[reaperducer]

Sears had horizontal market where all of it did basically the same thing. Samsung is a huge conglomerate of several completely different vertical with lots of redundant components.

Sears was hardly horizontal. It was also Allstate insurance and Discover credit cards, among other things.

[marcosdumay]

Ok. And if it did divide on the borders of insurance and payment services, the reorganization wouldn't have been complete bullshit and may even have been somewhat successful.