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The iPhone 17 (released in September) is selling extremely well, and Apple sales tend to be concentrated in Q4 due to the new phone (and the holidays, though those should also affect Samsung).
>(and the holidays, though those should also affect Samsung) Doesn't Samsung release their new flagship phones in January/February?
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No services. Or profit margin. Apple is the most profitable company in the smartphone business and, while their "unit sales" or market share accounts for only about 20%, Apple's share of the smartphone industry's profit is about 80+%.
If what you mean by "smartphone business" is neither unit sales nor services, I'd really need you to point at some specific report to understand what we're talking about.
>However, it outperformed a struggling smartphone market in terms of shipment, revenue and operating profit growth, in turn achieving its highest-ever shares of 18%, 48% and 85% in these metrics respectively, in 2022.
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/2022-global-sma...
Almost three year old numbers, but not all that much should have changed since then.
I have a Samsung Galaxy and their build quality is still pretty solid especially compared to the Chinese brands (I'm grateful Samsung didn't copy their ugly camera bumps) but the battery size is mediocre and the software is somehow worse than all the Chinese iOS clones.
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Odd. I've had the Z Fold 5 and now 7 and the last few years' worth of Samsung firmware has been excellent for me. Perhaps they build 'for' their flagships and let devices that perhaps have lower tier chipsets run slowly?
I have the Z Fold 4 (EU) and it performs well to this day. It even got the Android 16 upgrade.
Samsung has nice hardware quality, but no sense of UX, and that goes for their software and hardware.
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Well huawei ban bought samsung sometime, scared PRC brands from expanding into north american market. TBH Samsung was still pretty dominant until PRC brands really turned dial on hardware while Samsung stagnated until they couldn't. The latest round of hardware is pretty good, as in PRC flagship parity worthy. TBH the Koreans are very talented, they don't have the numbers to keep up with PRC speed / product cycles, b…
Sure, I'm actually old enough to remember Huawei's Ascend sold under MetroPCS in the US back in the early 2010's. Leica collaboration with Huawei in 2016 worked wonders and other Chinese smartphone makers definitely stepped up, but, by this time, Samsung's China sales fell off the cliff by ~70+% to a low single-digit market share from its 20% peak in 2013 under Xi's "In China, For China" campaign. Not sure if Huawei…
Before Huawei sanction global shipments went from 100m to 200m in like 4 years (double digit YoY growth) while samsung was declining from 300m in same time period. Everyone saw which way the trend lines was going, especially in HW flagships.
MIC2025 is like for establishing nascent industries, i.e. your batteries example. PRC companies get whitelist/subsidies for a few years then opens to foreign players after CATL becomes incumbant. Samsung mobile doesn't fit MIC2025 pattern since PRC already established phone manufacturing before MIC2025 started, entire low&high spectrum by 2015. It's not some strategic industry being spun up from 0, they already knew everything about phone production from Foxconn. There's no reason to force Samsung out of PRC, domestic phones already got CATLized and was outcompeting Samsung by then. Also it's not like Samsung was formally "kicked out", they left after seeing same writing on the wall. If Samsung got kicked out, like even informally, there'd be transition plan, i.e. get a local player to take over Huizhou company seen in other MIC2025 plays. Factories don't sit idle. Instead Samsung picked up and left and basically Huizhou become ghost towned.
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I switched to IPhone 13 pro 3.5 years ago and I have the completely opposite experience. It doesn’t “just work”. - Swipe typing is so horrible I had to disable it. - Notifications are extremely large and you have less control over what type of notifications you want to receive. - You can’t transfer files by simply connecting your phone to a PC. - Videos played in Safari don’t automatically rotate to landscape mode (n…
> - You can’t set alarm on a certain date. I have some alarms for specific dates, do you mean a single use alarm? > - You can only snooze the alarm for 9 minutes (I think you can configure this in iOS26, but this was unacceptable even 5 years ago) To this day I miss one alarm that LG phones had where it would make me do more work to even dismiss it, on purpose, because I am known to just turn it off and keep sleeping…
> I have some alarms for specific dates, do you mean a single use alarm?
Are you using a third party app, or the built in Clock/Alarm?
The built in clock alarm lets you set alarms for specific days ("Repeat -> Never / Every {Monday..Sunday}"), but doesn't let you set alarms for specific dates (Set my alarm for 6am on Wednesday 10th and Monday 29th)
> > - Hotspot automatically disconnects even with a Macbook (Windows/Linux is much worse). I used to live without home internet relying on hotspot feature. IPhone hotspot proved to be extremely unreliable.
This happens to me frequently when I switched to using my phone hotspot as my primary internet connection for a week. My solution ended up being getting a dedicated AP, and having that connect to my phone instead. A random Netgear running OpenWRT was able to more reliably stay tethered to my Apple iPhone than my Apple Macbook or Apple iPad. It's ironic when inter-vendor works better than intra-vendor.
> > - You can’t transfer files by simply connecting your phone to a PC.
> Apple has always been all about being on Apple, so yeah, though I have gotten my Linux to mount files from the iPhone before, doesn't look pretty at all mind you, but I can take a rough but full snapshot of all my images on my phone..
That's about all I can do with Windows PC, Linux PC, or Mac too. Transfer photos. If I want to transfer arbitrary files by connecting to USB and browsing a filesystem (e.g. everything that Files.app displays in "On my iPhone" view), I can't on any platform.
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Sure, I'm actually old enough to remember Huawei's Ascend sold under MetroPCS in the US back in the early 2010's. Leica collaboration with Huawei in 2016 worked wonders and other Chinese smartphone makers definitely stepped up, but, by this time, Samsung's China sales fell off the cliff by ~70+% to a low single-digit market share from its 20% peak in 2013 under Xi's "In China, For China" campaign. Not sure if Huawei…
Samsung share was dropping in PRC before Xi, i.e. when cheap domestic brands started eating the bottom. Samsung flagship was still popular, i.e. the low single digit highend, then the Note battery recall drama happend and basically THAAD right after and the double whammy basically killed Samsung in PRC. Now do I think Samsung could have recovered and held on like Apple with domestic competition, probably not, samsung…
Also it wasn't just Samsung alone either -- Apple was the next major foreign smartphone seller in China. Apple avoided Samsung's fate after Xi's rise in 2013 and Patrick McGee, a FT reporter, has recently released Apple in China: the Capture of the World's Greatest Company, meticulously detailing how Apple countered Xi's "For China, In China," but, by doubling down on China, Apple is in effect "captured" by Xi. see Chapter 26 "Despot" and on.
I have a Samsung Galaxy and their build quality is still pretty solid especially compared to the Chinese brands (I'm grateful Samsung didn't copy their ugly camera bumps) but the battery size is mediocre and the software is somehow worse than all the Chinese iOS clones.
That's because Samsung's new offerings are trash compared to where we were a few years ago. I have the S24 Ultra and in my opinion it's better than the S25 ultra. The camera, the features, maybe it's better built for AI but I don't want Samsung's garbage AI on my phone. Even the new S-Pen loses features to the old one (one of the main features I used too, the remote shutter). The Object Eraser feature recently update…
> Definitely all around seems like Samsung is on a decline. I probably won't be buying a Samsung next time I need a phone, though I won't be buying Apple either. Same here, used to have a Samsung, moved to Moto G which was the best phone I had so far, currently on a iPhone 12 Mini, and want none of these phones anymore. I just want something that doesn't get in your way, and actually have some well-thought UX, especi…
This is a persistent problem with iOS. Features are added but not really mentioned. The online manual is very focused on "how do I..." without giving a clear overview of "here's everything you can do. New gestures are added without giving an obvious way to reverse them if you accidentally trigger one.