You're right, Apple was so dumb not to see that people would eventually stop buying standalone MP3 players and start buying phones with media player capabilities. If they had been smart, they would have started selling phones five years ago when they saw the iPod market was in decline. If they had done that, they could probably be the worlds most valuable company by now.
Right because the best measure if how well the iPhone is doing is by looking at Amazon's website. Last time I checked, Apple has its own stores and sell them through carriers.
You're right, Apple won't allow third party apps that play movies using different codecs. I'm just imagining that I've been using Flexplayer for years.....
There are plenty of smart phone plans that don't allow tethering - including the grandfathered unlimited plans on both AT&T and Verizon. Besides that, smart phone penetration is only 50% in the US.
So let me get this straight, NFC is useful on a tablet because not everyone has a phone but having cellular connection on a tablet is not useful because everyone has a phone....
"The iPad, last I checked, still required the use of a real PC if something goes drastically wrong and it needs resetting."
You can completely erase your iPad and restore apps, data, and the OS from iCloud -- no PC required. Even if you lose your iPad, you can just log in with your iTunes account from a brand new iPad and all of your apps, settings, even icon positions are restored from iCloud -- no PC required.
"The Surface also comes with the standard suite of Windows admin tools, including the Management Console and the Disk Management snap-in for it. You can modify the partitions if you want to. You could even back up the recovery volume to a USB storage device or NAS (the device supports booting from USB, not sure about NAS) and then remove the recovery partition and extend the main volume to fill its space. You can also mount a removable storage device, such as a microSD card or USB Mass Storage volume, into the root filesystem. Can an iPad do anything like that?"
Are you referring to the ARM version (the one referenced in the article or the x86 version?
"You can switch between apps without closing them. I do it all the time, flicking from G+ to the browser to notes to email to Currents or any of half a dozen newspaper apps. I can run a speed camera warning app in the background as I drive, listening to music or taking hands-free calls or doing navigation. I run a GPS logging app when out taking photos on my DSLR camera so I can geotag them later, and can still use the phone normally thanks to true multitasking."
You've been able to do that since iOS 4 -- released in 2010.
A whopping.11 pounds -- for a tablet that is much slower.
"Wifi - 300Mbps on both"
And no cellular option....
"Multitasking - Nexus 10 by far"
So real world how is the multitasking better?
"NFC - Nexus 10 has dual NFC, iPad has none"
And what exactly can you do with NFC today?
"Browser - Nexus 10 supports flash"
Uhh no. You have heard that Adobe has abandoned Flash for Android haven't you?
"Maps/Navigation - Nexus 10"
So Google Maps is better than *every single maps app* available for the iOS? And seeing that the only way that a GPS is usable is that you have to pay for an app that downloads all of its data to the device -- since the Nexus 10 doesn't have any cellular options.-- that;s really a wash.
Samsung agreed to license its patents under FRAND so that they would be part of the standard. When did Apple agree to license its patents to anyone to become part of a standard?
" The $650 Mac Mini and $500 will only be usable with the latest OS for about 5 years as reasonable developer machines and the certificates are needed every year. So the minimum cost for iOS development is USD 330 per year, which is 27.5$ a month. That's certainly not much for a real startup, but way too much for many shareware authors."
$27.55 a month too much for a hobby that you enjoy?
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You're right, Apple was so dumb not to see that people would eventually stop buying standalone MP3 players and start buying phones with media player capabilities. If they had been smart, they would have started selling phones five years ago when they saw the iPod market was in decline. If they had done that, they could probably be the worlds most valuable company by now.
Between Google and Apple, guess which one reported declining revenues and profits.
Right because the best measure if how well the iPhone is doing is by looking at Amazon's website. Last time I checked, Apple has its own stores and sell them through carriers.
iPhone's are not in demand? What reality are you living in? Have you seen Apple's quarterly statements?
Better how?
"Less well" by what metric?
You're right, Apple won't allow third party apps that play movies using different codecs. I'm just imagining that I've been using Flexplayer for years.....
As opposed to the DRM free media from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft?
There are plenty of smart phone plans that don't allow tethering - including the grandfathered unlimited plans on both AT&T and Verizon. Besides that, smart phone penetration is only 50% in the US.
So let me get this straight, NFC is useful on a tablet because not everyone has a phone but having cellular connection on a tablet is not useful because everyone has a phone....
So how much good is an iPhone without software -- all of which is written in the US.
"The iPad, last I checked, still required the use of a real PC if something goes drastically wrong and it needs resetting."
You can completely erase your iPad and restore apps, data, and the OS from iCloud -- no PC required. Even if you lose your iPad, you can just log in with your iTunes account from a brand new iPad and all of your apps, settings, even icon positions are restored from iCloud -- no PC required.
"The Surface also comes with the standard suite of Windows admin tools, including the Management Console and the Disk Management snap-in for it. You can modify the partitions if you want to. You could even back up the recovery volume to a USB storage device or NAS (the device supports booting from USB, not sure about NAS) and then remove the recovery partition and extend the main volume to fill its space. You can also mount a removable storage device, such as a microSD card or USB Mass Storage volume, into the root filesystem. Can an iPad do anything like that?"
Are you referring to the ARM version (the one referenced in the article or the x86 version?
So if that's the case, what's the use of having NFC on a tablet?
"You can switch between apps without closing them. I do it all the time, flicking from G+ to the browser to notes to email to Currents or any of half a dozen newspaper apps. I can run a speed camera warning app in the background as I drive, listening to music or taking hands-free calls or doing navigation. I run a GPS logging app when out taking photos on my DSLR camera so I can geotag them later, and can still use the phone normally thanks to true multitasking."
You've been able to do that since iOS 4 -- released in 2010.
"Transfer contacts, URLs, photos, videos, anything really."
You mean all the things you can do with SMS.....
"I can also pay for stuff."
So you're going to take out a 10" tablet to pay for stuff?
"Yes."
And you've tried them *all* And I'm sure Google Maps is just great without 3G coverage...that none of the Nexus 10's have,
"Weight - Nexus 10 is lighter"
A whopping .11 pounds -- for a tablet that is much slower.
"Wifi - 300Mbps on both"
And no cellular option....
"Multitasking - Nexus 10 by far"
So real world how is the multitasking better?
"NFC - Nexus 10 has dual NFC, iPad has none"
And what exactly can you do with NFC today?
"Browser - Nexus 10 supports flash"
Uhh no. You have heard that Adobe has abandoned Flash for Android haven't you?
"Maps/Navigation - Nexus 10"
So Google Maps is better than *every single maps app* available for the iOS? And seeing that the only way that a GPS is usable is that you have to pay for an app that downloads all of its data to the device -- since the Nexus 10 doesn't have any cellular options.-- that;s really a wash.
" The Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 are selling well and higher spec than the latest iPad and iPad Mini respectively"
Uh really -higher specced?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6426/ipad-4-gpu-performance-analyzed-powervr-sgx-554mp4-under-the-hood
As far as "selling well"....
Less than 3 million in 3 months?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57542796-94/asus-nexus-7-sales-climb-toward-1-million-a-month/
Well unfortunately, you don't get to decide what is and is not Unix. The Open Group does and they have certified OS X as genuine Unix.
And a pool is a very expensive bathtub.....
You do realize that Apple is still the leading music retailer in the world, don't you?
Those are sales not profits.
Sony:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/02/sony-loses-312m-in-last-quarter_n_1731696.html
Sony Loses $312m In Last Quarter On Weak Gaming And Mobile Sales
ZTE:
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/10/15/zte-warns-of-upcoming-quarterly-and-9m-loss.aspx
ZTE Warns of Upcoming Losses
Huawai:
They don't report profits AFAIK.
Android is not making money for anyone except for Samsung and the carriers.
Samsung agreed to license its patents under FRAND so that they would be part of the standard. When did Apple agree to license its patents to anyone to become part of a standard?
"You realize you can distribute an apk off your own website, don't you?"
Let me know how that works out for you....
" The $650 Mac Mini and $500 will only be usable with the latest OS for about 5 years as reasonable developer machines and the certificates are needed every year. So the minimum cost for iOS development is USD 330 per year, which is 27.5$ a month. That's certainly not much for a real startup, but way too much for many shareware authors."
$27.55 a month too much for a hobby that you enjoy?