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kent909 said:

This is all assuming that life cannot exist without Cloud storage of our data. How did we ever make it to the 21st century without the ability to store our data somewhere other than on our own computers. /s. If you don't want your government to  have access to your data, then don't put it in the Cloud. But we all know no one is looking for a simple solution, just drama.

StrangeDays said:

“smaller than Fruit Phone X”

“compared to the fruit company”

...so they admire Apple enough to ape their designs, but not enough to use its name? Is it an attempt to disrespect Apple or what? Weird.

Anyway, what’s the point of a notch if they’re still going to have chins on the bottom!? And the icon margins against the corners seems clumsy. LOL at the icons clipped by the notch or corners. Keep trying, guys. 

Is it an attempt to disrespect Apple or what? It looked to me that way when I read the news in gsmarena. That too after copying an idea blatantly. It looks very distasteful to me. Even Gsmarena guys mocked their "26% less notch" part, pointing out the lack of FaceID components in Asus's phone that would obviously reduce the notch area required.

Edit: Excerpts from GSMArena hands-on review of Asus zenfone 5 & 5z:

Asus likes to point out their notch is smaller than Apple's. That's probably because they didn't need to fit a nearly impossible to miniaturize Kinect sensor beneath, but yes - Asus wins. Yay!

Flipping the Zenfone 5 or 5z isn't helping to shake the iPhone X reminiscence. On the contrary - it looks like an iPhone X even more with that horizontal dual-camera setup that's even humping like the X's. Yes, we are all for competition, options and choices, but sometimes too much is too much.

deminsd said:

StrangeDays said:

jsmythe00 said:

Things aren't flying off the shelves. Can't be that coveted .Not seeing any sold out signs anywhere .

And although you can't take too much stock in supply chain movement, I'm willing to bet the huge drop in Samsung screen demand is due to lackluster demand for IPX

Sorry but you’re full of shit — Cook contradicts your troll claim directly, saying it was the best selling of all iphones every week it was out last quarter. Oops. 

What other narratives are you pushing?

Here's something to blow your mind...another perspective!  Yes, the ONE quarter that the iPhone was available, it was 1) Brand new, so will sell heavily, and 2) Christmas, so everyone is looking for a present to give.  Tim was right.  THAT quarter is was HOT!  NOW, sadly, that quarter is over.  Possibly, just possibly, most everyone that wanted one, got one in the 1st three months.  Christmas gift-giving is over.  Is it plausible that sales will be down this quarter and the next and the next?  Of course it is if you remove your bias...

How do you like your iPhone X, btw?

DanielEran said:

 I write to be correct.

I know the industry, and I have a decade of work out there anyone can evaluate for accuracy.

Like this? http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/29/apple-incs-thermonuclear-assault-on-samsung-vaporizes-androids-remaining-profit-pillar-

Just couple of lines from that article:

Samsung is now back to square one; it's stuck partnering with Google the way HTC, LG, Lenovo, Xiaomi and others are, with a similarly hopeless outlook for ever being wildly profitable again. Essentially, Samsung's phone business is now in the same place as its tablet business, or the tablet business of every other Android licensee.

Rayz2016 said:

gatorguy said:

Heck, I've been saying for years that Google sucks at marketing their products. Just look at the Home Max for example: Barely a whisper of marketing buzz from Google, unlike Apple no "amazings" and "magicals" and trotting out near daily mentions delivered by well-placed 3rd party media friends of Apple to spread their story for them.  Until it began receiving pretty favorable reviews prompted by comparisons to Apple's HomePod (which Apple invited) almost zero media coverage of the HomeMax, and what there was tended to be negative, too much bass and too muddy in the mids being common mentions. Then Apple releases the HomePod, their marketing machine goes into overdrive to shine a bright and focused light on smart-speakers and now the media suddenly takes notice the HomeMax (among some others) is actually pretty good, maybe not so bass-y and muddy afterall.

Google marketing of Google products is the antithesis to Apple's. They should be thankful there's a marketplace marketing pro like Apple to raise awareness as Google evidently doesn't particularly care about putting the proper team and resources together to do so for themselves. But they want to be taken seriously about hardware. Well OK then, good luck with that. Better pay more attention to Apple showing the right way to promote yourself. Google may know the "what" but they're awful at the "why". 

Somehow tho the article ends up seriously confused by the difference between online ad placements for companies and brands who can vette the effectiveness of Google-placed ads  for themselves ( and evidently pretty darn satisfied they work considering the $B's they give em) and Google marketing of their own products. The two are hardly one and the same any more than they are for Apple. The article doesn't seem to recognize that.

In the U.K. at least, the advertising for the Pixel was pretty good, and certainly saw a lot more television exposure than the new iPhones. 

The problem is that Google’s business is selling ads and consumer data; everything they do is geared around that. The problem is that Android’s low end consumers aren’t worth much to advertisers, but they make up the largest part of the Android market. The high end is small, and Google is smart enough to look at worst case scenarios and try to mitigate them. If Samsung gets its own phone operating system to work then Google could lose access to the more valuable consumers using Samsung phones. If Apple goes with another search engine then they’ll lose a whole lot more. This is why they’ve decided to compete with their partners. They need to build that high end; that’s where the ad money works.