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Yawn. Check DED's archives circa 2012-2015. He insisted (among other things): 1. Apple would never have a phone with a screen bigger than 4' because the Android phones with larger screens were bad design. 2. Apple would never have an Ax SOC with more than 2 cores because Android phones only needed 4-6-8 cores because of bad design 3. Apple would never come out with a midrange phone because it was impossible to make a good product for less than the premium prices that Apple was charging and that $400 phones like the Moto X (which won phone of the year) were bad design 4. Apple will never offer phones at multiple price points and form factors because that was bad design that would result in inferior quality control and products, and Android OEMs like Samsung, LG, Motorola etc. offering this variety are going to be out of business any day now Expecting an "I was wrong" and "Apple learned useful things from observing how Android OEMs were innovating with product design and marketing" would be a bit much from DED. Even if it was 100% true. Especially since according to DED, Android was supposed to have collapsed by now with Google either being a tiny company focused primarily on search and ads - which DED said was also in a steep decline and would never recover - or out of business altogether. Stuff like: https://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/rabid-fanboy-guest-blogger-daniel-eran-dilger-on-why-android-will-fail.html with "The future: ... for Android, bleak" "Google claims Android phones will be able to do this, but your experience may vary. There is also considerable risk that an Android phone may or may not be unable to play music or videos. And this nugget: "Who’s paying you off? Google? Verizon? Motorola? In Gartner’s case this amounts to hilarious projections in which Gartner claims Android will outsell iPhone at some point in the future, a projection based on nothing, it would appear, other than Gartner’s own wishful thinking and decades-long hatred of Apple. At TechCrunch the problem is more serious as this “blog” has devoted itself to an irrational smear campaign against Apple that boggles the mind and has raised serious questions about the ethics of that particular site and its potential conflicts of interest in matters involving Google." So, er, yeah. Not really.

Precisely the sort of articles that will NEVER appear on ANY Apple site:

https://www.androidcentral.com/iphone-se-2020-just-killed-pixel-4a-and-other-value-flagships

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/04/04/do-yourself-a-favor-and-buy-an-ipad-during-lockdown/

https://www.droidgamers.com/2019/03/26/google-if-you-plan-on-taking-mobile-gaming-seriously-you-need-to-respond-to-apple-arcade/

https://www.androidcentral.com/why-iphone-better-work-home-tool-android-phone 

Which is why Android vs Apple "comparisons" are useless on Apple sites except to tell everyone what they want to hear.

Kind of a silly "comparison." If you like Android and need a secondary or cheaper device, get a Motorola or Nokia (not a Samsung which will only get one update). If you like iOS and need a secondary or cheaper device this is as good an option as there is if you are fine with less than a 5' screen. Also, unlike the Android sites - which regularly recommend iPads over Android tablets and even recently admitted that the iPhone is better for productivity if you have a MacBook (but that Android is better for entertainment?!?) or the Windows sites that reluctantly admit the merits of Android and macOS and iOS - you are never going to find any Apple site that will acknowledge that any Android device is better - or even a good option - for any user in any context. So why even bother with articles like these? Go back to articles maybe 4 years ago prior to the iPhone 6. If you said you needed a larger screen and a stylus and a bunch of other features that weren't present in iOS at the time but were major differentiators for Android this site claimed: no one needs a stylus, screens bigger than 4' inches are tacky and trash, all the extra Android features are gimmicks etc. so no one "needs" a stylus or a bigger screen so no one should get a Galaxy Note or any other Android device. Immediately after Apple comes out with those features? Oh my goodness these are the greatest things imaginable that REALLY open up mobile computing! So, yeah right. Again. First off, there is no reason to make the comparison in the first place. Second, even if there were, there isn't a single Apple site on the planet that would actually acknowledge that an Android device is actually worthy of comparison. I don't know maybe it is the inferiority complex that Apple fans have that comes from Apple being dominated by Wintel for 30 years in the PC market that prevents Apple fans from being able to acknowledge the merits of the competition. Which again strangely Windows, Android and even Linux fans have no problem doing. Example: lots of Linux diehards will freely acknowledge the benefits of either getting the best Windows device you can find and dual booting - and will even recommend such that are ideal for it like the Dell XPS line - or state that Macs are "the next best thing" for those who can afford at least $2500 for one worth having. It is only Apple sites that pretend to "compare" their products with products from only platforms, shockingly "decide" that the areas where the Apple products are superior are the ones that truly matter to the comparison areas and the other areas are "gimmicks", "poorly implemented" or "no one uses them anyway" and then cites Apple marketing slogans as objective facts in "reviews."

anantksundaram said:

Yeah, the big HomePod was SUCH a hit, we need a small one. 

Make it work with a typical TV or shut it down. 

Huh? No one uses the Google Home or Amazon Echo devices as soundbars, not even the Home Max/Echo Studio devices that cost about as much as a HomePod. So there was no expectation for Apple to come out with a device that is actually cheaper than all good soundbars (or good stereo systems) just so people can hook them up to their Roku smart TVs and save a bit of money. Apple wanted the HomePod to be a HomeKit ecosystem device, full stop.

gatorguy said:

loopless said:

Our company is a heavy buyer of Dell workstations and laptops. Without exception that are unmitigated pieces of junk that barely last 2 years. The number of failures we have with Dells is tragic and they are just poorly designed built to a price throw away crap. Compared to the amazing longevity of Apple hardware there is no comparison. Just helped a friend replace his perfectly functional 2008 MacBook Pro. My 2014 27” iMac is a joy to use.

Your experience is just the opposite of ours. I don't remember any Dell computer in our company failing "after just two years", and in fact we're just now in the process of replacing one in accounting that's been in service for 14 years. Others in the company are as much as 9 years old and show no signs of failure. Heck we just upgraded two of those almost decade old machines to Win10 without issue, and I think there's one or two more older Win7 computers to do. 

Exactly. What this guy failed to realize when he threw that out there: the Windows PC business is extremely competitive, a shark tank with like 8-10 companies with excellent R&D and marketing departments fighting over what for most of them are tiny margins. And enterprise/home consumers have none of the loyalty that they did maybe 20-25 years ago when companies had the "we only wear Brooks Bros, drive Mercedes and use IBM here." These days if another Windows manufacturer comes along with a better deal they'll switch without batting an eye. So if Dells actually were that bad or even close, his company would have switched to Lenovo or HP long ago.