Samsung needs to break away from legacy hardware culture to reverse smartphone business fortune

Samsung needs to break away from legacy hardware culture to reverse smartphone business fortune

A man walks at the Samsung Electronics' headquarters in Seoul January 7, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Efforts to revive its once stellar smartphone fortunes may be doomed if Samsung Electronics cannot overcome its dominant engineering culture, according to serving and former executives and those who have dealt with the company.

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