John Gruber: “perceptual problem”  

Samsung has run into the same perceptual problem that Apple did several years ago: at a certain point, each generation of your device is an evolution, not revolution…

This is true, there is a problem. Big ships, while moving fast, often appear to move slow, especially to those observing from a distance; that is a perceptual problem. However, the concern for Apple, Samsung or anyone else in this position is a great deal more meticulous than that.

Big ships are capable of sustaining full speeds for extensive periods of time. As a ship reaches full speed, the tangent of the ship’s centerline begins to take control. It’s path for a finite period of time is now limited to a much tighter range of movement. The real problem is not about speed or the perception of speed, but rather the direction. Apple and Samsung are two very large and very fast frigates, where the slightest change in trajectory requires a lot more resources than it once did. There is no margin for error when dealing with this sort of scale.