At the end of 2011, Samsung started morphing Apple into a follower

Up until mid-2011, the entire smartphone market was slavishly copying Apple’s (AAPL) moves. Apple wrested the control of phone industry trends from Nokia (NOK) and Motorola in the summer of 2007 and held the lead for more than four years. But since late 2011, Samsung (005930) started making moves that Apple first scoffed at and is now compelled to mimic. In the Christmas of 2011, the first Galaxy Note proved that a jumbo display smartphone was a device with substantial demand. The Galaxy Note II confirmed the trend a year later and demonstrated Samsung can run two mass market high-end lines simultaneously — something no handset vendor had managed since Nokia in 2007. Now Apple is expected to launch its



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