Apple and Samsung earnings: 5 takeaways for the future

Samsung rode on the wings of the Galaxy S7 edge and S7 sales success, while Apple did better than expected, considering its problems in China, and the fact that this is the last full quarter of the 2015 iPhones product cycle before the iPhone 7 enters the fray in September.
In any case, it's the forward-looking statements tucked in the quarterly result releases and conference calls with investors that we are most interested about, as they show where the industry might be heading in the near and distant future. Needless to say, there were a few telling hints that slipped here and there, which we are listing as a speculation game in the slides below.
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