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To: rnsmth who wrote (13806)	12/19/2011 8:57:19 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Apple Promoting the Galaxy Tablet By Rob Enderle TechNewsWorld 12/19/11 5:00 AM PT technewsworld.com Apple has been aggressively going after Samsung's Galaxy tablet. At the heart of this is Steve Jobs' belief that Android was stolen from him and the fact that the Galaxy tablet is damn near a direct knockoff of the iPad. The screwy thing is that if you put a new iPad up against a new Samsung Galaxy tablet, to my eye, the Samsung is more attractive, which reminds me of a story. I went China a few months ago and picked up a knockoff of a Breitling and liked it so much that I tried to buy a real one, only to find that Breitling didn't actually make one that looked as good as the Chinese knockoff. When the cheap knockoffs start looking better than the original, the original vendor has a big problem, and Apple went after Samsung in pretty much every geography. However, that focused a lot of media attention on the Samsung, and apparently about 20 percent of the market concluded the Samsung was better and bought it. Before the Kindle Fire shipped, that made the Galaxy the most successful non-Apple tablet, and it is still the most successful alternative in the iPad form factor. In short, Apple's aggressive defense actually made the Samsung product more successful than it otherwise would have been. Now that was counterintuitive.