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Quote: Originally Posted by tylerk36 One of my concerns is by the time Apple releases it's Television most of the features will have already been implemented in technology or TV's that are on shelf presently. But probably implemented badly. Li…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich I tend to agree, even though both of us used to think they would. Margins on TVs are pitiful. Apple will make an evolutionary step with whatever they have been planning. Margins on PCs are generally pit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna What about the inaccurate information. ATT is NOT LTE. It is 4G (by the loose definition) which is not the same as LTE. The whole point is that AT&T now DOES have real LTE in some markets. The test co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobabyrtrns Quote: "The analyst went on to suggest that Nokia and Microsoft are not likely to make a huge profit on the device because of the device's $99 price tag and the cost of the marketing campaign." Who …
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Quote: Originally Posted by samab Poorly or not --- it is basically the 3rd best selling tablets behind the ipad and the kindle fire. AT A LOSS!! Can't make that up in volume...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Booga I agree that it was primary Android that was gunning for RIM. Before iPhone was demonstrated, Android prototypes all looked like Blackberries, so RIM's days were numbered as a sole-source supplier of overpriced …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Constable Odo RIM is the sinking of the Lusitania and Titanic combined. I feel very bad for the employees who are definitely going to suffer the most due to company mismanagement and unclear vision of the future. \ …
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It was the same the last time this story "broke" - "Apple and Samsung control industry profilts" NOOOO! Apple controls industry profits, Samsung comes a DISTANT second and most of the others barely break even. To give Apple and Samsung logical e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChristophB "At least 1,000,000"? Pre-orders arriving on launch day are considered launch day sales with launch day as the 16th, no? Add in-store sales and the 1,000,000 seems pretty low to me. But I'm just another…
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 Also the figure is likely to include people downloading updates, so if 1 app has 5 million users then 4 updated a year is 20 million re-downloads. Apps that have a free and paid version are effectively doubl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mccdyl001 You're right - because 6,000,000 downloads divided by 60,000 apps is 100 per day, not 10. So every app, on average, is getting downloaded 100 times per day...? The missing metric is across what base of use…
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I like how the example Siri request in the picture for location asks where 1 Infinite Loop is, when the user is clearly in 2 Infinite Loop. Not that it helps Siri to be next door...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy Now that you mention it, I think you may be right. I'd be a bit surprised that would still be one of the contract terms tho. Pricing has changed a lot in the past couple of years, coupled with two other telcos…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Braden99 Yeah I get it, Apple swim around in all their money. It's funny when I see Microsoft bitter fans on this site, still using "$icrosoft" as if it is still relevant and witty. My relationship with a company i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Braden99 As I’m not a shareholder, like most consumers, I'll judge the difference on profit alone, not share price, with Apple making US$ 25.922 billion, and Microsoft making US$ 23.15 billion in 2011 (Wikipedia), not …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Scrip RIM won't go out of business... but I think most of their business will go back to enterprise. But most enterprises are enabling open choice for handsets (cheaper than BES and you don't have to buy the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SDW2001 In their defense, they are still profitable and just beat expectations for the quarter. The future obviously doesn't look bright. Gizmodo made the case that the Playbook might end up taking down the whole com…
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My question is what does Samsung count as a smartphone? They just announced this week that they have sold 30M Galaxy branded smartphones (since April last year - S and S2). Even if that were quite heavily weighted towards the last quarter, i doubt t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Habañero lotta big numbers in that article, but the math suggests iPads are... what... 2% of all US web traffic? But some key stats would include: Is it more or less than 2% of devices? What proportion of total mo…
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Hot damn. The plot thickens. I always though a lot of this sue-age was just to keep the oppo off balance, but this (and the Oracle suit) might actually come to something.