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  • iPhone dominates premium smartphone market with 62% of sales in Q1 2022

    BeatsBeats
    “Premium” android phones are snake oil. Can’t believe people fall for their crap. Talk about sheep. 
    lkruppjas99lolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple sold five of the top ten smartphones in April 2022

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    M68000 said:
    Beats said:
    I wonder why iPhone SE isn’t #5? Why isn’t “mini” on the list?

    The mini is gigantic. If Apple made the “mini” the size of the SE screen that would be nice. Not sure why it has to be so freaking huge. 
    I disagree,  the mini is not gigantic.  It’s actually a great size.   As far as I know there was little or no marketing of the mini phone.   All the reports say sales were low.  But that does not mean it is bad phone.   I did not have the iPhone X. But thinking back,  it’s 5.8 inch screen size may have been the ideal size for a phone.  The mini is just a bit smaller and that smaller size allows for easy one hand use.   But many consumers may not think of such things as ease of holding it.  
    As someone with large hands I think the mini and SE are hard to use. Neither don’t fit in my gyms exercise equipment phone holders. That should tell you how bad the industry has gotten.

    I held onto the 5S as long as possible and that was truly a one-handed device.



    The mini should be the size of the SE’s screen at least. That would differentiate it enough. As of now, it’s just not worth it.
    leftoverbacon

  • Google uses Drake's 'Texts Go Green' track to troll Apple

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    Darth_KalEL said:
    docbburk said:
    Google is such a joke! Let's poke fun at the competitor for having had superior product for a long time, and try to get congress to force them to use our crap!  Trolls gonna troll
    RCS is not Google's "crap" RCS is a s standard developed by the 3GPP and the OMA. The first specification for the standard was released by them in 2008 as the next generation of text messaging service as a replacement for SMS and MMS. It was developed the same way they developed the standard for 3G and 4G. Educate yourself. But you won't and you are too much of a coward to respond.

    It’s not that serious haha. But I don’t trust anything Google pushes. If Google can’t get their hands in your data, Google doesn’t care.

    At this point I doubt Google is twiddling their thumbs and confused about how to improve iMessages beyond RCS.
    watto_cobra

  • Google uses Drake's 'Texts Go Green' track to troll Apple

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    Darth_KalEL said:
    Beats said:
    “It would make texting more secure too”???

    What a sick company. Apple should sue them for lying and make a big media circus about it. 
    Do you think RCS is something Google came up with? It's not. The 3GPP and the OMA developed it in the mid 2000s and released the first standard spec in 2008 with the goal of it replacing SMS. RCS is was designed by them to be more secure.

    No. I just know there’s an agenda behind their push.
    jony0

  • Electric vehicle maker Polestar beats Tesla to Apple CarPlay

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    illrigger said:
    Beats said:
    illrigger said:
    Beats said:
    If the new CarPlay UI is an indication of what Apple Car could/would look like.

    DAMN.

    Polestar's current built-in OS is Android Auto (no phone connection needed, it's built from the ground up by Google), so you don't have to imagine very hard - it'll basically be the same as it is now but with an Apple UI instead of a Google one.

    No, no, no. I was suggesting imagine THE ENTIRE CAR from hardware to features. 

    So, basically the same thing as everyone else but 20% more expensive, more colorful and with a proprietary charge port? (Kidding!)

    Are you joking about the “same thing as everyone” part? Because I’d like to see a time Apple did the same thing as everyone else when they released a product. 
    lolliverwatto_cobraJanNL