Comment Premature journalism (Score 1) 348
In the long run, I believe Samsung wins. They are innovating; Apple is not, merely adding a bit of polish and shine here and there with incremental releases.
That said, this is poor journalism. They were comparing a new phone to Apple's 10? month old offering. It's not like people were buying 4S's and were blind-sided by the 5's release: no one in their right mind would buy a 4S when the same sized 5 would be available in a month or so. Not to mention, phones tend to have sales bursts when released, more so with the iPhone (it may be dumb for the fanbois to do it, but have you seen anyone camp out for days to buy a new Galaxy S*?) In other words, I'd say that by last quarter most people who wanted an iPhone 4S had one. You can mention upgrade cycles, but I know at least one carrier allows early upgrades when the iPhone is released if you're anywhere close to being eligible.
I think a fairer comparison would be to compare 1st month of sales of 4S v. S3, or to be more relevant, 5 v. S3. Anyone of the supposedly critical readers that make up Slashdot could see this article really doesn't say anything, even if it says what you want to hear. Sadly though, I believe the typical fanboi or fandroid on hear are so crazed, they're no different than a Belieber or those in the "Team Jacob v. Team Edward" arguments.
Again, I think Samsung is on the right trajectory. However, I think everyone so eager to crown Samsung king right now that they'll spin things in any way to pretend it's happened already.