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Samsung Emerges as a Potent Rival to Apple’s Cool
Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/samsung-emerges-potent-rival-apple-005226714.html
This relates to LQMT Liquidmetal because Apple may be in a position where it needs to really do something different to separate itself from the pack... Samsung, to be specific.
Perhaps NOW is the time for AAPL to use Liquidmetal, a substance Samsung CANNOT copy.
Apple, for the first time in years, is hearing footsteps.
The maker of iPhones, iPads and iPods has never faced a challenger able to make a truly popular and profitable smartphone or tablet — not Dell, not Hewlett-Packard, not Nokia, not BlackBerry — until Samsung Electronics.
The South Korean manufacturer’s Galaxy S III smartphone is the first device to run neck and neck with Apple’s iPhone in sales. Armed with other Galaxy phones and tablets, Samsung has emerged as a potent challenger to Apple, the top consumer electronics maker. The two companies are the only ones turning profits in the highly competitive mobile phone industry, with Apple taking 72 percent of the earnings and Samsung the rest.
Yet these two rivals, who have battled in the marketplace and in the courts worldwide, could not be more different. Samsung Electronics, a major part of South Korea’s expansive Samsung Group, makes computer chips and flat-panel displays as well as a wide range of consumer products including refrigerators, washers and dryers, cameras, vacuum cleaners, PCs, printers and TVs.
Where Apple stakes its success on creating new markets and dominating them, as it did with the iPhone and iPad, Samsung invests heavily in studying existing markets and innovating inside them.
“We get most of our ideas from the market,” said Kim Hyun-suk, an executive vice president at Samsung, in a conversation about the future of mobile devices and television. “The market is a driver, so we don’t intend to drive the market in a certain direction,” he said.
That’s in stark contrast to the philosophy of Apple’s founder Steven P. Jobs, who rejected the notion of relying on market research. He memorably said that consumers don’t know what they want.
Nearly everything at Samsung, from the way it does research to its manufacturing, is unlike Apple. It taunts Apple in its cheeky advertisements while Apple stays above the fray.
And the Korean manufacturer may even be putting some pressure on Apple’s world-class designers. Before Apple released the iPhone 5, which had a larger screen than earlier models, Samsung had already been selling phones with even bigger displays, like the 5.3-inch screen Galaxy Note, a smartphone so wide that gadget blogs call it a phablet.
Samsung outspends Apple on research and development: $10.5 billion, or 5.7 percent of revenue, compared with $3.4 billion, or 2.2 percent. (Samsung Electronics is slightly bigger than Apple in terms of revenue — $183.5 billion compared with $156.5 billion — but Apple is larger in terms of stock market value.)
Samsung has 60,000 staff members working in 34 research centers across the globe, including, Russia, Britain, India, Japan, Israel, China and Silicon Valley. It polls consumers and buys third-party research reports, but it also embeds employees in countries to study trends or merely to find inspiration for ideas.
Designers of the Galaxy S III say they drew inspiration from trips to Cambodia and Helsinki, a Salvador Dalí art exhibit and even a balloon ride in an African forest. (It employs 1,000 designers with different backgrounds like psychology, sociology, economy management and engineering.)
“The research process is unimaginable,” said Donghoon Chang, an executive vice president of Samsung who leads the company’s design efforts. “We go through all avenues to make sure we read the trends correctly.” He says that when the company researches markets for any particular product, it is also looking at trends in fashion, automobiles and interior design.
Hangil Song, a Samsung product designer, described a visit to the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore, where he said he was amazed by the views of the sky, the cityscape and the water. He wanted to create an effect where water was overflowing from the screen. As a result, taps and swipes on the Galaxy S III’s phone screen create a unique ripple effect.
The genesis of the wide Galaxy Note phone reflects that same kind of consumer research. From focus groups and surveys, Samsung found that many respondents wanted a device that was good for handwriting, drawing and sharing notes. Asian-language speakers, in particular, found it easier to write characters on a device using a pen than typing. Those insights led to the Note, a smartphone that comes with a digital pen.
In courts, jury members have said some of Samsung’s research appears to comes closer to copying. Apple sued Samsung in Federal District Court last year for patent infringement and won a $1 billion judgment. One of the most explosive pieces of evidence was a detailed report breaking down each hardware and software feature of the iPhone and how each compared to Samsung phone features. Samsung is fighting the decision in court.
Samsung says studying the market helps it build confidence for the wireless carriers that its mobile devices will sell well. That, in turn, persuades the carriers to aggressively sell Samsung phones and tablets. “That’s kind of the secret sauce,” said Kevin Packingham, chief product officer of Samsung. (Samsung also spends heavily on advertising globally. It outspends Apple and Microsoft.)
Daniel Hesse, Sprint’s chief executive, called Samsung a “terrific partner” because of its willingness to work with the carriers on the creation of phones. For carriers, that could be a refreshing alternative to working with Apple, which completely controls the design of its iPhone’s hardware and software. “They work with the carriers, they want to hear from you what you want, they don’t tell you what it’s going to be. It’s very two-way,” Mr. Hesse said.
Samsung differs in one other important way. It remains a manufacturer, while Apple contracts out the assembly of its devices. Horace H. Dediu, a mobile industry analyst at Asymco, said that historically, it built its business around producing and selling components to other manufacturers, including Apple, Sony and Hewlett-Packard. While Samsung had been making and selling consumer electronics in Korea and developing markets for decades, these relationships taught it a lot about competing with — and beating — the biggest names in the industry. .
By working with so many companies, it gets insight into how to plan investments for successful products. And it can use the same resources to build its own products, Mr. Dediu said. This is why Samsung has long had a reputation of being a “fast follower.”
Apple has been one of Samsung’s largest customers. Samsung’s flash memory processors, graphic chips, solid-state drives and display parts have appeared in Apple’s iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices and MacBooks. But for some of its latest mobile products, Apple has been seeking other vendors like Toshiba, Elpida and Sharp to use their components instead.
Having worked closely with Apple and other companies for years, Samsung, which dedicated $21 billion last year — almost twice as much as Apple — for capital expenditures, can easily get a sense of how to plan production and distribution of a successful phone, Mr. Dediu said.
The next battle between Apple and Samsung is expected to be in TVs and wearable computers. Despite being labeled a fast follower, Samsung doesn’t appear to be waiting for Apple to make the first move in smarter TVs. Samsung is offering a box that people can buy to upgrade the speed and software of their Samsung TV, similar to the way they would get software upgrades for their phones.
This year, most of the televisions it is selling are Internet-connected and can run apps that help customers find what to watch. That’s something similar to what Apple watchers have been predicting for years from the Cupertino, Calif., company.
Mr. Dediu said that Samsung had made no serious investment in the “cloud,” where content is stored on remote servers and pulled from people’s devices over the Internet. The cloud could play a more crucial role as mobile products shift away from big screens toward wearable devices, like glasses and wrist devices, he said.
But then, the one thing Samsung may have trouble learning is how exactly Apple is going to swerve next.
That's Funny, True, But Still Funny!!
Today feels like a "Green" day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait for this ticker to open!!
If we are flat or green at 3:45pm today, I'm doubling up!
GLTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This One Really Sums It ALL Up...
24. Our executive officers, directors and insiders and entities affiliated with them hold a significant percentage of our common stock, and these shareholders may take actions that may be adverse to your interests.
As of July 2, 2012, our executive officers, directors and insiders and entities affiliated with them will, in the aggregate, beneficially own approximately 41% of our common stock and 63% of our preferred stock. As a result, these shareholders, acting together, will be able to significantly influence all matters requiring shareholder approval…
She's a Runner!!!!!!!!!!!
I took a small position in this ticker on Friday as the momo is definitely here!
Provided we run flat or go up Monday, I'll double up.
Good luck to the longs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will We Close In The 7's By Friday?
I've been following the board as much as ever but only checking into the "current" stock price once or twice a day.
This is as bad/boring as I've ever seen LQMT trade.
After selling off 150,000 shares between .25 down to .16, I decided to keep 50,000 shares "forever"... "just in case"... but I'm starting to question that decision as well.
Not in a paniced way, just in a financial way.
$4,000 is $4,000, a lot of money to many of us.
Perhaps I'll sell 25,000 shares and take a nice $2,000, 4 day vacation with my wife somewhere warm before the spring weather is upon us (gawd, I'm sounding like... geeeeez).
Liquidmetal has me hooked for sure, but as this ticker continues to trade down, I must weigh my "need to be right" against the reality that this is a total speculative long shot stock.
Good luck to the longs, I'll post my sell if I decide to go that route.
RareR... Check Your Email
Rarelyright... PM me your email address
RR... Just saw your PM but can't respond via PM or type the answer in this thread
RF... Almost at the nickel store, lol... next stop $2.00 (after R/S of course)!
We could see ~.06 when dilution comes around
I am getting ready to buy below 9 cents. How low will we go???
A Distint Possibility!!!
Defense Spending Going To Take A Hit
Just watching CNBC while the story was on a few minutes ago.
The KEP is a possible "sleeper" that could wake the LQMT sleeping giant within, but with a military spending cut is not good news with respect to that piece of the Liquidmetal puzzle.
Side note: PDP, good to read you're back into LQMT long!
When/If Commercialization Happens...
My belief is that when/if commercialization happens, LQMT Liquidmetal with have an iron in the fire (hopefully a Liquidmetal iron).
Until then, the dilution DOES indeed matter!
Right now, LQMT is trading on anything/everything other than actual fundamentals but at some point when there is revenue and profit and there are investors here versus traders, people will start slicing and dicing the numbers to establish what this ticker is worth per share.
It will matter that there are a half a billion shares out!
Watts... Happy Belated New Year My Friend
Watts, I'm very glad you're doing better, getting healthier and back home where you belong.
Wishing you a very good 2013!!!
Great Call GoLong22!!!
Accummulation is massive in this area and will continue
Great Link JPaige!
Hopefully LQMT will be a big part of the commercialization of BMGs!
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmat/2013/517904/
A net-shaped cast of a watch case directly out of the mold with no finishing or polishing. Hardware courtesy of Liquidmetal Technologies.
Agreed... Apple Rumors are Perpetual
I also scanned the article and did not see Liquidmetal mentioned.
With Apple launching several new or improved products every year, we as LQMT share holders will always have Apple rumors to keep us going.
5 New Apple Products (Including iPhone 5S)
New article out today:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-new-apple-products-coming-this-year-214932111.html?.tsrc=lgwn2012-08-06.html?us_sport_codes=beach_volleyball
Not even a rumor of Liquidmetal in this article...
Munster and Clinton believe a new iPhone 5S will come out in September, although some reports have pegged a launch date as early as June. The iPhone 5 was a September release; so was the iPhone 4S in 2011. Regardless of the date, users can expect an updated camera (as usual) and better battery life. The 5S will look the same as the iPhone 5 -- same screen size, same width -- but the new stuff will all be inside. Apple sold over 5 million iPhone 5 devices in the phone's first weekend in September.
Agreed!
Regarding Oracle...
Anyone know what happened to Oracle? All posts have been deleted. Didn't know you could do that.
Good/Fair Answer PDP
I was also wondering about the lock up period, 5 years is what was so exciting in the beginning.
Are all his ~100MM shares locked up or just a portion?
Can Visser give away/pay/bonus etc other people/entities with the shares so long as he doesn't sell them on the open market?
A Question About The Visser 1MM Share Transfer
Soooo... IF Visser "paid/bonused" one of his employees with shares and reported it as necessary, probably not a big deal.
BUT, if Visser (and all the others involved with these share transfers, etc) is doing the same type of share manipulation as other executives and this is the first step, could be a slippery slope.
What stinks for us regular common shareholders is the way these big wigs toss millions of shares around like parade beads.
A million here, a million there, a couple million over there, etc, etc but we hold out 50k, 100k, 250k or whatever on "hope".
What I'm questioning is if Visser starts "paying" people with shares, and LQMT continues "paying" people/entities with shares, and LQMT keeps bonusing/rewarding employees with shares and the board keeps trying to issue shares in 100MM blocks fairly frequently, when/IF Liquidmetal actually hits a deal, will we be so darn diluted that it won't pump up our LQMT stock price?
LQMT Liquidmetal filed "Form 4" today...
http://proxy.liquidmetal.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=130649&p=irol-sec
If History Repeats Itself...
We will sell off to between ~.065 & ~.08 at the open this morning.
I was long LQMT the last time we diluted and at the time we were trading at ~.30 in anticipation of a possible Apple iPhone with a Liquidmetal case.
We sold down to ~.25 and quickly bounced back to ~.275
The difference back then was there were new investors coming in on the Apple hype and a lot of people (myself included) that were already long (and resolved to hold) and still drinking the Liquidmetal Koolaid in anticipation of the iPhone release.
This time there's really no catalyst other than hope to hold the LQMT stock price up.
The Swatch deal isn't going to generate any measurable revenue and the Golf Club deal is just a story at this point in time.
Good luck to the "Stubborn Longs" today; if we break through .07 on the way down this morning, it may be a buying opportunity... IMO.
Where do you think the sell off will end tomorrow?
Buying Opportunity in the Morning!!!!!!!!!!!!
We will open at ~.075 mathmatetically speaking, then sell off on emotions into the ~.06s
Combine that with the tax loss selling that has been going on this month and we have the perfect opportunity to either average down, or take a new position (for those following but waiting to buy in).
Then an increase back to ~.10 as the tax sellers and dumpers for other reasons come back on board!
LOAD THE BOAT TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Visser Owns ~100,000,000 Shares... Hmmm
Visser owns almost 100MM shares through two entities, VPC & Furniture Row
VPC.. 45,000,000
FR.....52,870,307
I wonder how he feels about the dilution, and how he'll vote?!
Mathmatically, it will cost him ~$2-$2.5MM Dollars do to the share price decrease!!!
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=130649&p=irol-SECText&TEXT=aHR0cDovL2FwaS50ZW5rd2l6YXJkLmNvbS9maWxpbmcueG1sP2lwYWdlPTg2Mjc5NTAmRFNFUT0xJlNFUT05JlNRREVTQz1TRUNUSU9OX1BBR0UmZXhwPQ%3d%3d
F@#% Me... DILUTION IMMINENT, Link Attached from LQMT
LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
TO BE HELD ON [•], 2012
To the Stockholders of Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc.:
You are cordially invited to a attend special meeting of stockholders of Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”), which will be held on [•], 2012 at the Company’s corporate headquarters, located at 30452 Esperanza, Rancho Santa Margarita, California 92688, at [•] local time, and any adjournments or postponements thereof for the following purpose:
To approve an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share, that the Company is authorized to issue from 400,000,000 shares to 500,000,000 shares
Link:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=130649&p=irol-SECText&TEXT=aHR0cDovL2FwaS50ZW5rd2l6YXJkLmNvbS9maWxpbmcueG1sP2lwYWdlPTg2Mjc5NTAmRFNFUT0wJlNFUT0wJlNRREVTQz1TRUNUSU9OX0VOVElSRSZzdWJzaWQ9NTc%3d
LQMT, A Stock So Nice...
They named it twice.
Thanks for the link!
http://www.activepennystock.com/trend-analysis-of-bearish-penny-stocks-dewm-cwrl-lqmt-lqmt/
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to the Board
Wishing all of you celebrating Christmas today a very joyous day with your friends and family, wishing everyone not celebrating Christmas today a relaxing day away from the market!
I Hope Liquidmetal "Goes to the Moon"... Literally!!
A militaty contract would leave our heads spinning, and pop the LQMT stock price like a champagne cork!
Liquidmetal seems to be "in the news" a lot more frequently lately, a real deal with substance while more and more eyes are on this ticker will be exciting.
Since the Liolios decicion, it appears LQMT is getting more exposure (which was the point); the exposure is not the "Big Announcement" we all are waiting for but it's positive exposure and another step in the right direction of our little Liquidmetal Corporation!
My Puppy "Wiggle Giggle" is doing well... lol
lqmt Jimmy jimmmy jimmmy.....you riding the donkey into the desert.....hows your little pup wiggle giggle doing......hope its not stinking like the big dog is..wee....rareF....imo...imo
I thought we were in the eyeglasses market at one point, someone please verify or squash this.
Good Call on the Diagram...
That diagram Slide 21 from the link you provided here is as close as LQMT is going to "commit" to us common shareholders.
It's a good diagram to bring in new investors, but an insult to the long time Long shareholders.
Pathetic.
Thank you for the link!
Rare Find... You're my favorite poster!!!
Seriously!
I now call mt puppy (amongst other things) Wiggle Giggle... No Sheet bro!
LQMT sucks right now and will probably drop some more, 5-7 cents bottom, hopefully not less lol.
I totally am ready for more dilution, I don't understand your call for a reverse split at this point though, please elaborate on the R/S as I don't understand why/how LQMT management would benefit from it at this juncture.
Haha Snidely :)
It's all relative bro; I learned a lot from being a delousional LQMT shareholder.
LQMT Profit Taking... Agreed
Just remember to take profits at some point. Something I have failed to do with this stock for 8 years.
Tax Loss Selling Season In LQMT Is Good
I know you didn't ask and I am certainly not a professional stock broker, but I see no reason to buy additional shares in LQMT at this point in time. The stock shows no strength, the company has not demonstrated any ability to make things happen, and we are currently in the heart of tax loss selling season between now and December 31st. I would only recommend that you think through your decision very thoroughly and make sure you have a reason to buy other than hope. I sure don't see it.
I'm Going To Begin Adding To My Position
LQMT appears to be heading under a dime, maybe even today by the close as every transaction seems to be a sell/at the bid.
My plan is to add 5,000 shares twice per month, regardless of the daily price fluctuations. I get paid every other week and have a portion direct deposited into my Scottrade account so will buy LQMT as the funds clear.
I do not believe that LQMT Liquidmetal will go to zero or BK and I am not going to try to time a larger purchase.
Good luck to the Longs.
What does Level 2 Look Like Below .107
Level 1 LQMT has currently 94,500 on the bid which can easily be wiped out with one $10,000 sale, is there a cliff on the other side of .107 or support on the way to a dime?
Thank you.