Brandon916

red oak said:

It's all moot in 3 years when Apple brings to market its own chips.   This deal is just a bridge to get there.   And then Qualcomm will be shown the proverbial door.  And, the FTC anti-monoply trail is still upcoming - that could turn this all on its head on its own 

But you'd never know this looking at the QCOM stock surge over the last couple of days 

foregoneconclusion said:

Billionaires always use tax shelters for philanthropy, thus they're not really using "their fortune". Give them credit for the choices they make on where it goes, not on the money part of it. The taxpayers are the ones that are really funding these things. 

viclauyyc said:

nunzy said:

Steve probably gave more than 40 Billion to charity but he never bragged about it.

I don’t think Steve is ever big on charity. Even if he was, when he passed away, his net worth was around 10.8B. Pretty far from 40B.

JFC_PA said:

Prefer random shutdowns from a naturally failing (it’s the chemistry) battery? Not me. 

tzeshan said:

avon b7 said:

tzeshan said:

The Chinese smartphone makers try to copy every new feature of iPhone in order to justify their "flagship" smartphones are competitive to iPhone. Unfortunately they are falling behind in the last two years. The iPhone 7 Plus introduced dual rear camera which is popular. One the selling points of Chinese smartphone is always they shoot better picture than iPhone. But after more than one year the Android world is still not able to produce a dual camera as good as the iPhone.  The examples are Samsung S8 Edge and Google Pixel 2 Plus. Then last year Apple introduced highly accurate FaceID in iPhone X. Several component makers are trying to create a FaceID compatible kit. It seems the MWC no smartphone has FaceID compatible smartphone to show off. So it seems an Android FaceID is still far off. So without two very important new features in iPhone, the Chinese smartphone makers stopped being able to increase their sales every in the home country. 

The iPhone 7 Plus wasn't the first dual camera phone.

It was the only Apple phone that had dual cameras for a year, though. For a while, one of the big features of that phone (Portrait Mode) was in beta.

A portrait mode equivalent already existed on the phone that had dual cameras before the iPhone 7 Plus.

The manufacturer had a whole family of dual camera phones out before Apple shipped its second dual camera model. I'm not sure what you are referring to by 'better' camera. 

How do these photos look to you?

https://petapixel.com/2016/05/31/review-huawei-p9-phone-camera/

They are from a dual camera phone and months before the first Apple dual camera phone even existed.

'Android FaceID' is not 'far off'. It already exists and was even revealed just weeks after Apple revealed FaceID. The roadmap had it scheduled for Q118 and AFAIK, that is still the plan although the one I'm thinking about won't appear at MWC itself but the following month (and have three cameras FWIW). That doesn't rule out someone else announcing such a feature at MWC though. I can think of two candidates.

I think one of Google Android strategy is to use sea of Android smartphones to bury iPhone. To make it harder for Apple to claim innovation the new features will appear in this and that Android smartphones.  Even though they don't sell because of poor quality.