard now is it possible for Samsung to become too big where customer service falls to the wayside like Time Warner Cable or will subpar products be put in to save a buck here or there like General Motors did back in the day because they can and because they're just making too much money at the time in the end we can't ignore Samsung has product lines across the board in almost every consumer electronic category and appliance it seems like there may be better products out there maybe cheaper ones but Samsung's dominance marketing involvement and innovation makes it almost hard to not have Samsung takeover so there you have it folks my industry review and Samsung for 2014 I hope you guys enjoyed it I try to be unbiased although I claimed all these Samsung products I owned in the house but I truly never put much effort into buying a quote-unquote Samsung product but I do my research and trying to find the best product for me that is and either fortunately or unfortunately whichever it may be it's always been Samsung and the information this video has been through research and it did take some time to do to put this all together all I can ask if you can please help share this video on your Facebook Twitter or Google Plus pages and of course subscribe to my channel for more content down the road this is Jimmy from Jim's review room take everyone