Yeah, I know what you mean. I can't believe Samsung had the nerve to release a phone with a 5+ inch screen a couple years back. Even though the Apple folks said that people hated big phones.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I can't believe Samsung had the nerve to release a phone with a 5+ inch screen a couple years back. Even though the Apple folks said that people hated big phones.
Xiaomi will definitely slow the growth of the iPhone in China. In China you will be able to buy an iPhone or an Xiaomi phone for half the price that is designed to look very similar to the iPhone. I'm sure both companies will sell a ton. Samsung can't produce an exact copy of the iPhone because it can't sell that copy in jurisdictions with enforced IP laws. And also Apple can sue Samsung in the U.S. and go after assets located outside China or S. Korea.
Apple killed Samsung. Fanboys rejoice
Yes, Apple is doing better than Samsung but I don't think Samsung is going away anytime soon.
I am pretty tired of hearing about Samsung on Apple websites
. I think MacRumors should save it until there is something more directly related to Apple to reportTSMC is the main producer for the IPHONE 6 A8 and A8X... Where have you been?
Good grief!
Samsung is rumored to be the producer of the A9, but that's not a given yet since the rumor has flipped between Samsung and TSMC a few time in the last few months.
People sometimes forget about the older Galaxy phones:
There is a good reason Apple took them to court
I doubt going to a large screen size had anything to do with stealing. They wanted to solve issues with using a larger screen before shipping. Such as using the larger screen one handed. Their solution was to use "Adaptive UI" where the screen drops down so your thumb can reach it. Along with not wanting to fragment iOS for developers for different screen sizes.
Competition is good when a product is not commoditized so much that there is no profit left for innovation, just production. The current traditional PC industry has been there for quite some time. In most industry, innovations is slow to null. Often, you need to break out a whole new category to get a great innovation rush, : wearables, internet of things, driverless cars, low cost space travel, etc.
You are just trolling or joking? Does the word "nothing" mean something different where you live? Saying "they look nothing alike" is just dishonest and makes one look like a silly goose. Sorry to tell you, but there are a lot of similarities in those old phones. Too many similarities to ignore.
No one said that the Galaxy S was a 100% clone of the iPhone, or that one could not tell the difference. I do say it looks like Samsung copied Apple pretty heavily.
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Very weak argument. Larger screens came long before phones. Like TV's and monitors.
Sorry to tell you, but they look nothing alike.
Sorry but this is not true in anyway, many people have claimed this and on forums just like this.
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It's not surprising when you consider that Apple eliminated the one and only advantage that Samsung had: BIG ASS PHONES, which happen to have longer battery because they're so big.
That being said, I'm definitely downsizing from the 6 Plus to the 6S later this year.
That being said, I'm definitely downsizing from the 6 Plus to the 6S later this year.
Do I have to list the similarities? Sorry to have to break this to you buddy: They look something alike.
I am referring to your post that quoted me. I am not speaking for EVERYONE who has EVER posted about this. I am saying the phones are not 100% alike, anyone who says the Galaxy S is a perfect clone is just as foolish as someone who says they are nothing alike
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You're seriously going to argue that a bigger version of things already on the market is a rip-off? Or even some kind of real innovation that CAN be ripped off?
Let's not forget that Apple CREATED both the smart phone and the tablet markets, by themselves. Notice where the word "phablet" comes from?
I really don't think of size as a "feature" to be copied. If Apple had merely been copying, a "me too!" if you will, they would have fully upscaled their size along with other Android OEM's throughout the years. What they did instead was create two flagship phones with different sizes at the same time, with very little compromise between the two (I would say none, but ppi and lack of motion stabilizer).
Yes, lets. None of the other companies paved the way FOR Apple to do what they did, nope, Apple did it ALL themselves. You really believe this drivel you spout?
We were initially talking about larger screens.
Apple had widgets on its desktop ( Even before other desktop operating systems? ) long before them being on phones. Now its just expanding it to the mobile platform. I believe Android integrated control center & notifications, Apple made both separate.
There were smart phones before 2007 and tablets before 2010. Apple did not invent them, they just made better ones.
(I would argue that other companies have gone on and made better tablets since the iPad first came out.)
Actually Winni, most of it is invested in securities. Primarily Apple buys long-term, highly-rated and highly-liquid securities issued by governments and other companies. I think it was $135 billion of their savings is in that form. So Apple takes its money and gives it to governments and other companies in return for bonds issued by those entities. Then those entities do what they will with the money. Apple keeps ten to twenty billion in bank accounts for working capital, but that is about it (though that is a huge amount).
LOL...Samsung\Android fans are angry.
I can't believe they are not hiding under a rock until the bad news goes away (that's what I would do if Apple reported such losses).
Gotta hand it to them, they are loyal troopers (but they would be more effective if they went to another section of this site to make up stories about how all the iPhones they own are bent).
Calm down buddy. I'm not insulting your mother here.
But in all seriousness, obviously Apple didn't create the iPhone or the iPad in a vacuum, but "smartphones" before the iPhone were nothing like the iPhone while all smartphones being produced today are more or less exactly like the iPhone. It was a game changer. The consumer markets as they are today would not exist without the iPhone and the iPad.