I totally Agree!!!!
NFC (an innovation that Apple fans claim is not an innovation at all because it's not on an iPhone)
Last time I heard NFC payment option was at 8% world wide. Retails are slow to adopt due to added cost to upgrade equipment to enable NFC payments. May not be worth it adding the cost to the phone yet. Probably why Apple decided to wait.
4G Speeds, 2 years before iPhones (i'm sure that's not innovative)
Removeable/Expandable Memory (not innovative duhhh)
4G service was not widely adopted yet and not as many locations.
Changeable battery (actually, not being able to change the battery is the real innovation, albeit a retarded one)
To me improving battery life/capacity, and ability to recharge 1000 times is much more innovative then having to replace batteries.
8-core processors (on the GS4, but it's not out yet, so how could that possibly be innovative!)
Battery suck
Choices (Sammy makes several phones, but who likes choices!?! Crazy people who aren't innovative)
Apple may make one phone, but they certainly perfected that one phone far more then anyone else could.