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Love is blind: NPD says Android customers are so committed that exploding Note 7 did little to help.
A coworker who always had iPhones bought a Galaxy S7 Edge this time around when he upgraded. He summed it up the other day to me after having it for a few months:
"This phone is like that blonde-haired, large breasted model you see in the club. You hook up and start having a fling, but after a couple weeks you find out she's a bitch with a lousy personality and dumber than a bag of hammers and you can't stand to be around her."
Impressive in the store, lots of sex appeal with the bright screen and curves, but ultimately just an average device.
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Apple saw twice as many mobile device activations this holiday as Samsung, data shows
rogifan_new said:Is this just in the United States? and should we trust this data anymore than IDC or Slice Analytics?
Flurry has analytics software installed inside of Apps. They aren't 100% accurate but they would be better than IDC (who don't get data directly from devices) or Slice (who monitor email receipts from people who opt in to their tracking and extrapolate that to a larger population). Flurry deals more in ratios between companies than outright claims about something like device sales.
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Apple's first AI research paper focuses on computer vision
cali said:I don't get what the advantage of spilling your work to the enemy has.
imagine if the U.S. military published papers on what we were working on?
A lot of people working on cutting edge stuff want to publish and get recognition for their work. And people in specific fields might want to work for someone (like Apple) if they know more about things they're working on. Especially if it aligns with their own ideas.
But that doesn't mean they're giving away ALL their secrets when they publish. This report is only a 15 page summary. I would think the data Apple has accumulated along with the source code for the software they're using would span 10's of thousands of pages. It's sort of like Apple explaining how their A Series processors work without giving away the actual blueprints to make one.
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Apple lawsuit accuses Nokia of being at core of patent licensing conspiracy
VernonDozier said:ericthehalfbee said:There are some here who think license fees for patents should be based on the final cost of the entire product and not the component itself.
On the flip side there are people who think Apple isn't owed money on the profits of an entire Samsung phone for infringing design patents that are only a portion of the entire phone.
Quite the dilemma.
Well, you have two factors at work here. First, let's face facts. Apple has an over-reliance on PR and the press. Today, there exist 573,000 stories and links on the web about the original cross-licensing agreement. When that many articles exist, people will generally draw the conclusion that they licensed all the patents.
Apple developers are also likely to study all patents; and code patented ideas into Apple's software. Apple under Tim Cook is incredibly predictable. Apple can complain, pretend it's a victim, file a lawsuit, and parade it's CEO out to give a speech on how it doesn't need corrective action. That's how Tim Cook's Apple works and also why people who work in New York Finance like the company so much. It seems to work well for their stock valuation.
As a second item, hiring attorneys to scour through the patent database for ideas which people and companies were willing to pay real money to patent (and disclose) makes it easy for Apple's R&D budget to find ideas for products. You'll notice that Apple is accusing Acacia, a Research Company, for anti-trust..? Sounds like Acacia has some real good R&D researchers and ideas which Apple wants to copy.
But still, patents should be paid for; especially if the company is the size of Apple. As an example, I could conceivably see Apple not wanting to pay for patents related to phone payments. In 1999, Nokia, Visa, and Finland-based NordBanken had this technology on a Nokia 7710 phone series in Europe... Back then, Visa had a second SIM card Chip; which Apple probably calls a "Secure Enclave". Then, Apple re-introduced it as "new technology" with much bravado, and announced the payment platform with Chase Bank and called it ApplePay. Still, my guess is that Chase didn't develop the technology; but instead, Nokia did, Apple copied it, then approached chase so it could market the iPhone features to its customers. It was a feature which people didn't know they wanted or even needed, but Apple most likely found the patents and decided to copy another thing someone else did; and slap a fruit on it.
Quite the revisionist history you have there. Apple Pay is based on the EMVco tokenization standard developed by Europay, Mastercard and Visa. Nokia had nothing to do with it. Your comment is complete BS.
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Google turns Drive for iOS into Android migration tool
Funny that Move can bring more items over to the iPhone (like SMS) than Google can bring back. Simply because Apple has stricter privacy permissions than Android. Meaning any migration tool will always work better going from Android to iOS than iOS to Android.
SMS/iMessage is a HUGE one for me. I keep a lot of conversations around, sometimes even years after they're finished. Very useful if you want to go back and check a conversation you had with someone (for me a big one is tenants and discussions over any agreements we made). And this is one area Apple doesn't allow developers to access. There isn't even a Permissions setting to give you the option to allow access. Same for call logs.
