Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Surprising TRUTH about Samsung – 15 things you did not know.”.
Everyone is talking about Samson right now, with the almost imminent release: the galaxy s 9 and the s9 plus the Samsung. That probably isn’t the company. You thought it was. Let’S get right into it. Amazingly Samsung didn’t start out selling phones, TVs and fridges, but in fact noodles and dried fish. It was actually 20 years after the company was initially founded before I even moved into anything remotely related to Electronics Samsung, the name actually has a hidden meaning behind it.
It’S led to some meaning three and some meanings stars and these three stars in Korean culture are actually references to three different gods in charge of glory. Luck as well as longevity and these stars were present in every single Samsung logo up until the very latest one which came to being in about 1993, a hundred Samsung TVs are sold every single minute. That’S nearly two per second, whilst not the first company to ever make a smartphone Samsung were very serious about the cell phone market and whilst a lot of companies at the time were making PDAs, which were like handheld little computers, Samsung was the first one to combine That, with the cell phone technology, Samsung’s best selling phone ever was actually the e 110, with 150 million units sold to put that into some sort of perspective.
The galaxy s 8 to the S 8 plus and the mote 8 all put together, have so far sold about 40 million. Now, of course, those have been on the market for less time, but as soon as the S 9 and the note 9 come out to those sales will drop off very quickly, so different ballpark. In terms of figures, this one’s pretty crazy Samsung’s revenue makes up 17 % of South Korea’s entire GDP. The Samsung Group employs 489 thousand employees, one of Samsung’s sub companies known as Samsung.
Heavy Industries is actually one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world and okay, to give you some sort of perspective on the scale of this shipbuilding operation. The shipbuilding Center is 400 million square foot, which is about the equivalent of 5,000 football stadiums. Full-Size back-to-back pack, together and perhaps even more surprising and concerning, is that another one of Samsung’s sub companies, known as samsung techwin, initially was actually responsible for the canine thunder, which is an anti infantry tank that can shoot projectiles 40 kilometres and the same company was also Responsible for the SGR a1, which was a robot that is programmed to not only target but also automatically shoot targets, 3.2 kilometers away.
We’Ve all heard about the samsung galaxy note, 7 and generally speaking, not for the right reasons due to a problem with the battery casings. These fans started overheating and exploding, but the magnitude of this husband’s somewhat underestimated, as it turns out Samsung actually recalled 2.5 million Samsung Galaxy Note sevens. This must have cost them aid a lot of money. Okay, you might have heard of Apple’s new spaceship campus this gigantic circular, building erected in Silicon Valley and that Steve Jobs claimed has room for about 12,000 employees. Well, it turns out.
Samsung actually has something very similar. Their headquarters in South Korea is actually known as digital city and every single day, 35,000 people turn up to work. There. Samsung is the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world in terms of unit sales, and they actually overtook Nokia in 2012 to take the top spot.
Okay, this is pretty interesting: the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, who was it built by okay according to the Forbes list of most valuable brands in the world, whereas Apple, Google and Microsoft during first second and third place samsung is in 10th all right, Guys, if you did enjoyed this video, I’ve got another pretty cool one about the coolest limited edition smartphones of all time, so I’ll leave that as a card above and also let me know what you think, we’re trying new things on this channel and not everything is Gon na work, so with your guys feedback, we can really make something great here. So once again, thanks a lot for watching my name is Aaron. This is mr.
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