There have been countless studies (In fact I doubt there has ever been one to the contrary) detailing the fact the R&D budget has nothing at all to do with creating new and innovative products. Apple focuses their R&D on products. Their contribution is still valuable. Making people want to use that technology is useful.
It is also about the implementation of the technology. Technology in and of itself is useless. Creating new, even useful technology is certainly praiseworthy. Taking technology and deploying it in a useful manner is also praiseworthy.
Feature lists are for short-sighted nerds. Apple is successful because they try to keep the feature list shorter and not longer.
There would be no Android phone, as we know it now, without Apple, there may have been a phone, it would have looked just like the Blackberry and Windows Mobile crap that came before it. People who try to discount Apple's contribution to the smartphone industry or call it "marketing fluff", only show how utterly technology ignorant they truly are.
Apple completely transformed the smart-phone industry. There is a day when the look, feel, and function of smart phones all changed. That day was the day Apple announced the iPhone. You don't have to love Apple, or even be a fan. Writing off their success as marketing just makes you look ignorant.
They all have had stories in the past few months too. (Well except gigabyte). Apple has more stories because they release more products that catch the publics attention.
Selling One Million phones in a day is no small task. Despite what a lot of people here seem to think, it is not all marketing. It is not even mostly marketing.
Almost all high-end smartphones (including iPhones now) have full support for bluetooth keyboards and VGA/TV Out. The EVO even has HDMI out (although there is some confusion around what it actually works with).
There are some ok apps for flowcharts on the iPhone. However, Omnigraffe on the iPad is worth checking out for anyone who makes flowcharts regularly. This is just a first generation iPad app, and is all ready an excellent alternative to desktop software for a lot of tasks.
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I concur, this statement has not been true for me either. Of course, by all accounts means: I heard this somewhere, I think, but I could not possibly prove it.
If we were to take it literally, your post completely disproves his statement all on its own.
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Of course if you bought the same smartphone as most people in Japan, you would be purchasing an iPhone...
Developers are free to create apps that use ads from Admob. Admob is not free to collect analytical data about Apple's customers because they are owned by a cell phone company. If AdMob decides not to allow their ads to be displayed, that is an AdMob decision, not an Apple decision.
He probably think it means returning the phone to the state it was in when it came from the factory. He probably thinks that because it is what it means..
Because they do conduct business in the United States and their business was allegedly doing harm to US companies. There tactic of ignoring the judgement would have only worked for so long anyway. Even the officers of foreign corporations can be held in contempt of court.
The fact is several US organizations felt they were wronged by Spamhaus. If they Spanhaus does not want to be subject to the laws of the United States they should remove all US companies from their database.
Android itself can not be advertised. Perhaps a branding message as you suggest, but never a functionality or feature message. The necessary explanation of the fragmentation would scare everyone away.
Well I usually read the comments before I buy an App, and I have never seen one with ads not be identified there. I do think it would be nice for some place that made note of an app using advertising, iAd or otherwise.
Doing nothing new, except now making video calls on mobile devices will be common and before it was not...They are also creating an open standard based on their software. (presumably a real open standard and not an Adobe like open standard that changes week to week).
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There have been countless studies (In fact I doubt there has ever been one to the contrary) detailing the fact the R&D budget has nothing at all to do with creating new and innovative products. Apple focuses their R&D on products. Their contribution is still valuable. Making people want to use that technology is useful.
You know fake steve is not Steve Jobs right?
All Real (tm) Steve said was to not hold the phone that way if it messes up your signal.
It is also about the implementation of the technology. Technology in and of itself is useless. Creating new, even useful technology is certainly praiseworthy. Taking technology and deploying it in a useful manner is also praiseworthy.
Feature lists are for short-sighted nerds. Apple is successful because they try to keep the feature list shorter and not longer.
There would be no Android phone, as we know it now, without Apple, there may have been a phone, it would have looked just like the Blackberry and Windows Mobile crap that came before it. People who try to discount Apple's contribution to the smartphone industry or call it "marketing fluff", only show how utterly technology ignorant they truly are.
Apple completely transformed the smart-phone industry. There is a day when the look, feel, and function of smart phones all changed. That day was the day Apple announced the iPhone. You don't have to love Apple, or even be a fan. Writing off their success as marketing just makes you look ignorant.
They all have had stories in the past few months too. (Well except gigabyte). Apple has more stories because they release more products that catch the publics attention.
Selling One Million phones in a day is no small task. Despite what a lot of people here seem to think, it is not all marketing. It is not even mostly marketing.
Almost all high-end smartphones (including iPhones now) have full support for bluetooth keyboards and VGA/TV Out. The EVO even has HDMI out (although there is some confusion around what it actually works with).
There are some ok apps for flowcharts on the iPhone. However, Omnigraffe on the iPad is worth checking out for anyone who makes flowcharts regularly. This is just a first generation iPad app, and is all ready an excellent alternative to desktop software for a lot of tasks.
Of course not, they are too big to fail!
I concur, this statement has not been true for me either. Of course, by all accounts means: I heard this somewhere, I think, but I could not possibly prove it.
If we were to take it literally, your post completely disproves his statement all on its own.
Of course if you bought the same smartphone as most people in Japan, you would be purchasing an iPhone...
Not anywhere in the Universe of falling behind Android in market share, but the rest of your numbers are accurate for now.
Developers are free to create apps that use ads from Admob. Admob is not free to collect analytical data about Apple's customers because they are owned by a cell phone company. If AdMob decides not to allow their ads to be displayed, that is an AdMob decision, not an Apple decision.
*yawn*
He probably think it means returning the phone to the state it was in when it came from the factory. He probably thinks that because it is what it means..
Because they do conduct business in the United States and their business was allegedly doing harm to US companies. There tactic of ignoring the judgement would have only worked for so long anyway. Even the officers of foreign corporations can be held in contempt of court.
The fact is several US organizations felt they were wronged by Spamhaus. If they Spanhaus does not want to be subject to the laws of the United States they should remove all US companies from their database.
If they blocked e-mail from a company based in Illinois then the venue would be appropriate. There is no other dancing or legal gimmickry required.
And you just placed the context the warning suggested. Perhaps they were right, it is apparent a lot of people misunderstand.
Pretty sure asking a girl to see her vulva would just creep her out.
Android itself can not be advertised. Perhaps a branding message as you suggest, but never a functionality or feature message. The necessary explanation of the fragmentation would scare everyone away.
Hmm..Perhaps we should make Amiga appear to the most popular OS on the Internet...
Thumb sized pixels FTW!
No offense but you have issues. Either your integrity or your dexterity are in serious doubt.
Should have kept reading, or write a nasty letter to your newspaper for incomplete coverage.
Well I usually read the comments before I buy an App, and I have never seen one with ads not be identified there. I do think it would be nice for some place that made note of an app using advertising, iAd or otherwise.
Doing nothing new, except now making video calls on mobile devices will be common and before it was not...They are also creating an open standard based on their software. (presumably a real open standard and not an Adobe like open standard that changes week to week).
Apple does accept cash...They temporarily did not for the iPad.
Saying sheeple makes you look smart and superior! No really! It almost completely masks how asinine the rest of your comment was!