cnocbui

corrections said:

cnocbui said:

Apple following in Samsung's footsteps.  Samsung's largest overseas research and development center is located in Bangalore, which they started in 1995 and which has 4,500 employees.  They have a further two research centres in India and overall they employ 10,000 people.  Samsung's Bada OS was developed in Bangalore and I suspect Tizen probably was too.  Nokia used to employ a lot of engineers there too.

It weakens your argument to surface facts about Bada and Tizen, both of which have been major disappointing flops.

jbdragon said:

cnocbui said:

Android have 85% of world market share - so that's 'what'.  What you, I or anyone else thinks is irrelevant.  All Samsung have to do is make those processors and sell them for a profit.  It doesn't matter if Qualcom dump them in the sea so long as they abide by their contract and Pay Samsung for making them.

WOW, now it's 85%? Who's saying that? Is that a new fandroid number? Market share isn't everything. It's great for Google I guess, but no one is really making any money from Android other then Google. Samesung profits have been dropping, and most everyone is is breaking even or losing money currently. Which is why APPLE is making around 94% of the Smartphone profits!!! Who would you rather be. The Company's (Android) selling a Zillion phones and breaking even, or Apple selling 1 iPhone and making a $50 profit? Because that's basically what's happening when it comes right down to it. Who's really winning? Ever hear the saying, "Work Smarter, Not Harder!"? Sure Apple could sell a zillion lower end iphone iPhones for $200 a pop and make no money on them. What would be the point of that, Market Share? You're now devaluing your brand doing that. Which in turn slows sales of the higher end phones that actually make money. Apple is #1 is the $1000+ PC market. Goes to show how many CHEAP Window PC's are sold at razer thin profits!!! Apple has been doing just fine in that market. There is zero need to be #1 at the cost of making no money.

Rayz2016 said:

cnocbui said:

The iphone fingerprint sensor can be defeated by modelling a print off the device itself.  

Unfortunately, the modelling process needs a perfect fingerprint (not the smudged, distorted kind you find on a mobile phone), several days and several attempts, a skilled technician, and a lot of luck. This is probably why the process seems to only have been tried once or twice successfully under perfect lab conditions. Certainly nothing you can do in a hurry if you're trying to prevent a criminal act.

The process also destroys the original fingerprint, so you can't reuse it if the process fails. And of course, if you make too many attempts (which you may do because you don't know which fingers were used to lock the phone) then you will probably cause the phone to lock completely before you get anywhere. 

If you have the phone and not the owner, then he will simply wipe the phone remotely before you've even managed to complete your first cast (though sensibly you'd probably try to cast as many as you can in one go).

I thought changing the fingerprint reader might be a way in, but apparently the phone makes a component check and bricks itself, so we recently discovered.