Farhad Manjoo: I was wrong about Samsung
Farhad Manjoo offered a mea culpa of sorts today on behalf of himself and his fellow “smart-ass tech journo colleagues.” The entire lot of gadget reviewers badly missed the mark when they slammed the newly launched 5.3″ Galaxy Note “phablet” following last year’s product launch. The device franchise that most called “ridiculously sized,” “useless,” and “poorly designed,” has now sold more than 10 million units in 2012 alone. So yeah. They were wrong. Manjoo points to Samsung’s willingness to “try anything,” then “kill the failures and push the successes with great marketing” as the key to its ascent to the top of the consumer electronics business. [Source: Slate]
