Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet

Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet by astrodust on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @01:08AM (#5742006)

Samsung is focusing on a much smaller number of devices than they used to. Yes, they have more than Apple, but they also spend way more on advertising to make up for it.

Instead of hundreds of phones, they have maybe a dozen now that they actively promote. Right now I can't leave the house without being bombarded by Samsung advertising, they're in some kind of feverish campaign over their new Note phone-tablet-thing.

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Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet by mtgx on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @04:45AM (#5742505)

They are actually turning back to that. The are at least 5 new different variants coming up of their S4 "flagship": S4 regular, S4 Google Edition, S4 Mini, S4 Active, S4 Zoom, S4 Mega.

And that's just for one "phone brand". Imagine if they do this to every other phone brand of theirs, which are already being called all "Galaxy". Samsung strategy is becoming a mess again. It will work in the short term (a year or so), and then backfire badly.

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Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet by nazgulnarsil on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:31AM (#5742639)

Depends. Branding works when you actually manage to maintain quality across a lineup.

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Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet by Blara on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @01:25AM (#5742053)

And TV:s, fridges, computers... They manufacture more than just phones you know.

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Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet by astrodust on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @03:41AM (#5742355)

They don't dominate any market like they do Android phones. Are 90% of all fridges sold made by Samsung?

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