MacBAir

melgross said:

MacBAir said:

The only thing I can Agree with about all that is the pen. The rest is meh. The reason is because much of it isn't true.

great specs? Well, yeah, for Android.

best camera and screen? Sorry, but no to both of those. Just look at the just published review of the iPhone 7+ about the screen and camera from Anandtech, and the Displaymate review of the screen.

highest speczzz, true. Samsung usually hits the bullet points on specs that don't function well, or at all.

the design is pretty nice though. But according to Android Nation, it breaks much more easily than the iPhone 7+.

and again, the pen. I know two people who have had Notes, neither used the pen that much after the first couple of months. I'm sure there are some who are devoted to it. It's almost as easy using a pen on my 6+. But I need to carry it in my pocket. Otherwise it's about as easy as using the circular thing where some of those functions reside on the Note.

at any rate, the Note is the third best selling flagship phone for Samsung. The first is the plain S7, the second is the Edge.

You didn't properly understand my post. I was addressing the sub-categories of Note buyers.

I clearly stated: "they wanted an Android device with great specs". In no way did I imply that those specs are superior to the iPhone. It doesn't matter what the iPhone's specs are, because that sub-group of users want an Android device.

Best Camera: Yes. Samsung has, by far, the best camera for general photographies. Low light performance is miles ahead. The camera hardware is also better for general photography, and the exynos version has no issues with video (stereo sound, too.). Every review ends up stating that: From Ars, to the Verge, to DxO, to every single reviewer on youtube, to anyone that used both. If Anandtech stated that the iPhone camera was better, it's only because the reviewer focussed on other features (like the second camera) and gave his opinion, saying "for me having that trick is worth the trade-off of having a superior camera on every other metric". No one is denying that the camera is way better on the note.

Screen: Every reviewer, even displaymate, states that the Note screen is superior. They said that the iPhone had "the best and most accurate LCD on the market". I mean, it's modern AMOLED. No LCD, no matter how squeezed, actually beats that. Anandtech actually explains a lot of their tests.

The "speczz" was clearly targeting the users that associate higher numbers with better everything. They exist, and they won't buy an iPhone.

The design: Our opinion doesn't matter. Users that wanted the Note because of the design will buy a s7, not an iPhone.

Who in their right mind you:

• Buy a mac with a TN panel;
• Buy a Mac without a SSD;
• Buy a Mac that has components from 2 or 3 years ago?

That basically addresses all Macs on the market besides the rMB and the upgraded riMacs, that are expensive. Clearly this is the cause: Most Macs are crap.

However, Apple can easily mac the best personal computers. Are they waiting for something in particular? They have to be waiting for some special component, otherwise there's no excuse at all, besides milking uninformed users. 

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.

coolfactor said:

sog35 said:

heybartender said:

How is this design not a complete ripoff of the iPhone???

Ridiculous. They even copied the rumored blue color for the iPhone7

Pathetic company. I watched some of the 'event' and it played like a parody of an Apple event. So sad and pathetic. They should stick to ads

Actually, while I've developed an anti-Google stance, I'm extremely impressed by what they've pulled together, and how they're delivering an elegant, well-executed experience. I have tremendous respect for what they are announcing today. It really puts a spotlight on how Apple is falling behind on several fronts. Apple does have the huge advantage of in-house development of high-performance hardware that is not accessible to competitors, but that same competition is delivering in ways that are truly meaningful to end users.

The advantages that Apple brings to the marketplace is greatly blurred and subdued after today.

Like? Can you be more specific? I watched the whole keynote and saw nothing of relevance.

All I saw was a panic attack after Apple starting to open Siri to devs, a lower quality homekit competitor so Android doesn't get left for dead, a phone with pretty standard/medium hardware specifications (SoC, etc.) at iPhone 7/Galaxy prices and an worse, second grade, design (that, down to the wallpaper, is a pathetic attempt of a "me too" copy of it) and that's it.

Oh, I also saw the heads of the few users that bought Google's previous OnHub router explode.

There's nothing there that you can't do better on iOS. Nothing. Heck, you better believe that Google will have more iOS users using their most uptodate Apps (as far as latest API levels) than Android users, too.

But hey, still talking about the headphone jack. Let's revise this next year.

cali said:

This sounds very un-Apple. WTF is going on?

Why would they license tech and not develop their own product?

Producing an electric car changes nothing, even if the industry went upside down.

There are some very, very big conglomerates that have gentlemen agreements between them that makes the ME VS ALL approach to an auto-product not worth it at all.
I'm not saying that Apple couldn't make a fantastic car, superior on every metric to any other mass market car. They could, as time goes on it's all about electronics and software and supply chain, and no one can touch Apple on those parameters.

What I'm saying is: Unlike the cellphone industry, where Apple managed to get the support of big, big players like Google + AT&T in order to have a chance to sell and show a great product, there's no way in hell that Apple can hold a candle Vs FIAT + Daimler + Volkswagen + Exxon + Shell + PetroChina and so on.

Apple should and will completely ignore cars. More than ever, cars are toys and will become toys to petrolheads like me (911R, please). The real goldmine, the real issue, the real treasure, is transportation.

Apple should focus on Buses, Trains, Trucks and so on in order to have a big, global level impact. They should make a fully electric, modern bus that people actually want to use, and sell it to companies and countries (like Phone Carriers). Same for trains and trucks.

Cars are already a liability on big, with high population density, cities. The trillion dollars opportunity is transportation. Change and modernize that.