Apple Passes Nokia and Holds Off Samsung to Become World's Top Smartphone Vendor

[BaldiMac]

Fact of the matter is, i dont think you understand what you are saying. It certainly doesnt look like it so far.




You finally get it. And yet you say things like the following sentence:



No, that is a statement. The statement might be based of your opinion, i.e. pulled out of your ass, but its nonetheless a statement. The statement may not be false, but it has shown to be baseless and the data provided to support the claim are non-indicative and thus irrelevant.



No, i was stupid enough to think that you could fill in the blanks yourself, then the classic quote by Scar came to mind. It usually does when discussing things with people online.

In essence, this is a make-or-buy decision (Google it and you might learn something). In the end, Apple would be retarded not "making" simply "because, they dont want to". More likely, the answer is "because buying is (read: seems like) the better option"; i.e., when simplified, because Samsung is better at what they are doing then Apple is (e.g. producing SSD:s and LCD:s -- Apple buys the latter from LG though i guess, i would too).



It is irrelevant. Both from a scientific point-of-view, and a non-scientific dito. You can not draw any conclusions (relevant to the discussion) from the data in question. Simple as that. If that doesnt make them irrelevant, i dont know what will.

Again, you are making up my argument. I presented two numbers to show that Apple does not have an inherent advantage in R&D spending. That's it. No claim to the amount actually spent on smartphone development.

Second, "being better at R&D", and "being more efficient at R&D" aren't really miles apart, are they?

Similar, but efficiency implies a per dollar comparison. I didn't make any claim to that effect. I just stated my opinion that Apple was better at R&D than Samsung. You don't get to choose what metric my opinion is based on.

They might, but we cannot make any such statements given the accessible data. In fact, it doesnt even allow for an educated guess.

Of course it allows for an educated guess! We know it's definitely between $0 and $7 billion. And it is reasonable to assume that investment is related to revenue. The calculation I made earlier was an educated guess. A hypothesis.

 

[CFreymarc]

Why? Is 4chan a search engine?

It is if you are good enough and know more than just working key words.