You do realise that Linux has security beyond obscurity right?
Yes, it did.
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Android Outpaces iPhone in Share of New U.S. Smartphone Customers for First Half of 2010
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You do realise that Linux has security beyond obscurity right?
Yes, it did.
Of course. But if you can build it, you can break it. That's the reality. No mobile device is going to be impenetrable. I'd prefer to not have the one everyone is trying to break into.
So the "sending data to China" story was bogus?
Even if so, you just know the unregulated Android app store is going to turn into a nightmare eventually.
Because you keep making a big deal about iOS profitablity and downplay market share?
What is generally better for end users, a platform with a large market share or a platform with small market share?
After having navigated through the Android Marketplace, it's official - the nightmare has entered its REM cycle.
Again, you are making stuff up. I only brought up profitability to refute your claim that it's "bizarro" to make more money with less market share.
I'm not downplaying market share as a whole. I'm just making the point that having the highest smartphone OS market share is not as important to Apple as other companies in the market because they have other significant advantages for developers other than smartphone install base.
Neither is better in general. Both have their advantages and disadvantages depending on the dynamics of the specific market.
Yet another shining example of rewriting history to fit your point.
No rewrite --- I was alive and sentient when Jobs pushed one of the great open machines of all time, the AppleIIe, into the background to push his obsession with the very closed Mac. The market didn't buy into it --- despite the "1984" ad's attempt to paint Apple as the "rebel" and Apple has been paying for it ever since. Jobs' arrogance continues with respect to the iPhone and Blu-Ray and I fear dark days may be ahead. So I sold my stock a couple of months ago, content with a 300% profit.
I'm pretty sure that Apple wasn't "nearly killed" by introducing the Mac (with the first successful consumer mouse and GUI). Jobs left in 1985. And Apple continued to do quite well until the 90s.
And IBM had far more control of the PC market at that time than Apple did.
Arrogance: When someone more successful than me makes a decision that I disagree with.
Mac performed well below Apple's bragging all through the 1980s, both in machine quality and sales.
Servility: Believing everything someone with more money than you is doing is golden. We'll see.
Even if that is true, that's a far cry from "nearly killed" and has very little to do with Steve Jobs.
Just throwing out random insults?
I've never claimed Jobs is golden or anything of the sort. He's made a number of decisions that I disagree with. I believe Apple has the right to make whatever products they want. They don't owe me anything. When they make products that I don't like, I don't buy them. When they make products that I do like at a price that I consider a good value, I occasionally buy them.
Just goodnaturedly replying in kind.
Then I guess we're not in disagreement.
The difference being that I simply questioned your use of the word "arrogance," and you threw out a personal insult.
Is that your way of conceding that you were wrong?
And I simply questioned your "definition" of arrogance with a counter-definition
Is that your way of conceding that you were wrong?
No, just agreeing with the sentiment that Apple makes good products and bad and that you should buy the ones you think are good --- as I have.
There's a big difference between taking your profits when you've hit your target points and you think the future may be shaky based on the actions of corporate leadership and riverboat gambling. I do the former. You're welcome to do the latter.
Yeah, that "little interest from application developers" really came into play with one of the biggest game releases ever for personal computers, Starcraft II. It's a shame that Mac users didn't get the game at the same time as PC users.
Oh, wait...Blizzard decided to develop and release for both platforms simultaneously, even though one is such a "marginal player"? Then once again that makes you guilty of either total ignorance of the software market or blatant FUD spreading in an attempt to troll this forum. So which is it?
If you have been watching the historic commentary of this particular poster, the answer to your question is clear.
Oh, I know the answer as well as you apparently do, just wanted to see if he would own up to it.
android is also ahead of iphone/ios worldwide. they will soon take over RIM/blackberry. Nokia of course is #1 and will be so for the next few years even if others continue to gain share. But then Nokia might gain back some more in the next few years, especially as they are releasing more and more feature rich, cheaper gadgets. Outside of the states, Nokia is wildly popular.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/gartner-and-idc-agree-the-android-invasions-accelerating-aroun/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/12/gartner-and-idc-agree-the-android-invasions-accelerating-aroun/
