Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-665531-20130908012700/@comment-32656-20131016074906

No, only one of their divisions is. Samsung is a multi-national conglomerate, with their primary focus being phones, shipbuilding, construction, insurance, advertising, and the defense industry. To call them a consumer electronics company is a misrepresentation.

Their other electronics sections - under the phone division - are, and have always been, sideshows to them. Only the TV one is really all that big, and at least has a basis in them selling cheap TVs in Asia in years past.

Yes, they make a lot of parts for other companies - something that goes out the window if they go into competition with these companies. Severely hurt their bottom line to even think about it.

And, for that matter, given what smartphones are used for and do today, such a move would be in direct competition with themselves.

Makes even less sense than when Nokia tried something similar.