Apple's $3000 foldable iPhone could take the heat off Tim Cook
Harsh? Maybe. But the sales won't lie. At this point, I don't know what it would take for Samsung Electronics to engineer its way to a bigger slice of the US market, where Apple has a 56 per cent share compared with Samsung's 25 per cent. The consumer lock-in of iOS and the Apple product range is just too great. People love their iPhones.
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