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Samsungfreude: A funny thing happened on the way to the winning

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Friends. The Macalope has some terrible news. Are you sitting down? It’s... it’s... about Samsung (http://recode.net/2014/10/29/samsung-reports-steep-drop-in-q3-results/).</p>

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South Korean electronics giant Samsung reported a nearly 50 percent drop in third-quarter profit, as its smartphone business lost ground in an intensely competitive global market.</p>

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Whoa! Almost fiddy purcent?! That’s almost half! Well, cheer up, Samsung. The good news is you can keep losing half your profit and still be profitable forever.</p><p>
But, so weird, right? The Macalope distinctly remembers being told (http://www.macworld.com/article/2149001/booga-booga.html) that cheap (http://www.macworld.com/article/2158685/missed-connections.html) phones from firms like Xiaomi and Huawei would affect Apple and only Apple. And yet here we are months later and it turns out it’s Samsung that’s taking the competitive global marketplace wedgie, not Apple. It’s almost as if Apple doesn’t differentiate on price but on something else.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2841801/samsungfreude.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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