There is that rub about Apple, they force you into the future whether you like it or not.
How is fucking with standards forcing anybody into the future? Sounds more like the past to me, that is, Microsoft. Except without the market dominance. "Courage."
Ignoring standards, enforcing proprietary interface... no doubt, Apple is the new Microsoft:-/
Last nail in the coffin for the concept of Apple as engineering workstation. But that concept died long ago. Seriously, Apple will get hammered for this one, and not just by engineers. Dropping OpenGL is not an option, there is just too much code in the wild. OpenCL maybe, but I don't see Apple gaining any love for that either, quite the contrary. My take on it: Apple is setting itself up to eat crow a year down the road and humbly slither back into the Vulkan/OpenCL camp.
The only one who gets hurt by this latest "your're holding your headphone jack wrong" blunder is Apple. Can't shed a tear.
I get it. Your eyes only work for reading my posts. Not for gathering data from any other source, except for dubious sources that happen to support your noncritical thinking.
Read your own link ffs. "The last time a daily rate was given was in May 2013 (1.5m a day), and the last number for cumulative activations was in September 2013" and "This of course excludes China, where Android devices do not use Google services". Other gotchas no doubt, those ones just jumped off the page at me. On the other hand, Google can't distort the number it actually shipped, that's illegal. We know those numbers.
Eleven phones in 9 years, nobody should listen to your opinion about how long a phone lasts.
smartphones last a little over 2 years when there's 2.5 billion of them, where did you get your 4 year number?
It is idiotic to suppose that smartphones only last 2 years when you are surrounded with evidence that they last at least twice as long. Where did get your 2 year number, and why would you trust that source?
When you say "looks more like reality" what you really mean is...
"Agrees with the number of phones that we know were shipped." Yes, thank you, that is exactly what I meant, now go back to wanking on your internet porn.
r of market share really is a sliver, around 13% now. Depends who you ask of course. If you ask an Apple cultist, you will be left with the impression that it is 100%.
Why don't you find your own source, are you that incapable. Here is one that looks more like reality. See, it agrees with sales figures provided by Google and Apple, which if they are not accurate, will send people to jail. See how that might help? Now, where the fuck are you getting your numbers.
The numbers are not well tracked, because the total number of Android phones and iPhones as reported accurately by Google and Apple are far more than the installed phone base estimates spouted out by the likes of you, as any fool can see. Which makes you less than that.
Whatever your source for statistics is, it is a bad one. Look, we know that Google shipped over 1 billion phones in 2015, yet some commonly cited statistics sources claim only 5% growth in total smartphones in use for that year. Somebody is out by more than a factor of 5, and it is not Google. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
you really think over 60% of the worlds population now uses an android smartphone?
Yes I do, that is why the sales growth stalled. Say, did you ever take a cab ride in a third world company? What is that in the driver's hand? Oh right, an android smartphone. See, everybody in the world who can afford a smartphone now has one. And given that used ones and low end ones are incredibly cheap, penetration is essentially the entire world, not just that little bubble full of unicorns that you live in.
Shorting AAPL last quarter would have been stupid. Everybody knows that they are able to squeeze more money from their existing customers for the time being. And likewise, everybody knows there are better and less risky places to put their money than AAPL. Except you. I suggest you buy more, except wait, you don't own any, because you melted your credit card buying crappy Apple products.
Except if their sales are going up while blah blah blah
That's not even true. They gerrymandered some sales from Q1 into Q2 to create that fiction, otherwise the truth is, Apple's unit sales are flat or worse at the moment.
You seem happy about the potential prospect of an Android monoculture.
Not really. I just don't like Apple, it is a sleazy company with defective products sold to clueless people, and a truly toxic corporate culture. Avoiding a monoculture is not a good enough reason to accept Apple as it is, and Apple shows no sign of changing, except possibly for the worse.
iPhone is hanging on to its sliver of the market for now. Far be it from me why anyone would want one. They are overpriced and stupidly dumbed down to the point where I would rather eat bugs than own one. Never mind that, because BSD is developed by a tiny group of coders without broad community feedback, it just does not have the features, stability, or performance of Linux. The only person who would want that is a clueless one.
Apple's sliver of market share really is a sliver, around 13% now. Depends who you ask of course. If you ask an Apple cultist, you will be left with the impression that it is 100%.
Q1 iPhone shipmments are off 1 million, YoY. If you are an Apple shareholder that ought to worry you. But then, you are an Apple cultist, so nothing worries you, including maxing out your credit to own it.
Apple cultists are not only unworried about these obvious warning signs, they will take the opportunity do downmod anyone who points them out, if they can. Makes me wonder what other slimy things Apple is in the habit of doing on social networks? Seems to come very naturally for Apple cultists, almost like it is corporate culture still living on from Dead Steve Jobs.
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There is that rub about Apple, they force you into the future whether you like it or not.
How is fucking with standards forcing anybody into the future? Sounds more like the past to me, that is, Microsoft. Except without the market dominance. "Courage."
Apple got its tail kicked by Linux in the animation industry, others to follow. Tried Krita? It rules.
Ignoring standards, enforcing proprietary interface... no doubt, Apple is the new Microsoft :-/
Last nail in the coffin for the concept of Apple as engineering workstation. But that concept died long ago. Seriously, Apple will get hammered for this one, and not just by engineers. Dropping OpenGL is not an option, there is just too much code in the wild. OpenCL maybe, but I don't see Apple gaining any love for that either, quite the contrary. My take on it: Apple is setting itself up to eat crow a year down the road and humbly slither back into the Vulkan/OpenCL camp.
The only one who gets hurt by this latest "your're holding your headphone jack wrong" blunder is Apple. Can't shed a tear.
I get it. Your eyes only work for reading my posts. Not for gathering data from any other source, except for dubious sources that happen to support your noncritical thinking.
Read your own link ffs. "The last time a daily rate was given was in May 2013 (1.5m a day), and the last number for cumulative activations was in September 2013" and "This of course excludes China, where Android devices do not use Google services". Other gotchas no doubt, those ones just jumped off the page at me. On the other hand, Google can't distort the number it actually shipped, that's illegal. We know those numbers.
Eleven phones in 9 years, nobody should listen to your opinion about how long a phone lasts.
What do you do with your own smartphone, drop it in the toilet twice a year to even out the figures?
smartphones last a little over 2 years when there's 2.5 billion of them, where did you get your 4 year number?
It is idiotic to suppose that smartphones only last 2 years when you are surrounded with evidence that they last at least twice as long. Where did get your 2 year number, and why would you trust that source?
Maybe they will make Linus a VP.
It's like the Muslims stealing the Hagia Sophia
Mod up.
I don't need a link...
Or a brain, it is wasted on you.
When you say "looks more like reality" what you really mean is...
"Agrees with the number of phones that we know were shipped." Yes, thank you, that is exactly what I meant, now go back to wanking on your internet porn.
r of market share really is a sliver, around 13% now. Depends who you ask of course. If you ask an Apple cultist, you will be left with the impression that it is 100%.
Yeah, and that sliver is growing.
In the same way that the parrot is not dead.
I'm not the only one asshole.
Well, asshole, even if we let it slip that this a prediction for 2018 - you keep ignoring that "tiny sliver" iOS., you stupid turd.
Asshole, everybody knows that, but some of them have more than two neurons to rub together between their ears, unlike you.
Based on the assumption that Android phones last about four years
How did you justify that assumption?
Eyes are amazing, particularly when used for reading.
Why don't you find your own source, are you that incapable. Here is one that looks more like reality. See, it agrees with sales figures provided by Google and Apple, which if they are not accurate, will send people to jail. See how that might help? Now, where the fuck are you getting your numbers.
You are an idiot. I have shorted more than you are worth, safe bet. I would not short AAPL, but I would not buy it either. Google is another story.
The numbers are not well tracked, because the total number of Android phones and iPhones as reported accurately by Google and Apple are far more than the installed phone base estimates spouted out by the likes of you, as any fool can see. Which makes you less than that.
I'm not the only one asshole.
Whatever your source for statistics is, it is a bad one. Look, we know that Google shipped over 1 billion phones in 2015, yet some commonly cited statistics sources claim only 5% growth in total smartphones in use for that year. Somebody is out by more than a factor of 5, and it is not Google. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
you really think over 60% of the worlds population now uses an android smartphone?
Yes I do, that is why the sales growth stalled. Say, did you ever take a cab ride in a third world company? What is that in the driver's hand? Oh right, an android smartphone. See, everybody in the world who can afford a smartphone now has one. And given that used ones and low end ones are incredibly cheap, penetration is essentially the entire world, not just that little bubble full of unicorns that you live in.
Shorting AAPL last quarter would have been stupid. Everybody knows that they are able to squeeze more money from their existing customers for the time being. And likewise, everybody knows there are better and less risky places to put their money than AAPL. Except you. I suggest you buy more, except wait, you don't own any, because you melted your credit card buying crappy Apple products.
Except if their sales are going up while blah blah blah
That's not even true. They gerrymandered some sales from Q1 into Q2 to create that fiction, otherwise the truth is, Apple's unit sales are flat or worse at the moment.
You seem happy about the potential prospect of an Android monoculture.
Not really. I just don't like Apple, it is a sleazy company with defective products sold to clueless people, and a truly toxic corporate culture. Avoiding a monoculture is not a good enough reason to accept Apple as it is, and Apple shows no sign of changing, except possibly for the worse.
iPhone is hanging on to its sliver of the market for now. Far be it from me why anyone would want one. They are overpriced and stupidly dumbed down to the point where I would rather eat bugs than own one. Never mind that, because BSD is developed by a tiny group of coders without broad community feedback, it just does not have the features, stability, or performance of Linux. The only person who would want that is a clueless one.
Apple's sliver of market share really is a sliver, around 13% now. Depends who you ask of course. If you ask an Apple cultist, you will be left with the impression that it is 100%.
Q1 iPhone shipmments are off 1 million, YoY. If you are an Apple shareholder that ought to worry you. But then, you are an Apple cultist, so nothing worries you, including maxing out your credit to own it.
Apple cultists are not only unworried about these obvious warning signs, they will take the opportunity do downmod anyone who points them out, if they can. Makes me wonder what other slimy things Apple is in the habit of doing on social networks? Seems to come very naturally for Apple cultists, almost like it is corporate culture still living on from Dead Steve Jobs.