The fact that Apple has had and continues to have failed products does not mean they do not have (primarily since Jobs' return in 1997) a tremendous focus and simplification of their product lines. I mean, he**, one of the FIRST things the man did was to eliminate the dozens of Mac skus being sold and to simplify the Mac lines into two - desktop and laptop, and 3 levels - good, better, best. This philosophy, strategy, whatever you want to call it, has served them well for 14+ years.
Samsung is now making some of the same mistakes Apple sans Jobs did - clutter up the lines, confusing the average consumer with "choices" that just cost developmental resources, manpower, supply chain, labor dollars, the whole manufacturing ball of wax - instead of honing and fine-tuning the few products that have caught the publics' eye in a major way, and profiting more in the process.
Apple is at its best and truest to itself when it is making those few things that they can make extremely well and profitably. Their R&D labs are full of products that will never see the light of day - rightfully so - because they don't make sense for this or that reason. Samsung could learn THAT lesson (not to beta-test products on the public and confuse smartphone buyers with questionable features and crowded product lines).
Does my position make more sense now?
I just don't get the people obsessed with what someone else gets. People wear different size gloves, stands to reason they like different size phones.
