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Samsung wants to attack the U.S. laptop computer market

by on16 October 2008

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Fighting the mob


South Korean
Samsung is bravely going into the overcrowded and falling U.S. laptop market.

Apparently, the plan is to return to the U.S. laptop market with low-priced "netbooks" as well as thin, powerful models aimed at Apple's elite MacBook Air.

Samsung said it has a deal with a yet-to-be-disclosed U.S. retail chain. Samsung already sells its laptops in other countries, but wants to make inroads into the U.S. market representing 27 percent of the world's laptop computer sales.

What is funny about this story is that the various tech media outlets used it as a chance to advertise Apple’s new launch of its laptops.  They breathlessly pointed out that Samsung will be competing with these new Apple machines.  Clearly, if Samsung is bringing in netbooks it will not be in competition with Apple at all, as the Jobs Mob doesn’t make netbooks.  However, it must be jolly nice for Apple to have such friends in the media that will plug its goods for it.

Samsung will be competing with Dell, Asus and HP, who all have netbooks out there and the competition is going to get tough.  But it will not have to worry about Apple at all.

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Last modified on 17 October 2008
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