Plain & Simple
"...but warned cheaper kit flooding the market may "dampen" its next quarterly numbers..."
In other words, someone else will affect Samsung in the same way Samsung affected Apple.
Poetic and ironic...
PS
The style and general "Sun/NoTW" approach to writing headlines suggests that 'Kunert' is a pseudonym for the late, unlamented Ms Leach. Either that or an acolyte...