If you ask me, putting ads in the MIDDLE of YouTube videos (yes that happens now) makes me want to purposefully avoid buying your product. Maybe that's just me, because apparently it's working.
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If you ask me, putting ads in the MIDDLE of YouTube videos (yes that happens now) makes me want to purposefully avoid buying your product. Maybe that's just me, because apparently it's working.
he's a co-founder so prob hard to get rid of him
honestly sad to see HTC in the state they are in the HTC One is probably the best looking phone out there (and made of nice materials too)
I really can't understand anyone would buy a Samsung phone. If you appreciate design and a well made product, Apple is the gold standard, and the former is like that crappy counterfeit store that sells knockoffs.
You can argue that the quality of a product lies in its functionality, but using something thats made out of cheap crappy plastics and engineered using substandard industrial methods? I'll take the iPhone 5's diamond chamfered edges and aluminium any day of the week.
I can sum this post up in one all-caps paragraph.
MY BEVELS WERE CUT BY DIAMONDS! DIAMONDS ARE EXPENSIVE! APPLE IS GOODER AND I AM SMART FOR BUYING GOODER!
Oh jeez. Same comments/different thread. Apple V Samsung. iOS vs Android. Astroturfing, FUD and Tin Foil Hat parades.
It's as if it REALLY matters to anyone here what either company spends and whether or not they get enjoyment from their devices.
Advertising is a good tax write off.
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You mean you wouldn't enjoy your device more if you knew the manufacturer made more profit and spent less on advertising than their chief competitor?
I really can't understand anyone would buy a Samsung phone. If you appreciate design and a well made product, Apple is the gold standard, and the former is like that crappy counterfeit store that sells knockoffs.
It has nothing to do with smarts.
For example, one day he installed many different apps for playing music (apps like Pandora, Spotify, etc.) and found that after he installed the 10 or so apps to try them, his battery was draining in less than 2 hours with him not doing anything. He started deleting apps, and even deleted all of them, and still was having problems. Even after rebooting. There was some background process running that caused this headache. But he had to learn a lot about the inner workings of Android (which he did NOT want to do, and which he thought was a complete waste of time) to figure it out. If his job was something to do with computers, or he liked tinkering, he wouldn't mind, but he just wants his phone to WORK, and do things he has fun with in his spare time.
Many people simply don't know why iPhone is better. (Or Android--for some people--but Android is better mainly for a small techie niche who likes to tinker/troubleshoot and is willing to give up a lot of iOS benefits for that.)
Forget the fact that plastic was just fine for previous iPhones.
Forget the fact that there may be a WEE bit bias. iOS and Android - while having similar functionality are two difference experiences. And it's good there's a choice.
The biggest problem with some people is that they'll try something for 5 minutes, see that they're not as quick with it as the thing they've been using for the past 3 years, and immediately dismiss it. Like when I first tried Android, I stumbled through it trying to figure out where everything was. I don't consider this a knock against Android because, hey, I did about the exact same thing with my iPhone when I first got it. Contrary to popular belief, you don't pick up an iOS device and somehow intuitively know how to use it the instant it hits your hand. There's a learning curve to it, much like anything else.
But, you know, that doesn't make for entertaining posts. It's much more fun to come on here and say "OLOL I tried blerg for, like, an hour and I HATED IT SO MUCH! How can people defend this CCCRRRAAAPPP...derp plus one me plz".
I really can't understand anyone would buy a Samsung phone. If you appreciate design and a well made product, Apple is the gold standard, and the former is like that crappy counterfeit store that sells knockoffs.
You can argue that the quality of a product lies in its functionality, but using something thats made out of cheap crappy plastics and engineered using substandard industrial methods? I'll take the iPhone 5's diamond chamfered edges and aluminium any day of the week.
Within a phone, a product that one uses on a daily basis, design and materials matter a heck of a lot. I must be in a completely different mindset, but I've literally never wanted to get a non Apple phone, I just can't deal with the design tradeoffs, within the feel of the product itself, and Android which seems messy and downright crappy coming from iOS.
I guess the late Steve Jobs put it best, 'We [Apple] just can't ship junk'.
To be able to use aluminum case for iPhone Apple dropped the following features:
* replaceable battery
* memory cards
* NFC
* wireless charging
* [probably] simultaneous voice and LTE data on CDMA (Verizon) - because of issues with antennas
And speaking of "cheap", just look at the actual costs. iPhone's BOM (Bill Of Materials) is the lowest among the premium smart phones. It's literally one of the cheapest top of the [respective] line smart phones out there.
And speaking of "cheap", just look at the actual costs. iPhone's BOM (Bill Of Materials) is the lowest among the premium smart phones. It's literally one of the cheapest top of the [respective] line smart phones out there.
More then likely its due to its volume discounts of screens, memory and other crucial parts that it uses in bulk. Partially how it uses its huge cash reserves to its advantage.
I really can't understand anyone would buy a Samsung phone. If you appreciate design and a well made product, Apple is the gold standard,
Nope. BOMs are calculated using market prices. The reason iPhones are cheap is simple - Apple skimps on many components:
* iPhone has 1/2 RAM of most Android phones
* at any given price point, iPhone will have less flash memory
* On Verizon, iPhone has only single baseband chip. Android phones have two baseband chips (this is how they can do simultaneous voice and data)
* iPhone has the smallest battery
* iPhone has the smallest display with lowest resolution
* iPhone uses LCD display (OLED screens cost more)
* iPhone does not have NFC chip
* iPhone has 1/2 RAM of most Android phones
Yet with better software optimizations, it had much less lag and ran more efficiently. So it did not necessarily need that much RAM then other manufactures.
* iPhone has the smallest battery
Considering its battery technology made it rechargeable 1000 times, squeezed more battery life in a smaller battery size, replaceable batteries is not as much an issue.
Before you were saying it had the lowest Bill Of Materials, now your saying its due to skimping out out on components, which one is it?
How these iphones are manufactured can also have an effect on price. Does the aluminum body have to be milled from a single block of aluminum like some of its other devices? Things like that effect the price then just the cost of the parts alone.
How else can one get a lower bill?