{"id":8153,"date":"2013-02-27T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2013-02-27T10:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:54:26","slug":"googles-monster-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/googles-monster-samsung\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Monster: Samsung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022713_1545_GooglesMons1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/is-android-killing-google\/\">the difficulties<\/a> that Android is creating for Google. Amir Efrati writes that now they have something new to contend with: a competitor that they themselves helped create. Samsung.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung has gone onto become the top maker of Android devices.<\/li>\n<li>Google is worried about Samsung&#8217;s success and wants to work with Samsung&#8217;s competitors to ensure that Samsung&#8217;s devices aren&#8217;t as successful.<\/li>\n<li>Google fears that if Samsung&#8217;s domination continues then Samsung will leverage its market dominance to demand better revenue sharing terms with Google.<\/li>\n<li>Google may use Motorola, its own hardware arm, to make devices with advanced software features that it doesn&#8217;t make available to Samsung, in a bid to ensure that Samsung&#8217;s devices fail.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung, for its part, has recognized that Google may try to sabotage its success, and has spread its bets by investing in other systems such as Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Phone platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about what Google executives are thinking, Samsung&#8217;s dominance, and how HTC plays into all this over <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424127887323699704578324220017879796-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwNTEyNDUyWj.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424127887323699704578324220017879796-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwNTEyNDUyWj.html\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2013\/02\/report-google-thinks-it-created-a-monster-in-samsung\/\">ArsTechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the difficulties that Android is creating for Google. Amir Efrati writes that now they have something new to contend with: a competitor that they themselves helped create. Samsung. Samsung has gone onto become the top maker of Android devices. Google is worried about Samsung&#8217;s success and wants to work with Samsung&#8217;s competitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022713_1545_GooglesMons1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}