Competition is always good no matter how lopsided it really is. Keep hating Samsung all you want, and see what hqppens to Apple if it has no competition. You should in fact root for Samsung to continue to churn out good products if you really want cutting-edge Apple products.
It’s funny, actually. Android was supposed to power a wide variety of smartphones and tablets, each with its own defining traits and features and design. Instead, there is really no tablet market to speak of, only the ipad market. Just as there is no smartwatch market, only an Apple Watch market (the most recent oppo smartwatch has launched to very scathing reviews by Gizmodo). The US market is now a Samsung / Apple duopoly. Apple has over 1 billion active iPhones, with a well-established moat of an ecosystem that is more than capable of fending off any incursion on its users.
How the tables have turned indeed. And honestly, I don’t really see Samsung as being meaningful competition for Apple. But Samsung’s presence in the US market is convenient to help fend off accusations that the iphone is becoming a monopoly in the market (it is, just that nobody will ever be able to prove it).
Personally, I don’t have a problem with competition, however lopsided or insignificant.
My bugbear has always been the propagation of the narrative that Apple was somehow always just one step away of imploding. To me, it showed lazy journalism, where writers were more interested in writing clickbait headlines to draw in the views, rather than make a genuine attempt at trying to understand what makes Apple uniquely position to thrive in the many markets that they do.
That’s what annoyed me. Not that they were critical of Apple, but that they were dead wrong. And more often than not, people were all too willing to believe the worst of Apple even when faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I just don’t understand it. But I am for one glad that today, that madness seems to have died down significantly. Not least because Apple has gone on to defy conventional wisdom and prosper to become one of the largest companies in the world.
But sadly, Apple remains a popular company to hate. Now that it’s clear to even the blindest of fools that Apple isn’t going anywhere, the narrative has shifted from “Apple is doomed” to “Apple has too much power and needs to be reigned in”. People now think Apple is one regulation away from being pushed off its pedestal. As if the App Store is going to be broken up just because someone wills it so.
Oh well. Another day, another day that Apple lives on to prove the haters wrong.
