Actually yes. Either of the phones you named is one phone model (okay, the 6S come in two sizes). The "Gx" was a name for several different models only sharing the CPU type. And even among those with the exact same name there were (more or less) different hardware. E.g. there were 3 different "iMac G5" generations with quite different hardware.
Cisco made a device called an iphone long before Apple made theirs. Apple has no right to an exclusive trademark.
Actually, no they didn't. They bought Linksys who made a device called an iphone long before Apple made theirs. After they bought it, Cisco dropped the product. Then when the rumors around the Apple iPhone started to thicken, Cisco suddenly renamed another Product iPhone.
Sorry to tell, but Apple's customers aren't as stupid as you pretend they are. You shouldn't judge them by how stupid the fellow customers are of whatever you bought.
I'm an Apple customer, genius. But take a look around at the iPhone users you know - not the ones you work with, the ones in your family and social circle that are constantly asking you for free tech support. How many of them understand, really understand, what an SD card is and how to get data on and off of it? Maybe half? A quarter?
The only people who ask me for help with their phones have an Android. Deal with it.
" I'm sure iPod Classics are pretty easy to get on eBay. "
If you're willing to fork over $400+....
And Apple is slowly dying because they've forgotten to satisfy the public and instead just want to be "hip"
In a discussion where people slam Apple for not being innovative, you blame them for not increasing the storage in a device that others have declared dead almost a decade ago.
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
As of yet Samsung haven't come out saying they "are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today".
Yes, their claims are actually much weirder. E.g. their claims about the new color for the S7 are pure comedy pink gold.
In particular, the refined, skin tone-inspired Pink Gold color scheme is intended to soothe and incorporate a touch of gentleness, radiance and sophistication to the smartphones' design."
It generates clicks because it contains information that is noteworthy and that people are interested in reading. If people weren't switching, if the iPhone market share weren't stagnating, the article wouldn't have been written. If it did not exist, it would not generate clicks.
The fact that this needs to be explained to you is frankly pretty sad.
The fact that you are plain wrong is highly entertaining.
If they're going to do new iPhones, they need one that costs $99 or less. He spends time talking about the Chinese market, but they're not going to grow in that market anytime soon unless:
1) the phone is capable and cheap, as the market of Chinese people who can afford a $699 phone is saturated
2) the phone is made in China and likely co-marketed by a Chinese phone manufacturing company as the Chinese government wants to move their industry up the value chain
You mean they should do everything Samsung does - well apart from tanking on the Chinese market.
That's actually selling like crazy compared to the competition. Which means smartwatches and plain dumb watches.
iPad Pro - it's a cheaper version of the Surface Pro with a mobile OS instead of a laptop OS. A misstep
That is actually selling around ten times as well as the "original".
For that reason, anything "enterprise" related they're just not that good; they've gotten better in recent years but Windows and Office are too universal in the enterprise setting.
Do you remember when instead of telling us that the next trick will be impressive, They would just do the next trick and let us be amazed?
If you need an applause sign, you've officially failed.
Just sayin,
Well, yes, instead of relying to the interview question: "Why shouldn't we just dump our AAPL stock now?" Cook should have just fired up the Apple Time Machine and retrieved a new product from the future that isn't quite ready yet in our present.
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
Frankly at this point in time an iphone doesn't even have the number of features I have on my old samsung galaxy s3.
Well, still no SD card slot - and since that is nothing but a half-assed pain in the butt, you can keep it. You won in features that sound great until you actually use them.
I suppose the witch and fagot burnings, and the inquisitions were really nice as well.
To be fair, that wasn't during the Dark Ages (*), but began during the Renaissance.
(*) There where of course cases of witch burnings, but they were usually by secular powers - the church actually condemned those witch persecution because it wasn't Christian to believe in the superstitious.
There are so many populated areas of the world that do not have any strategic values or counties which are not aligned with the waring parties enough to deal with the expense of attacking.
Even in the US in areas with low population. Make nearly no sence to drop a bomb on a mid western ranchs covering hundreds of miles.
Sure Cities are targets but to blanket the entire world even if you have the means wouldn't make sence.
If a nuclear attack wiped out the technology hot spots of the US, but left the Bible Belt, Hollywood and Florida intact, what would happen to civilization?
Heres a tip; when you are going to respond to someone who is questioning your religious beliefs take a deep breath and calm down. You make less mistakes that way.:D
I'll be happy to consider any evidence or reasoned argument you have for that claim. You know, those things I've supplied that you're wilfully ignoring? Hyperbole and conjecture won't work here.
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The gun is a tool, not a gadget. It's like a hammer.
If your only tool is a gun, everything looks like something to put bullets in.
Funny how you ignore the Apple Newton - without which Palm wouldn't exist. Quite remarkable for a rant about selective reasoning.
3GS, 4S, 6S... yeah, totally different :)
Actually yes. Either of the phones you named is one phone model (okay, the 6S come in two sizes). The "Gx" was a name for several different models only sharing the CPU type. And even among those with the exact same name there were (more or less) different hardware. E.g. there were 3 different "iMac G5" generations with quite different hardware.
Cisco made a device called an iphone long before Apple made theirs. Apple has no right to an exclusive trademark.
Actually, no they didn't. They bought Linksys who made a device called an iphone long before Apple made theirs. After they bought it, Cisco dropped the product. Then when the rumors around the Apple iPhone started to thicken, Cisco suddenly renamed another Product iPhone.
You couldn't install Apps on the original iPhone. Jobs pushed HTM5 Web Apps for the job.
IOW you didn't need to reboot your phone just to use an app, exactly like he said.
Have you never heard of the Jobs Reality Distortion Field? That was Apple's primary product.
Oddly enough, the only people still under it (and since long before his death) are the Apple haters.
Sorry to tell, but Apple's customers aren't as stupid as you pretend they are. You shouldn't judge them by how stupid the fellow customers are of whatever you bought.
I'm an Apple customer, genius. But take a look around at the iPhone users you know - not the ones you work with, the ones in your family and social circle that are constantly asking you for free tech support. How many of them understand, really understand, what an SD card is and how to get data on and off of it? Maybe half? A quarter?
The only people who ask me for help with their phones have an Android. Deal with it.
It helped build the company
Bwahahaha. You were one of the people who in 2000 still complained they didn't drag along the Apple for yet another decade, right? What a Luddite.
" I'm sure iPod Classics are pretty easy to get on eBay. "
If you're willing to fork over $400+....
And Apple is slowly dying because they've forgotten to satisfy the public and instead just want to be "hip"
In a discussion where people slam Apple for not being innovative, you blame them for not increasing the storage in a device that others have declared dead almost a decade ago.
No, they worked fine.
Of cooooouuurse they did.
They just didn't have a massive marketing push behind them and were more feature focused than polish focused.
Why is it that companies spending much more on advertisement than Apple can only convince you that their products work just fine?
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
As of yet Samsung haven't come out saying they "are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today".
Yes, their claims are actually much weirder. E.g. their claims about the new color for the S7 are pure comedy pink gold.
In particular, the refined, skin tone-inspired Pink Gold color scheme is intended to soothe and incorporate a touch of gentleness, radiance and sophistication to the smartphones' design."
Ooh, so insightful.
It generates clicks because it contains information that is noteworthy and that people are interested in reading. If people weren't switching, if the iPhone market share weren't stagnating, the article wouldn't have been written. If it did not exist, it would not generate clicks.
The fact that this needs to be explained to you is frankly pretty sad.
The fact that you are plain wrong is highly entertaining.
If they're going to do new iPhones, they need one that costs $99 or less. He spends time talking about the Chinese market, but they're not going to grow in that market anytime soon unless:
1) the phone is capable and cheap, as the market of Chinese people who can afford a $699 phone is saturated 2) the phone is made in China and likely co-marketed by a Chinese phone manufacturing company as the Chinese government wants to move their industry up the value chain
You mean they should do everything Samsung does - well apart from tanking on the Chinese market.
If it was just ones of people, or even thousands of people, this article wouldn't exist.
The article exists because it generates clicks. Not because thousands of people switch from or to iPhone from or to Android or vice versa.
is "innovation" the new codeword for copying Google's self-driving car?
Yeah, because there were no self driving cars before Google "innovated" them. Watta fanboi.
We are going to give you things you can't live without that you just don't know you need today
I can't wait to buy your competitor's version for half the price!
Apple couldn't care less. No really, they don't give a fuck about what you do.
Apple Watch - a big misstep
That's actually selling like crazy compared to the competition. Which means smartwatches and plain dumb watches.
iPad Pro - it's a cheaper version of the Surface Pro with a mobile OS instead of a laptop OS. A misstep
That is actually selling around ten times as well as the "original".
For that reason, anything "enterprise" related they're just not that good; they've gotten better in recent years but Windows and Office are too universal in the enterprise setting.
And falling. But in a universal way.
Do you remember when instead of telling us that the next trick will be impressive, They would just do the next trick and let us be amazed? If you need an applause sign, you've officially failed. Just sayin,
Well, yes, instead of relying to the interview question: "Why shouldn't we just dump our AAPL stock now?" Cook should have just fired up the Apple Time Machine and retrieved a new product from the future that isn't quite ready yet in our present.
None of those things were popular 15 years ago, but every single one of them existed before Apple came out with a version.
... that didn't suck.
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
Frankly at this point in time an iphone doesn't even have the number of features I have on my old samsung galaxy s3.
Well, still no SD card slot - and since that is nothing but a half-assed pain in the butt, you can keep it. You won in features that sound great until you actually use them.
So their great new innovation in the pipeline is.. a new iPhone.
Stick a fork in them.
Yeah, how can they survive against the next Galaxy S8 - that screams innovation.
I suppose the witch and fagot burnings, and the inquisitions were really nice as well.
To be fair, that wasn't during the Dark Ages (*), but began during the Renaissance.
(*) There where of course cases of witch burnings, but they were usually by secular powers - the church actually condemned those witch persecution because it wasn't Christian to believe in the superstitious.
There are so many populated areas of the world that do not have any strategic values or counties which are not aligned with the waring parties enough to deal with the expense of attacking.
Even in the US in areas with low population. Make nearly no sence to drop a bomb on a mid western ranchs covering hundreds of miles. Sure Cities are targets but to blanket the entire world even if you have the means wouldn't make sence.
If a nuclear attack wiped out the technology hot spots of the US, but left the Bible Belt, Hollywood and Florida intact, what would happen to civilization?
Heres a tip; when you are going to respond to someone who is questioning your religious beliefs take a deep breath and calm down. You make less mistakes that way. :D
Yeah, he should totally follow you lead.
I'll be happy to consider any evidence or reasoned argument you have for that claim. You know, those things I've supplied that you're wilfully ignoring? Hyperbole and conjecture won't work here.
For what exactly? That Google is just as ready to give out data to LEOs (because that's the fucking law in case you wondered)? https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/legalprocess/ Are you actually too stupid to find those?