So what this has proved is that Google *can* set up human-readable Google+ addresses, it just won't. Unless it's some socially-inept programmer on the G+ team who has taken offense at something you've done and wants to make a point.
Yes, but the number quoted for Apple is from 2007 through to June 2012 and lists 85 million units. It equates to about 17 million a year on average.
What's the point of talking about yearly averages when each model of iPhone has sold as many as every previous iteration combined, and the iPhone 4S is on track to continue the trend?
That’s the estimate from IDC. So why bother asking?
Because that is an estimate. Of the 104 million Android phones shipped in the quarter (itself an estimate from another, possibly different methodology), I could only account for 7 million actually reported.
Summary: thanks to obfuscation by Samsung, even a specialist phone-industry analyst has no frickin' idea how many - or how few - phones the company has actually sold. "The company stopped reporting any data on either overall phone shipments or of smartphones since Q3 2011."
Also, it isn't very statistically accurate combining all the iPhone variants into one when comparing to each Samsung model separately.
Documents filed by Samsung lawyers on Thursday reveal that, from June 2010 through June 2012, Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, generating $7.5 billion in revenue.
The problem is that they could have 99% of the profit in the market, it doesn't matter if they keep on losing market share. Eventually, their profits will drop.
That's plainly not true. If every day the mobile industry increases by 100 users, and 99 of those are people with no disposable income who take whatever Android handset the carrier lets them have for free and never spend a cent on content, while the 1 remaining person has disposable income and buys an iPhone and then buys lots of apps and media, then Apple is quite happy to lose market share. Because whatever overall market share it might have, it has close to 100% of the market share that counts: people who have and spend money.
In Germany. The court-filed figures report US sales. So if Samsung really sold 2.4 million tablets last quarter, as IDC estimates, 1.5% were sold in the U.S. and 98.5% overseas. In other words, bullshit.
The problem is that they could have 99% of the profit in the market, it doesn't matter if they keep on losing market share.
Apple isn't losing market share. It retains, and is growing, its share of the market that matters: people with disposable income who are happy to spend it on mobile products and services. If that 16% that Apple has represents 100% of the people who spend money, it's more sensible to say that Apple has 100% of the market share that matters. The rest is freeloaders and poor people that don't matter.
You are making a mistake that's easy to make - you're believing what Samsung says. Samsung has a policy of withholding SALES figures because they're "commercially sensitive" and reporting SHIPMENTS instead. That is to say, Samsung reports how many phones it has put in boxes and sent to stores - it doesn't report how many of them got bought. That leaves analysts and journalists to make educated guesses as to how many phones Samsung has actually sold, and of course the closer the relationship between Samsung and those third parties the more enthusiastic their educated guess are. Google muddies the waters further by reporting "activations" and then the analysts and journalists make more guesses. And because there are a whole lot of entities with a vested interest in Apple having strong competition, a whole lot of articles get published claiming awesome things about Samsung's phone business. But you need to remember... they're guesses, made by people who have a personal stake in those guesses being good numbers.
Now Samsung is being sued by Apple, and the court doesn't give a shit about "shipments" and "activations per day". The court cares about SALES. So Samsung has been compelled to produce actual verifiable sales data.
They're not good.
According to Samsung's response to the court, filed last Thursday, from June 2010 through June 2012 Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, generating $7.5 billion in revenue. By way of comparison, sold more phones in six WEEKS over the holiday period than Samsung sold across its entire range in the two YEARS up to the start of last month. Shit, Apple sold 4 million iPhone 4Ss in FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.
You can't say "oh that's biased this report from IDC says something much better and this forum post at androidforum.com says something much better" because these are Samsung's official figures entered into the record of a lawsuit. They have come from the legal department, not the marketing department.
Note: I will confess to feeling severe cringe when John Holdren was proclaiming that the USA is the first country to land a probe on another planet. Because it isn't.
He's also professes to be a faithful Christian - so he's either telling the truth, in which case he isn't committed to seeking answers through science, or he's lying, in which case he can't be trusted. Either way, it ain't good.
CNN NASA lost a 125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agencys team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
The units mismatch prevented navigation information from transferring between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team in at Lockheed Martin in Denver and the flight team at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The navigation mishap killed the mission on a day when engineers had expected to celebrate the crafts entry into Mars orbit.
After a 286 day journey, the probe fired its engine on September 23 to push itself into orbit.
The engine fired but the spacecraft came within 60 km/36 miles of the planet about 100 km closer than planned and about 25 km/15 miles beneath the level at which the it could function properly, mission members said.
The latest findings show that the spacecrafts propulsion system overheated and was disabled as Climate Orbiter dipped deeply into the atmosphere, JPL spokesman Frank ODonnell said.
That probably stopped the engine from completing its burn, so Climate Orbiter likely plowed through the atmosphere, continued out beyond Mars and now could be orbiting the sun, he said.
I noticed that the White House called this "a great day for America", "a great day for this nation", etc. Repeat ad nauseam.
Would it really have killed them to say "a great day for humanity"? I don't think Americans would have minded.
As a non-American that's the sort of thing that normally makes me cringe. But you know what? Today I don't give a fuck. NASA has to beg for every cent it gets from the Federal govt and anything NASA does to justify the money it gets is fine by me today.
As a space geek I totally understand why this sort of language is getting used. It's marketing. NASA has to sell this sort of stuff to Bubba the Taxpayer. Bubba don't care about searching for life on other planets. All that science shit is for the nerds Bubba used to bully in highschool. But label it AMERICA KICKING ASS and all of a sudden Bubba does care, and you better believe he's in favor of it.
Turn the whole fucking event into an ad for NASA with a tagline of "AMERICA FUCK YEAH" and then see if either of the Presidential candidates dares go into an election promising to cut space funding. I'll grin and bear it.
I'm amazed at the indolent culture spawned by the iPhone: Nowadays, you can't just go to a website. You have to have a special executable for every single different website you visit!
The Youtube app had one reason for existence: to bully Google into transcoding all of Youtube's content repository into an HTML5-viewable form. Google did it, now the licensing has expired, and neither Apple nor Google WANTS there to be a Youtube app.
Apple wants that content to be viewable normally in Mobile Safari. Google wants to kill the Apple-coded Youtube app because it skips advertisements. Both companies get what they want out of the app being dropped.
We've got some damn fine people working on this. And a lot of them will be looking for work after the next round of NASA budget cuts - no matter who wins the next election.
NASA's budget as a fraction of federal spending is 0.48%. That's the lowest it's been since 1960. And it's getting smaller.
Dig on this:
Curiosity project budget: USD 2.5 billion
Cost of "War on Terror" so far: USD 1.36 trillion and counting (yes that's one thousand three hundred and sixty billion)
Apple doesn't give a shit about keeping up on features. It will gladly throw away 99 "nice to have" features in order to make sure that 1 "must-have" feature is as good as it can possibly be. You can bet that every single thing that the iPhone has ever been derided for lacking - no 3G, can't copy and paste, no notification system, blah blah - was on a list during development and got crossed out because it wasn't as important at that moment as some other feature.
You mean like the LG Prada and the Samsung F700, all release within months of each other back in 2006 compared to the i device?
I know nothing about the LG phone but the Samsung F700 wasn't even announced until 16 Feb 2007 at the Barcelona 3GSM WC event, a month after Apple had demonstrated the iPhone at Macworld on 9 January 2007.
Ever looked at the nokia-line? 3310? 8850? And a zillion other phones just like that?
What, you mean phones that are NOT flat on the front, have LOTS of interface elements (shit, count the frickin' buttons), are NOT flat in the back, and are NOT rectangular - and in the case of the 8850, actually change shape and size depending on what you're doing at the time?
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Retailers don't make a habit of replenishing stock that isn't selling.
Unless that stock that didn't sell is returned to the manufacturer - an activity that doesn't need to be reported.
For very large values of "matters".
So what this has proved is that Google *can* set up human-readable Google+ addresses, it just won't. Unless it's some socially-inept programmer on the G+ team who has taken offense at something you've done and wants to make a point.
GOOGLE, WE GET SOCIAL!
(For very large values of "get")
Yes, but the number quoted for Apple is from 2007 through to June 2012 and lists 85 million units. It equates to about 17 million a year on average.
What's the point of talking about yearly averages when each model of iPhone has sold as many as every previous iteration combined, and the iPhone 4S is on track to continue the trend?
Summary: thanks to obfuscation by Samsung, even a specialist phone-industry analyst has no frickin' idea how many - or how few - phones the company has actually sold. "The company stopped reporting any data on either overall phone shipments or of smartphones since Q3 2011."
Documents filed by Samsung lawyers on Thursday reveal that, from June 2010 through June 2012, Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, generating $7.5 billion in revenue.
is that better?
The problem is that they could have 99% of the profit in the market, it doesn't matter if they keep on losing market share. Eventually, their profits will drop.
That's plainly not true. If every day the mobile industry increases by 100 users, and 99 of those are people with no disposable income who take whatever Android handset the carrier lets them have for free and never spend a cent on content, while the 1 remaining person has disposable income and buys an iPhone and then buys lots of apps and media, then Apple is quite happy to lose market share. Because whatever overall market share it might have, it has close to 100% of the market share that counts: people who have and spend money.
Facebook is SHIT on phones and iPads. I hear quite a few people use those these days.
Obviously that sentence in the second-to-last paragraph should read"
"Apple sold more phones in six WEEKS over the holiday period than Samsung sold across its entire range in the two YEARS up to the start of last month"
Samsung's marketing department has been claiming that Samsung has been outselling the iPhone.
The reality, revealed in last week's court filings, is quite different.
http://allthingsd.com/20120809/apple-vs-samsung-trial-forces-companies-to-open-up-the-books/
In Germany. The court-filed figures report US sales. So if Samsung really sold 2.4 million tablets last quarter, as IDC estimates, 1.5% were sold in the U.S. and 98.5% overseas. In other words, bullshit.
The problem is that they could have 99% of the profit in the market, it doesn't matter if they keep on losing market share.
Apple isn't losing market share. It retains, and is growing, its share of the market that matters: people with disposable income who are happy to spend it on mobile products and services. If that 16% that Apple has represents 100% of the people who spend money, it's more sensible to say that Apple has 100% of the market share that matters. The rest is freeloaders and poor people that don't matter.
You are making a mistake that's easy to make - you're believing what Samsung says. Samsung has a policy of withholding SALES figures because they're "commercially sensitive" and reporting SHIPMENTS instead. That is to say, Samsung reports how many phones it has put in boxes and sent to stores - it doesn't report how many of them got bought. That leaves analysts and journalists to make educated guesses as to how many phones Samsung has actually sold, and of course the closer the relationship between Samsung and those third parties the more enthusiastic their educated guess are. Google muddies the waters further by reporting "activations" and then the analysts and journalists make more guesses. And because there are a whole lot of entities with a vested interest in Apple having strong competition, a whole lot of articles get published claiming awesome things about Samsung's phone business. But you need to remember... they're guesses, made by people who have a personal stake in those guesses being good numbers.
Now Samsung is being sued by Apple, and the court doesn't give a shit about "shipments" and "activations per day". The court cares about SALES. So Samsung has been compelled to produce actual verifiable sales data.
They're not good.
According to Samsung's response to the court, filed last Thursday, from June 2010 through June 2012 Samsung sold 21.25 million phones, generating $7.5 billion in revenue. By way of comparison, sold more phones in six WEEKS over the holiday period than Samsung sold across its entire range in the two YEARS up to the start of last month. Shit, Apple sold 4 million iPhone 4Ss in FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.
You can't say "oh that's biased this report from IDC says something much better and this forum post at androidforum.com says something much better" because these are Samsung's official figures entered into the record of a lawsuit. They have come from the legal department, not the marketing department.
Note: I will confess to feeling severe cringe when John Holdren was proclaiming that the USA is the first country to land a probe on another planet. Because it isn't.
He's also professes to be a faithful Christian - so he's either telling the truth, in which case he isn't committed to seeking answers through science, or he's lying, in which case he can't be trusted. Either way, it ain't good.
It turns out that space is in metric. Who knew?
NASA did, and it learned the hard way.
http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric.02_1_climate-orbiter-spacecraft-team-metric-system?_s=PM:TECH
I noticed that the White House called this "a great day for America", "a great day for this nation", etc. Repeat ad nauseam.
Would it really have killed them to say "a great day for humanity"? I don't think Americans would have minded.
As a non-American that's the sort of thing that normally makes me cringe. But you know what? Today I don't give a fuck. NASA has to beg for every cent it gets from the Federal govt and anything NASA does to justify the money it gets is fine by me today.
As a space geek I totally understand why this sort of language is getting used. It's marketing. NASA has to sell this sort of stuff to Bubba the Taxpayer. Bubba don't care about searching for life on other planets. All that science shit is for the nerds Bubba used to bully in highschool. But label it AMERICA KICKING ASS and all of a sudden Bubba does care, and you better believe he's in favor of it.
Turn the whole fucking event into an ad for NASA with a tagline of "AMERICA FUCK YEAH" and then see if either of the Presidential candidates dares go into an election promising to cut space funding. I'll grin and bear it.
I'm amazed at the indolent culture spawned by the iPhone: Nowadays, you can't just go to a website. You have to have a special executable for every single different website you visit!
The Youtube app had one reason for existence: to bully Google into transcoding all of Youtube's content repository into an HTML5-viewable form. Google did it, now the licensing has expired, and neither Apple nor Google WANTS there to be a Youtube app.
Apple wants that content to be viewable normally in Mobile Safari. Google wants to kill the Apple-coded Youtube app because it skips advertisements. Both companies get what they want out of the app being dropped.
We've got some damn fine people working on this.
And a lot of them will be looking for work after the next round of NASA budget cuts - no matter who wins the next election.
NASA's budget as a fraction of federal spending is 0.48%. That's the lowest it's been since 1960. And it's getting smaller.
Dig on this:
Curiosity project budget: USD 2.5 billion
Cost of "War on Terror" so far: USD 1.36 trillion and counting (yes that's one thousand three hundred and sixty billion)
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xpy4w/ama_request_the_mit_grad_student_who_saved_the/c5op0dj
Cites "disillusionment"
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More like they couldn't yet figure out how to do it well, or cost effectively.
I bet you don't even realise you're agreeing with me.
* There is a HUGE market for people that are not willing to pay $400 to $500 for a tablet.
Strangely enough, the most valuable publicly-traded company in the world did not get to that position by focusing its business model on poor people.
Apple doesn't give a shit about keeping up on features. It will gladly throw away 99 "nice to have" features in order to make sure that 1 "must-have" feature is as good as it can possibly be. You can bet that every single thing that the iPhone has ever been derided for lacking - no 3G, can't copy and paste, no notification system, blah blah - was on a list during development and got crossed out because it wasn't as important at that moment as some other feature.
You mean like the LG Prada and the Samsung F700, all release within months of each other back in 2006 compared to the i device?
I know nothing about the LG phone but the Samsung F700 wasn't even announced until 16 Feb 2007 at the Barcelona 3GSM WC event, a month after Apple had demonstrated the iPhone at Macworld on 9 January 2007.
Ever looked at the nokia-line? 3310? 8850? And a zillion other phones just like that?
What, you mean phones that are NOT flat on the front, have LOTS of interface elements (shit, count the frickin' buttons), are NOT flat in the back, and are NOT rectangular - and in the case of the 8850, actually change shape and size depending on what you're doing at the time?