Samsung, Motorola, HTC have made some outstanding pieces of hardware
Not a user feature
nothing I've seen comes close to beating Samsung's sAMOLED+ screen
Not a user feature
Apple was far late to the game in providing dual-core processors in their phones
Not a user feature
Apple doesn't care about what it HASN'T included, it cares that what it HAS included is user-friendly and easy to use, is manufactured and sold at a price that no competitor can match, and (more than anything) that it is available on the exact day that Apple said it would be. Only nerds care about shit like SAMOLED this and dual-core that. The rest of the buying public care about how will this thing make my life easier. Answering that question while not giving a shit about hardware feature lists seems to be working pretty well for Apple, dont you think?
The world's, and particularly the USA's, economy depends on oil. There is no alternative. The world needs oil. If the oil stops, everything falls apart. In other words, whatever the cost of oil is people will buy it. They don't have a choice.
If Apple stops, people will use a competitor's products. No big deal.
Maybe Apple prefers workers who can use the metric system. That is, everyone in the rest of the world that's not the USA. Not sure there's much need for workers fluent in shit like "miles", "sixteenths-of-an-inch", "stones", "quarts", or whatever other 16th-century measurements Americans still use.
The iPhone 4S is the world's best smartphone by any sensible measurement - revenue, sales, customer satisfaction, whatever. The second-best is the iPhone 4. The third-best is the iPhone 3GS. Then there's some other shit.
Dunno if I'd include NeXT in that list. It was bought out by a bigger richer company that wanted its technology and IP, and I'm posting using that technology right now.
...how people from the country that gave us the War on Drugs and the War on Terror and state-approved assassinations and warrantless wiretapping and indefinite detention without trial and the DMCA and SOPA and PROTECT-IP can get so upset when other countries do stuff.
There are tons of people who will happily spend $500+ on a toy once or twice a year. They're very happy with their iPads. There are lots of people who won't spend $200 on a toy.
Put another way, there are tons of people for whom a tablet can make such a positive difference to their experience of mobile computing that they're willing to pay $500 once or twice a year for a one that is well-designed. Not because they can afford to spend $500 on a toy, but because a good tablet is so important that getting a good one is worth $500.
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Samsung, Motorola, HTC have made some outstanding pieces of hardware
Not a user feature
nothing I've seen comes close to beating Samsung's sAMOLED+ screen
Not a user feature
Apple was far late to the game in providing dual-core processors in their phones
Not a user feature
Apple doesn't care about what it HASN'T included, it cares that what it HAS included is user-friendly and easy to use, is manufactured and sold at a price that no competitor can match, and (more than anything) that it is available on the exact day that Apple said it would be. Only nerds care about shit like SAMOLED this and dual-core that. The rest of the buying public care about how will this thing make my life easier. Answering that question while not giving a shit about hardware feature lists seems to be working pretty well for Apple, dont you think?
I hear Kodak had a huge market share too.
Apple makes more money from its smartphone than every other smartphone manufacturer in the world combined.
The top-selling smartphones in the US last quarter were, in order: iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS.
And the tablet market? Let's call it what it is - the iPad market.
The world's, and particularly the USA's, economy depends on oil. There is no alternative. The world needs oil. If the oil stops, everything falls apart. In other words, whatever the cost of oil is people will buy it. They don't have a choice.
If Apple stops, people will use a competitor's products. No big deal.
(see: "elasticity of demand")
Cause...
I'm a bass player
Meet effect...
it's now considered fortunate to have a shitty McJob
Christians insist that there is only one deity anyone could believe in
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
Even the Lord God Jehovah believes that there are other gods, otherwise he wouldn't have to tell people that he's the most important one.
Um, I can, and do, use metric all the time, as well as standard English measurements.
By "English" you mean "American", right?
Maybe Apple prefers workers who can use the metric system. That is, everyone in the rest of the world that's not the USA. Not sure there's much need for workers fluent in shit like "miles", "sixteenths-of-an-inch", "stones", "quarts", or whatever other 16th-century measurements Americans still use.
Isn't that stuff obvious though? In other news, Apple people offer opinion that sky is blue.
The iPhone 4S is the world's best smartphone by any sensible measurement - revenue, sales, customer satisfaction, whatever. The second-best is the iPhone 4. The third-best is the iPhone 3GS. Then there's some other shit.
Dunno if I'd include NeXT in that list. It was bought out by a bigger richer company that wanted its technology and IP, and I'm posting using that technology right now.
...how people from the country that gave us the War on Drugs and the War on Terror and state-approved assassinations and warrantless wiretapping and indefinite detention without trial and the DMCA and SOPA and PROTECT-IP can get so upset when other countries do stuff.
It it because Jesus is on their side?
He said that United States schools prevent learning.
It's amazing listening to Americans discuss the care of people with medical conditions. They just have... no... idea.
"The vast majority of their older work is original."
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
AHa
AHAHA
wait - you were serious?
"I can't believe anyone who thinks he has anything to say about photography didn't know this."
THIS
Jebus told me.
The money breakdown on a hypothetical $1 app purchase is:
Developer: 70c
Credit-card company: 16c
Apple: 13c
Storage/network costs: 1c
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-cost-of-an-app-2011-7
See: "0xDEADBEEF"
It was a perfectly normal supergiant until it took an arrow in the knee.
There are tons of people who will happily spend $500+ on a toy once or twice a year. They're very happy with their iPads. There are lots of people who won't spend $200 on a toy.
Put another way, there are tons of people for whom a tablet can make such a positive difference to their experience of mobile computing that they're willing to pay $500 once or twice a year for a one that is well-designed. Not because they can afford to spend $500 on a toy, but because a good tablet is so important that getting a good one is worth $500.
When the present leader of Australia was sworn in to office, she refused to swear on a Bible because she's an atheist.
No-one gave a shit.
Likelihood of the USA ever reaching this level of maturity: zero
So, are we just going to run any old article with Apple in the title now?
Only while Slashdot sells advertising.
Steve Jobs isn't very good at selling - just consider the failure of the original Mac vs. PC.
Looked at PC sales figures lately? I think we can call that battle for Apple now.
the most recent sales data I saw had the iPad at about 65%, Android at 30%, and "other" making up the rest.
I'd be interested to see that data, because what I've been seeing is iPad at about 97% and "irrelevant" making up the rest.