Apple paved the way – and now other tech companies are building up their own ranges of connected devices and services, with laptops, phones, earbuds and tablets all built to work seamlessly together and form one whole. Perhaps the biggest rival to Apple’s ecosystem of products is Samsung, now upping its game with new notebooks unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company is placing a special emphasis on the smooth interaction between Samsung notebooks and their smartphones such as the current flagship Galaxy S22. This seamless interconnection and the ecosystem is the “big is…