Leave it out BettyB
, you can't get away with hand-picking what phone models compete in what market segments to suit your arguments -
Samsung and all the other phone producers probably have hundreds of low to medium end models (Kia's
), that is the market Apple tries to tap into with the (Golf) 5c while still staying at a premium price in that part of the market, the number of sold phones will show if they hit a sweet spot and costumer satisfaction.
The Galaxy 4S, HTC and Sony phones you keep mentioning, is those company's quite good attempts at making a high end phone (Bentley) to compete with Apples (Rolls-Royce) top end phones now the 5s.
It has taken them years to
copy and catch up with the whole concept of Apples smooth OS and hardware system (a statement all experts agree with, but not internet tossers android bots and hacktivists) and now they have with the aid from Googles rent an engine (Android), they now produce a few high end real good phones, and good on them.
But Apple remains the innovative design and quality benchmark everyone tries to follow and beat....... fact.
We will have to wait and see, if Steve Job's obsession with both inner (not seen) aesthetics and quality (like Cartier watches for-instance
) as-well as the same for the wrapping of Apple products will survive, after the products who has been years in the pipeline, and that he was part of developing ends.
But no matter, Appels innovations have been good for the market and ultimately for us the end-users.