Isn't overpay an opinion or value judgment? Numbers don't lie but the interpretation of what they mean does.
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Decline in iPhone Shipments Could Make Apple Worst-Performing Top Five Smartphone Brand of 2016
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Seems like a bit of a deflection, as what happens when there is no response to a valid point.
Lol. I would give them a blank stare, and switch dentists immediately. I wouldn't trust a dentist that day dreams about Star Wars, and at the same time checks my teeth!My dentists, as all dentists say; "may the floss be with you "
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You hit the nail on the head. Web-connected tech is not stand alone. The hardware has to be on point but in the end it's the software/service ecosystem [ie. functionality vs. fashionability] ...the user experience that ultimately wins for most people. With Android I really got tired of doing all the housekeeping to keep the thing decently working. Hopefully, Marshmallow will fix a lot of those issues.
I guess what people are really wanting is a different type of operating system that reimagines the whole mobile computing experience. Gives us everything we need but perhaps from a different [unknown] paradigm. It seems to me that this will happen over time. Unfortunately, nothing has disrupted the status iOS / Android status quo quickly enough and in a way that has been very satisfying. I guess people (at times me included) are yearning for a change but they don't know what that is. What is sad, is that Steve Jobs was a master at coming up with awesome tech that satisfied people....and sometimes even he failed.... remember Ping?
Now that I've read the article, as a scientist by training and career I'm not impressed with the analysis. It's a poor sampling (n=7) with a subjective scoring system. Scoring on a 0-100 point scale is fine (but he only did a 6 point system: 0, 25, 33, 50, 75, 100%) and including not just product but also sales predictions is good but again with a small sample and subjective scoring, we can't take anything from it. It's not like Kuo is making tons of predictions (around 91 reported by MacRumors if we trust DeWitt's numbers), which means someone should look at all of them (and certainly at least 30 randomly chosen). I'll try to do it at some point.
My bias is to pay attention to Kuo's product predictions but not sales or revenue ones. I think Kuo has solid connections on the product line but any of his other predictions are more speculative. The cult of Mac analysis, while far from perfect, was much better. It was also more supportive of Kuo's accuracy (87+% based mostly on products and not revenue/sales).
Well, regardless of the method he is probably the best on products.
My Dart Board analysis puts him at 64.5%.
Exactly, i'm so bored out of my mind with ios, would love something like a mix of android/win, but the lack of chstomizability paired with the vendor lock-in (xcode, apple tv, etc) puts us users between a rock and a hard place...
Has Windows changed materially since XP? Granted Windows is the poster child of an o/s, but it hasn't changed.
Having a preference comes off as that? Android is still an iOS knockoff that fails to get 60fps in a lot of basic cases and has the most fragmented user base by OS version. I don't like using it or developing for it when I have to.
i just lookad at the brand new SAMSUNG Galaxy S7 and its still there. Thats why i posted ist.
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yes i do
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hopefully