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iPhone excel because the OS and HW is designed by one company unlike Samsung where the HW and OS are from different companies, add to android Samsung bloatware.

The iOS works well with the iPhone simply because it is fine tuned for the product. On the androids side the OS is tuned to add bloatware of the respective HW manufactures. To add the so called speed the HW manufactures put in more RAM.

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You do realise that samsung designs and makes most of Apple stuff, right?

What parts do Apple get exclusively from Samsung and depend on their expertise these days?

It seems like they go for redundancy, use two suppliers etc for common parts and chips. Which means these are built based on the designs of Apple. Samsung just manufactures them.

I don't follow closely though so I might be wrong.

I think that was the plan after the court fight with Samsung. But after some quality problems (IIRC with LG displays) Apple had to give up the dual-source approach for at least some components.

Now the original iphone was probably 80% Samsung design and manufacturing, but these days the design part is closer to 0%.

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