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I guess since the Iphone is OS-X we should compare android devices to macbook pros
Choice
The choice argument going back and forth is just ridiculous. First of all choice is relative. What one man deems as choice, the other may not. Secondly, the market will let them (Apple) know if there was "enough" choice to make them a profit. The answer was astoundingly yes.
Also, making comparisons between computers and cell phones always turns out to be dirty warfare. They really can't be compared in the same way. They really are two completely different markets built in different ways. It would be like saying, PS3's suck because I can't install the XBOX 360 software on it. After all, they are technically computers, and they do run software, right? Different markets.
Ultimately, the arguments that you guys are making are personal preference, of which you are making value judgements that don't really matter to anyone but yourselves.
I mean, I would love to have the ability to play AVI, DIVX, and many other formats on my iPhone without having to convert this or that, but I can't. But I love my iPhone still, because in my humble opinion, the phone is the simplest, most easy to use, and elegantly laid out platform. But that's a personal choice that is right for me. Other things might be important to someone else.
The choice argument going back and forth is just ridiculous. First of all choice is relative. What one man deems as choice, the other may not. Secondly, the market will let them (Apple) know if there was "enough" choice to make them a profit. The answer was astoundingly yes.
Also, making comparisons between computers and cell phones always turns out to be dirty warfare. They really can't be compared in the same way. They really are two completely different markets built in different ways. It would be like saying, PS3's suck because I can't install the XBOX 360 software on it. After all, they are technically computers, and they do run software, right? Different markets.
Ultimately, the arguments that you guys are making are personal preference, of which you are making value judgements that don't really matter to anyone but yourselves.
I mean, I would love to have the ability to play AVI, DIVX, and many other formats on my iPhone without having to convert this or that, but I can't. But I love my iPhone still, because in my humble opinion, the phone is the simplest, most easy to use, and elegantly laid out platform. But that's a personal choice that is right for me. Other things might be important to someone else.
Hey, Eclairs are great
yea no doubt, though I prefer maple bars. I just don't understand the reasoning behind such a boring and graphically unappealing item for their logo, or the name for that matter. I mean, what if Apple called 3.0... Hershey bar 3.0, or string cheese 3.1.2?
P.S....eric cartman is the sh*t
What you are saying is completely true. The issue comes when someone says something along the lines of the "the iPhone is the greatest phone out there, everything else sucks", because this is also a matter of preference and personal opinion.
If Apple was the kind of company to rest on its laurels as you put it, we would not have the Iphone in the first place. Many of the technologies they pioneer but get little credit for making them popular including CD-ROMS ,USB, and lets not for the computer Mouse, is because they are always looking for ways to improve how the consumer interacts with machines it is their mission. Other companies like to throw lots of features at consumers that sound good but may make the device less satisfying to use over time. It also goes against their method of working to release products that don't fit in the easy to use category, so they let other companies test this on their own customers, if it is a good idea that the public responds to and they can come up with a solution to make it fit the consumer friendly requirement, they with release it. Otherwise they won't.
That is the difference between Apple with out Steve Jobs and after his return. Many things the bloggers ask for can make your device complicated and hated by regular Joes who didn't care about that anyway.
You always end your initial posts with (insert product/business here) IS DEAD.
What's up with that?
It's a play on Apple is Dead.
That's really been my only issue as well -- and it's a big one. The signal seems so inconsistent. One day I can have five bars of 3G; the next day I have two bars of EDGE in the same location. My wife and I visit relatives in Sandusky, Ohio. It's not a metropolis, but it is a busy tourist spot. In many sections of that location I get no service whatsoever.
So if the iPhone came to Verizon, I would seriously consider it. If the iPhone doesn't come to Verizon and AT&T doesn't improve their coverage, then I will seriously consider a different smartphone. No matter how much I like my iPhone, if it doesn't connect reliably then it isn't worth much.
agreed.... for me the iphone provides the best overall package, though on paper, it doesn't exceed in any one category except for it's app store. It's not comprised of the best of anything, it's just a great overall package with a loaded app store to boot.
It's one thing to exercise the opinion that someone may or may not like certain products, it's entirely another to make absolute statements as if their opinion is the only possible option. It may not be stated as such, but the implication still stands.
The pastry names are just the code names for the versions. Nowhere on my phone does it say I am running Version 1.6: Donut. The logo for Android is the lil green robot dude. I think the pastry names are unique.
Next iPhone will be the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor as a custom fabrication by Apple.
http://www.arm.com/news/25922.html
Broadcom Licenses Latest ARM Cortex A9 Multiprocessor Technology --Sept 28, 2009
Excerpt:
ARM And GLOBALFOUNDRIES Establish A Strategic Partnership To Enable Application-Optimized SOC Products On 28NM Highk Metal Gate (HKMG) Process -- October 6, 2009
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the world’s first truly global leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company. Launched in March 2009 through a partnership between AMD [NYSE: AMD] and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), GLOBALFOUNDRIES provides a unique combination of leading-edge technology, manufacturing excellence and global operations. GLOBALFOUNDRIES is headquartered in Silicon Valley with facilities in Austin, Dresden and New York.
For more information on GLOBALFOUNDRIES, visit www.globalfoundries.com
ARM Holdings plc Reports Results for the Third Quarter and Nine Months Ended 30 September 2009 -- October 27, 2009
Q3 2009 and Cumulative Processor Licensing Analysis
Check that table out for the direction the market is headed: ARM9 CPU.
Sandusky Metro area is just over 75,000. You'll get solid 3G when area of > 100,000 are filled first.
Its well known that Apple don't use the full capabilities of the chips of their choice..
We shall see what Apple comes out with later in the year.
The Mobile OSX won't be the first smartphone OS to support multicore processors, however.
We shall see what Apple comes out with later in the year.
The Mobile OSX won't be the first smartphone OS to support multicore processors, however.
I like it. There are definitely somethings there that work well, if not better than the iphone. Im hoping this will force apple to redo some things with its UI that have been a bit basic and annoying since the original OS came out. Apple can't now just rest on their laurels and using the excuse "its an iphone, i has to be the best thing since sliced bread!"
Well I agree here to an extent, however multitasking does seem to take a performance hit on the phone itself as far as speed goes, as well as hit the battery (see horrible G1 battery life).
Multitasking has its pros and cons.
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With that logic, as Android is Linux based I guess we can compare it to every computer running linux!
Yay for stupid comparisons!
genovelle said:
With that logic, as Android is Linux based I guess we can compare it to every computer running linux!
Yay for stupid comparisons!
meeh i think i will stick with iphone. Not because im a fanboi or cos im stubborn ( i am a lil bit, not overly so though) but because i have a system that works. MBP, M.M, iPhone 3GS, iTunes, n iPhoto.
Im sure that android is going to be immense. But apple has this market bolted- albeit on increasingly wobbly hinges. i just hope that the increase in OS design and competition doesnt catch apple on the back foot, in a state of complacency. Cos that would be bad, and it seems to of caught them slightly off guard in the last couple of years with-in the computer market. I just hope they can rectify their businesses, and the way which they operate to bring an increase in computer design, and intergration with the rest of the world
Its not like they are short on money neither, they can pull all that off, without necessarily batting an eyelid!
Go iPhone go, go go!! ;-)
PTP
Im sure that android is going to be immense. But apple has this market bolted- albeit on increasingly wobbly hinges. i just hope that the increase in OS design and competition doesnt catch apple on the back foot, in a state of complacency. Cos that would be bad, and it seems to of caught them slightly off guard in the last couple of years with-in the computer market. I just hope they can rectify their businesses, and the way which they operate to bring an increase in computer design, and intergration with the rest of the world
Its not like they are short on money neither, they can pull all that off, without necessarily batting an eyelid!
Go iPhone go, go go!! ;-)
PTP
Yeah and your Nokia N73 phone required power generator to take pictures and so bulky you need a purse to carry around. I am so surprised when people pin the drawbacks of any phone on camera! Phone is not a professional camera - there is no need for 5 mp Carl Zeiss optics - it is battery drainer show off that just adds a cost to the phone.
Google is evil.
Motorola sucks.
Verizon sucks.
I have respect for the latter 2, but the former is all over this. I expect them to start selling laptops and personal computers any day. They will eventually move into health care.
Except for the flash and 5 megapixel camera, nothing seems significant in the iDont commercials. There's going to be a ton of things that Droid doesn't do. Think they will show that?
Are negative adds like this common outside the United States? In Britain, would this be allowed?
The embedded operating system doesn't make the product. Just remember that. Notice they are push the 'Roid OS, but not Motorola. They are also pushing VZ coverage, but not Motorola. A reasonable analogy is like having a Dell with Windows 7. The OS is propping up a package, striving to be like Apple, but always lagging.
And shame on VZ for trashing a vendor they are still trying to woo. They'd stab their own mothers in the back for a buck.
Motorola sucks.
Verizon sucks.
I have respect for the latter 2, but the former is all over this. I expect them to start selling laptops and personal computers any day. They will eventually move into health care.
Except for the flash and 5 megapixel camera, nothing seems significant in the iDont commercials. There's going to be a ton of things that Droid doesn't do. Think they will show that?
Are negative adds like this common outside the United States? In Britain, would this be allowed?
The embedded operating system doesn't make the product. Just remember that. Notice they are push the 'Roid OS, but not Motorola. They are also pushing VZ coverage, but not Motorola. A reasonable analogy is like having a Dell with Windows 7. The OS is propping up a package, striving to be like Apple, but always lagging.
And shame on VZ for trashing a vendor they are still trying to woo. They'd stab their own mothers in the back for a buck.