[Galaxy S 4 General] :
It's not very visible at all, no. The very nature of how you use a phone dictates that it will nearly always be covered or obscured in some way. You're saying the phone represents fashion and showing off, but you can't very well show off something that people will hardly see consistently. Even then, to really "appreciate the aesthetic", you have to be right near the phone. So once again, the majority of the time, your "fashion statement" makes no statement except to you.

Aluminum unibody design is thus the only reason to get the HTC One according to those two quotes? Remember, you're the one saying that that represents their entire business strategy. So Samsung markets features and HTC markets aluminum. Tell me again who is unsuccessful?

You call people names and ask them to stop the personal attacks? Now THAT is irony. Consider that your lesson for today.

http://9to5google.com/2013/04/26/idc-samsung-now-own-commanding-lead-of-global-phone-market-almost-double-units-of-closest-contender/

New year, same old competition. HTC didn't get in the top 5, Apple is Samsung's closest competition, and their new flagship is still a ways off.

What does being a child or not having a job have to do with a phone and its features? Definition of personal attacks. Yeah, I pointed out my salary as evidence that you already failed in identifying "target demographics" you pulled from where the sun won't shine. There's a reason you don't have a marketing job, stop acting like you do.

Or that you made up your mind about a device and now are attempting to think beyond your pay level about the kind of people that by Galaxy phones. Once again, it all comes back to "premium design", and once again, we see that you can't just sell a shiny shell and break #1.

I love pseudo-science, it's my favorite topic to debunk. First of all, the second you push aesthetics (which are about taste) in any objective way, you've already violated the condition of your first parameter, which is establishing the "best universal design" from personal taste in a small sample. That is the difference between studies and "facts", but you're not expected to know this. The S4 has plenty of aesthetic value, as commented by other people. Who likes that more will vary by person, and much of the hate against plastic is only because of the trend with phones to generally be made from it as of recent. If phones were mostly aluminum in trend, they would be discarded just as easily.

That's why intelligent companies build their brand of multiple factors, not just "Look! Premium feel!" Samsung is a business, if they could sell millions more units just by switching to aluminum, they would. But the aluminum obsession has never demonstrated a connection to reality, and selling software features that you call gimmicks has made Samsung buckets and buckets of money, and they'll have the best selling phone this year unless Apple steps up their game. So tell me again how you sell the #1 phone purely off subjective feel?

Yes, as you put it, "The children, the unsuccessful, and the old". How's your job recording concert videos? What does that pay? Remember, you're basing success purely on what phone you own and the way you use it (by your definition, to record concert videos in low light with dual membrane).

You know what else obeys gestures and commands? Integrated technology that allows you to use your eyes, voice, head, hands, and fingers to perform nearly any task. Now, if only we could find something that did that, and then market it that way.

Once again you demonstrate that marketing prowess. Going with the same slogan with every phone instead of pushing it from another direction is a quick way to make your line stale. Again, I'll leave it to the billion dollar budgets currently breaking records to market the phone. The marketing speculation is just you trying to feel self-important about your purchase, when really you're betting your entire success on one device.