How Samsung can get its mobile groove back

Only two years ago, it seemed like the juggernaut that was Samsung's mobile division was nearly unstoppable; there was even talk of the Seoul-based company getting so big that its domination of Android market share was causing nervousness throughout the halls of the Googleplex. With enough market power, the story went, Samsung would be able to extract concessions from Google such as a cut of revenues from ads served on its devices.

The implicit threat there is, of course, that Samsung had become so popular that it could dump Android for another platform — like home-grown Tizen — if Google was not willing to play ball. But two years later, the landscape has shifted rather dramatically. From the top to the bottom of its considerable smartphone lineup, Samsung has seen a withering of interest from consumers. Read more...

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