[bsullivan01]

Samsung is one shady company. They get away with murder in South Korea, given that they make up a huge chunk of SK's GDP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee#Samsung_scandal

They do make decent electronics, but I wouldn't trust anything they say.

[belorn]

So the chairman was found guilty of financial wrongdoing and tax evasion.

Tax evasion is indeed serious business, but murder? I guess I would like to see several large business CEO's charged with facilitating murder by tax evasion. Would make for some interesting times, and likely tax cuts for the general public.

[ceejayoz]

To "get away with murder" is a very common way of saying someone is successfully avoiding the consequences of their actions.

[NatW]

Concerning that Samsung operates like this even though they are the dominant market leader - with a plurality of the market share for mobile devices, 30.4% of the global market Q2, 2013 [1]. 1 http://bgr.com/2013/07/26/smartphone-market-share-q2-2013-sa...

[snogglethorpe]

I think Samsung recognizes that their position as a "dominant market leader" is due more to luck than anything else, and that their products really aren't very different from those of their main competitors.

They have good reason to be nervous, maybe even more so than their competitors: Samsung gains a lot from the public perception that they're "in the lead", and thus have more to lose should that perception change...

[epo]

Well, their washing machines are OK. Anything computer or phone related is cheap rubbish for those with no money or with low standards.

[rsanders]

I've been an iPhone user since the first one shipped, and just changed to a Galaxy Note 3. It's neither cheap nor rubbish. But I do feel a bit uneasy about supporting them in light of their history of "extreme homage" in design. I'm not at all surprised to hear about them acting shady in this way.