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Re:US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Am... by saiya-jin on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:39AM (#38190920)
That is not true. Nothing Apple does say Samsung cannot repeat, heck these 2 specifically share quite a bit of hardware too, ie screens. In fact top of the line Samsung is more impressive to me, it manages to store whole chargeable pen in the body and is lighter than comparable Apple models.

There are much better sounding headphones/earplugs, ie Sennheiser.

Apple does fine products (and their share of fails), but their secret sauce is a mix of PR, timing, brilliant leadership, and tons of luck with ie that timing to market. Hardware quality is good, but that's true for literally everybody in the field and is definitely not the differentiating factor these days.

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Re:US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Am... by foobarian on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:52AM (#38191154)
This reads like that famous line criticizing the iPod for having worse hardware specs than a competitor.

You need to include vertical integration and design in their secret sauce. Everybody else has been struggling to catch up ever since the iPod came out, and IMO they have not caught up yet.

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