11-19-2012, 11:24 AM | #16 |
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If the same thing is to happen again though won't Apple just come up with more innovative ways to maximise their profits on future tech?
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11-19-2012, 11:31 AM | #17 |
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Did Sony?
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11-19-2012, 11:32 AM | #18 | |
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11-19-2012, 11:33 AM | #19 |
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Not an Apple fangirl here but the iPad had the apps I wanted and Android did not. It really was that easy. So now I play my silly games and I can play them with my friends who have iPads and I am not going to be thrilled with switching because I have bought a good number of apps.
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11-19-2012, 01:44 PM | #20 |
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Sales volume is one thing, profit is entirely another. Apple continues to take names and kick @ss when it comes to profit.
Yet another issue is the splintering of Android. When you say iOS you pretty much know what you're talking about (iPhone, iPad, or a Touch model). When you say Android you could be talking about a premium tablet, bargain basement phone, or even a camera! Further, it may or may not even tie into Google's store (e.g. Amazon's hardware using Android does not). Android OS is too fractured. It is as much a strength (applicable to many breeds of hardware) as a weakness (fewer apps are optimized for any given device). I'm not surprised a dozen vendors combined are shipping more units than Apple. I will be surprised if/when their user experience approaches the ease and polish of Apple's walled garden. How is it that the very latest Android hardware and software combination is only now approaching the interface smoothness iOS had for years now? I know, fair is fair, it took Apple years to add cut/copy-and-paste, lol. |
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11-19-2012, 01:49 PM | #21 |
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11-19-2012, 04:34 PM | #22 | |
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You have a point about "smoothness", but don't mistake that for speed or capability. My 18 month old EVO has never left me wanting in functionality or apps. Well, except for a better camera which I knew going in. iOS, in comparison, seems very old and limited when I play with it now (although I know it is still quite capable). I feel Apple has fallen way behind Android and Windows when it comes to the interface. |
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Short-term, Apple still has the larger installed base of devices and the bigger app catalog and they will likely *always* have the bigger profit margins so they aren't going away any time soon. But if this goes on long enough, the pool of featurephone and basic phone users from which the overall smartphone market draws its growth is going to shrink and the installed base that is locked-in by the existing platforms will become critical. I would suggest that the growth of the smartphone market as a fraction of the overall phone market is sooner or later going to hit a wall and when it does shipment market share isn't just going to be a matter of bragging rights. |
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11-19-2012, 06:15 PM | #24 | |
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When it comes to Windows 8, I think that it is going to do better on the touchscreen laptops then on tablets. |
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11-19-2012, 09:36 PM | #27 | |
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Did Apple even have a shot at getting the IBM operating system contract that launched Microsoft into the computing stratosphere? And wasn't Apple right to stick to their strength (designing, and overseeing the manufacturing, of high end hardware running their own operating systems)? Back when Apple licensed the Mac OS to other manufacturers, it wasn't all that successful. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 11-19-2012 at 09:39 PM. |
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Bill Gates himself suggested to Sculley that they License MacOS and (later) NuBus to Compaq and HP and others. He even did all the footwork; all that Apple had to do was set the terms and they would've been in business. (This was around the time IBM was going all proprietary with the PS/2 line.) http://www.macobserver.com/columns/t...20040630.shtml Quote:
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11-20-2012, 06:10 AM | #29 |
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I didn't say that it has no significance, I said that it has little meaning. All the statistics based on single quarters have little meaning.
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11-20-2012, 06:52 AM | #30 |
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I am slowly finding myself won over by Apple. I like that there are very few virus. I like how easily the products work. I like the ease of the genuis bar. The reality is that I do not need a computer that does a ton at home, I barely use word and excel. I use my home computer for games, videos, and surfing the web. Heck, I can do 90% of what I do on my IPad.
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