Apple Watch vs Samsung | From Dust to Dynasty | 1

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1936 in a small town in Korea and a rakish scion of a wealthy family realizes he has to clean up his act by starting a small import export business. By the 1980s, he fast tracks South Korea’s first computer chip factory, and turns hundreds of engineers into fiercely loyal, tirelessly diligent “Samsung Men.” But as Apple’s star rises, Samsung turns to American designers from California to teach its employees innovation and free-wheeling creativity. The result is a 1999 futuristic watch phone – a forerunner to Samsung’s first Galaxy Gear smartwatch.

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0:00.0	It's May 28th, 2014 in San Francisco.
0:10.0	It's May 28th, 2014 in San Francisco. Samsung's VP of digital health, Ram Fish paces the stage of the San Francisco Jazz Center.
0:19.4	He's dressed in Silicon Valley Casual, a dark sweater in khakis. Images depicting sensor technology
0:25.3	and athletes bulging muscles flash on a giant screen behind him. He stops center stage and
0:31.5	begins his pitch.
0:33.0	At Samsung, we believe in bold ideas.
0:35.0	We care deeply about wearables.
0:38.0	And we love sensors.
0:39.0	The Korean Electronics Mega Corporation already has two smart watches on the market,
0:44.8	both little more than glorified step counters.
0:47.8	Fish is here to reveal their latest innovation.
0:50.8	He opens a black box on the podium and takes out a square watch case in one hand and a rubber wristband in the other.
0:58.0	Introducing SimBan, a modular platform for wearable health sensors more advanced than any others on the market.
1:05.4	Anybody interested in a live demo?
1:08.0	Fish puts on the Simband and holds his wrist below an overhead projector. The Simband on his wrist appears on the huge screen.
1:17.0	Fish taps the watch and the digital time display switches to a screen of biometric readings.
1:28.0	Inside this ultra slim watch are some serious smarts. My key health signs are tracked continuously.
1:31.0	What do we mean by continuously?
1:33.0	Look.
1:34.0	Fish swipes from right to left on the watch,
1:37.0	and a new screen shows what appears to be a live ECG display,
1:41.0	like what you'd see in a hospital.
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