nolamacguy

sflagel said:

Now, the next step in this democratization of entertainment, is that the industry or the regulator require Libraries to be transferable. Switching services must be, just like for bank accounts, seamless.

melgross said:

sog35 said:

MacBAir said:

They are right. The vast majority of Galaxy users are people that associate more cores, more pixels with better phones. Those will keep buying Android devices, probably the great S7.

The others, that wanted S-pen specific features, will keep using older notes or other galaxy devices, too. They have no other choice.

Those that wanted the Note because it had the best screen and best camera won't obvious buy an iPhone as well.

For the users that feel that they lost trust in Samsung, some will go Android, some will go iOS.

Did. Not. Read.

Only 36 posts. Not going to waste my time

What does the number of posts have to do with what he says? At some time, you didn't have any more. Should we have ignored what you said because of that? How many posts does a person need before they're worth responding to?

what he said is true. The last sentence is correct. Some will stay with Android, and some will go iOS. Why is that hard to believe?

MacBAir said:

sog35 said:

Just waiting for the loser trolls to show up and say:

1. Don't celebrate. Failure of Samsung is bad for Apple, cause competition is good
2. Don't celebrate. Since this could have easily happened to Apple
3. Don't celebrate. Because some iPhones also exploded (ignoring that those phones were damaged and smashed)
4. Don't celebrate. Samsung had courage to do the 'right thing'

Ok trolls. Now don't waste your time responding. Since I already brought up all your talking points.

Look, Sog35: The iPhone is, by far, the best smartphone on the Market, as a standalone device. Once you are into the Apple ecosystem, it becomes eons ahead as a product.

Can we agree on that?

However, despite all of that, Apple is really one greedy company that will try to do everything they can to improve immediate profit, at the cost of user experience and at the cost of future profit. Do you want examples?

• TN panels on MBAirs.
• 16 GB of base memory on iOS devices, until the 7.
• 1 GB of RAM on iOS devices, until the 6.
• Non-SSDs on Macs, even ones costing thousands of dollars;
• 128 GB base SSD storage on rMBPs.
• Selling the MBP.
• Non-stereo audio when filming videos with an iPhone.
• a8 chip on Apple TV4.
• Worse camera hardware than pretty much all competition, and worse than the s7 after the iPhone 7.

All of those decisions, if made from other OEMs, would quickly burn down the company and their products even faster than this Note7 fiasco. Those decisions impact greatly the experience, and made all of those products pieces of garbage. It's disgusting. It's also not up for discussion that those things are actually true. They are. Imagine if Microsoft made a computer with a TN panel. Or without an SSD. Or if Samsung made a flagship with camera hardware as pathetic as the 6 series (6s included), or 1GB of RAM until 2014.

Yes, a 1GB iPhone would always be much better than an Android device with 1GB, as far as memory management goes. However, Apple could do even better if they actually offered users what they could offer. As such, regardless of your position and opinion, everybody know that we all have the thank Samsung, and Samsung only, for actually having devices with proper base storage, proper memory management, an awesome SoC, and good battery life.

What pisses me off even more is that Apple could easily have the best mobile camera (they have the best software and best SoC, after all), but they don't, because they wanted to count some beans instead of putting a sensor at least, as big as Samsung was able to do 1 year ago. But no, gotta cheap out and go the gimmicky way.

Just like without Apple we would all be using Nokias 3310 and Blackberries, without Samsung your iPhone would still have 8GB of storage and 256MB of ram.

If you are reasonable, if anyone here is, then we can all agree on that.