Pretty biased in many ways by taking marketing promises over what is available. (how many companies have advertised products that will revolutionize the world?), but ended up being just a gimmick? Overall, marketing promises are worth less than used toilet paper.
While chances are good for the apple smart watch being better than the samsung ones as those watches were just plain horrible and the only way to make it worst, will be to intentionally look at what they did and instruct the team to do the same thing but far worst.
On a hardware standpoint, apple is simply unable to compete, they are using largely outdated and crippled hardware, with intentional design limitations which allows them to implement planned obsolescence, e.g., the non user replaceable battery which will make it so that the majority of users will be unable to replace their batteries.
The lack of expandable storage is another huge issue. With the vast majority of ARM based SOC's offering native support for SD cards, not including one it not just a way to save a few cents on production cost, but also a way to price gouge for increased native storage. (a few months ago, I purchased a 64GB microsd card for about $29 (mainly for use with the dash cam in the car,but decided that the old 32GB was enough and got it to work in an older smartphone by formatting the card in FAT32 with an allocation unit size or 32768 (causes lower write speeds, but allows some older smartphones to use higher capacity cards)
The main design flaw chared by many phone makers is the lack of buffer zones for impact. With the rush to make everything thinner, they got rid of the traditional empty space areas designed specifically to flex on impact so the screen and other parts of the device does not break (e.g., throw an original gameboy at a wall, and I bet the drywall will end up with a large hole and the gameboy will still work like new)
Overall, phones are not really designed to handle drops. Another issue is the use of strong glue around the screens. no matter how well made a device is, things can still break and as time goes by, both apple and samsung have been making it harder to replace components like the screen.
Most new smartphone features from the past few years, have been gimmicks and not much has been done in the way of real functionality that people will regularly use.
On the android side, while smartphones have been steadily getting faster, with the flagship phones having CPU's that are 5-10 times faster than the ones in the budget and lower mid phones, the fragmentation of the platform has causes applications be developed for the lowest common denominator, and thus, you may have the fastest smartphone on the market, but very few applications are taking advantage of it.
) At least they can get back the money that Apple took in the past for this kind of crap.
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