I would find this more plausible if my Samsung Android devices were a) regularly updated with Android tech as opposed to seemingly lagging the rest of the indu

I would find this more plausible if my Samsung Android devices were a) regularly updated with Android tech as opposed to seemingly lagging the rest of the industry b) supported worth a hill of beans instead of getting a "uhhhh we don't support that in the US market" when asking about AT&T c) a good demonstration of Android capabilities in the first place. Samsung makes decent phones. Nothing spectacular. The GPS in the Galaxy class phones draws endless complaints about bugginess. The builds deployed on AT&T are mediocre. Their Kies desktop software is bloated, slow, and unreliable - it's frequently the case that disconnecting and reconnecting the phone/tablet fails to recognize it (and in turn it doesn't work with a number of US SKUs, thanks to AT&T). Sorry gang. There's the potential there to be great. But it's quite a leap from there to dominance. Nokia has had plenty of potential and in the past a pretty dominant position too, but I think the shellacking they took the last few days here on HN is entirely deserved and demonstrative of "you have to nail all facets of the user experience."