Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "I was wrong about Samsung" video.
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Here's the sad thing about all of this, and why I keep saying what the US really needs is stronger anti-trust laws, though this wouldn't solve Samsung's problems since it's not in the US anyways - Samsung won't be taken down no matter what public opinion does, and this is valid for all other tech giants.
Samsung is far worse than even Louis is saying there. They are a South Korean chaebol with an incredibly dirty and dark history.
For those who don't know, Samsung might be one of the companies that actually aided Imperial Japanese atrocities that happened during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Yeah, you who heard about all this bad blood that exists between South Korea and Japan because of comfort women cases or the atrocities committed during occupation, there are tons of evidence that some of that only happened because there was active cooperation happening there with South Korean chaebols, something that does not come up much because of how much power those chaebols have.
Samsung had two consecutive CEOs arrested (father and son) and put in jail for all sorts of corruption schemes. You have harrowing stories of young employees driven to suicide inside the company because of abuses committed against them. The grasp on power that Samsung has in the country is surreal, I won't be able to explain this in a single comment.
And yet, investigations on such matters are completely shut down by South Korean government because the company is too powerful, it alone controls an absurd portion of the country's economy. Samsung has hands in everything including banking, heavy industries, military complex, health sector... everything there, you name it.
It got to the ridiculous point that the current South Korean president, fearing the economic downturn of the pandemic and general global economy, basically pardoned the current CEO, gave him a get out of jail free card, and told him to get back to the lead of Samsung to recover the company, and thus also the economy.
This is not even bailing out hedge funds, banks and whatnot - it's literally pardoning a CEO that got in jail because of multiple white collar crimes because the country needs the guy to keep working to save the economy. At this point, Samsung's CEO could commit just about any crime imaginable and get away with it.
Can you imagine that? I mean, the situation with big tech in the US is already dire enough, but Samsung basically controls South Korea. Even more now that other chaebols like LG lost ground. That's a company that didn't only monopolize the smartphone, TV or other consumer electronic market - it controls so much of the exports and output of South Korea that it basically controls the government.
Now, with that in mind, you compound a general overlook of the current smartphone and other electronics market, then the scenario becomes even more bleak.
For most nations all around the world, if you try to get away from Samsung and look at the competition, what we're really left with is a bunch of brands and options that are just as bad if not even worse in some factors than Samsung itself.
It's monopoly from South Korea, vs monopoly in the US, vs monopoly in China. You go with this one that is trying to kill independent repair using it as proxy in a war against Apple, or you go with the other brand that has an impossible to enter walled garden with locked down phones, ridiculous prices for everything they do, and horrible costumer service practices, or you go down with these other brands that have spyware, mass private data collection that is sent back directly into the mothership, and are all at the risk of being another victim of a trade war which would make your device useless...
Options are so bad that you just end up going with what is plain more cost effective. People often say that I should go with a Pixel phone, but not only it's impossible to find Pixel phones where I live, Google has zero presence here, which mean I'd have to import via grey market at high mark ups, which no way I'm doing that with a phone that already had a bunch of costumer service and bad design scandals. Not to mention Google is just another big tech I really don't think is any better than the alternatives.
Brands that used to be alternatives are now in the hands of Chinese companies... such as Motorola. Apple and Sony are in the same category of unrealistic prices for the market. OnePlus is Chinese owned and was just recently caught in yet another scandal of collecting and sending private and personal data back to Singapore servers that have connection to the CCP, along with Xiaomi, Realme and other Chinese brands. I bet if Motorola phones were part of the investigation it'd end up in a similar manner, considering it's owned by Lenovo, which is based in mainland China.
There is no escape here. In the end, it seems the only solution is to get whatever phone you can, and root it. We're back to this once again.
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