Samsung vs apple

Judging the two companies based on sales and revenue looks like they are
both even. In an article, it is being said, “Apple’s Q1 for 2019 is the same as
Samsung’s Q4 2018, both reporting the last three months of the year 2018”
(Chris Burns, Slash Gear). This shows that even though its different years, the
results for phones in both companies are nearly the same. However, Samsung
is starting to make progress by creating phones as good as apple but way
cheaper. “While Apple has been focusing on the high-end of the smartphone
market, Samsung has been more focused on the lower end of the smartphone
market to win the sales” (Panos Mourdoukoutas). That may sound like a good
idea but that would hurt their profit because the low-end market price is
sensitive.

On August 24, 2019, there was a “Radiation Scandle” lawsuit against Apple and
Samsung. It has been said that their products/devices emitted too much harmful
radiation (Zak Doffman). They did a few tests and showed that the iPhone 7,
one of the most popular products sold, emitted well above the safety limit. To
make it worse it was about double what Apple reported. But no need to panic.
There has not been hard evidence showing that cellphone radiation is harmful
to our bodies. In fact, it has been proven that the radiation coming off phones is
actually too weak to do any damage to our cells. In the end, each phone could
behave differently.

Recently about a month ago on February 7, 2020, there has been a lawsuit on
Apple for making old phones become slower on purpose. Apple made it so if
any of their products installed an iOS update higher than iOS 10.2.1, then their
phones will eventually get slower with time. Of course, this could be fixed if you
just switch out the battery. Apple has not warned their customers about this
update and is basically forcing us to buy newer phones every year to costs well
beyond $900. They now have to pay “up to 500 million dollars for intentionally
slowing down phones” (Loukia Papadopoulos). This does not mean that Apple
intends to stop slowing down phones, its actually the opposite. They will
continue to make phones slower with time when the battery starts to degrade
but inform the users as well.