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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 10:12 AM EDT |
Yeah Apple's sales numbers were in toilet because of Android.
Apple
just
couldn't compete against Android.
Of course Apple can
compete, and its numbers are not in the toilet.
Android
numbers might be
growing faster, but Apple's numbers are still growing well.
Both AT&T and
Verizon say that iPhone is their best-selling phone, and
Androids
sell only on
lower price.
What Apple is doing here is making sure that Samsung does
not have an
unfair price advantage by using designs that Apple spent
millions
of dollars to create. Other phone manufacturers paid for their own
innovation
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why should Samsung get the free ride ?? They paid Microsoft,
after all. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 11:00 AM EDT |
I think a good rule of thumb is that when the phrase "you do realize" occurs
in my writing, I'm too angry and should take a break. It isn't difficult
to
expel the manufuacturer's operating system and load one of our own, but
Google
seems to be more encouraging about the matter. Me, I'm not
interested
in "fixing" a new product, though I've been known to get a cheap
computer and
kick off the Windows Limited Edition and replace it with a Linux
or FreeBSD.
Phones, though, are not a general purpose device and in the US are
heavily
regulated radio transmitters. The engineering is necessarily an
exercise in
figuring
out what will not happen so as to optimize what does
happen. So
within some constraints they may or may not acknowledge, they
prefer Android
because they believe it behaves more in the way they wish. Just
because it isn't
what you want, or the product doesn't fully realize their
value system, or you do
want the freedom, but you think reality has thwarted
you, doesn't mean you have
to rain on their parade. (Or in this week's context
bring an arc light to their
solace room.) Let us remember the wisdom of the
movie Less Than Zero: there
are no good guys and bad guys, there are just
guys. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 11:45 AM EDT |
Google has started to take on non-patents used by patent trolls.
I've
forgotten the name of Sun Tzu's Daoist disciple, but I suspect that
they are
using his playbook, rather than Sun Tzu's. (The disciple that
practiced the
YiJIng qua Dao.) I realize that Sun Tzu, and his
disciples were/are
ardent Daoists. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 05:36 PM EDT |
You do realize that Samsung is <a href="http://
mashable.com/2012/05/16/
mobile-phone-sales-down-2-percent/">ahead of
Apple</a> in phone sales, that Android is
now way ahead of iOS worldwide?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- but why ... - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 07:57 PM EDT
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