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Apple fans shouldn’t worry about Samsung’s new phones

Samsung just took the wraps off its latest Galaxy S10 phones, along with an intriguing new folding phone/tablet called the Galaxy Fold. They were all the internet could talk about recently, and with good reason: there’s some legitimately cool stuff there. But none of them present the existential threat to Apple. In fact, they probably won’t have a measurable impact on iPhone or iPad sales at all.

The greatest threat to continued sales of Apple products is Apple, not the threat of a superior product from Samsung.

‘MUST-HAVE’ FEATURES ARE OFTEN OVERESTIMATED

The general thrust of the annual “Apple needs to worry about these new Samsung phones” punditry goes something

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