[citation][nom]dino34z12[/nom]If Tim Cook do that, the probability of Ipad or Iphone sales reduced will be increases...put it simply, more competitors less buyers less profit...It's a disadvantage for Apple, yet it's a advantage for us.... (they will fight each other, try to make the best pad/tab or what so ever at the cheapest price to attract customers)- TC < SC for Apple yet TC > SC for People- Hope Apple will still be Innovative to fight for future challanges[/citation]
[citation][nom]scuba dave[/nom]Willard, your example is kind of invalid man. As is referenced in your excerpt by the (Exs) they physically had examples, etc, in front of them. Without physically being there, your excerpt is rather useless. Context clues can be absolutely everything here. Do you have a valid video source? I can wait.Your joking right? I can go to walmart, and get a cheapo android based prepaid for sub 80 bucks. Android phones are THE baston of cheap phones. Yes, there are some rather tempting high end ones, but the majority? Cheap garbage. The free nature of the OS helps manufacturers save money designing their own OS, and yet they base their pricing scheme on Apple, and they are still losing. And yes, before you can say,"But Android sells more per day than Apple!".. I know that. Still, invalid. They sell more through the "lower end" of the market. How many of the high end Androids are "flying" off the shelves? They aren't(average) and it's not going to change any time soon.Android is nothing more than a gimmick for the modern couch potato, or extreme techie, so that they can rally behind their perceived awesomeness, so blinded by the term "open source", that they can't tell that the execution of Android is hardly open, that practically everything they bash Apple for, they do on Android(but under a different name/term), and with all the money the manufacturers "saved"...they still end up with a phone that, to this date, still hasn't de-throned the iphone on the most important scale of all. Individual phone vs Individual phone. They haven't, and they probably never will (based on their tract record). With such an abysmal marketplace(appstore), extremely slow updates(i don't care what the reason.. S.L.O.W. is the answer.), quickly outdated and very quickly un-supported, Lower App Quality(third party reference I know, but it is part of the "android" experience), Lower app support, Sub-par device performance(1 gigahertz or 1 terahertz.. I don't care. Performance/experience > Specs.)....etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.I could go on and on. Android, in essense, is a fantastic idea. In execution, it's pathetic(for now. Hopefully that can/will change), and makes it's most devote fans just as sheepish as "isheep" that they insult so... haha... Religiously. Pot..Kettle. Or in this case.. iSheep..Droidfag. Pick your flavor... but you're all still nuts.[/citation]
Apple has passed it's time. There's hundreds of phones from dirt cheap to very expensive in the android world, developers are free to do whatever they want to write, users are free to modify their devices and replace their operating system as they like. Basically they've created they 'PC' of phones... for better or worse, that freedom to make something great or crappy is android's best ally. It's only a matter of time until they go down the tubes like blackberry. People will only buy the same crappy looking phone so many times with meaningless features. The worst part is how they deal with problems though, business as usual is alienating developers and brushing problems under the rug without so much as an apology to customers.
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