I get all my information on this website. Every post I consider fact. So naturally - I'm very confused because there are so many contrary facts
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I get all my information on this website. Every post I consider fact. So naturally - I'm very confused because there are so many contrary facts
They get tricked into the marketing scams. Here is a history of why Android phones have been superior (sarcasm of course) and how people have been scammed into buying Android.
Android is superior because it has Adobe flash (lol, now even Android doesn't support it).
Android is superior because it had physical keyboard (haven't seen a flagship Android device released with a physical keyboard in the last 2 years).
Android is superior because it has removable battery and SD card slot (besides Samsung everyone has abandoned these options).
Android is more open and customizable (there is no benefit to open except stealing (torrenting) media, and I don't care about live wallpapers and widgets)
Android had LTE (this was a big selling point for Androids 2 years ago).
Android is superior because you don't have an option (the number of carriers that don't have the iPhone are shrinking rapidly).
Android is superior because you can afford it (no argument here, if you can't afford the iPhone, well than you can't afford an iPhone).
Android is superior because it has bigger screen options (and this legit argument for those who prefer bigger screens will be diminished in about 9 months).
As a person who can afford iOS, has it available as a selection on my carrier, and still uses Android, I find your statements to be very misrepresentative. Same goes for my wife, who CHOOSES to use Android - and oh by the way, has a MacBook Pro.
By the way, according to your label of how people end up on Android instead of iOS, I love my big screen. And if/when Apple makes a larger screen - wait for it - I will still use Android.
You talk about people drinking Google Kool-Aid, what are you drinking these days?
Get you facts straight perhaps?
313.9 million (2012)
United States of America, Population
739.2 million (2011)
Europe, Population
Google search is your friend
. The poster did have a valid point.Maybe not technical sites but there are many prominent financial / news sites that had been saying last year that Apple is dead
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-apple-is-a-dead-company-walking/
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11958450/1/theres-no-question-now-apple-is-dead.html
I wish this was the case for me, I lost so much money 2 years ago trying multiple android phones, than selling them on eBay after a month. That's actually one of the things that woke me up. I would buy an android phone for $600+ off contract but when I sold it on eBay I would never get more than half. With iPhones, there are occasions where you can buy the phone, and sell it for more.
We have 1 Samsung appliance. It was our first and will be our last. Our Samsung electric range fried itself after just 4 months. Getting it replaced was a disaster. After all was said and done, we were completely without a stove for about 5 weeks and only had a loaner for a couple weeks because I talked Lowes into letting us use one of their cheapest models so that we had something.
I hear Samsung TVs are nice, but I don't know if I could bring myself to make another major Samsung purchase.
Samsung Monitors and TV are the only brand that I have been looking at these days. Their curved LED TV that can be flatten with a push of a remote button at CES was impressive.
I just find it funny there is such a disparity. All the Android sites I visit are not really concerned about Apple; it's about Android. This site likes to proliferate the "nuclear war" that is Apple v. Google.
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I was wondering the same; unsure where/how the sarcasm was being applied?
Some people just can't imagine that there are actually people who go out and buy Android devices of their own volition, and end up actually being happy with them. To them, there's Apple, then there's unusable crap. For someone to buy anything else, they had to be tricked into it somehow.
Its the other way around for me, I was tricked into buying an iPhone buy the iGods and now Im afraid to be condemned and excommunicated from the iCult that exist on this forum by users that think Apple does no wrong.
"I don't even know what it do, son
Steve Jobs said that it's too fun
So I go wait in line and buy one, not the white but the black one."
Did you not read the article, or you can't do math? Apple going from 35 to 42 means that everyone else goes from 65 to 58. In the case of the US, where BB and Microsoft are nothing more than a rounding error, that means Android's peaked and in decline.
His facts are straight... he never said populations were greater. The consumer market -- as in, total dollars spent -- is larger. Considerably. Simply put; Americans have, and spend, more money.
Pay attention. This has nothing to do with population. This has to do with consumer spending. Household final consumption expenditure, to be specific.
So Europe is by far the larger market, along with other countries, that Apple needs to focus on and win, as Europe will naturally grow in wealth
It all depends on if you've been branded with the Apple logo yet or not. If you have, well then you're a traitor to the cause, and you have to do the walk of shame.
Keep telling that to yourself. The Android sites I visited show the exact same behaviour, it's just less obvious because there are multiple "sub fan bases".