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  • Apple's iPhone X delivered a KO punch to cheap Androids: Q1 smartphone demand slumped glob...

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    avon b7 said:
    Dracarys said:
    What nonsense. Just because the profit margins went higher for Apple, doesn't mean that cheap phones are dying. 
    Much less that they delivered the 'KO punch' to cheap Androids.

    "Conversely, over the winter quarter commodity sales of cheap Chinese Android brands (including BKK's formerly fast-growing Vivo and OnePlus; LeEco; Coolpad and scores of others)"

    OnePlus! Since when was OnePlus cheap? Even the OnePlus One debuted at $299 for the cheapest model back in 2014. The OnePlus 6 will probably go for over $500.

    Huawei announced months ago that it would be pulling out of the low ground to focus on the middle, high and ultra high end. Long before the iPhone X appeared.

    https://www.channelnews.com.au/huawei-announces-move-away-from-low-end-smartphones/

    Seeing as it is one of the world's top three manufacturers I'd say it had an impact.

    Ironically, now that it has had major success with its push into the higher end and increased pricing by around $100 on many models, it has recently announced a controlled return to lower end phones. It's part of their roadmap and I very much doubt the iPhone X had anything to do with it.

    More likely the lowest end Android market was already moving in that direction as early as Q1 17 all by itself:

    https://www.counterpointresearch.com/affordable-premium-smartphones-grew-49-annually-in-q1-2017/

    That showed a 12% drop in low end handsets but a 49% leap in the 'affordable premium' segment which of course, isn't in the cheap segment either.






    Indeed. The title makes it sound like nobody's buying affordable Android phones anymore (which is a straight up lie). ASP does not equal more sales necessarily.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • April Fools: get ready for the worst jokes in the tech industry

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    andrewj5790 said:
    sfolax said:
    "April Fools" then continues to post links to his own previous articles. DED, you need to relax a little and stop being so defensive on everything.
    How many times does this have to be said? No. One. Else. Is. Calling. Out. The. Media. The whole point of DED articles is to defend against what no one else (except the Macalope) will call out as the preposterousness that it is. The whole point of the article is to be defensive, because most normal tech media attacks Apple all the time and builds up these false narratives. 
    Except that DED isn't using facts. He's building his own false narratives to fit his own needs. 

    The regular media is NOT attacking Apple, they just aren't always shining Apple as being flawless and that rubs DED the wrong way. It's a FACT that Siri is falling behind, it's a FACT that Chromebooks never went after the enterprise market (why would they? What enterprise is going to go for a web browser based OS? It makes no sense at all). 

    This article is so self serving that it's not even funny.
    avon b7cecil444hammeroftruthchasmelijahgmuthuk_vanalingamrevenantrogerramjet

  • Apple will let users download all iCloud and Apple ID data to comply with new European rul...

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    gatorguy said:
    I would certainly expect that to become available for North America and any other areas that Apple serves all at about the same time unless Apple is maintaining different databases for different countries, which I suppose they might.  Anyway good move in the name of transparency. 

    Apple News still isn't in Canada.
    jony0

  • Google faces $9 billion in damages after ripping off Java in Android

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    SpamSandwich said:
    Dracarys said:
    Another factually wrong article on here... DED will you ever write something factual other than embellished nonsense to fit a narrative?
    LOL!
    Well it's true. Just because Google faces court again doesn't mean they "ripped off" anything. This "article" is written as if it was a done deal, which it has been shown a few times already is not, but that doesn't fit the narrative here.
    singularity

  • Google faces $9 billion in damages after ripping off Java in Android

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    ericthehalfbee said:
    Good. The court made the right decision.

    I wonder what people think of Florian Mueller right now? Lots of hate thrown his way over the years and it turns out he was right. Not right like someone flipping a coin and claiming they had some kind of insight, but right in giving very detailed reasons why. And now this court decision aligns pretty closely to what Florian predicted.

    On the flip side we have Groklaw, shut down years ago in a cowardly manner, being proven wrong in Oracle vs Google.


    On a side note, I see the naysayers out with their typical doom & gloom saying stupid things like:

    - So I can now sue anyone who uses a=b(x)?
    - This is going to make everything more expensive for consumers as we’ll have countless lawsuits demanding licensing fees from developers.
    - Developers are screwed as any API they use will see big companies swoop in and bury them in lawsuits.
    - This will destroy open source.

    And so on. 
    Just because it's going back to court does not mean Florian Mueller was right. Stop spreading hyperbole.
    singularity