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My, how things change. Over the last couple of years, many Wall Street analysts have been predicting “doom” for Apple, highlighted by Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdry’s classic declaration that Apple would “disappear” unless it released an iWatch within 60 days. Now it looks like Samsung, which for a while was many analysts’ golden boy, is getting the exact same treatment that Apple got in the aftermath of Steve Jobs’ passing. 9to5Google flags a couple of gloomy analyst notes published this week that paint a pretty grim picture for Samsung’s future prospects. Fitch analyst Nitin Soni, for one, says that Samsung has already lost its edge to budget smartphone brands like Xiaomi and Micromax. Soni also doesn’t think that Samsung’s newest