My apologies if you are one of the three people not yet hooked on Downton Abbey
but there really are striking similarities between the two. DA features
the owners of a large English estate governed by a descendant of
previous owners. Likewise Samsung is ruled by the grandson of the original founder like many other SE Asian companies.
DA and Samsung are both struggling to find a new business model.
In the case of DA they decided to raise pigs! Samsung has lost
significant ground in the the smartphone market in the last year due to
competition from Xiaomi at the low end and Apple at the top. Their focus
at last week's Consumer Electronics extravaganza was not on phones (or
pigs) but all the things they could connect to the Internet - the
Internet of Things. Samsung still sells more smartphones than anyone - they just don't make much money doing it.
Please forgive me - I never imagined I'd be writing my tech column about a soap opera!
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