No, you miss the point. If the majority of the market is contract, the true price of the phone is irrelevant. It's what you pay that's important. Because, guess what, even if you bring your own phone, you are still paying that 2 year contract price.
Now, T-Mobile and others have started doing prepaids, and that might change things. If so, good. But the people on contracts, guess what, they will continue to pay that.
Just because *YOU* see a difference does not mean others do, or care.
You really think the iPhone 5C is not that different from the iPhone 5S? Aside from twice the performance, better camera, fingerprint reader, 13 LTE bands, and so on, that is?
Then, is there any difference between the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S3?
Would you rather sell X number of one product or some factor of X (larger than 1) of two products?
Also, when you sell two new products, at the same time, it is not cannibalization, otherwise, the entire effing PC market is full of cannibals. Hell, how many similar products does Samsung have?
And? Not every app runs on everything. If it requires a feature, it requires a feature. Someone else claimed that his app will run orders of magnitude faster with 64 bit because of the larger addressable memory. Why should he hobble his app, or if he wants to, it is really his choice.
Also the developer has the option of building a fat binary (and you're going to tell me it's now a waste of space, right?)
They're one of the few companies with the resources to resist the NSA for example, even if only to fight the gag order that's been placed on them regarding the level to which they have been served national security letters. If Google doesn't fight, what chance does a smaller company have? That's one of the areas in which Microsoft has actually acquitted itself pretty well.
While I agree Google did OK, Microsoft *DID NOT* They bent over backwards to provide access. Outlook.com has builtin backdoors for these things, as do skype.
Everything was previously tied to your 'Google' account, now you have to... I don't know, click 'Join G+' then skip a few times to not give it any extra info? You already have an account with them, what exactly are you freaking out about?
You missed the nymwars then I take it? Killing accounts for weeks, including emails and everything else because they didn't like the name you used for G+
That was my watershed event. Before that, I was very pro-Google. After that, they have lost my trust.
Mobile OS: Unlike their main competitor, Google makes no attempt to lock down functionality from their users - they provide ridiculously easy ways to use other apps instead of the defaults for everything from email to keyboards. Other app stores are welcomed and usable. Plus, it's open source, so anybody can do whatever they want with it.
And so they do. Why do most people who use Android phones complain about crapware? Why isn't anyone doing anything to stop that? Because "anybody can do whatever they want with it" and so they do.
Sometimes, a little bit of control is good. Stopping all the crapware and other shit carriers foist on the users is a good thing.
On the other hand, you're right, having an open platform allows a lot more things to be done. Choices... which shall it be?
You really have a hardon for Apple don't you? They've never claimed to be the first, hell, they bought a company that *SOLD* fingerprint readers to other companies.
They do claim they made it the best possible for users. The sapphire cover, for example. We won't know how well it actually works until it has been out for a while. But just as we won't know how well it will or will not work, *NEITHER WOULD YOU* so to see you slamming them - just how big of a hardon do you have for Apple?
How is it "bolted on" when they spent the last several years moving to 64 bit for the kernel, etc? Since everything was re-written, isn't it "designed from ground up"?
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But I my 7 disk raid-z3 box for home use... Speaking of which, I need to go replace Disk #x one of these days.
I hope zfs-crypto becomes usable so that I can move off solaris 11. I refuse to run anything that does not have crypto.
I wish they had encryption... *sigh*
No, I don't want workarounds, I want it to be built in to ZFS like in Solaris 11.
No, you miss the point. If the majority of the market is contract, the true price of the phone is irrelevant. It's what you pay that's important. Because, guess what, even if you bring your own phone, you are still paying that 2 year contract price.
Now, T-Mobile and others have started doing prepaids, and that might change things. If so, good. But the people on contracts, guess what, they will continue to pay that.
Just because *YOU* see a difference does not mean others do, or care.
Well, your bovine's nether regions have pretty clean numbers. I'm impressed :)
Because the majority of cell phone users in USA are on contracts. Heh, in fact, in Japan, the iPhone 5C (not sure if the 5S too) are free on contract.
If you're talking about the rest of the world, then, sure. That's why the iPhone 4 is still on sale in China.
iPhone 4S, $1 on contract, not cheap enough?
You really think the iPhone 5C is not that different from the iPhone 5S? Aside from twice the performance, better camera, fingerprint reader, 13 LTE bands, and so on, that is?
Then, is there any difference between the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S3?
Would you rather sell X number of one product or some factor of X (larger than 1) of two products?
Also, when you sell two new products, at the same time, it is not cannibalization, otherwise, the entire effing PC market is full of cannibals. Hell, how many similar products does Samsung have?
It's market segmentation, idiots.
Do these people even have a damned clue?!
And? Not every app runs on everything. If it requires a feature, it requires a feature. Someone else claimed that his app will run orders of magnitude faster with 64 bit because of the larger addressable memory. Why should he hobble his app, or if he wants to, it is really his choice.
Also the developer has the option of building a fat binary (and you're going to tell me it's now a waste of space, right?)
How so? Einstein's own example of two space ships, each traveling at c, in opposite directions, do not make their relative speed 2c.
Everything was previously tied to your 'Google' account, now you have to ... I don't know, click 'Join G+' then skip a few times to not give it any extra info? You already have an account with them, what exactly are you freaking out about?
You missed the nymwars then I take it? Killing accounts for weeks, including emails and everything else because they didn't like the name you used for G+
That was my watershed event. Before that, I was very pro-Google. After that, they have lost my trust.
Mobile OS: Unlike their main competitor, Google makes no attempt to lock down functionality from their users - they provide ridiculously easy ways to use other apps instead of the defaults for everything from email to keyboards. Other app stores are welcomed and usable. Plus, it's open source, so anybody can do whatever they want with it.
And so they do. Why do most people who use Android phones complain about crapware? Why isn't anyone doing anything to stop that? Because "anybody can do whatever they want with it" and so they do.
Sometimes, a little bit of control is good. Stopping all the crapware and other shit carriers foist on the users is a good thing.
On the other hand, you're right, having an open platform allows a lot more things to be done. Choices... which shall it be?
It's port 25 and 80 that they block. What I've noticed is inbound 80 being the predominant one.
you do realize that if your app *requires* 64 bit, you *can* flag it as iPhone 5S/64 bit only right?
then don't use it. it's not mandatory you know
You really have a hardon for Apple don't you? They've never claimed to be the first, hell, they bought a company that *SOLD* fingerprint readers to other companies.
They do claim they made it the best possible for users. The sapphire cover, for example. We won't know how well it actually works until it has been out for a while. But just as we won't know how well it will or will not work, *NEITHER WOULD YOU* so to see you slamming them - just how big of a hardon do you have for Apple?
did you just claim faster than light?
Uh, that just means you are still writing and using 32 bit java, sorry, dalvik code. That means your code doesn't get to do 64 bit addresses, etc.
How is it "bolted on" when they spent the last several years moving to 64 bit for the kernel, etc? Since everything was re-written, isn't it "designed from ground up"?
swapping? On a phone? Are you kidding me?
It's not as if the batteries are not replaceable. A $1.50 screwdriver from amazon was all that I needed to do the job.
Uh, you already have that with XCode. There's a couple of different versions of emulators...
I believe each app is restricted to how much total memory it can grab.