Know Your Competition: Samsung's Chief Strategy Officer uses Apple products at home

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The Man Looking to Turn Samsung into a Silicon Valley Trendsetter

Wait, you are still using Apple products?

At work I?m using Samsung devices; Apple at home, mainly because all of my systems and files are done that way. That?s sticky, you know? However, I did figure out how to sync all of my contacts and all of my schedules between the two different systems. You can do it. It?s a bit of work, but it is possible.

 

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Samsung exec admits Apple's products have better ecosystem, uses them at home

Emphasizing how many of consumers? devices, including TVs and displays, are made by Samsung, he criticizes his company?s experiences for being "device-centric," unlike Apple devices, which he praises for services like iCloud. To help close the perceived gap, Samsung is hoping to pick up mobile ecosystem technologies and other pieces of the puzzle in Silicon Valley, where Sohn heads up a 2,000 person staff at the company's two new R&D buildings and ex-Aoler David Eun runs a startup accelerator.