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It used to be I bought Apple products at a premium price to be ahead of the curve in technology. For instance, Retina Screens on Phones, Thunderbolt ports, lightweight quad core notebooks. Now I find myself waiting for Apple to play catch up and release NFC on an iPhone, or HASWELL MACBOOK PROS/Retina (that I can't believe we don't have yet). The Macbook Pros used to be the first of popular laptops to use the latest…
It used to be I bought Apple products at a premium price to be ahead of the curve in technology. For instance, Retina Screens on Phones, Thunderbolt ports, lightweight quad core notebooks. Now I find myself waiting for Apple to play catch up and release NFC on an iPhone, or HASWELL MACBOOK PROS/Retina (that I can't believe we don't have yet). The Macbook Pros used to be the first of popular laptops to use the latest…
There was actually several android phones a better screen resolution than a Retina display when it came out, they just didn't have a marketing term attached to them.
> Apple in time will need to move away from the iPhone and iPad, as they will become a commodity. As someone who already owns a Nexus 4 and a 1st gen Nexus 7 they are already a commodity, I bought my N4 for half what an iPhone 5 costs. The only thing that keeps Apple even remotely price comparable on the iPhone is that people mostly buy a smart phone on contract so they see roughly the same price per month (but the c…
It's bizarre to lump Win XP in with duds like Me and Vista. Isn't XP, by most measures, an unmitigated success? (You might not think it's great personally, but it's certainly not the case that MS has had no blockbusters since Win 95.)
XP was the first consumer OS with the NT kernel. It was a success but it was never recognized as very innovative. Which it wasn't. Even Microsoft gave it a point release (5.1) on top of Windows 2000 (5.0)
> Apple in time will need to move away from the iPhone and iPad, as they will become a commodity. As someone who already owns a Nexus 4 and a 1st gen Nexus 7 they are already a commodity, I bought my N4 for half what an iPhone 5 costs. The only thing that keeps Apple even remotely price comparable on the iPhone is that people mostly buy a smart phone on contract so they see roughly the same price per month (but the c…
I just wonder if Apple can learn from their mistakes in the 80s. Perhaps they are, and are trying to avoid the fate of 1990s Apple with some of the strategies mentioned in other comments.
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...while Android has blundered along releasing phones with 4 hour battery life and jittery screens. Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution? Some Android phones are junk. Some are great. Most are in-between, and there are a LOT of them. You can make the same statements about desktop and laptop computers based on IBM's original standards, and you wouldn't blame IBM for the range. I do…
>Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution? To you and I? No. To your parents or the general public? Yes. They will buy one low end android phone, it was suck, they will say "Android is terrible". I know people who went from iPhone 4 to a free Android phone and are wanting to return to apple. The same goes for laptop companies. They'll buy the cheapest Dell. It'll fall apart in 6 months…
Keep in mind what Apple has been doing with the proceeds of its amazing cash cow: - smart moves to economize the supply chain - attempting to simplify/unify its various OSes. - hinting at a lower price point future (inevitable). - focusing on patented industrial design (lightning connector, new mac pro, etc.) - taking away carrier margins (iMessage) - notably ignoring "enterprise users" and focusing on making consume…
Yes, it's amazing how much Android has lagged, releasing best-in-class phones like the HTC Once and Sony Xperia Z1 that have no match in the iOS world (and that cost the same as Apple's 'low-end' 5C). As well as inexpensive mid-range products like the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 making modern well-made smartphones and tablets accessible to all. Not to mention the open ecosytem and OS that all kinds of companies are innovatin…
HTC in particular seems like a dead man walking.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
...while Android has blundered along releasing phones with 4 hour battery life and jittery screens. Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution? Some Android phones are junk. Some are great. Most are in-between, and there are a LOT of them. You can make the same statements about desktop and laptop computers based on IBM's original standards, and you wouldn't blame IBM for the range. I do…
>Is Android a company now, with singular (if faulty) vision and execution? To you and I? No. To your parents or the general public? Yes. They will buy one low end android phone, it was suck, they will say "Android is terrible". I know people who went from iPhone 4 to a free Android phone and are wanting to return to apple. The same goes for laptop companies. They'll buy the cheapest Dell. It'll fall apart in 6 months…
But at least Dell is a single company / manufacturer and not a brand name. Of course, said experience could make people go "Laptops are terrible". Actually, it does, and they go right back to their Macbooks.