It means Apple is a lot more profitable than ANY part, or even the whole, of Android.
So is Google.
Google doesn't make hardware. Apple is a LOT more profitable on the hardware side than ALL of the Android phone makers combined. Apple is a LOT more profitable on the software side than Google.
Which part will last, which part will drop? HTC? EVO? Motorola?
They have no alternative for Android. Why would they drop it?
What if WP7 is more profitable? You don't think MSFT will have some motivation to make this the case? Even if it's just lower licensing fees than they're starting to charge Android mfgrs.
What happens when Google comes out with Chrome?
You mean ChromeOS. ChromeOS won't be touch-enabled, nor fit for a small device. It's a netbook OS. It means nothing for the smartphone/tablet market.
Gee, you don't think they're trying to add those right now?
What happens if Google drops Android, like it does most of it's projects.
Really? Is that an argument? Since when has Google dropped one of its most profitable and successful projects? Are you trolling?
But even if they did, there are plenty of people invested in Android which could continue it, since it's OPEN.
Really? Show me the source code for development that's happened since Froyo. What if they drop it before Gingerbread, and the open source community has to re-build it for tablet functionality - again. Also, how much does Google actually make off Android? Or is it just a loss on development & purchase of company?
It means Apple is a lot more profitable than ANY part, or even the whole, of Android.
Which part will last, which part will drop? HTC? EVO? Motorola? What happens when Google comes out with Chrome? What happens if Google drops Android, like it does most of it's projects.
How about these numbers, from Apple's earnings report:
-AAPL’s cash flow beat GOOG’s *total* revenue this quarter. $5.7B vs $5.5B -AAPL had 2x revenue in iPhone compared to *all* of HTCs phones $5.3B vs $2.5B -AAPL is conservatively forecasting 30% YoY EPS growth. $3.67 to $4.80 -AAPL is conservatively forecasting 46% YoY revenue growth. $15.7B to $23B
You can take your (US only) market share. Dell doesn't seem to be doing so great these days. I'll take AAPL's profits. And the market share they have in iPods, iPhones and iPads.
I don't think they stream the TV, or the on-demand programming. That's probably still a function of the cable/satellite carrier and won't change. But now you can search everything, surf the web with flash, and...run a few apps. For a cost of several hundred dollars.
The only thing I really like is the searchable DVR/channel guide/content. Other than that, AppleTV already has it beat. Well, maybe except for the true multi-tasking ie actually watching & surfing at the same time.
Well given that they're running Windows for critical infrastructure & military command centers - apparently without AV, I'd say that yes, they did do it to themselves.
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Something tells me your missing the point.
No other company did the work to take the browser from KHTML to webkit, which is now used in almost every phone OS, including Android & RIM.
Apple gets shit all the time for being closed. They're not always. Examples: http://www.apple.com/opensource/
Not completely irrelevant.
http://www.devdaily.com/java/java-grand-central-dispatch-gcd-mac-os-x
Comment from an Apple JRE engineer:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2009/Sep/msg00006.html
You might want to go read up on Grand Central Dispatch.
And why do you think Apple wouldn't give their code-base to Oracle?
If Apple is looking to go to a standard Java from Oracle, that would only hurt Apple.
As Steve Jobs put it: "This won't be the only way to get software on your Mac, just the best."
And yet, people are whining on and on about that there will be no other way.
Please don't confuse them with the truth. They can't handle the truth.
So is Google.
Google doesn't make hardware.
Apple is a LOT more profitable on the hardware side than ALL of the Android phone makers combined.
Apple is a LOT more profitable on the software side than Google.
They have no alternative for Android. Why would they drop it?
What if WP7 is more profitable? You don't think MSFT will have some motivation to make this the case? Even if it's just lower licensing fees than they're starting to charge Android mfgrs.
You mean ChromeOS. ChromeOS won't be touch-enabled, nor fit for a small device. It's a netbook OS. It means nothing for the smartphone/tablet market.
Gee, you don't think they're trying to add those right now?
Really? Is that an argument? Since when has Google dropped one of its most profitable and successful projects? Are you trolling?
But even if they did, there are plenty of people invested in Android which could continue it, since it's OPEN.
Really? Show me the source code for development that's happened since Froyo. What if they drop it before Gingerbread, and the open source community has to re-build it for tablet functionality - again.
Also, how much does Google actually make off Android? Or is it just a loss on development & purchase of company?
It means Apple is a lot more profitable than ANY part, or even the whole, of Android.
Which part will last, which part will drop? HTC? EVO? Motorola?
What happens when Google comes out with Chrome?
What happens if Google drops Android, like it does most of it's projects.
How about these numbers, from Apple's earnings report:
-AAPL’s cash flow beat GOOG’s *total* revenue this quarter. $5.7B vs $5.5B
-AAPL had 2x revenue in iPhone compared to *all* of HTCs phones $5.3B vs $2.5B
-AAPL is conservatively forecasting 30% YoY EPS growth. $3.67 to $4.80
-AAPL is conservatively forecasting 46% YoY revenue growth. $15.7B to $23B
You can take your (US only) market share. Dell doesn't seem to be doing so great these days.
I'll take AAPL's profits. And the market share they have in iPods, iPhones and iPads.
Which is exactly why SJ is trying to reframe the discussion from open/closed to fragmented/integrated. It makes more sense to the average phone buyer.
I 'liked' him.
Don't want: SD card slot, mini-ethernet (for a mobile phone?), unmoderated app store.
Confused: on-screen keyboard that doesn't suck? The android one is basically the same as the iPhone one. What are you trying to say?
Because they have five phones from HTC which are basically the same?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/windows-phone-7-handsets-the-tale-of-the-tape/
Oh, that's probably not a good reason to wait.
Don't forget the iOS on the iPad & iTouch. That might make a little difference. You know, 20+million or so devices.
Or even something... authoritative.
http://www.googlelabs.com/
Trivial? Yeah right. And you wonder why other moderators are rating you flamebait.
Online voting is not trivial for one reason. Security from vote tampering.
If you can get 300 million people to vote online, without vote tampering up to and including hacking 'your' system, then you're a hero.
But you're not.
Google TV is supposedly going to be even more. Logitech Revue - $299.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/16/logitech-revue-with-google-tv-coming-9-29-for-299-dish-network/
I don't think they stream the TV, or the on-demand programming. That's probably still a function of the cable/satellite carrier and won't change. But now you can search everything, surf the web with flash, and...run a few apps. For a cost of several hundred dollars.
The only thing I really like is the searchable DVR/channel guide/content. Other than that, AppleTV already has it beat. Well, maybe except for the true multi-tasking ie actually watching & surfing at the same time.
Well played!
Precision != accuracy.
Does that make me a grammar nazi?
But will you trust the science & therapies based on cells that "appear to be virtually like stem cells"?
Nice that the time stamps on those articles are AFTER MY FUCKING POST.
So, no it wasn't clear at all which way RIM was going, at the time I posted.
So why don't you STFU. Dickwad.
Or just install AV on all the Windows machines...that you have running critical infrastructure and military command.
Well given that they're running Windows for critical infrastructure & military command centers - apparently without AV, I'd say that yes, they did do it to themselves.