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WiseGuy said:

Felt compelled to create an account when I came across this one (read: too lazy, but this piece got me fired up)

The idea of Google manufacturing their own phones is fine by me. Just a hypothesis, but I believe Google is the only company (if at all), other than Apple which can actually deliver mobile hardware innovations. 
That's good for the consumers, and hopefully a little bit of legitimate competition will see the iPhone move beyond incremental updates with every iteration.

More importantly, it would spell Doom™ for that scumbag of a company, Samsung. And HTC.

PS. Former Samsung S4 owner. I hate them from the bottom of my heart.

Uh no. All of Google's hardware initiatives have failed. The Nexus only succeeds because they are built by hardware companies that know what they're doing. 

No way that LG, Huawei, or HTC build Google phones without their own branding. 

And Google is incompetent with hardware.  

Even Microsoft is incompetent with hardware. 

As far as Google being more valuable than Apple, ludicrous. It's due to Wall Street traders who have no knowledge of the technology industry. They simply see Google aping Apple technology the same way that Microsoft did so many years ago. It made Microsoft the largest company for a long time and they see Google trying to duplicate that model. Apple still gets 94% of the smartphone profits. Android makes nothing for Google as a standalone product and is dwarfed by iOS as an advertising platform. 

Apple will drop Google search as the default engine. It is coming. They are still a little sensitive over the whole maps issue. Still, Google maps is being steadily displaced off of the iPhone. 

Apple still has some big things in store and Google will be in serious trouble. Just a matter of time. 

Microsoft making a colossal mistake by tying themselves to x86 exclusively. 

The ARM ecosystem is far more robust and healthier than x86 with one manufacturer who is on life support and the other who is no longer innovative. 

It really is about performance. And the A9X blows the Core M out of the water for sustained performance. 

Intel can't cheat their way out of this one. But they have bred the Core M to be a quarter horse. Very fast sprinter, but short duration only. In any sustained workload, the Mustang like approach to the A(n)X series is vastly superior. 

And the battery life is vastly better. Keep the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. I will no longer purchase a machine with an x86 CPU. 

Besides Paul Thurrott, the penultimate Microsoft apologist has some pretty harsh words for the Surface line of machines. 

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/64095/welcome-to-surfacegate

sirlance99 said:

stevie said:

I hate Google.

Congratulations! You want a cookie?

Many businesses use Google heavily and use iPhones as well.

My business uses Google also. But I don't. And if I find out a business uses Google, I go elsewhere. 

Apple still generates nearly all of the smartphone profits. 

They are still the most profitable PC maker but those sales were off also. 

If Apple is experiencing difficulty with sales and profits, the rest of the industry is in far greater distress. 

Like Bill Gates himself wasn't using the Macintosh during the early days of the IBM PC. He even referred to the computer as sand (Steve's amazing new device). 

Given the Microsoft culture these days, using an iPhone for a Twitter post is probably a bad move. 

He wasn't using android and that is far more revealing.