Comment by throwaway290

20 hours ago

remind me is Samsung's source subsidies also regularly attacking every country's telecoms and infrastructure

I've heard that Samsung's business practices can be quite predatory. Basically if you have cool tech and you try to sell it to Samsung, you'll often get a few meetings and then they will go silent and then what you were trying to sell them will be offered by them as a new product about a year later. At least this was the situation like a decade ago.

I think this is because they are a huge conglomerate and there are divisions and groups that specialize in everything and their (Samsung) culture is to do everything as much as possible in house.

  • > you'll often get a few meetings and then they will go silent and then what you were trying to sell them will be offered by them as a new product about a year later

    This is how business works anywhere. there are no charities. whatever you say to investors or suppliers they can use so you better be careful have lawyers and set up correctly.

    (The caveat is of course when Chinese companies do this your lawyers can do nothing while in a developed country you can have some recourse)

    But even if Samsung was super predatory business wise it is beside the point. if they both get subsidies and de facto are close to their governments then you have to look at what their governments do. If you like what CCP is doing, it's your choice

    • > “This is how business works anywhere. there are no charities.”

      England and Wales have 171,000 registered charities. The USA has 1.6 million charities.

      Not everyone is a business sociopath.

is CXMT attacking every contry?

  • its owner and boss

    but sure if they are ordered to they will, good point too;)

    • How many countries has China bombed in, say, the last year, and how does that compare to the other superpower (and the washed out has-been superpower) in the room?

      It's difficult to comprehend the gall and hypocrisy requires to kvetch about this when there are four carrier strike groups sitting in the Gulf right now.

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