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Yes, what I'm saying is that there is an implication here that Samsung is winning against the iPhone. In reality they are simply selling handsets at price points Apple is not even competing for.

What an absurd way to frame it...

Companies care about units sold (market share) and profit.

Samsung is winning on units sold, Apple on profit.

Nobody cares about one individual model "winning" over some other, you can't measure that anyway. How many people would have bought an iphone if there was no roughly equivalent $300 samsung available? How many wouldn't have bought a smartphone at all if there was no $300 samsung?




Sure, it is an absurd notion, notice my italics. But that's how people think, they want to know 'which is better'... or argue about it.

>> Nobody cares about one individual model "winning" over some other

The Internet begs to differ.




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