Posts by Spacepower

Quote:Originally Posted by pedromartins ok, this data deserves a nice discussion. Apple reached the limit of what a premium 4" phone can do, and that's 4.5 billion profit per quarter (+-). If they want to earn marketshare to give...

Thank you Apple. When app descriptions start looking like horrible craiglists and backpage ads, I'm glad Apple has constrained this behavior.

Quote:Originally Posted by caliminius  Did both of you fail to notice that that this article never mentions where that ad money was actually spent? Android has 25%, which is guaranteed to be 25% that is NOT going to Apple. That...

Maybe I'm different but.... I hate wearing watches. I also think that nowadays, the watch wearing crowd has been shrinking since we all have clocks in our pockets via any phone. Ask Casio, Timex, Swatch, how their business was...

So Facebook used an Apple app/tool to build Facebook Home on Android? I don't see a problem with this... So what does this say.... Facebook engineers prefer using Macs? Google's Android developer tools are inferior to Aplle's iOS/OSX...

Quote:Originally Posted by herbapou This may be a running gag, only this time there are real YoY declines. Apple offer only 1 new model of iphone and it accounts for 70% of its income.  Its a financial timebomb, the risk for...

Quote:Originally Posted by Rogifan No I meant I thought that's all they did for Apple. So, sales of what exactly are down 18%? Maybe sales of Xbox360 since a new model was announced. Or sales of an random product that is being...

Quote:Originally Posted by Ireland To be fair, Google can change the UI, and the feature set. They can change everything about the app. They bought it for the user base. This is the interesting part. I don't have anything Google on...

Quote:Originally Posted by Rot'nApple Who the heck budgeted this thing? If I gave an estimate of three bucks and it turned out to be five, no sweat. But if one was looking to spend 3 billion and it turned out to be $5...

Quote:Originally Posted by jragosta I don't care if it's 10 from the top 100 or 10 from the bottom 100. It's not representative - for several reasons: 1. They don't state how they selected the 10 so we don't know if the 10 are...