Google who? Samsung announces its first developer conference
No longer content to live under Google's shadow, Samsung has announced its first-ever developer conference, to take place in San Francisco in October.
It's no secret that Samsung has been the leading supplier of Android devices for some time now – by a wide margin. According to one study, fully 94.7 per cent of all profits in the Android device market went to the South Korean firm in the first quarter of 2013.
Yet so far, the main event for Android developers each year has been the Chocolate Factory's Google I/O conference, also held in San Francisco. The event routinely sells out months in advance, with tickets running out mere minutes after online registration begins. Little wonder, given Google's legendary largesse. Each year, I/O attendees receive a bagful of hardware freebies, which in the past have included a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, a Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone, and a Samsung 4G LTE mobile hotspot.
