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  • Samsung warns it will have a tough year in 2016

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    cropr said:
    Apple faces the weakest significant competition it ever has in the smartphone and tablet markets?  The market tells a different story.  Market share for iPads has been going down and down and down the last 3 years.  After an initials boost when the iPhone 6 was launched, the market share for iPhones has stabilized: it is still going up in China, but is going again down in the US and European markets.  There is more competition than just Samsung
    Cheap stuff can sell"numbers" and still be weak competition. Hence the profitshare of Apple in the smartphone space. While also increasing the shear number of Apple phones sold.
    sockrolidbrucemcnolamacguychiacali

  • Another F for Alphabet: U.S. Marines reject Google's other android as too loud to use

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    Their headline use of "android" is within the boundaries. Which are wider than stated above. 
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(robot)
    anantksundaramapplepieguy

  • Another F for Alphabet: U.S. Marines reject Google's other android as too loud to use

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    Just to be "that person," ... those are robots, not androids.  

    Just because Google chose the wrong name for their OS and decided to screw up the long history of the definition of these words for everyone, doesn't mean we have to acquiesce.  A robot is a robot and and android is an android.  These are ALL robots (except where they are actually just automata pretending to be robots).  

    Androids are non-mechanical simulacra of animal beings.  A robot is a mechanical simulation an animal being, (or of some portion of an animal being). 
    Homage to the newly released Star Wars film where "robots" are referred to as "Droids"?

    Hence: "

    Not the droids they were looking for"

    gatorguy

  • New Year's partygoers wearing Apple Watch will have 'most accurate watch in the room'

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    GPS doesn't "warm up" but there IS a necessary delay when first launched in a new location as the gps receiver searches through the transmission bands for the satellites in the constellation that are above the horizon for the current location. Subsequent starts in the same general area are faster as the previously detected satellites are queried first. iPhones accomplish something similar with their "assisted GPS" where the phone uses cell tower information to choose which satellites to listen for based on the location determined by the tower information. 
    netmage

  • Apple lodges challenge to UK digital surveillance bill, rails against weak encryption

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    Apple has become "the iPhone company" (in terms of the vast majority of their profits and now, because so much of Apple is tied to the dominance of iPhone, lawmakers everywhere represent the biggest existential threat to the company.

    if lawmakers undermine the security and privacy of Apple and the iPhone, it will destroy the stock and the company in short order.

    Google's move to diversify and break up the company into many smaller, independent companies is starting to look pretty smart right about now. Cook and the board of directors better get off their asses and start pouring some serious resources into combatting the political wolves at their door and simultaneously work on their "second act". What do you do after making the most profitable and desirable phone in the world?
    "destroy the stock and the company"
    Not really: the playing field across ALL smartphone manufacturers would remain the same as any law about security would equally effect all manufacturers of such phones. And from my reading of the coverage ApplePay wouldn't be effected and that's the area of security that most concerns me and IS a differentiator between other phones and the iPhone.

    Sean The Bomber and his cohorts can just go back to one time pads and unencrypted "cryptic" text messages. and completely avoid the whole thing. "How about we have lunch Tuesday" sort of thing, meaning the act takes place Wednesday at midnight....  Politicians are morons when it comes to this issue.
    monstrosityshamino