"I think it's a healthy percentage," Legere said
not that if i'd be concerned how much profit Apple makes when any carrier sells an iPhone, but let's put that smartphone reference straight.
nowadays carriers sell only "smartphones". but what exactly makes a smartphone smart? colorful lcd, unusable built in applications and a touchscreen? yeah, and no keys. or those horrid things with slide out keyboards or touchscreens AND numeric keys, and some weirdly shaped arrow-like navigation buttons. oh, almost forgot, the gigapixel cameras.
good god, these stats are so misleading. as someone manages to put android to an underpowered hardware, it's a smartphone. it's not about how you can use it, how long you must wait when you swept through the screen, how often it hangs or crashes, how hard is it to actually hit something on that screen. and - hell yeah - boost that resolution to, say, 720p, or even higher, to make that tiny GPU struggle when refreshing the screen. cause it's all about specs, you know. how much mem, cores or mAh does your phone have, btw?
why would i care until it does what it was meant to do? until i do not have to repeat my touches and swipes, until it's responsive.
it's not that i am bashing android, it could be symbian or WP as well.
if ever apple would make the mistake to license IOS to anyone on this planet, it would be the same. they'd start to put it on everything.
it doesn't really matter how good your os is, if you have a crappy hw to run it. or the opposite: a top of the line device running an unoptimised sw.
they must match perfectly.
i can pretty much agree, that a well powered HW runs android with reasonable performance. but the 'smartphone' market is not made up from just iphone, galaxy S4 and nexus phone. there are a lot of unusable piece of crap manufactured, and actually sold to the people as smartphones. because this is what people want. or this is what they've been told.
but is it true? do everybody on planet earth need a handheld touchscreen internet device to make phone calls? or is it just the carrier who want to sell it to them, saying "Ok, buy this! well, it's not the iphone/Nexus/Galaxy4S, but it's as smart as them, and it's a lot cheaper! Look it looks really the same! it's almost as cool as them!"
can't afford it? save on the rates. buy it with prepaid subscription *without* a data plan. and the saddest thing is: they buy it.
omg, how i hate the word "smartphone"...
