Apple Exec Slams Smartphones

Apple's marketing chief thinks Samsung phones are weak—and he's not afraid to say so. Just one day before the company's long-anticipated unveiling of its new smartphone, the Galaxy S4, Phil Schiller slammed smartphones as “inferior” and “simple.” The Apple bigwig pointed to smartphones’ multicompany existence as the root of their ineffectiveness. “When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with,” he said. Samsung plans to introduce its new model at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thursday night.