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Habi_tweet said:

Actually that really doesnt help Apple one bit... Selling those "second hand" units as new sales is what Apple would need... But they wanted to hold on to only the hight end and give away the middle range market to Samsung (android) phones. Those are a lot of lost sales for Apple. Now there are people who wouldnt be caught dead buying used hardware, so those really dont have any knowledge of Apple products and they are the people that mostly talk shit about Apple. Maybe cause they might have wanted to try but didnt see the value...

sflagel said:

You know why feel intimate with our iPhones? Because they force us to feed it every night with electricity, because we need to constantly check that the battery is still full. Because we have to "care" for it so it does not die on us. 

melgross said:

While I can generally agree with the article, there are things missing from it. One is that it’s entirely focused on Google. But Samsung sells a fair number of tablets. It’s estimated, as we don’t know how many smartphones, smart watches or tablets they really sell, as they don’t say in quarterly reports, that Samsung sells between 15 and 25% as many tablets as Apple. We don’t know if Samsung’s tablet sales have fallen in recent years as Apple’s has, something the article also fails to address.

but Samsung does it’s own SoCs, as Apple does. We don’t know exactly what the differences Samsung’s has, as they don’t just use their own. But a big thing here is that Google is apparently getting tired of not having a state of the art SoC. They’ve begun a chip division, hiring away a major designer from Apple, and I suspect, from others as well. We’ll see how that works out, as it will take a couple of years for any result of that to become available. Will they make these for the Android market in general, or just for themselves? Nobody knows.

if we poo poo their SoC before it comes out, just remember that the same thing was said about Apple’s attempt, before that came out.