>> I tend to believe that migrating one's assets to a new phone (contacts, app data and so on) is a string driver for choosing a replacement, just like it worked for Windows when most apps were desktop-based.
Last year my S7 Edge came not just with software, but with a hardware connector to ease the process of migrating stuff from any sort of phone to the Samsung. Worked pretty well. Might have cost Samsung less than a buck for the hardware. The future, I think.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
