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From Steve Jobs' Biography: "I'm going to destroy Android"
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Steve don't worry. . . We'll destroy Android for you
Not that Apple has to try though. Competition is good and so is choice. I choose Apple. (I know it's extremely early but just imagine what iOS 6 will bring.) Don't stone me!
Can't wait for the book next week.
iOS 6 will erase Android's last stand out feature over iOS... Built in GPS!
One of the big features of iOS 6 will be the maps Apple has been working on for over a year. Virtual 3D rendered on the fly and AR with Siri integration GPS maps! AWESOME
You heard it here first. Mark my words, my track record is over 90% accurate!
Yes my father Died of cancer a few years ago.
Unfortunately, unlike Steve Jobs, my father did not find out about it until it was too late.
My father took the treatment as soon as it was offered to him, but by that time it had been inside him for almost a year and he died 5 months after the 1st diagnosis.
Steve jobs apparently thought about it for almost a year, and my dad did not even have a year. If you have Cancer you don't wait and think about it. You get it dealt with asap, and being Steve be could of afforded the very best treatment anywhere in the world.
So, yes, in all probability, Steve would still be alive today.
Earlier today, Microsoft and Samsung disclosed that they reached a cross-licensing agreement over patents. The key point: its a bad blow to the notion that Android is free. Instead, its more like free with huge Android OEM partners like HTC and now Samsung agreeing to pay Microsoft to use Android. Google must be pissed off.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/microsoft-samsung-extortion-google/
Gaining more market share would be easy.
Sell the iPhone for 400 bucks w/o contract. They would no longer have cross margin of 40% but the market share would increase dramatically.
Build an iPhone with a larger screen as an alternative to the current size.
Do something about transferring stuff between phones.
Sell the iPhone for 400 bucks w/o contract. They would no longer have cross margin of 40% but the market share would increase dramatically.
Build an iPhone with a larger screen as an alternative to the current size.
Do something about transferring stuff between phones.
Utter nonsense. I'm a huge Apple fan, I've used their kit since the early 80s and have a house full of the stuff. But when it comes to phones, I just like Android better than iOS. Even my wife prefers it... She's the least technical person imaginable, but having tried the iPhone as well, she bought an Android phone before I'd even touched a real one.
Kudos for an excellent post.
I remember Steve Jobs before the turning point in his work / life. Working within the industry with many who were close enough to him to know what was happening week to week, he was not as obsessed with other companies, but solely focused on excellence at Apple. If not for those years he would not have had the luxury of mountains of cash & the time to engineer these law suits.
It really is a shame he let it all go to his head, only to turn negative, vindictive, and even quite possibly desperate in the end. Surely the negative energy he clung to didn't help his health.
It's a new day today, and Apple without Steve is an unknown quantity. As much as I respect Tim, Apple IS Steve Jobs. Never before did one company rely so much on one person. Where Apple goes from here, no matter the roadmap & plans left behind, is the true mystery.
Certainly Apple can operate on auto pilot, the question is for how long?
Yes they will survive & prosper, but in what form?
You're not really saying that accessing internet data via API's from a desktop app was done first with the iPhone, no?
Like MacOS just replicated an entire desktop from Xerox, you mean...?Ah yes, the notification bar. Just like the Winbots have Alt-Tab, the Fandroids can cling to the notification bar as a singular shining beacon of originality floating in a sea of replication.
If we're talking 'things in Android that iOS really ought to have', home screen widgets would be up there for me. Invaluable feature.
It's published fact that Microsoft make more money out of Android than they do out of WP7.
So why would they destroy it?!
Apples biggest problem is its price. When people see that they can get an android phone for us$ 199, why should they pay 699 for an iPhone or a super expensive month rate (like here in Europe)?
I fear that android is the new microsoft. They will get 90% of the market, and apple 10. I don't like this idea, but it is just logical. And besides that:
- why does apple not make an iPhone with a slightly larger screen!?
- why does apple not make an iPhone nano with a reduced nano (previous gen) design in 4 colors? (silver, black, red, blue)
- and finally: why not making an iPod touch XL with a 6 or 7 inch display!?
I fear that android is the new microsoft. They will get 90% of the market, and apple 10. I don't like this idea, but it is just logical. And besides that:
- why does apple not make an iPhone with a slightly larger screen!?
- why does apple not make an iPhone nano with a reduced nano (previous gen) design in 4 colors? (silver, black, red, blue)
- and finally: why not making an iPod touch XL with a 6 or 7 inch display!?
I didn't knew Android was destroyed, can you guide me to news about that?
Has the market share dropped to 1%?
Do you understand that to destroy something you are not required to delete every record of it from world wide web or to buy it out or to bancrupt - you can on the other hand destroy it by creating a superior product which is what Apple does.
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destroy [dih-stroi]
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de·stroy [dih-stroi] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
1.to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
2.to put an end to; extinguish.
3.to kill; slay.
4.to render ineffective or useless; nullify; neutralize; invalidate.
5.to defeat completely.
verb (used without object)
6.to engage in destruction.
Congrats, Apple may have a superior product by this fact hasn't destroyed anything.
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Because it's useless effort.
because Apple can.
Because it's DOA. We have ipad, hello.
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Because it's useless effort.
because Apple can.
Because it's DOA. We have ipad, hello.
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Dictionary attack? Seriously?
I think he's suggesting why not release a product with a lower price point, to compete with the Android Fire and the smaller Galaxy Tab?
It would make good business sense.
Ah, so all those mobile programs that accesed data from internet servers were using the browser.
Ah, so Nokia with their Ovi Maps now called Nokia Maps were using a web browser.
Yap, you were joking
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Dictionary attack? Seriously?
Yes, because you need it. At least, you have to know the meaning of the terms you're using.