The source is the fact that only super nerds complain about openness. As I said, ask your typical iPhone owner about openness and prepare for blank stares.
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The source is the fact that only super nerds complain about openness. As I said, ask your typical iPhone owner about openness and prepare for blank stares.
Again don't throw around statistics that don't exist. You don't have solid proof of what you are claiming. It makes you look 100% foolish. My source? Your previous post.
My source is real life experience. My source is that people I work with own the iPhone and love it to death and don't think it is at all limiting. The fact that you cant tell that "99%" is a sarcastic statistic is amazing. People say "99%" all the time to indicate a vast majority, NOT to be taken literally.
Here is a indicator for you: most iPhone owners don't go online complaining about device limitations. That itself should indicate to you how many people wish it was open. But go ahead, continue to think that all iPhone customers are super nerds who want a open platform and jailbreak the heck out of their devices. Time for you to go outside and introduce yourself to the real world I think.
Most iPhone owners will not complain because they bought a device, the device does what they need it to do, and they are happy with it. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and certainly don't bitch about it." But chances are those users don't know -- or don't WANT to know -- that there are choices, options, that may (or may not) do what they need better.
There's 3 types of users:
1) Not-so-tech-savvy people will feel overwhelmed by choice; they want a device that works and does what they need regardless of the OS, the GHz, or any of that super-nerd stuff. As long as it does what they need, that's it. End of story. The only time they'll bitch online is if the phone doesn't boot, etc (coma bug, anyone?). The bulk of iPhone users probably fall into this group.
2) Non-fanboy-tech-savvy people will welcome choice. They like options, they very much welcome new players to any game. They live and breathe by choice and they, too, will probably refrain from bitching about limitations online because they can simply make a different choice, or change the code to suit their needs (assuming an open platform). Android is great for these people but this is a small group indeed.
3) Tech-savvy-fanboy people will defend their device till death do they part. Choice will feel like a threat to fanboys because a device that *could* be better than theirs is simply not an acceptable. However the threat (& competition) that choice creates will lead to innovation across the board, and everyone wins in the long run.
As an aside: as an example of group #1, my parents for the longest time didn't realize that OSes other than Windows existed. This worked for them & kept things simple for them, but for me (being super-nerdy) was simply horrific.
Nope, it's just because Google is competing with Apple after Eric Schmidt got all the good ideas from SJ. So Google is the same as MS now.
It's either too complicated or too different, or people just have too much to choose from so they become confused.
I for one, love the fact that I can do whatever I want with my system and that I can configure it and make it work the way I want. So yeah, I'm on that small share of people and I couldn't give a bigger ****. I love using Linux in my home computer.
Plus I get to learn something new every day.
The average person just wants to sit and have a system that works out of the box, that's why they choose Windows or OSX and things won't change anytime soon.
Again, you are confusing common sense with your biased positions.
Common sense shows people want a product they can use, people want to feel entitled, people want to own what they purchase.
With the iPhone you have none of this. You buy a chance at "using" Apple's technology. I own an iPhone but would have never bought it. It was luckily given to me during my tenure as a Mac Genius.
Bravo.
For me I am an Apple user and have been for a long time but I in no way have drank the Koolaid. If something better comes along... and Apple cannot keep up... Ill jump ship. Thats being an informed consumer.
Actually common sense, you are not making any of it.
The iPhone has turned the industry upside down and everyone wants one because it IS easy to use and looks great. If you think that people care about "entitlement" then you are wrong. Hords of people flocked to ATT even though they KNEW it will lock them in a 2 year contract and the phone will still be locked AND it had no app store.
Give me a break, Google is a great company and has contributed a lot to the tech/internet world. If you're saying Android phones are copies of iPhones, then you've never used one.
Yup, exactly the same.
Of course I am; that doesn't mean I can't joke with my own fanboyish statements...
The only smartphone I would ever buy is the iPhone, so you're right...I've never used an Android and probably never will...besides, those who have used it can tell me how crappy "iPhone killers" are anyway...
Please improve the chunkiness. Plus all the Android phones so far look like they're made from Matel.
Imagine what the iPhone could be without Apple's tight grip on the OS and more choices in the US than AT&T . . . why it might be a Google killer.
