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When questioned about how he feels driving past an Apple Store and seeing people lined up around the block to purchase an iPhone, Schmidt said "I'll tell you what I think. Samsung had these products a year ago." The interviewer further notes that nobody "had a huge party" and Schmidt reiterated that Samsung had larger phones first once again. "I think Samsung had the products a year ago. That's what I think."

His answers here are truly sad.
 
Build quality? Are you kidding me? The f.ing phone bends in the pocket.
The last well built iphone was the 4s.

Don't mix up "build quality" and "design conception".

The build quality of iPhones has always been phenomenal and it has increased with every new iPhone model (except the 5c, but then again its build quality was the best by far if you compare it solely to other plastic phones).

The potential bending in our jeans pockets, for me, is a bad design conception. Nothing to do with the build quality.
 
He's said a lot of creepy, anti-user/anti-privacy things. His attitude toward you as the product leaves something to be desired
Glad someone posted those links. Schmidt has creeped the living crap out of me since way before the whole Android thing, and there is no indication he's gotten any less creepy in his view of (lack of) privacy or the end-user as the product. If anything, Google has just kept moving his "creepy line"--which in my opinion was already way past my own creepy line--farther and farther into the creepy zone since that quote was made.

He's absolutely right that the brutal competition benefits consumers, though. Just look at what happened to Microsoft once they "won" the browser war--development of the web was set back probably five years waiting for someone else to eventually make a product so good they couldn't ignore it. Imagine where we'd be today if IE6 hadn't been resting on its buggy laurels as the defacto standard for so long.
 
Where'd this whole -gate naming convention come from? (Yes, I know about celebgate, but why -gate??)

From Wikipedia:

The Watergate Complex

...The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate" have since become synonymous with political scandals in the United States[10] and in other English- and non-English-speaking nations as well.[11]...

Apple's problem with the antenna design on iPhone4 was quickly dubbed "Antennagate" and countless Apple whatever-gate names have since followed.



From somewhere else (on the origin of the Watergate name):

On June seventeenth, 1972, something happened in Washington, D.C. It was a small incident. But it would have a huge effect on the United States.
Five men broke into a center of the National Committee of the Democratic Party. The building was called the Watergate. That name would become a symbol of political crime in the nation's highest office.
At the time, the incident did not seem important. Police caught the criminals. Later, however, more was learned. The men had carried papers that linked them to top officials in the administration.
The question was: Did President Nixon know what was going on? He told reporters he was not involved. In time, though, the Watergate case would lead to a congressional investigation of the president.
 
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I'll tell you what I think. Samsung does it and nobody cares.

Apples does it and we line up for blocks.

That tells you everything.

No one cares about what Samsung came out with a year ago if the underlying system is trash and the app store pales in comparison. . . and devs steer clear of it.
 
Where'd this whole -gate naming convention come from? (Yes, I know about celebgate, but why -gate??)

Scandalous political operations were discovered being run out of a room in the Watergate hotel during the Nixon administration, eventually leading to his leaving office. Numerous people continue to publicly display their severe lack of creativity by attaching "gate" to most any event.
 
Why don't people like Schmidt?

My guess is it's because he says things like:

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

"Would you prefer someone else [collect and store a giant database of information about you]? Is there a government that you would prefer to be in charge of this?"

"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."

Oops, too late on that last one. I'll give him big points for honesty though.
 
His answers here are truly sad.

So Samsung had a specific product that included a working Touch ID equivalent, a 240 fps camera with optical stabilisation as good as the iPhone 6, a 20 nm dual-core processor that surpasses the tests of quad-core processors, a front camera with actually a comparable image quality, a free version of an office suite that actually works, a screen with 400 ppi, a stock OS that gets updated immediately, a cloud-service that actually works (don't... I mean DON'T even think of mentioning Google Drive please... I've been forced to use it since the last two years and our company is going to switch to Dropbox for our next project).

Everybody I've argued with says the same thing : well this Samsung phone had Touch ID, this other Samsung phone had the speed, this other Samsung phone has the display, this other Samsung phone had the best camera, etc. but it's never all in ONE specific phone.

So what's worth fighting for ?
 
Here's an image of a bent iPhone 4s

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Here's an image of a bent Google nexus phone.

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It happens to a lot more phones than you think.

Ya but that bending I guarantee didn't happen with proper front pocket use as people are reporting with the 6 plus. Sitting on a phone in your back pocket is just plain dumb.
 
Jobs: I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want...

Why did Schmidt offer Apple a bunch of money? Was it to smooth things over? Or was it more like, "ok, we (Google) don't believe we copied, but you (Apple) think we did, so here's several billion and we'll call it even"?


P.
 
This is why Android still lacks the level of polish (8.0.1 update aside) iOS does. It's not about who got there first. It's about who got right first. Samsung had larger phones first. Yet the first models sucked. Battery life atrocious. Display quality awful. Usability still awful. Remember HTC Thunderbolt? The first LTE phone? Yea... feels so good to be first. Not.

Have you ever even used Android OS? Browsing crashes lagging was much more common on my iOS iPad then my Kitkat Nexus. I'll like both OS for development but man some of you fanboys are so close minded...
 
My guess is it's because he says things like:

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

"Would you prefer someone else [collect and store a giant database of information about you]? Is there a government that you would prefer to be in charge of this?"

"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."

Oops, too late on that last one. I'll give him big points for honesty though.

Wow what a scum bag
 
Thing is...

I don't think Apple needs competition to produce better products, I think it is in the fundamental values of the company to always push the next boundary and see how much more they can get out of the next version.
 
They have already released it. It's Spotlight Search and its fast and providing more relevant info daily. Maps in now integrated in a way that blew me away. Just start typing a nearby business in spotlight on the iPhone and watch what happens. I'm glad they are attacking behind the scenes

You're joking, don't you?
 
He was a trojan horse. Should be ashamed...

Still with this debunked crap?

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The irony is that Eric Schmidt helped create a world where features could be copied on a whim, patents and prior art be damned.

And how exactly did that?

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Jobs: I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want...

Why did Schmidt offer Apple a bunch of money? Was it to smooth things over? Or was it more like, "ok, we (Google) don't believe we copied, but you (Apple) think we did, so here's several billion and we'll call it even"?


P.

Google never offered any money to Apple
 
Preferring one platform over the other is fine. But the way people say 'iOS is rubbish' or 'android is rubbish' are like those arguing Left Twix is good and Right Twix is crap.
 
Have you ever even used Android OS? Browsing crashes lagging was much more common on my iOS iPad then my Kitkat Nexus. I'll like both OS for development but man some of you fanboys are so close minded...

I had the very first Android phone, the HTC G1 with T-Mobile. So before you call me a fanboy, I didn't jump on any bandwagon. Going by your metric, I can't count the number of times some app froze/crashed/rebooted my Nexus 5. Just too many. On the iPad Air I bought for my parents, I rarely get crashes. I get reloading (due to RAM) but I can count with 1 finger the number of times the browser crashed. Once. Is this to demonstrate iOS is better than Android? No. Just the absurdity of your metric.

There is so much more than how many times it crashes.
 
Quality and Kwal-i-tee

But... It's thinner! Could it be that when the iPhones first started coming out, that the jeans weren't quite so hipsterly-tight? Progessive thinness for skinny jeans. Standby for iSox once it's no longer hip to wear shoes without socks.

Don't mix up "build quality" and "design conception".

The build quality of iPhones has always been phenomenal and it has increased with every new iPhone model (except the 5c, but then again its build quality was the best by far if you compare it solely to other plastic phones).

The potential bending in our jeans pockets, for me, is a bad design conception. Nothing to do with the build quality.
 
Really? Do you know him well enough to realize what a horrible person he must be to classify him as 'scum of the Earth?" If so, could you elaborate as to what he has done that is so awful to merit such a title?

Quote from Schmidt: "You have no privacy. Get over it. " In my book, that comes close to "scum of the Earth".
 
"Samsung had these products a year ago"

I don't seem to remember a high end android phone as thin, lite and with a build quality like the iphone 6.

And many other things like 64bit, good slow motion cameras, fastest 3D performance in the smartphone world. They just says what idiot want to hear.
 
He doesn't get it

"Samsung had bigger phones a year ago."

Apple's campaign slogan is "bigger than bigger."

Apple has (almost) never had the first of any product. There were laptops before the macbook. There were portable music players before the iPod. There were countless "smart" phones before the iPhone. There were phablets before the iPhone 6+. Apple almost never makes the first. They almost always, however, make them better than their competition.
 
Man this google chairman is such a irritating guy . whenever he opens his mouth he has some ******** to say .
Move on man hope to see you , and Samsung CEO in the line for note 4 and let's see how many follow you in the line .
 
Evil

IMO,

Always remember the "Corner Cafe Coffee" where you decided to screw a close friend Eric.

IMO Eric there is no place for such a treacherous, mean spirited, disloyal, carnivore such as yourself on this planet.

May your sleep always be haunted by what you did to that close friend.

I look upon your image with rejection and disgust. :mad:
 
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