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Smartphone buying trends will favour Apple especially as the market saturates and matures.
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 You're good at not answering questions You're not so hot at asking them.
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 What does a 20% success rate say? 93% of the entire industry's profit.
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui So when you have finished crowing about Apple's security superiority, please let me know if Apple have changed their mind about not fixing the security hole in all versions of OSX prior to Yosemite: http:/…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 That's not answering the question I don't have advice for Samsung, HTC, or any other Android OEM. Happy to see them lie in the bed they've made. Consumers deserve better and they're waking up. If t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui So given only Apple, Samsung, Blackberry and Microsoft appear to have the resources to develop a phone OS, you are saying that no other companies than those should be making phones? I think the quote sp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui So what exactly should they have done, make phones that run iOS? Oh wait... "When you ship someone else's software, you're only as good as your competitor's lowest price" -Ben Bajarin from Creative Str…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Ah quite right. My sincere apologies. Here it is. http://www.androidauthority.com/how-is-google-fixing-the-stagefright-vulnerability-that-affects-95-of-all-android-phones-631560/ Complete bunk, man. "…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy You didn't bother reading the link I gave you did you. That tends to support my guess that the accuracy of your previous claims may not be of the utmost importance to you. We should also continue the di…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy You didn't bother reading the link I gave you did you. That tends to support my guess that the accuracy of your previous claims may not be of the utmost importance to you. No link posted.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy That would also be incorrect. Just turn off auto-load in the messaging app settings. FWIW Google is also using Google Play to address the problem for anyone using the Android default Messenger app. Now wit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by torusoft When there's no way of knowing who or how many might already be exploited, how can you say that? The whole nature of Stagefright isn't that it is easy - it's that it exists in the first place. Look at th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SirLance99 No, that's not true. Basically no Android phone is hacked and it's a lot harder than the article has stated. That link was horribly written with bad information. When there's no way of knowing who o…
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HTC and every other Android manufacturer deserves to lie in the bed they've made. Stagefright is just the latest and biggest torpedo to slam into the hulls of sinking Android ships. https://torusoft.com/blog/persona-non-grata
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Quote: Originally Posted by cropr I am aware but as an developer I don't care. I do care about the Android fragmentation, because it increase the testing time and about the Apple App review, because it increases the lead time and does not allow…
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As an App developer, aren't you acutely aware of iPhone having less cores that do more? What about performance under pressure (thermals)? And when it comes to gaming where you're working with Metal, there is no comparison in performance. What Sam…
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Being a fandroid requires a strenuous effort in cognitive dissonance. I believe we're seeing the writing on the wall where Google jettisons Android as yet another inititative that failed to achieve its goals. The folks commenting on my blog article…
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Exhaustive review - great coverage. I'm bothered by one thing, however. After receiving my Apple Watch on the 24th, and after assimilating it into my routine overnight, the last term I'd use to describe this device is "rough". It's the most polis…
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"An extraordinarily dubious rumor" Why are you publishing this?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Anome Worse, they're bringing specs to a design war. Which really means they've already lost. After pretending that good design wasn't worth paying for, they're left flat footed. As the PC market shrinks, Ap…