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Re: Nothing Keeps Apple From Making an Android Phone Except Common Sense

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Post by officemonkey » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 4:47 PM UTC

frade33 wrote: post #3

>People like the precious looks of stylings and manufacturing that we do in our product compared to the other Android offerings. Is he essentially saying, people who admire the iPhone hardware, do not really admire iOS? Or Am I missing something. Taking into account the premise of Steve, Apple should make Windows Laptops too?

They do make Windows Laptops. All you have to do is provide a copy of Windows.

That being said, few people would buy an Apple phone without getting the iOS.

Samsung has pretty much captured the market for Android phones for people who admire iPhone hardware, so Woz isn't completely misguided.

I just don't see the upside for Apple. Does he think Apple can gobble up the Android market with well-made, high-quality Android handsets? It's not worth using your resources to manufacture lower-margin equipment when it could be used to make/sell higher-margin equipment.

Re: Nothing Keeps Apple From Making an Android Phone Except Common Sense

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Post by nicholassmith » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 5:22 PM UTC

gonehome wrote: post #40

nicholassmith wrote: post #29

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I found the HTC One to be pretty solid, not as good as Apple but very nice and very well built. If I remember rightly the stats show a lot of the Android sales are low-to-mid range hardware, so there's possibly not as much reason for companies to build really high end phones if they don't think there's a market.

The HTC One is beautiful, but the battery is atrocious - the iPhone has an incredible battery. The Nexus 5 is also a really nice phone, but the hardware is still not as nice as the iPhone (I admit this is a bit subjective though). I think you're right that most of the android sales are low to midrange hardware, but there are no real high end options except for the HTC One and Nexus 5 which are not readily available i…

I'd heard about the battery life, which is a shame as I thought the HTC One could be the one (no pun indeed) to get me to think about switching to Android for a while.

I do see your point about bringing people from Samsung to Apple, but I'm not sure there's enough that would be tempted that it'd make it worthwhile for Apple to actively pursue and put money into it.

Apple do want people actively in their ecosystem, but they could spread that to Android whenever they want anyway with some development time, as it is it keeps everything nicely uniform for users of iOS/OS X.

Re: Nothing Keeps Apple From Making an Android Phone Except Common Sense

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Post by frade33 » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 6:17 PM UTC

officemonkey wrote: post #41

frade33 wrote: post #3

>People like the precious looks of stylings and manufacturing that we do in our product compared to the other Android offerings. Is he essentially saying, people who admire the iPhone hardware, do not really admire iOS? Or Am I missing something. Taking into account the premise of Steve, Apple should make Windows Laptops too?

They do make Windows Laptops. All you have to do is provide a copy of Windows. That being said, few people would buy an Apple phone without getting the iOS. Samsung has pretty much captured the market for Android phones for people who admire iPhone hardware, so Woz isn't completely misguided. I just don't see the upside for Apple. Does he think Apple can gobble up the Android market with well-made, high-quality Andro…

From my understanding of how Apple Inc work, they are not really focused on market share. It could be one of their goals, but not their entire focus, instead they solely focus on producing products the best human can do and produce. Much like Merce or BMW, are they focused on market share like Toyota? No.

Re: Nothing Keeps Apple From Making an Android Phone Except Common Sense

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Post by mark_integerdsv » Sat, Feb 08, 2014, 5:41 PM UTC

Consultant32452 wrote: post #22

mark_integerdsv wrote: post #15

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>realise the software is better At the risk of noshing down some trollbait, could you perhaps qualify this statement or are you just going to go with your subjectiuve view as fact?

As someone that owns both an Android and iOS phone I think Apple has nicer form factor than the various Android options but Android has superior software. Here's my quick thoughts. iOS has caught up in a lot of the features it was missing early on (multi-tasking) but it still lacks widgets. It may not be for everyone, but I use two widgets on my desktop daily and Apple's answer to it in the notification center is ble…

Google Now is just the coolest thing. I really hope we see more of thin kind of thin, especially in terms of integration.

Noticing that Now and Glass are clearly made for one another - this gives me a lot of hope for where Glass might be in say, five years.