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No. That's a pathetic, played-out canard. If you're building a knock-off phone in a Chinese sweatshop, are you going to hire a team of engineers to spend man-d

• e12e 13y ago
  "Samsung shipped a record 213 million smartphones, due in large part to its new Galaxy S2 and S3 models. Apple shipped a reported (estimated) 135.8 million smartphones — iPhone5 and iPhone4 models." The S2 and S3 are hardly "knock-off phones". That there aren't any low-end iphone, and the fact that you can use most apps on low end Android phones as well as on high end ones, just makes Android that more attractive in my opinion. My previous phone was a Samsung S1 (unfortunately they were a bit rushed, and had crappy GPS -- even if everything else was great). My current phone is a Galaxy Note II -- and I also have a cheap, spare HTC Explorer phone that I can use for prototyping ideas with a physical device (anything that needs GPS/Accelerometer/Screen/Camera+software). And it could be used for deploying pretty much anything in a very cheap and straightforward package (even has usb, wifi and bluetooth for linking with other systems...). source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2013/01/28/does-apple-iphone5-care-about-samsungs-213-million-shipped-phones/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2013/01/28/does-apple-ip...