Great article, definitely all facts have been stated, and pretty sure that only the #ISheep will dare deny what was written here, and still hate Samsung and even Google for their AI implementation and business strategy. I will wait and see the pricing strategy for the new iPhones as they will need more RAM and really don't think Apple has room to raise the pricing for the non-pro models with the current specs. I will now quote what I believe are key FACTS that set Samsung apart from Apple today:" has been announced now, and based on older iOS releases, it was quite predictable Apple would “pull an Apple” and create separation between iPhone models by making new AI features exclusive to some of them.""This move makes the $800  and $900 , which are Apple’s current flagship phones (!), sort of irrelevant."And let’s not forget people using the  and , which are pretty capable devices even by today’s standards. The decision to make Apple Intelligence exclusive to the latest Pro iPhones could indeed push people using the vanilla version of the iPhone to upgrade to a Pro model.""With Samsung’s promise for 7 years of OS updates and AI for the two-year-old Galaxy S22, we have a major plot twist, where Samsung’s flagship phones might be supported for longer than the iPhone, and get more meaningful, feature-rich updates in the process.""If cheaper/older iPhones “can’t handle all the new AI tricks” iPhone 15 Pro can, why not give them at least the AI features they can handle? Again, not to make this an “iPhone vs Android” story, but Samsung updated the old Galaxy S22 series of phones with 90% of the AI tricks found in the latest Galaxy S24." I could add more but won't, I will pick on the last article, the S22U a 2 1/2-year-old device that was priced at $1100.00 has 90% of the AI features, don't care if you like or dislike Samsung but credit has to be given to whom it deserves. Plus as we saw here on PA how many people criticized Samsung on their AI implementation, and now are OK with Apple's approach. I will quote one last thing that I deeply believe in:"It’s surprising a company that’s being sued by multiple governments, alleged to engage in “monopolistic actions”, seems so comfortable with creating a monopoly within the monopoly - one involving only one iPhone model."

Oh, and have any of these tech bloggers bothered to ask why Samsung's Fold has a deeper crease than panels they provide to other OEMs? I mean, duh: is there a legitimate reason?

Bravo Alan, I've been with T-Mobile pre LTE and watched it grow as John Legere took the CEOs of AT&T and Verizon out to the woodshed. That T-Mobile was cool to be a part of, now it's just the same as the rest. Sievert is a sub par CEO running a company that USED to put others on notice.

Was a Sr Manager in the retail channel and quit in January due to their complete and utter disregard of their employees and customers. 16 years with the Company. Great years up until to the Sprint merger. They killed all operational support in Sept. Put it all on the field which is already overworked. Then started raising quotas to where it was nearly impossible to make a decent check. Then the employees started slamming features and lines on accounts so they could make money. Upper Mgmt turned a blind eye to it. This from a company that prided itself on being customer and employee centric. No longer. They got their merger with Sprint and gave a big Middle Finger to the govt, its customers and the employees. There will be a special place in hell reserved for Mike Sievert and Jon Freier.

I'm also a T-Mobile sales rep under a 3rd party retailer (Not corporate) Making an account just to comment. Very thankful that this is becoming more known 👍 Our district has heavily discouraged upgrading customers as well simply as a way of maintaining metrics. Reps don't see it as being worth their time because commission incentive is only fifty cents per upgrade if you're not getting those extras (plan change, insurance, accessories, watch, etc) I've been with this company for over three years and am currently working out my last two weeks. I've been struggling to pay bills for the past half a year and to be told that we're not watching numbers closely enough is unbelievably disheartening, especially when you're spending 1-2 hours helping a customer just to be paid half a dollar. As someone else stated in the comments, we're really not trying to be rude or mean, we just don't want to get fired for disobeying or throwing off sales numbers.

Useless is maybe an exaggeration, but they are monumentally overpriced. All thanks to the industry's constant antitrust abuses no authority takes seriously. The main offender, as usual, being Apple; locking everybody else out from core necessities while gimping their watch on any other platform. 5-700 bucks for a watch with a tiny display, a few moderately accurate sensors, a cheap processor, a battery, and a few grams of mass-produced metal and sapphire doesn't cost anything near that to make. There is no longevity in the products either, so the "timepiece argument" goes out the window with the industry's chronic planned obsolescence.