That's why the PC market has failed. Nobody develops PC apps anymore because someone will send them a bug report saying that it doesn't work on their 386 running Windows 3.1.
I don't know. At my gym the workout equipment has no dock. No iPhone, or anything else. However, they do use FM transmission so that you can watch TV and get the sound in your MP3 player/smartphone. As long as it as a FM tuner, of course. FM, you known, that standard invented years ago.
As for home entertainment, my computer is plugged to my TV using a very long but standard HDMI cable. I can control the media from any half smart Wifi device which includes all Android and iOS devices. I chose VLC but I could have gone with many other solutions. No smartphone has near enough storage to hold more than 6-7 of my movies anyway, but it's easy to add terabytes of storage in my PC. Since everything I use is standard I can change any piece of the equation without having to rely on a single vendor. I am not locked at all.
The most useful connection remains the 3.5mm audio output since it's pretty much universal. No need for fancy dock just to get sound out of your device.
Really, OpenWRT is the only clean firmware out there.
Avoid anything with a broadcom wireless nic. The open source drivers aren't on par with atheros yet.
The Netgear WND3700, with its 680 MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, gigabit and concurrent dual band support is still pretty much the top. Some newer routers support 3x3 MIMO (450 Mbps) instead of 2x2 (300 Mbps) but I don't think they run alternatives firmware well yet.
Phones manufacturer do not update their phone because they make enough profit to do it. They update their phone if they think it will bring them more profit in the future. Apple is playing this game pretty well and one of the reason people buy iPhones is because of the software updates.
Not everyone accept to locks himself into proprietary accessories. Being locked into using iTunes and proprietary dock accessories is one of the reasons some people don't buy iPhones. Once you take that path, you can't get out.
Android is winning. Whether this turns out into profits for Google or not is an other issue. Just like IE for Microsoft. It is still the most popular browser so they are winning. It's a free browser so it's unclear if they make any money with it, especially since Google remains the most popular search engine.
Both the Tegra 3 and the A5 are Cortex-A9 designs so they perform about the same. The Tegra 3 is clocked 30-40% higher however, and has twice as many cores. So it is much faster, but it's difficult to find a good benchmark to reflect that. Browser benchmarks mostly measure the efficiency of the javascript engine in the browser. The CPU is pretty much irrelevant.
The Tegra 3 GPU, however, seems to be still slower than the SGX543MP2.
They are winning because they are on more smartphones being sold these days. Remember I said phones, not mobile devices. Apple is still winning the tablet and the MP3 player war.
You might have an argument for investing into Apple over Dell/HP/Microsoft. But you certainly don't have an argument about why a consumer should be getting an Apple device.
The fact that Microsoft is winning the PC OS war and that Google is winning the phone OS war are useful metrics on their own. It might just not be the numbers you are looking to as an investor, but that doesn't mean that they are irrelevant.
Write your app for iOS. And sell it for $100 if you want. I don't care, because I won't buy it. I am sure that there are free alternatives that are just as good anyway. Good for you if some people actually buy your app by the way. Good for you if it makes you rich. But I don't see why I would buy an iOS product because of that. I am not going to buy your app anyway.
What is irrelevant, from a user perspective, is the amount of profit that a company makes. In fact, if the company I buy a phone from loose money on every sale, it probably means that I made a better deal. If on the other hand they make a 50% profit, I probably got screwed. I never understood how Apple users could be proud of Apple making such a high profit. I never saw anyone proud of buying oil from ExxonMobile because they make more profit than the competition. I don't care if there a 1 or 200 companies selling phones for a platform. What I cares about is the popularity of that platform since it gives a good indication of upcoming support (by application developers). I wouldn't buy a WP7 or a WebOS device even if I liked the OS because of that. Those platform don't have a guaranteed future. But most importantly what matters the most is who makes the best phone for my needs. I don't care who makes it.
Your speaking as if releasing 12,000 different phone models was some sort of cheating. It isn't. And the world isn't only the US. Yes AT&T had the iPhone exclusivity in the US but in many other countries it's the opposite. Here in Canada the iPhone is the only phone on all carriers. Android phones tend to be released on a single carrier and often 6 months late (after an European/US launch), which gives a huge advantage to the iPhone.
Apple is currently ahead in the tablet market. They also had the best performing tablet when it came out. The Prime might be better but it's about 9 months after the iPad2. Apple is currently being outsold by almost 2:1 by Android phones. Android phones are also the best performing phones out there.
If Apple's user experience was that much better, and specs didn't matter anymore, then why isn't Apple winning the phone race too?
And what exactly do you need to configure? I can think of a few use cases but nothing that should be deployed in every corporation. Why would you need to change the wallpaper of an employee's phone?
Do businesses really still need this sort of managing software? Just put everything in the cloud and manage the cloud itself instead of managing the phone. Or am I missing something? I never understood BES in the first place. It always sounded like an expensive way to get emails on phones.
They put all their marketing effort into pushing the idea that what mattered was the pixel density. So even if they can't put a larger display in the current case (which would make a better phone from any point of view), their marketing department would be against the idea since it would lower the pixel density. They could also double the resolution again but that will be too expensive for a while.
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That's why the PC market has failed. Nobody develops PC apps anymore because someone will send them a bug report saying that it doesn't work on their 386 running Windows 3.1.
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I don't know. At my gym the workout equipment has no dock. No iPhone, or anything else. However, they do use FM transmission so that you can watch TV and get the sound in your MP3 player/smartphone. As long as it as a FM tuner, of course. FM, you known, that standard invented years ago.
As for home entertainment, my computer is plugged to my TV using a very long but standard HDMI cable. I can control the media from any half smart Wifi device which includes all Android and iOS devices. I chose VLC but I could have gone with many other solutions. No smartphone has near enough storage to hold more than 6-7 of my movies anyway, but it's easy to add terabytes of storage in my PC. Since everything I use is standard I can change any piece of the equation without having to rely on a single vendor. I am not locked at all.
The most useful connection remains the 3.5mm audio output since it's pretty much universal. No need for fancy dock just to get sound out of your device.
Really, OpenWRT is the only clean firmware out there.
Avoid anything with a broadcom wireless nic. The open source drivers aren't on par with atheros yet.
The Netgear WND3700, with its 680 MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, gigabit and concurrent dual band support is still pretty much the top. Some newer routers support 3x3 MIMO (450 Mbps) instead of 2x2 (300 Mbps) but I don't think they run alternatives firmware well yet.
some of the competition are also making their versions of their BMW and even Lamborghini.
The Cadillac still are not the BMW. What is your point?
Phones manufacturer do not update their phone because they make enough profit to do it. They update their phone if they think it will bring them more profit in the future. Apple is playing this game pretty well and one of the reason people buy iPhones is because of the software updates.
Not everyone accept to locks himself into proprietary accessories. Being locked into using iTunes and proprietary dock accessories is one of the reasons some people don't buy iPhones.
Once you take that path, you can't get out.
Android is winning. Whether this turns out into profits for Google or not is an other issue.
Just like IE for Microsoft. It is still the most popular browser so they are winning. It's a free browser so it's unclear if they make any money with it, especially since Google remains the most popular search engine.
Both the Tegra 3 and the A5 are Cortex-A9 designs so they perform about the same. The Tegra 3 is clocked 30-40% higher however, and has twice as many cores. So it is much faster, but it's difficult to find a good benchmark to reflect that. Browser benchmarks mostly measure the efficiency of the javascript engine in the browser. The CPU is pretty much irrelevant.
The Tegra 3 GPU, however, seems to be still slower than the SGX543MP2.
They are winning because they are on more smartphones being sold these days. Remember I said phones, not mobile devices. Apple is still winning the tablet and the MP3 player war.
You might have an argument for investing into Apple over Dell/HP/Microsoft. But you certainly don't have an argument about why a consumer should be getting an Apple device.
The fact that Microsoft is winning the PC OS war and that Google is winning the phone OS war are useful metrics on their own. It might just not be the numbers you are looking to as an investor, but that doesn't mean that they are irrelevant.
Write your app for iOS. And sell it for $100 if you want. I don't care, because I won't buy it. I am sure that there are free alternatives that are just as good anyway.
Good for you if some people actually buy your app by the way. Good for you if it makes you rich. But I don't see why I would buy an iOS product because of that. I am not going to buy your app anyway.
And only a fanboy would be proud of such a "win". Next time you buy an iPhone, give an extra $200 to Apple. This way, they will "win" even more.
What is irrelevant, from a user perspective, is the amount of profit that a company makes. In fact, if the company I buy a phone from loose money on every sale, it probably means that I made a better deal. If on the other hand they make a 50% profit, I probably got screwed. I never understood how Apple users could be proud of Apple making such a high profit. I never saw anyone proud of buying oil from ExxonMobile because they make more profit than the competition.
I don't care if there a 1 or 200 companies selling phones for a platform. What I cares about is the popularity of that platform since it gives a good indication of upcoming support (by application developers). I wouldn't buy a WP7 or a WebOS device even if I liked the OS because of that. Those platform don't have a guaranteed future. But most importantly what matters the most is who makes the best phone for my needs. I don't care who makes it.
Your speaking as if releasing 12,000 different phone models was some sort of cheating. It isn't.
And the world isn't only the US. Yes AT&T had the iPhone exclusivity in the US but in many other countries it's the opposite. Here in Canada the iPhone is the only phone on all carriers. Android phones tend to be released on a single carrier and often 6 months late (after an European/US launch), which gives a huge advantage to the iPhone.
Apple is currently ahead in the tablet market. They also had the best performing tablet when it came out. The Prime might be better but it's about 9 months after the iPad2.
Apple is currently being outsold by almost 2:1 by Android phones. Android phones are also the best performing phones out there.
If Apple's user experience was that much better, and specs didn't matter anymore, then why isn't Apple winning the phone race too?
My windows desktop works fine and it isn't connected to any software written by RIM. It doesn't need to be managed.
And what exactly do you need to configure? I can think of a few use cases but nothing that should be deployed in every corporation. Why would you need to change the wallpaper of an employee's phone?
Do businesses really still need this sort of managing software? Just put everything in the cloud and manage the cloud itself instead of managing the phone.
Or am I missing something? I never understood BES in the first place. It always sounded like an expensive way to get emails on phones.
This guy have really small thumbs.
They put all their marketing effort into pushing the idea that what mattered was the pixel density. So even if they can't put a larger display in the current case (which would make a better phone from any point of view), their marketing department would be against the idea since it would lower the pixel density. They could also double the resolution again but that will be too expensive for a while.
You are so right!
That's why I laugh at my friend's 50" TVs. My 19" one is so much better because the pixel density is so higher!
Pixel density for the win. Steve Jobs said it was all that mattered. And Steve Jobs can't be wrong.
I should have bought more hard drives instead of losing it buying stocks.
Not bad but not the best smartphone camera either.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/241955-2/smartphone_camera_battle_iphone_4s_vs_the_android_elite.html
It would be fair even with private medicine, given that unvaccinated people can't be sued even if they are the cause of an epidemic
Oh yeah I forgot this is slashdot. If your mother has a laptop and you ever helped her, then it means that you must live in her basement and play WoW.