For one, the Nexus can't be sold with a network lock. It's sold as a "reference" device, and is unlocked to any network. For two, it is not allowed to have any manufacturer-specific branding, and is sold with a stock unmodified Android.
"A new study from Canaccord Genuity is claiming that Apple and Samsung account for a combined 95-percent of all handset profits in Q4 2011. Apple accounts for 80-percent of profits, while the company behind the GALAXY range of handsets, Samsung, takes 15-percent. The remaining 5-percent is left to all of the other manufacturers."
Google claimed in front of a congressional hearing that 66% of all mobile searches come iOS devices. Google reported pays Apple $100 million a year for being the default engine on Apple devices.
Apple sold 93 million million according to their financial statements. Samsung was estimated to sell 93 million - but they don't publish their numbers. In that 95 million there are an unknown number of Bada and windows phones.
But that isn't a lot more either way. But android users only spend 25% as much on apps and Samsung also sells low end crap smart phones.
As far as Macs, companies have successfully ignored Macs for years and been successful.
Again Rovio didn't have to ignore a single iOS device with Angry Birds because Apple was sensible enough not to ship a device without a GPU..,,
Yes Samsung sold more phones, but nowhere near as many smartphones. Samsung sold millions of dumb phones. Where did you get the idea that Samsung sold more than 35 million smart phones last quarter?
Angry Birds works on every single IOS device ever made. Including the 2007 original iPhone and iPod touch.
So my other "choice" is to use an unsupported hack? When Apple releases a patch for iOS 5, every user with an iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S or any iPad gets a notification that day without waiting on the carrier. If a security vulnerability or new feature is added to ICS, can every Android device that was released in the last two and half years get upgraded that day? Even WM7 users don't have to wait on the carrier or manufacturer for updates.
Studies have already shown that the IOS app store revenue us 4x that of the Android market and then you only want to sell to a subset of that? How many high end Samsung phones did Samsung sell? Motorola only sold about a third of the number of phones Apple sold and some of those were low end crap. HTC also sells a lot of low end crap.
Say I just want to support all iOS devices with a retina display. I can purchase a $200 iPod Touch to test with and be done. How many different A droid devices with different GPU's and screen resolutions do you have to buy?
How many different Android devices do you have to buy to support high end phones? According to one article, 5 months after IOS 5 came out, 75% of all iOS devices are running 5.x. What percentage of Android devices will be running ICS 5 months after introduction? Will 100% of new devices evenness running ICS by then?
So the alternate choice is to have a new phone running an old outdated OS that may or may not be updated - and probably won't be. How many of the current Android phones sold today are still being sold without the latest OS? How many are sold with hardware that is not even up to the hardware standard of the 2+ year old 3GS?
So in other words the only way you can guarantee a fully supported Android experience is by buying the one phone released a year by the operating system vendor. Hmm sound kind of familiar.
I had an HTC Hero at the time that I had a GPU and was on the list of supported phones.
But really even if that is the reason, if a significant number of Android phones that are sold don't have a GPU (which many of the low end phones don't). That still means that fragment ration is a problem. If you can't count on at minimum a real GPU. No software emulation won't usually cut it.
Angry Birds is a bad example. When Angry Birds first came out, there was an official list of 20 Android phones that it wouldn't support, including some then current phones.
Right now they claim there are some Android phones that it doesn't support.
Book content requirements: ISBNs for all titles you intend to distribute. You must be able to deliver your book content in EPUB format, passing EpubCheck 1.0.5. Financial requirements: A US tax ID, a valid iTunes Store account, with a credit card on file......
You must have an ISBN number issued for your book and you should reserve the title (see #1 and #2 below). Getting a bar code might also be a good idea. You must have a unique ISBN number for each book you post to the iBooks store. If you look at the jacket on any book, you will notice a ISBN number. It costs 25 for each ISBN number for each book. That unique number identifies your book in a giant data base along with the author's name, date of being published, title etc. You apply for a ISBN number at the following URL: http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/application.asp .
Hell, if consumers weren't morons, and rewarded the best (highest quality) products with their dollars, we'd be talking about how Creative changed the music industry with the Nomad. Instead, they bought that other player famously described "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
So you think the Nomad that used a huge fragile 3.5" disk drive, was larger, heavier and synced over a serial port was better?
And people wonder why Slashdot opinion is a poor arbiter of what will be successful in the market.....
I own a single share. If it split I could sell one and see some return on the investment. Same for a dividend. Until then it's immaterial wealth that could vanish before it is claimed.
And the average dividend yield is 1.96%...
Would you rather have the S&P average dividend yield or AAPL capital appreciation?
I'll give a shit about Apple's high stock price when it splits
So please explain how you think a stock split will increase value? Do you also think if someone gives you two 5 dollar bills for a 10 you have more money?
On a relatively modern linux desktop at home, google music manager uploads about 100 songs per day at 128 K limited upload (a fraction of my upload pipe, and I like to keep it that way).
With iTunes Match, if a song in your library matches a song that Apple already has in it's library, it doesn't upload it all. It registers that you own the song and will download a 256Kbps DRM free version to your other computers/devices -- whether or not you bought the song from Apple.
Google announced they made $5 billion from mobile revenue -- not just Android. Google also said that 66% of their mobile searches come from iOS devices. So the whole analysis was based on an incorrect assumption.
But $5 Billion is pocket change, Apple made $108 Billion last year with at least 40% coming from the iPhone -- or about $40 billion.
The $100 Android phones that you speak of are slower and less responsive and capable than a 2007 era original iPhone. They don't even come with a dedicated GPU and don't run the latest version of Android.
For the pedantic, which Android phone is cheaper from the major post paid carriers than the 3GS? And why would anyone buy a phone outright to use with a carrier that doesn't give you any monthly discounts for bringing your own phone?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/pure-google-verizon-sneaks-two-bloatware-apps-onto-the-galaxy-nexus-20111117/galaxy-nexus-crapware-2/
Android manufactures aren't exactly getting rich either....
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/23334/apple_and_samsung_make_up_95_of_all_handset_profits_in_q4_2011/index.html
"A new study from Canaccord Genuity is claiming that Apple and Samsung account for a combined 95-percent of all handset profits in Q4 2011. Apple accounts for 80-percent of profits, while the company behind the GALAXY range of handsets, Samsung, takes 15-percent. The remaining 5-percent is left to all of the other manufacturers."
Google claimed in front of a congressional hearing that 66% of all mobile searches come iOS devices. Google reported pays Apple $100 million a year for being the default engine on Apple devices.
You didn't get the memo?
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/11/08/adobe-abandoning-flash-for-android-mobile-platforms/
Apple sold 93 million million according to their financial statements. Samsung was estimated to sell 93 million - but they don't publish their numbers. In that 95 million there are an unknown number of Bada and windows phones.
But that isn't a lot more either way. But android users only spend 25% as much on apps and Samsung also sells low end crap smart phones.
As far as Macs, companies have successfully ignored Macs for years and been successful.
Again Rovio didn't have to ignore a single iOS device with Angry Birds because Apple was sensible enough not to ship a device without a GPU..,,
Yes Samsung sold more phones, but nowhere near as many smartphones. Samsung sold millions of dumb phones. Where did you get the idea that Samsung sold more than 35 million smart phones last quarter?
Angry Birds works on every single IOS device ever made. Including the 2007 original iPhone and iPod touch.
So my other "choice" is to use an unsupported hack? When Apple releases a patch for iOS 5, every user with an iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S or any iPad gets a notification that day without waiting on the carrier. If a security vulnerability or new feature is added to ICS, can every Android device that was released in the last two and half years get upgraded that day? Even WM7 users don't have to wait on the carrier or manufacturer for updates.
The article says "I did some checking up, and thereâ(TM)s an estimate that MIME is used a trillion times every day"
Studies have already shown that the IOS app store revenue us 4x that of the Android market and then you only want to sell to a subset of that? How many high end Samsung phones did Samsung sell? Motorola only sold about a third of the number of phones Apple sold and some of those were low end crap. HTC also sells a lot of low end crap.
Say I just want to support all iOS devices with a retina display. I can purchase a $200 iPod Touch to test with and be done. How many different A droid devices with different GPU's and screen resolutions do you have to buy?
How many different Android devices do you have to buy to support high end phones? According to one article, 5 months after IOS 5 came out, 75% of all iOS devices are running 5.x. What percentage of Android devices will be running ICS 5 months after introduction? Will 100% of new devices evenness running ICS by then?
The author didn't say that a trillion emails were sent everyday, he said MIME was used a trillion times everyday. MIME is also used as part of http.
Stupid iPhone autocorrection.
So the alternate choice is to have a new phone running an old outdated OS that may or may not be updated - and probably won't be. How many of the current Android phones sold today are still being sold without the latest OS? How many are sold with hardware that is not even up to the hardware standard of the 2+ year old 3GS?
So in other words the only way you can guarantee a fully supported Android experience is by buying the one phone released a year by the operating system vendor. Hmm sound kind of familiar.
But what happened to all of the "choices".
I had an HTC Hero at the time that I had a GPU and was on the list of supported phones.
But really even if that is the reason, if a significant number of Android phones that are sold don't have a GPU (which many of the low end phones don't). That still means that fragment ration is a problem. If you can't count on at minimum a real GPU. No software emulation won't usually cut it.
Angry Birds is a bad example. When Angry Birds first came out, there was an official list of 20 Android phones that it wouldn't support, including some then current phones.
Right now they claim there are some Android phones that it doesn't support.
http://www.rovio.com/en/support/faq&support_device=Android
Apple bought the source code for CUPs back in 2007 and hired its main developer.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/07/07/12/1342258/cups-purchased-by-apple-inc
http://www.macnews.com/2010/08/10/gregs-bite-how-publish-apple-ibook
Book content requirements: ISBNs for all titles you intend to distribute. You must be able to deliver your book content in EPUB format, passing EpubCheck 1.0.5. .....
Financial requirements: A US tax ID, a valid iTunes Store account, with a credit card on file.
You must have an ISBN number issued for your book and you should reserve the title (see #1 and #2 below). Getting a bar code might also be a good idea. You must have a unique ISBN number for each book you post to the iBooks store. If you look at the jacket on any book, you will notice a ISBN number. It costs 25 for each ISBN number for each book. That unique number identifies your book in a giant data base along with the author's name, date of being published, title etc. You apply for a ISBN number at the following URL: http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/application.asp .
You can get a book title registered to prevent confusion by having an identical title with another book by going to: http://www.bowkerlink.com/corrections/common/home.asp . This is free.
You may also get a special bar code from the same web site at the following link: http://www.bowkerbarcode.com/barcode/ .
So you think the Nomad that used a huge fragile 3.5" disk drive, was larger, heavier and synced over a serial port was better?
And people wonder why Slashdot opinion is a poor arbiter of what will be successful in the market.....
And the average dividend yield is 1.96%...
Would you rather have the S&P average dividend yield or AAPL capital appreciation?
So please explain how you think a stock split will increase value? Do you also think if someone gives you two 5 dollar bills for a 10 you have more money?
With iTunes Match, if a song in your library matches a song that Apple already has in it's library, it doesn't upload it all. It registers that you own the song and will download a 256Kbps DRM free version to your other computers/devices -- whether or not you bought the song from Apple.
Google announced they made $5 billion from mobile revenue -- not just Android. Google also said that 66% of their mobile searches come from iOS devices. So the whole analysis was based on an incorrect assumption.
But $5 Billion is pocket change, Apple made $108 Billion last year with at least 40% coming from the iPhone -- or about $40 billion.
The $100 Android phones that you speak of are slower and less responsive and capable than a 2007 era original iPhone. They don't even come with a dedicated GPU and don't run the latest version of Android.
For the pedantic, which Android phone is cheaper from the major post paid carriers than the 3GS? And why would anyone buy a phone outright to use with a carrier that doesn't give you any monthly discounts for bringing your own phone?