Point me to ALL those reviews then and lets see this overwhelming consensus hey.
The S7 SOLD LESS (a lot less) than the Iphone 6s during the same period of availability btw.
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Point me to ALL those reviews then and lets see this overwhelming consensus hey.
The S7 SOLD LESS (a lot less) than the Iphone 6s during the same period of availability btw.
Or how about you do the search yourself? It's not hard to Google 'S7 Review''.That's all you need to search for. Hell, even The Verge gave the S7/S7 Edge it's highest rating for smartphones.
And it's a given that a single Android phone won't beat iPhone sales. With the competition Samsung has between other Android flagships and iPhones, their sales are still impressive.
Huh!!!! that doesn't even make ANY SENSE. Apple sold 41M phones and you're telling me Samsung sold 82M S7, please prove that please buddy. That's $6-7B in revenues just from S7 sales, really....
If they get Apple margins on their high end product (which is probable considering the ASP), they'd get 2-2.3$B from the S7 and $1.5B out of the rest of their $21B in revenues. That's not likely at all considering they said they may much profit out of the mid range A line phones; even Samsung is not claiming that.
Their mobile division profit were $3.82 billion in profits from $28B in revenue.
This quarter is also ALWAYS Apple's slowest (just before the release of the new phones).
The Samsung Galaxy A7 costs about a third of what a 6S costs and yet has a bigger screen, higher resolution (PPI), the same memory, that is expandable, and features higher resolution cameras front and back. It also has the same ram and a bigger battery. Aside from a "flagship" OS, Apple do sell midrange phones, they just don't sell them at midrange prices.
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That is the typical off-putting elitist attitude of fanboys here, that every iPhone is a Rolls Royce & thumbing your nose at Mercedes & BMW, when in fact the Samsung Galaxy 7 could be the Benz & whatever deluxe iPhone could be the Beamer.
Nobody said Apple was failing. Seems you're a wee bit touchy/insecure about sales game when the number doesn't always fall in Apple's favour.
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Since you sincerely believe that, you're a lost cause to me. Window for you closed. Never will be up to debate. I guess you'll be the one spinning Sept. shortcomings while Samsung continues to have things Apple will add later.
http://www.techinsider.io/samsung-galaxy-7-features-comparison-iphone-2016-2
Personally, I think you should be ashamed of your unabashed rose-colored glasses to iPhone, but since you think Samsung never has made a quality up-scale phone, I'm just shouting at the (outside) Walled Garden.... I mean, closed window. lol
Ugh at lagdroid and Samsung. Still I can't wait to see what the sales will be like for the next iPhone
Then why are you paying 3x the money for a Galaxy S7 when Samsung sells such an amazing phone for 1/3 the price?
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Someone's a little touchy when presented with facts.
BTW, learn to read. I never said Samsung doesn't make a high-end flagship phone. I said that most of their phones are low-end devices. Which is 100% true.
For OP: BOGO AT&T ad for iPhone. Picl 2 phones,
So only Apple gets to lump all their iPhone sales together from lower end to mid to high, but not competition? Yeah. Okay, there.....
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Ironically, Apple's A9 Chip uses Samsung and TSMC to meet the supply needs of components according to Cult of Mac.
http://www.cultofmac.com/392539/apple-samsung-next-iphone-chip/
maybe... "samsung is apple....apple is samsung."
It's not too expensive. The other companies aren't making any money (except Samsung). We assume phones can be sold for x, and the iPhone looks expensive by comparison.
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Well, not for the UK. (Or at least, London.) iPhones absolutely everywhere. Lots of Samsungs too, and then the odd person with another kind of phone.
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Yeah and the A7 is a terrible phone. Worked with someone who had one who complained it crashed all the time, and she wish she'd bought a Galaxy.
If the market isn't buying iPhone it would suggest it's too expensive.
The market is buying iPhone... Or are we going to pretend the sales Apple report don't happen?
Than it would be if what? Apple sold them for less money, but didnt make any profit? That's great so who's going to pay for the design, R&D etc of future products?
Come on...
Apple makes tremendous profits on their devices, their $ billions revenue leaves them tremendous amounts for R & D and with a huge cash reserve leftover. Apple ain't teetering on struggle street if that's what you're suggesting if Apple sold iPhone for lower cost. Apple is acting greedily and it's affecting potential sales of product.
Steve Jobs mantra was price aggressively and go for volume. If Apple dropped the iPhone by $100 or $200, priced it aggressively, not only would they have the most revered product in more hands, they'd've a flood of new players to the Apple ecosystem, maybe leading to complementing products like Apple Watch, iPad, maybe a Mac or Apple TV, spending using Apple Pay, purchasing in iTunes and the App Store etcetera.
Sorry, on this occasion, your assertion that Apple would not make any profit doesn't stand up to scrutiny I'm afraid.
What design/research and development? iPhone 7 is going to be almost the same as the iPhone 6. Can't see that there are billions poured into new design/research and development here... You?
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You're half right about that, lol. About half the tech inside the iPhone is Samsung.
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Totally (a)greed with you. The Apple of now is about profits and not about bringing the best to their customers at a reasonable price. Time will tell... but I can predict that their prices will come down soon. Apple hasn't mentioned numbers of their foot traffic in their stores this last quarterly results if im remember right. They always did... Why not this time?
Can't see the to be released iPhone 7 draw lines at their shops either...
That Apple is 'busy' with their car project seems to me an escape from computers and phones. I think Apple will abandon that category all together by 2020. Because they seem not able to compete in the fast changing high tech.
I'm happy that Xaomi, Huawei, Samsung and others are pushing hard. Sooner or later Apple has to respond and think about customers
The 6s is already quicker at common task in daily usage than the S7, but I assume it is good to have manufacturers which made phones for people who buy a spec sheet.
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Interesting times.
Personally, I really hope the new iPhone does badly and Android continues to surge ahead. I used to love iPhones but Apple have got too complacent. They need a sharp shock to push them to innovate harder and produce a truly amazing phone, but just tweaking the same phone year after year.
Personally, I really hope the new iPhone does badly and Android continues to surge ahead. I used to love iPhones but Apple have got too complacent. They need a sharp shock to push them to innovate harder and produce a truly amazing phone, but just tweaking the same phone year after year.
I've not seen a single ad like this. Are these free phones offered by Samsung?
If the phone is indeed faster, if the camera shoot better pictures, then it is not spec...
Instead, Samsung deliver phones with a big SoC and a lot of ram which fails to translate into improved user experience.
Samsung isn't giving phones away for free. They ship them to resellers who have paid for them. The resellers then sell them to end users. Therefore, in Samsungs case, shipped is sold.
Apple on the other hand, can ship without selling. Apple has its own retail stores that they ship merchandise to. So for Apple, shipped may not equal sold.
More release means more incremental, les substantial release, not more disruptive improvement, because R&D takes time. There is no competition "light years ahead" like some says, but only incrementally better, and I see no reason for Apple to follow the competition.
Apple had pushed capacitive screen with naturally behaving accelerated GUI,
Apple had pushed HiDPI screen
Apple had pushed login by biometry
Apple had pushed pressure sensitive interface with haptic feedback...
Despite having to rely on supplier for all of this. The drawback is that the competition take also advantage of this, so it is not a long lasting advantage while it takes year for Apple to develop. Only the first innovation, the more significant, a core component of the iPhone success granted a more substantial advantage to Apple.
The next big push can come with flexible display if done right, likely not by Apple...