Your opinion just may be wrong about WebOS.
And, while you deride fanboys, you are clearly one yourself (about WebOs).
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Your opinion just may be wrong about WebOS.
And, while you deride fanboys, you are clearly one yourself (about WebOs).
Go look at the ones I respond to and how I respond. I am not the one who started the comparing when someone says oh this provides iOS is better than Android because no single Android phone outsells the iPhone.
You have to understand why that is the case.
Htc evo4g
Even with all of the hype & that the iPhone is the"IN" phone to have, the number 3 phone is also an over a year old phone. I know that for sure as we purchased our HTC EVO4G phones 13 months ago. So its at least as old as the iPhone4. We both like our HTC smart ell phones. We have everything that we need for a great mobil experience.
Remember there is only these 2 iPhones being sold now. The other phones have many, many models. This is not really a very accurate comparison of the phone platform. It's hard for us to get excited about the smaller screen on the iPhone. Size does matter for some things.
Even with all of the hype & that the iPhone is the"IN" phone to have, the number 3 phone is also an over a year old phone. I know that for sure as we purchased our HTC EVO4G phones 13 months ago. So its at least as old as the iPhone4. We both like our HTC smart ell phones. We have everything that we need for a great mobil experience.
Remember there is only these 2 iPhones being sold now. The other phones have many, many models. This is not really a very accurate comparison of the phone platform. It's hard for us to get excited about the smaller screen on the iPhone. Size does matter for some things.
Not sure if you were referring to my statement:
But my previous statement does not mean that the iPhone is in anyway better then the Android. I say go for whatever phone you like the best.
Update: "You also fail to see how a 2+ year old iPhone is outselling every single Android phone, ouch!"
Ok, maybe you were talking about him. But even he is not saying iOS is better.
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I read Frommer's (splatf) article... it's ALL mobile phones in the US, not just smartphones.
edit: at least that's what the article says.
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What that article fails to mention is that Android now has 52 percent of the smartphone market. Staggering really when you think about it and that number is getting bigger every month. That's why Apple is running like a chicken with it's head cut off suing everybody in sight.
Yeah because Apple is sooooooooooooooo predictable like that. Remember when the iPod Mini was the top selling music player? Man... they kept that thing around for ages.
Oh you know, tech reporters love a good horserace and when there are pissing matches thrown in from time to time, it's even better. It doesn't make a lot of sense to compare the iPhone to an entire platform (I mean, let's throw in the iPod Touch and the iPad if we're talking platforms.) Still, I find it amusing that the entire Android market has to be pooled just to put the iPhone in second place. That alone tells you something.
Evo at #3 surprised me as well being it is old and only available on Sprint. So the top 3 best-selling phones either came out in June 2009 and 2010. But I figure iPhone 4 is available on the two largest carriers, iPhone 3GS is cheap and available on the second largest carrier, and the Evo is on the 3rd largest.
The sales of both iPhones doesn't shock me. If iPhone 4 can sell in Japan, it can sell anywhere. The Japanese are very reluctant to American imports. Look at sales of both gens of the Xbox.
But outside the USA, it is different on how things get sold. Nokia wins overall volume sales because it sells dumb phones to developing countries and most of them live on prepaid. Most consumers are also price sensitive (check TouchPad sales) and don't have the benefit of subsidized pricing in most cases.
iPhone 4 likely can go down as the best-selling smartphone of all-time being it was available as a premium iPhone the longest. India just barely got the iPhone 4 THIS year and their population is in the billions. If they bring it down to $49 or less once the 5 gets released, it will continue to sell well just like the 3GS did.
I dont know why anybody would want an antique like the 3gs. They probably just want to say they have an iphone and dont k.ow any better.
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Show me an android phone that's available on the 2 largest networks. Marketshare is the only figure that counts.
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meh a company with a "hit" is never that good for the customer. they'll get lazy and release sth they can produce for cheap but call "new" bc ... well they can
meh a company with a "hit" is never that good for the customer. they'll get lazy and release sth they can produce for cheap but call "new" bc ... well they can
Just sounds like the EVO is winning the "closest thing to an iPhone" award for people unwilling to switch to Verizon or AT&T.
Curious to me that Apple hasn't gotten the iPhone on any other carriers yet. Now that AT&T is no longer their exclusive carrier, you'd think they would have gone after all carriers.
I was thinking the same... Since the Evo 4G is only on Sprint, it basically caters to some of those that want an iPhone 4G/3GS but can't get one since they prefer Sprint's network.
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Why do people keep saying this? We're not talking about Nintendo. Apple killed this product at the height of its popularity, and replaced it with a whole other product. They've had virtually no competition in the tablet space, and yet Apple pushed out an improved iPad and (reportedly) is working on a huge update to come.
Do you (or anyone else saying this) have any evidence to cite that Apple gets lazy and stops releasing products when they're in the lead?
they're pacing the release to different carriers to keep sales strong. But i wouldnt be surprised to see the iPhone 5 released on Sprint this year
the Evo along with 20 or so other models of different phones on different carriers that HTC makes are almost the exact same phone. the same CPU, radio but slightly different screens or they are made for difference carriers
Evo, inspire, mytouch 4g, desire hd, incredible 2 and others are the same phone with very minor differences
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isnt the Samsung Galaxy S 2 released in the US? it belongs in the top 3 and no im not a fanboy of either but its selling like bread here in germany so i was surprised not seeing it at least in the top 5
isnt the Samsung Galaxy S 2 released in the US? it belongs in the top 3 and no im not a fanboy of either but its selling like bread here in germany so i was surprised not seeing it at least in the top 5
This isn't about who thinks what phone is better! That is clearly up to the individual (I happen to think the iPhone 4 is the best). I was responding to your statement which implied that more people choose iPhones because there aren't as many models of iPhones (it really didn't make any sense by the way). I quoted you if you don't recall. I'm starting to think you didn't even read my post, and just responded in a blind rage. At least judging by your spelling mistakes and poor sentence structure.
What a bunch of ********, none of what you said is true infact I doubt you've ever used an Android phone for more than 5 minutes. Better luck next time fanboy.
Well, Apple isn't going after the basement feature nerd market.
Instead Apple customers knows that features =/= usability.
Heck, they don't even need to know what 'features' or 'usability' mean!
Which I can agree with it.
But the overall scheme of things, it does end up being a comparison between sales of OS vs OS.
This is similar to Windows PC with the multiple manufacturers vs the smaller line of Macs all over again. Nobody talks about the highest selling OEM for Windows, do they? It that was the case, HP and Dell lead the way. Depends on perspective.
Based on a singular device, iPhone 4 wins hands-down. Based on mobile OSes, different story. I am still a little ticked that webOS failed. It is a superior OS to Android, IMO. At least with the recent fire sale of the TouchPad, some people can finally see the potential lost with webOS.
Yeah, sounds kinda like "B-but my daddy, my uncle and his friend are gonna kick your a**!!! Just wait!"
All eggs in one basket
Apple just makes one smart phone. Other companies make many smart & not so smart phones. If any one of these multitude of Android models would out sell a very, very limited model phone everyone would be shocked, even the Android OS Smart Phone hardware company.
Apple is & always has been , one size fits all, even if everyone cannot use that one size. Other companies get the bad press because they make many models to try to cover more peoples needs. Thus they work on the many sizes for all, thus no one model will be at the level of a one model company.
Apple just makes one smart phone. Other companies make many smart & not so smart phones. If any one of these multitude of Android models would out sell a very, very limited model phone everyone would be shocked, even the Android OS Smart Phone hardware company.
Apple is & always has been , one size fits all, even if everyone cannot use that one size. Other companies get the bad press because they make many models to try to cover more peoples needs. Thus they work on the many sizes for all, thus no one model will be at the level of a one model company.
This really does not mean much.
If people want an iOS phone they have exactly two options; the 3GS and the iPhone 4. If someone wants an android phone they will have over twenty options.
So you are basically dividing the total number of people interested on iOS by two while dividing those interested on Android by over twenty.
If people want an iOS phone they have exactly two options; the 3GS and the iPhone 4. If someone wants an android phone they will have over twenty options.
So you are basically dividing the total number of people interested on iOS by two while dividing those interested on Android by over twenty.