Ben Brooks questions about Apple and Samsung’s design teams were funny.
Why does it take a 1,000 designers to rip-off an Apple design that only took 15-16 people to make?
Ben Brooks questions about Apple and Samsung’s design teams were funny.
Surely no one thinks that’s 1,000 for one product. They are in multiple industries so it isn’t a big deal to have a lot of designers.
1 – For One Product… Apple is only making ONE product?
2 – 1000 Designers vs. 16 that’s a ratio of 62.5 to 1
3 – going to Samsung’s Website, I’ve seen less than 30 categories of products (excluding memory cards, AC adapters, cartridges, etc) Apple Has around 10 categories (3 to 1 ratio)
Let’s just say they cover 3 times more categories, It still take a ratio of ~20 Samsung’s to 1 Apple’s designer to actually not even come out with ORIGINAL design…
Ripping Off BlackBerry and Nokia, Then Apple for Phones, ripping off IBM/Lenovo, HP, Sony, ASUS and Apple for computers, Printers (A mix between HP and Canon for what I’ve seen), Cameras [Still and Video] (Mixing Nikon, Canon and Sony with a touch of Olympus)… as for the rest, I don’t really follow Design trends in Vacuum cleaner Washing Machines, Fridges, Oven…
Japanese Were blamed of Copying Everyones electronics in the 70-80’s by only miniaturizing the original stuff…
Apparently Samsung have even slimmed down the process by not even bothering to improve upon the Original…
Don’t forget that Samsung basically shafted Sony’s TV market.
In Sony’s case, the company actual situation isn’t all Samsung’s fault and I see Where fear for Apple future come from, but even then It’s more complicated…
One one side we Have a Blacksmith making steel blade that are Lighter and Better than the regular Bronze one on the other side we have a forger making wrought iron blades from a mold of those better blades…
The fact is that we don’t really know the details. Why bother with the truth when it’s more fun to mock distortion of it?
I think we can take a pretty good guess about the complexity and inefficiency of Samsung’s management structure, judging by how many commodity items they make within as many categories as they try to compete in.
They’re a company that throws a hundred things at the wall, hoping two or three will stick. They probably need a lot of people to “benchmark their peers,” every hour of the day.