If that was true, Apple would have the same problem, as would everyone else.
Apple is on top because it's cool, they haven't had true innovation in the iPhone in a few years.
And please don't tell me that putting a 64-bit processor in is "innovation", it isn't, it's iteration. It's a decades old technology that finally became feasible for the size of a phone.
I think you may be confusing innovation with invention cos that's like saying the the retina display wasn't "true innovation" because the technology finally became feasible to cram more pixels into a given space. Taken further, one could, and many have, argued that the iPhone wasn't true innovation because Apple just took existing technology and wrapped it in a nice hardware/software package, but any reasonable person would tell you that the iPhone was truly a breakthrough, revolutionary device.
It doesn't matter that 64 bit processors have been around. Apple took desktop class technology and brought it to smartphones. That's the very definition of innovation. Just ask all the companies that were taken by surprise, who weren't expecting this to happen for a few more years, and they'll tell you the same. And Apple didn't stop there. They innovated further with a motion co-processor, duo-tone flash that fires off in a thousand different combinations for much more natural looking nighttime pictures and a fingerprint sensor that actually works in a consumer device.
Samsung had its share of innovations too. The problem for them is, most of them were gimmicks and flaky whereas Apple's more thoughtful innovations focus on providing real world benefits for its users.