Well by your own argument that profit is everything apple gave up a lot of potential profit. Image if Apple had in those catch up features. But like I said you measure everything based on profit and measure everything based on that.
You are part of the problem of falling back to saying profit is everything. It is the worship that I have an issue with and I take issue with the profit argument right off the bat.
You have absolutely nothing to base your "imagine if apple had this" statement on. Apple has been selling more than everyone even without those features.
I don't care how much apple makes, I just know that that's all they and every other company cares about. If you're leading every qtr in making money you are not playing catch up.
Trust me Samsung executives are not saying "we've been declining the last two yrs but check out all our features!"