1. About the thinnest phone...ya the razr is more thin by 0.5m, but thin none the less il give you that. How is that working out for it though? Still a slip by Apple.
2. About S3 being quad core, first of all just increasing the number of cores doesnt give a better phone. The software that actually will utilise quad core is around two years in the waiting plus dual core gives better performance over LTE n the battery and the way iOS handles multitasking gives dual core an advantage over quad for any day in smartphones. if you dont believe me here is a discussion on an android forum :http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii/177121-dual-core-vs-quad-core.html or here :
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57410518-94/7-myths-about-quad-core-phones-smartphones-unlocked/
So stuffing tech u actually don't need or want doesnt make a better phone.
3. iPhone has dual band wifi...it transmits and receives at both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz for 802.11n the latest wifi standard n which is the most popular wifi standard around. So there goes that.
4. And now comes the removable battery issue. Oh havent I heard so many galaxy users harping about this. The fact, I don't know a single person, not one, either having an iPhone, a S3, a cheap 1000 bucks nokia phone, or any phone for that matter who changes the battery when it gets drained or carries a spare one wid himself/herself. What people do? They plug the phone in for charging. Maybe S3 needs a removable battery cz it hangs so much and needs a reset. I dont know. Just postulating. Again a clear example of Samsung overstuffing the phone with useless features.
5. LTE is not a patented tech of Samsung n HTC. Apple also has around 440 something LTE patents. HTC n Samsung have more. The dispute is over how the tech is implemented. 8 patents were in question. 6 have been invalidated and 2 are left. And if someone thinks that anyone can get an injunction on Apple in US over this, they must believe in pixies, fairies n everything. Either these patents will get inducted in FRAND group or the worst that will happen is that these will become standard essential patents and there will be licensing fee involved. Which is a standard for the industry so no harm done.
6. I have to talk bout design. Well on second thought there is no need to talk about design. Apple puts in more thought in the design of their headphones than samsung could in designing a phone.
7. Talking about what people want. The S3 beat iPhone in sales. WHEN? In August 2012. Ya just August 2012. And I am talking about the time since iPhone has been launched. And what makes it even funnier is that S3 was competing against an year old iPhone 4S. And what makes it just downright hilarious is the fact that due to the anticipation for iPhone 5 to be launched next month sales were obviously going to go down (They were still second). So well done S3 i guess.
The thing is that there are two types of development. Sustainable and disruptive development. There is a big first mover advantage in the disruptive development and none in sustainable development. (ref. Innovator's Dillema by Christensen.....P.s. : He was not an Apple fanboy. The book was written in 1997 and mentions Apple just two times. based on the disk drive, the hydraulic pump, etc industries. This is something I just inferred.)What iPhone did in 2007 was disruptive development. No one can argue that it changed the mobile industry and began the smartphone race. What we are seeing since then has been sustainable development. There are incremental updates but the basic concept of smartphone remains the same. Samsung and others keeps stuffing its phone with tech which is not required really n Apple perfects and introduces the tech when there is actually a requirement. Samsung may gain for a month or two. But can hardly dent Apple. And iPhone does account for $74.3 billion in revenue alone. People cant be that wrong. So incase Samsung or anyone else can introduce something that is radically different from how we envision smartphones and top of that make it popular nothing is going to change. Apple will dominate the market.