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The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts
zacharye writes "The Sunday evening Wall Street Journal article claiming that Apple had cut its iPhone 5 display orders drastically for the March quarter made quite a splash. The way WSJ wrote its piece seemed to support the original Nikkei claim about Apple cutting its iPhone 5 display orders in half from the originally planned order of 65 million units. This would be a massive adjustment. But Apple uses the same new display type for both iPhone 5 and the latest iPod touch. Neither WSJ nor Nikkei addressed this, however — both seemed to be referring to just iPhone 5 displays. The math just doesn't add up."
...anyone who takes anything seriously from the WSJ anymore is an idiot.
Umm... iOS has never had a single issue of malware in the wild. There also hasn't been a successful jailbreak of iOS 6 on any device newer than 2010.
Android is a festering petri dish of malware with no assurances that a game from a store is going to slurp up contacts, photos, and use a phone as a spam machine. (Yes, there is a permissions request dialog, but lets be real... how many users that are not as sophisticated as /. readers actually bother looking at those. iOS prompts explicitly for perms on first use, same with BlackBerries.)
Apple has a good thing going. One hundred percent security is an impressive feat in the mobile market.
What do you mean by again?
Apple never innovated in the first place.
The only thing that Apple did differently was pour millions of dollars into advertising. The amount of marketing Apple used was unheard of in the smartphone market. The fact you think the Iphone was innovative when it did less than existing Symbian WinMo phones is proof that this worked. The problem Apple has is that everyone has acclimatised to that level of marketing that Apple used.
Point in short. The shiny has rubbed off and now people see Apple as "just another phone company".
Competition is a good thing.
Competition is a good thing(TM) but I cant see Apple competing. The fact they keep suing their competitors to try to stop or slow their sales demonstrates they've lost the ability to compete (or simply didn't have it in the first place).
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
The louder you brag about those numbers the more you piss of the suckers who are paying for them. That is Apple's problem right now, their ego driven customers are just starting to wake up to being schmucks, suckers and pigeons. Buying the latest model, buying the full product range, being walking advertisement except now they are not advertising Apple sleek saturation marketed products, they are advertising their gullibility.
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