cnocbui

nolamacguy said:

cnocbui said:

What was the technology that suddenly made a larger screen size meet Apple's requirements and where you can point out superiority over all preceding large screen phones?

do yourself a favor and read the Ive interview in the New Yorker. he answered your question specifically. thinness. they began with big displays first, of course, since the iPhone began as a tablet. but even at the iPhone 4 stage they were too chunky in his opinion. that changed w/ the 6.

sog35 said:

cnocbui said:

This fine is just the start.  Australia and Ireland will follow and moves are afoot to close the door on this sort of dreadful multinational corporate tax minimisation so the days of Apple and other multinationals amassing huge piles of cash, to the extent they have been able to paying just 2% tax, may be soon over.

Add in a dose of -

Foxconn reduces overtime as iPhone holiday sales fall 5% to 10% under expectations?

- and you have a bad news day.

That's all old news from MONTHS ago (Aus, Ireland tax, iPhone weakness)

The only new news was Italy.  

So Apple will pay a $300  million fine and the stock goes down $7 billion.  Makes no fucking sense.

sog35 said:

mjtomlin said:

LMAO

This has to be the dumbest comment ever posted.

Why is it dumb?  This fine is the only reason the stock is down so much. 

Because of Tim Cook every single slight negative gets blown out of proportion. The reason is because Wall Street thinks Apple is a hardware company, the iPhone Inc.  And that is a failure of Tim Cook not conviencing Wall Street Apple is an ecosystem company.

Foxconn reduces overtime as iPhone holiday sales fall 5% to 10% under expectations?

wood1208 said:

Thanks to Apple's very high quality demand that forced innovation in OLED,

digitalclips said:

cnocbui said:

The 'problem' is that Apple phones don't have OLED screens at the moment while Samsung phones obviously do, so OLED has to be considered to be an inferior technology right up to the minute Apple releases a phone with an OLED screen when suddenly it will become the best technology since sliced bread and the ass-covering will take the form: Apple's OLED panels are better than anyone elses and all those that existed in products before the iPhone can be discounted as grossly inferior. There will be claims that OLED panels have only become good enough because Apple has secretly been researching the OLED tech that is in the new panels, based on Apple marketing inventing and using some term like 'retina' in describing 'their' new displays.

I have argued with people that claims of burn-in are grossly exaggerated and are limited to extreme cases, but no doubt any panels Apple uses will be touted as being somehow superior to all others and free of the non-issue because Apple has solved the 'problem' because of some marketing spiel.
Think of all the BS arguments on AI for years about the inferiority of phones with screens larger than what were in iPhones - right up until iPhones got them. It's exactly like that nonsense.

You have it entirely backwards.  Apple only introduce technologies when they work the way Apple want them to, taking everything into consideration.  Samsung on the other hand will introduce a new technology just so they have bragging rights, even if there are huge downsides to using said technology that are not obvious at first.