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I'm going to suggest why Apple are successful at phones: 1) Timing/Being First (remeber before apple when everything had a hardware keyboard?) 2) Branding and

I'm going to suggest why Apple are successful at phones: 1) Timing/Being First (remeber before apple when everything had a hardware keyboard?) 2) Branding and Advertising 3) Product Hardware (features are all just right - camera, battery, performance, screen etc.) 4) iOS + App Store (no-one wants to change their apps) 5) New features first (consistently first with new features - iphone, retina, gorilla glass, siri, touch id) 6) Android + whatever seems inferior (and largely is) 7) They charge lots more money 8) They have fewer products and so can drive down the cost of manufacturing. 9) They are run by smarter people not marketing departments. 10) They do all of the above TOGETHER and all of the above support each other. If they start missing one the others start to be less desirable/possible too.

JustSomeNobody 11y ago
1) No. 2) Yes. 3) Battery life is not "just right" Ask ... anyone. ... this is boring... 9) Wait, what? Did you really just say that?
- andy_ppp 11y ago
  Battery life is just right to mean you'll upgrade. If Samsung had Tim Cooke in charge they would produce much better phones. Not even slightly contovertial IMO. You left out point 10 which was the whole point of the comment. Glad you liked it ;-)
- omikun 11y ago
  1) Who else had 60fps smooth UI on a phone/tablet before Apple? 9) Marketing drives gimmicky features and empty specs - Samsung's hover touch and gaze detect that is off by default because using them is a pain, 4 slow cores instead of 2 fast ones, OS defaults that favor energy burning features (location services, true multi-tasking), screens with higher res that are indistinguishable to retina screens but with worse color profile. Some companies have fixed some of those pain points with their recent models, but it's too little too late for the existing consumer base who buys flagship products.
  - JustSomeNobody 11y ago
    1) What are you on about? Who said anything about 60fps UI? OP mentioned physical keyboards. That was what my comment was directed towards. There were touchscreen only phones before iPhone that didn't have physical keyboards. 60 fps... That's like jumping in and saying, who had true HD phones first? We could spend all day telling each other who had what before who.

JustSomeNobody 11y ago

1) No. 2) Yes. 3) Battery life is not "just right" Ask ... anyone. ... this is boring... 9) Wait, what? Did you really just say that?

andy_ppp 11y ago
Battery life is just right to mean you'll upgrade. If Samsung had Tim Cooke in charge they would produce much better phones. Not even slightly contovertial IMO. You left out point 10 which was the whole point of the comment. Glad you liked it ;-)
omikun 11y ago
1) Who else had 60fps smooth UI on a phone/tablet before Apple? 9) Marketing drives gimmicky features and empty specs - Samsung's hover touch and gaze detect that is off by default because using them is a pain, 4 slow cores instead of 2 fast ones, OS defaults that favor energy burning features (location services, true multi-tasking), screens with higher res that are indistinguishable to retina screens but with worse color profile. Some companies have fixed some of those pain points with their recent models, but it's too little too late for the existing consumer base who buys flagship products.
- JustSomeNobody 11y ago
  1) What are you on about? Who said anything about 60fps UI? OP mentioned physical keyboards. That was what my comment was directed towards. There were touchscreen only phones before iPhone that didn't have physical keyboards. 60 fps... That's like jumping in and saying, who had true HD phones first? We could spend all day telling each other who had what before who.