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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 The market for larger phones is already dead. Think about it, how many normal people want to slip a device that big into their pocket and carry it around all day. Now that isn't to say that a limited ma…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark How can someone lose a game they weren't even playing in? Please don't ever try and run a company.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cpsro Au contraire, it's easy to justify. The envy of every other manufacturer is the breadth and depth of apps that iOS has. Apple can (and did) double the resolution without jeopardizing compatibility of all those a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 Samsung is in REAL trouble in 2014 as far as premium smartphones. It really is a 3 prong attack that will cause them not to slow down growth but lose market share at the high end ($450+ phones). 1. High end. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Corrections "the overall phone industry" is an actual industry. "the smartphone industry" is an arbitrary definition of a type of products which excludes some simple phone-only devices and includes some simple pho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Constable Odo But... but... but Android is winning and Apple is doomed. If Samsung were an American company sitting in Apple's place right now they'd probably have a share price of around $2000. Samsung would be the p…
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You expect to see some bias in an article published in Appleinsider, but this one needs to be called out. The main finding of the article is actually quite interesting, but much of the backup is misleading. For example, "Over the last fiscal year…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp The Japanese and the Koreans don’t like each other at all (culturally, racially, historically) so I don’t see somebody like Samsung gaining any kind of foothold in Japan. The Japanese Android phones also don’…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy "iPad's marketshare drops 11% in Q3 on lack of new models, Android posts significant gains" I'll never fucking understand the utterly false analogy of directly comparing "iPad" or "iPhone" with "Android" as i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 This is the same story when Google was $550 and Apple was $700 about a year ago. Wall street loves to rotate in and out of stocks and steal money from Main Street. Google is just hot right now and Apple is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Constable Odo I'd just like to know why Google doesn't have to do anything to make its stock rise to $1200 a share and yet Apple has to bribe everyone on Wall Street just to get to $600 a share. Larry Page is making …
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So we've now got 4 iPads. Two based on 2nd generation technology and two based on 5th generation technology. Choice is always good. Pricing on the retina mini seems a bit high, but I think Apple is trying to increase the ASP of their tablets, as…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Right, absolutely. It was kicked because of the overarching in-app purchases rule. But that rule’s to stop music stores. How would it be monopolistic? You don’t like it, develop for Android. Yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So why not just let the product do that itself, like every single Apple product has? No one says boo about Maps anymore, because that was never anything but a lie. No one says boo about antennagate any…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil That’s not how failure works. Only an idiot would think that. I guess the iPhone is a failure because its screen is too big, doesn’t have a physical keyboard, and is lacking 3G, huh. “Idiocy isn’t.…
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Two observations on the iPhone 5c: 1. It is a failure for the simple reason that much of the world's media has suggested that it is. Apple could have sold the iPhone 5 in its place and the sales would have been viewed as largely unimportant; ALL …
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit I keep thinking that any indication of Apple's margin going south along with flat eps will send AAPL to $300. Island, you may well be right and I may be wrong. I'm fully aware that Apple is walki…
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Quote: Originally Posted by herbapou Google keeps going up because it keeps growing its EPS while apple is flat because is EPS is flat. There is no mystery or magic or manipulations, its common sense. Google has a better multiple because it h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmz Thats an interesting perspective, but it still falls short because it has nothing to do with a 7.9" tablet being more desirable in any way than 9.7" The factor is Price, and nothing more. I hadn't realised…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Maybe I’m wrong, but isn’t the proper iPad still selling far better? The 'proper' iPad is by my definition the one that is selling best. Therefore the answer is yes, by definition. According to …