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The smartphone market is probably the most fiercely competitive market in the world.... technology created by one company is often bastardized by other companies. They add their own twist to it, maybe make the camera a bit more appealing with a higher pixel quality and different capabilities, more memory, improve the life of the battery, try to make the sharing/transferring of data between phone to phone or phone to computer more seamless and quicker, improving bluetooth reception, developing better cellphone tower reception qualities, etc.
Some are clearly more innovative than others.
I paid $29 for my first cellphone. It was an LG flip phone, and texting was a pita because obviously it was designed for talking, not texting. That was back in 2000. The iPhone would come 7 years later.
Eighteen years later, I'm guessing the average new smartphone costs between $600-$1000 retail. It's a sizable investment, and for that kind of coin one should get everything he/she is looking for. I guess that's why I'm hesitant to try anything else... if I spend $800 on a new Samsung and don't like it - it's not like I can trade it in for something else. I'm basically stuck with it. I tend to stick with what works for that reason.
It's not like I'm looking for the Rolls Royce of cellphones, just something I'm familiar with and doesn't take me a month to figure out how to use it.