no he experiences the exact same thing as me. Its where the backlight completely shuts off. Like no joke. Next time it happens I'm taking a pic of it.
My iPhone 5 will sometimes just have no backlight until I slightly move the slider in the options.. then it returns.
I thought I was the only one lulz so didn't bring it up. Guess not. But it does happen to me as well. I don't have auto brightness on.
You get an replacement phone from Apple under your warranty.
Yeah, the business people who use(d) Android smartphones lost the smart phone war. Sure. The have nothing better to do! Sure.I feel sorry for the Android guys, first because they had to use an inferior product for such a long time and now that they are loosing the smart phone war they will have to rebuy all their apps for iOS
Of course Apple can't keep up the same profit growth. That's an exponential game and frankly, it's not sustainable for anyone. There just comes a point when your growth will slow down, even if your profits climb by more net dollars.
The fact that iOS is only available on iPhone 5 and 4s and android is available on many other phones doesn't that mean that apple is doing well because they cannot distribute iOS on many phones like android. correct me if I'm wrong.
For illustration, to keep 20% annual growth in iPhone sales, Apple would have to sell one iPhone to each person on earth each quarter in 2040.
The sad thing is if they don't do that, some will say they're doomed!
What most companies do actually is open new segments to continue their growth. However, Apple is in a particular bind in that they've grown so massively because of the iPhone, they absolutely have to nail the next big growth sector (like smartphones have been for the last 5 years) because as the smartphone market matures, potential growth will diminish and even stagnate.
No one can grow indefinately if they don't diversify. Apple right now is pretty much a 2 trick pony, iPhones and iPads being 70% of their revenue. Throw in Macs, and you've got close to 85%.
They definitely need to diversify. I just meant sustained growth at their previous pace is impossible. If Apple doesn't push the boundaries with new tech, they will be doomed. But the culture that if Apple doesn't make 80 billion dollars a qtr means they're doomed doesn't make sense.
Apple needs to innovate or give us another wow product to continue growing. They don't need to double profits every three months like some think they should.
They're doing pretty darn well
again, where's all the reports stating that android is dominating and apple is on the downfall?
It doesn't mean they're doomed at all. It might mean though that they'll have a few years of rougher waters in regards to investors while they adjust to new market realities (tablet/smartphone sectors becoming mature and growth being more a game of competitive offerings vs simple segment growth), emerging segments being tougher to crack and "nail", or simply out of their reach because they're not Apple's core competency (cloud computing comes to mind).
Actually, it is. The more market share a platform garners, the more developers are willing to dedicate their time and resources to building great apps for that platform.
Devs have been flocking in drones to iOS for years because of the large market that exists thanks to Apple's market share. Meanwhile, RIM is literally writing checks out of their own pocket to entice developers to do half-assed ports of their apps to BB10.
Open the app store on all three platforms and say that it doesn't matter. It does.
Open the app store on all three platforms and say that it doesn't matter. It does.
I'd rather see a poll that shows they have the highest quality phones instead. I've been a fan and have had every iPhone since the first model in 2007. Nobody had them and it felt like the coolest thing around. I waited up until midnight last September to be one of the first customers to order the iPhone 5. It has so many glitches (Hardware? Software? Both?) that I'm done giving them the benefit of the doubt thinking each instance is a fluke occurrence. To name a few, sometimes the screen just dims itself all the way down but when I open brightness settings, the slider is still all the way to the right. If I manipulate the slider the brightness returns, I'm CONSTANTLY dropping LTE in downtown Portland, OR. Now I get that this could be the fault of my provider, AT&T, but during the time it takes to switch antennas it will sometimes get hung up on NO SERVICE and require a reboot. The last thing I feel like mentioning is that iOS 6 crashes. Often. I don't recall ANY of my other iPhones ever rebooting themselves.
Oh yeah! One more thing. When I answer a call and say "hello", most times I hear nothing because the caller never heard my first "hello" so I have to repeat myself. None of my other iPhones had this delay in connecting the call. What can I do? I'm locked in for 18 more months. Ugh. It's obvious that they are making a ton of phones because the quality has turned to %^#!.