civa

avon b7 said:

civa said:

linuxplatform said:

Beats said:

"It's time for [Amazon] to decide to use our payment mechanism or bow out."

I miss the old Apple. I feel Cook lacks the backbone Steve had. Android would have been a wasteland had Steve still been alive. Android has become large due to stealing, stealing, stealing.

Reality check 3: Android became large due to companies with a proven track record at hardware and software making great products that people wanted to buy. Claiming otherwise is an exercise in self-delusion. It would require believing that all of these very successful global companies are competent at everything else - so much so that Apple patronizes the likes of Google (cloud services), Qualcomm (components), Sony (ditto), LG (ditto plus monitors) and Samsung (ditto) - but smartphones. And then there are CONSUMERS. You would need to believe that the 50% of U.S. smartphone buyers, 65% of global tablet buyers and 85% of global smartphone buyers are for some reason purchasing year after year devices that are incapable of allowing them to watch videos, play games, send/receive text messages/emails/video calls and do productivity tasks. But Android devices - from the $35 Fire TV sticks to the $2000 Samsung Galaxy foldable phones and everything in between - do work and work well.

Android saturated the market because it was cheaper, since the company that developed it was basically giving it away, in order to be in all the smart phones around the world. 
Google and alphabet are extremely intrusive companies. They're venture capital firm is InQTel, which is a subsidiary of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

That is why Android got huge. No other reason. 

There are a ton of other reasons. 

You can get an Android phone to meet far more of your requirements than you can an iPhone. 

No one can deny this and Android phones were in the $1,000 plus range long before Apple went there. The difference is, from a $1,500 Android phone you can scale down through literally every price segment to the very cheapest options.

Want a gaming phone? 
Want an enormous screen? 
Want extra long battery life? 
Want a rugged phone? 
Want a folding phone? 
Want 5G?
Want super fast charging? 
Want super fast wireless charging? 
Want reverse charging? 
Want ultra fast WiFi 6?
Want far more control over the OS? 
Want camera versatility?
Want dual frequency GPS? 

The list is as long as people's needs virtually. 

If you're happy with what Apple decides you can get and the price they offer, then fine but clearly people like being able to choose from a massive variety of features across the full spectrum of phones. 

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

This Kindle book purchase limitation is only the very tip of the very tip of the iceberg when it comes to missing features in iOS apps. You literally cannot imagine the lost functionality in iOS apps due to restrictions placed on them by Apple. A third party app store, even one used by a small percentage of iOS users and devices, would expose what iOS users have been missing out on for the past decade. It would also prompt Apple to expand its SDK and make iOS products better in the long run.

linuxplatform said:

Beats said:

"It's time for [Amazon] to decide to use our payment mechanism or bow out."

I miss the old Apple. I feel Cook lacks the backbone Steve had. Android would have been a wasteland had Steve still been alive. Android has become large due to stealing, stealing, stealing.

Reality check 3: Android became large due to companies with a proven track record at hardware and software making great products that people wanted to buy. Claiming otherwise is an exercise in self-delusion. It would require believing that all of these very successful global companies are competent at everything else - so much so that Apple patronizes the likes of Google (cloud services), Qualcomm (components), Sony (ditto), LG (ditto plus monitors) and Samsung (ditto) - but smartphones. And then there are CONSUMERS. You would need to believe that the 50% of U.S. smartphone buyers, 65% of global tablet buyers and 85% of global smartphone buyers are for some reason purchasing year after year devices that are incapable of allowing them to watch videos, play games, send/receive text messages/emails/video calls and do productivity tasks. But Android devices - from the $35 Fire TV sticks to the $2000 Samsung Galaxy foldable phones and everything in between - do work and work well.

johnbear said:

The power of their CPU, need to use two devices to make up for one intel cpu. 

With their new CPU I guess they will be selling two MacBooks wrapped together in one package, like juice at Costco:) 

canukstorm said: 

They're restructuring because the person directly responsible for Intel's f**kups the past few years is being fired.