That's rather missleading.
It works differently in the UK, the iPhone 4 was:
£319 - on a 18 month £35ppm contract or
Free - on a £75ppm 24 month contract
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That's rather missleading.
It works differently in the UK, the iPhone 4 was:
£319 - on a 18 month £35ppm contract or
Free - on a £75ppm 24 month contract
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Going by that logic, Apple doesn't sell iOS either (unless you can point me to somewhere I can buy iOS?). They licence you to use it on their hardware.
What Apple does do, alongside all of the members of the OHA distributing handsets, is sell hardware.
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Going by that logic, Apple doesn't sell iOS either (unless you can point me to somewhere I can buy iOS?). They licence you to use it on their hardware.
What Apple does do, alongside all of the members of the OHA distributing handsets, is sell hardware.
you can buy an android phone on ANY network from verizon to virgin to cricket to regional plans or track phone services. tis is the same in every country. google will license android to any handset maker. why wouldn't they. even if the product sucks they can't be blamed. i imagine if apple freely license iOS they day they put out their first iPhone android would not even exist. i like that apple makes sure hardware and software work together. i like how easy it is to use iTunes with my phone and now iCloud and match. everything is petty much automatic. i also like that apple watchdogs it's appstore so viruses or any other malicious apps aren't there to screw up my phone. google learned that lesson the hard way and now isn't a free as it used to be. but the big reason i am loyal to apple is because they have the iPad with 100,000 made for the iPad apps. my iPhone has been turned into pretty much a regular phone. i don't even remember the last time i bought an app that wasn't iPad exclusive or universal. and now that i own an iMac, iPhone and iPad and have 1000's in software there is no chance i'm ever gone switch. i'm betting not a whole lot of iOS users switch for this same reason.
I did exactly the same thing based on the fact I started to dislike building my own PCs that always had problems with drivers etc. iMac, MacBook, iPad, iPhone... you could say Apple have stolen my technical sole, but they all work without crying "driver/BSOD" problems.
Jailbreaking for me is like Windows/Linux. Always a hole for something to plung itself in and break. I tried it, disliked it and why destable a stable device I asked myself?
There's no point for anyone here to play "this one is better because....". The facts are that iOS (premium smartphone) and Android (floodmarketgate) will continue to grow unless another corporate has the next big thing and markets it well.
It's just a shame RIM have lost the plot a little and WebOS has literally died because of HPs ability to kill a good product under its own wings.
not everything is about benchmarks and specs tho. some people just want a different phone simple as that. some people want a bigger screen so they will buy an samsung, some people want a pretty apple phone they'll get an iphone. some people just dont want iOS or bother with iTunes so they will get an Android, some people want to use the iCloud and iOS apps so they will get an iPhone ... it goes on and on.
those arguments about who has the bigger .... are soooooo annoying. why try changing ones mind, there's enough space for everyone or does an Android phone in your environment somehow physically hurt you?
imagine if there were no choices, we'd all be stuck in 1998 still playing snake
Wow, who put you on planet zonk?
iOS and Android going no-where? The graph speaks for itself.
I was answering another member who said the iPhone 4 was offered free after being on sale for a number of months.
You don't have to sign up for a £75 contract to get it free, you can get a 16GB 4S free for as little as £41 per month on a two year contract.
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And Apple controls most of the profit.
LOL.
Nokia + RIM + Windows Phone = multi-horse race before iPhone
That turned out to be really innovative.
LOL.
Nokia + RIM + Windows Phone = multi-horse race before iPhone
That turned out to be really innovative.
You will be surprise as how small the percentage would be. The tech savvy crowd is very very small but usually yell the loudest (especially those that like to tinker with their phones). Unless there is a phone with ports all around it and battery that last like a century in a single charge, there will be complains. That's why we hear more complains then complements. The complains are usually from tech savvy who'd like to build nuclear devices out of their phone and this percentage is even smaller.
Yep, people should stop worrying about what others are using. Use what's best for you.
She has the curve 9330. Maybe that is the problem. Her issues with the bb are that is it difficult to browse the web, watch videos, listen to music, switch from one app to another, add new music and ringtones. Everything just seems to be a hassle other than reading email and typing using the keyboard.
Here is one example. She wanted to change the email address on her bb. She needed a bb user id and password to edit the email address? On the iPhone I just tap settings -> etc.
Wow, who put you on planet zonk?
I believe that he meant that they are not going to disappear like some of the others.
Online games like World of Warcraft suffer from the same problem. A very small percentage of people actually go on the forums to complain about the games, but the ones that do are irritating know-it-all condescending asshats that think they can solve everything. Both Blizz and Steve acknowledge that asking someone what they want and bowing to every demand from a vocal minority is a surefire way to release a ****** product.
The customer satisfaction ratings speak for themselves. The vast majority of iPhone users love their phone. If Android is made for a particular crowd, and that crowd likes, it, that's not surprising.
Going by your logic, if Apple were to produce 150 models of iPhone, they would have 99% market share and sell 1 billion units per quarter.
Obviously, it doesn't work that way. There's cross-model canabilization of sales. This isn't a simple linear function (more models = more sales).
Your argument is as pointless as the argument of "quantity vs quality". There are Android phones that have the same level of quality of the iPhone out there. In the end, you can't really judge which platform is superior based on business models, nor can we even know the reasons people buy one over the other (the reason obviously varies per individual).
Same here. Had to wipe my phone and lost everything. So much for 'customizing' a device.. You can't even back up anything unless you root.. And if you're using Mac, that's nearly impossible to do. Android isn't professional.
But I think it does matter in another sense. The phone I had before iPhone was a Sony Ericsson T610 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_T610). What OS did it run you ask? Hell, I don't even care. If you looked it up and told me, I still wouldn't care. If you told me it was 0.00001% of the market share, I STILL wouldn't care. That was a freaking awesome cellphone and you aren't going to convince me of anything with market share graphs or Open Source business models.
However, if I bought that same class of phone, it would probably be running some derivative of Android. As near as I can tell, every phone Sony makes now is Android. Does that mean I CARE that it runs Android? Did I CHOOSE Android as my life goal in buying the phone? Hell no. Just like I don't care what my T610 ran, I also don't care what generic android device #6411 runs. In other words, if I choose to be loyal to Sony Ericsson based on my positive experience with the T610, I probably have no choice but to get an Android phone now. Not every phone is the Samsung Jesus SII that died for your closed source sins.
I know its hard for some people to grasp, and I'm not talking to anyone directly, but not everyone picks a cellphone based on the OS. The fact that Android is a cheaper solution than rolling your own Cell OS gives it higher numbers, but that doesn't mean it's the consumer's choice. Conversely, people are choosing the iPhone because it's an iPhone probably every time; or at least arguably more often.
Just laugh. Microsoft analysts have calculated that if it goes on like that, Windows Phone 7 will have a market share of 1024% in 10 years!
well said, i bet half the people dont even know what an OS is. speaking from my own experience.
"hey i got a new phone"
- "is it an android?"
"no mmmh i think its a samsung"
"hey my iPhone isnt booting, what can i do"
- "are you running the latest iOS?"
"iWhat?"
"hey i want to upgrade my pc"
- "do u have vista or 7?"
"i have office 2003 i think"
and my favorite
"i got an iPhone today but its not turning on"
- "did u install iTunes?"
"what is iTunes?"
- "...... -.-"
"ok i installed it"
- "do u mean downloaded it?"
"yes i downloaded it i think, but how do i get the iTunes on my Phone"
- .... KILLMENOW
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Your post really pisses me off. Because you posted it before I could.
Well put. This is exactly what's going on. And quite a few of the "contenders" on that list are of dubious quality at best.
But that's what you get when you don't control the entire process from cradle to grave. Throw your free OS (and if you've used it, you wouldn't pay for it, either) to everyone and their dog and watch your share grow.