Samsung keeps its impossible promise

It was Game 3 of the 1932 World Series and with two strikes in the top of the fifth inning, New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth slowly lifted his arm and pointed straight ahead at the center field bleachers in Wrigley Field. On the next pitch, Ruth sent a Charlie Root curveball screaming 450 feet to the deepest part of the ballpark and then trotted around the bases with a muted smirk on his face. Samsung (005930) marketing boss Younghee Lee was far less dramatic when she foretold a remarkable shift that would soon take place in the smartphone market, but the end result was the same: Samsung made good on an impossible promise. In January 2012, Lee sat down



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