melbsteve
Well-known member
I just don't feel it's fair to assign the hardware's success solely on the marketing...lots of products over the years have been marketed heavily but were actually complete junk, so they die off quickly...Samsung has some longevity going for it now with the Galaxy brand.
I'm with you on the Galaxy brand, that was a smart decision which has paid off. But again, that falls under marketing doesn't it. And as you said, there has been a lot of junk and yet people flocked to it because as we all know the not so tech savvy people will often pick the phone they have simply been subjected to most often.
Full disclosure, apart from once or twice in a phone shop and the S4 Mini, which my brother used to carry around for work reasons, I have not had much contact with Samsung phones, so I acknowledge that I might not be the best person to make these claims (so tell me if I'm wrong). But when I think of all sorts of reviews, the majority of them were not exactly gushing over the S5, S4, and so on (I exclude the Note series from this). Therefore to me it seems more like Samsung are starting to produce hardware that's worthy of praise just now (S6/S6 Edge), but funnily are in a position that suggests they've been doing it for years. That I attribute to marketing.