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this episode of Android QA is brought to you by Citrix go to assist the number one global market leader and remote support boy how things can change you have HTC one known for its premium quality and innovative design on the other hand you have Samsung known for its repetitive and ho-hum design but boy did that change on a dime this week while the HTC One m9 is mostly a refresh of the m8 design the galaxy s6 sees a much more noticeable push forward in aesthetic of course design is only one part of the picture here there's also the specs and features both phones are packing and the list goes on so what exactly are tech publications and web users in general saying about the two phones HTC is falling under some pretty harsh criticism for sticking to the overall design at the m8 with its new one m9 both from everyday folks on the web and from some tech publications as well while some of this criticism might be a bit unfair considering HTC has at least somewhat polished the design it's a pretty minor step forward and the kind we typically expect from one generation of the Galaxy S family to the next not an HTC one listen to some of the criticism no optical stabilization 1080 screen pictures look terrible new HTC flagship just a new processor doesn't look attractive to me as a 2015 flagship phone so basically the only thing is a new camera and the ill performing Snapdragon 810 but Engadget did have good things to say they loved the metal chassis and the feel in the hand they said was better than the m8 and this came from the comments section at Android authority comm I could care less if it doesn't have a 2k display 1080p and a Snapdragon 810 will make this phone fly no I want to hold my final judgement until I see Josh's full review but it should be said that all manufacturers try and maximize profit from each innovation so for example HTC might have a whole lab full of awesome features and innovations to add to their phone so why don't they put it on every phone at each new release well they're trying to maximize the profit from each in vation if they added features every possible time it would just become very cost prohibitive manufacturers do this for cars Apple does this Samsung does this they have iterative approaches so you might see the same type of phone for two or three years and then the fourth year you see a big jump it's not uncommon not good for consumers but it maximizes profit for manufacturers now moving on to the s6 and the s6 edge and it turns out that a lot of media publications had very positive things to say about the s6 including both the verge and and/or authority but some viewers were not happy and here's why no removable battery no SD card slot come on Samsung you've got to be kidding me and it turns out that a lot of you felt that way that was the dominant theme in our comment section but it turns out that some of you did have some insightful thoughts on the flipside its 2015 cloud storage and streaming are a way better option than SD cards SD cards were great when high-speed data wasn't plentiful and cloud storage was weak swapping batteries is so 1990 we have way better battery technology metal chassis and a removable battery I think the reality is and removable batteries going the way of the dodo bird so good on you Samsung the hype seems to be somewhat justified and the phone looks great but I wanted to talk about a book this one called the 22 immutable laws of marketing it is a classic still much referred to today but you think of Jase what does a marketing book have to do with a smartphone well in this case a lot because one of the basic laws of this book that has been proven over decades is that when one brand is competing with another brand the competing brand shouldn't try and copy the first brand so is Samsung trying to create a better eye phone because the reality is the iPhone is the leading smartphone and it looks like that's what Samsung is trying to do create a better iPhone but that's not how Samsung came to be so dominant in the past five years remember their ad where they tried to suggest that the iPhone was your mom's phone oh thanks for holding us mom that's where they saw some real movement not trying to copy Apple and it looks like maybe that's what Samsung's trying to do now as you can see here most of you seem to love the phone so what do you guys think I like the fact that they didn't go phablet size to 5.2 or 5.3 there's sort of one-handed devices but is this your next smartphone let me know in the comments below now I'm sure you geeks out there have had that moment where you're on the phone with a co-worker trying to help them with a tech problem but it never goes pretty this is where Citrix can ease your frustration with go to assist remote support you can provide live or unattended support to any computer or mobile device screen share with employees to diagnose and fix their support problems faster and more effectively and use go to assist apps to 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