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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr all this word parsing is beside the real point. when you put these Google license terms together with how Google is evolving the overall Android OS itself (see the very important article http://arstechnica.co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wings "Further, these generated email accounts would be intelligently tagged with contextual clues that help users track down the source responsible for handing off the address to a spam provider." YES! 1000 times…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Scrip There are phones that sell for very cheap prices in developing countries. The companies selling those phones have a decent amount of market share in those countries. (Apple currently has 0% market sha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark I'm sure more people will buy ebooks at $5 too. That doesn't mean it's the fair price for it. Doesn't it? If people won't buy at $6 but will at $5, that is clearly the value they assign for it in their mi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro Your frame of reference is a single person? One of the richest people in the United States? A person who prides himself on and known for his technology savvy? No, he was an example of someone who heavi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark Publishers would earn less in the short term but they would have more say in the long term rather than be subjected to Amazon's monopoly. Who is to say 9.99 is fair market price for an ebook? Never in the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro When persons with money available to them overcome any costs with switching between platforms they have overwhelmingly chosen in favor of Apple iOS. Whether or not that's true (I haven't really seen th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Scrip You're forgetting that "Android" refers to any smartphone running the Android operating system. That includes flagship Android phones and those terrible Android phones sold in developing nations. It's…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider According to a research note by Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt cited by Patrick Seitz of Investors.com, Apple's 87.4 percent share of the industry's profits dwarfed the earnings of second place Sa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark Interesting you say that since B&N was thinking of going in Apple's direction prior to Apple. Also note the number of viable competitors increased when Apple got in the game. It's a weird issue beca…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark Outside of Apple, all the smaller ones will drop out as they need to make money. Selling below cost does not make good business sense for long. Well, Apple, Google, Microsoft are the big 3 that can clea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist Hey, if you can tolerate Android, more power to you. I can't be arsed looking up sh?t for you. Believe me, it's been done to death on this forum. I grabbed my phone out of my pocket, barely used it f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist My point of view is the same as the hundreds of millions of people who buy iPhones and the hundreds of millions of people who buy normal-sized Android phones. The tens of millions of people who buy thes…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Not anymore. Since when? Apple's illegal deal got struck down but they are absolutely free to sign agency or wholesale agreements with book distributors and in fact I believe that's exactly what th…
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That is an opinion piece that says nothing like what you claimed. Amazon has direct competitors including Apple. How will Amazon prevent Apple undercutting them by selling at the wholesale price? I've not quoted your post because the rest of it is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist The reason is the need for humungous batteries. These Android "flagships" are a very small portion of the market, a segment heavily populated by people who would never buy an Apple product in a million …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Yes. No one has ever undercut competitors to drive them out of a business before raising prices to whatever they want now that they’re the only game in town. We certainly don’t have any examples of tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Because the only way it’s a “rip-off” is if you enjoy paying $50 for an eBook from Amazon for the rest of your life. Amazon's prices were cheaper, not more expensive. Indeed the prices through Apple …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist This is pure, 100%, no-money-back, spun-glass Bullsh?t. A very small minority of Android phones are in these ridiculous large sizes, and a majority of them are sold in South Korea. The only people who a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Yeah; I’m one of them. Good luck. I'm sorry, could you please describe how it's impossible to use two hands? I have a Nexus 5, which is bigger than an iPhone would be, has very small side bezels an…