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That's nothing compared to the estimated $500M to 1B being spent by Apple per year in self-driving R&D.

Apple spends about 5% of its revenue on R&D, well below the tech industry average of 10%.
You made my point. Nothing apple does is outside of enhancing the ecosystem of it's products. Dishwashers, unless you can attempt to make a point the design of the motor is somehow can somehow be interfaced with a Galaxy...
 
Lol Huawei's market share surpassed apple's last year. It only sees growth year by year, in contrast to samsung's and apple's drops.

And they don't even sell in the US.

Open your eyes, Apple is going down year after year. They stopped making industry leading phones since the iPhone 6.
 
At best, I think Apple will catch up to Samsung S10 in terms of photo quality this year. The P30 Pro is probably two years ahead of what Apple has in mind.

I think Apple has been spreading themselves thin by investing in Animojis, AR, and FaceTime 32.

100x this!
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Lol Huawei's market share surpassed apple's last year. It only sees growth year by year, in contrast to samsung's and apple's drops.

And they don't even sell in the US.

Open your eyes, Apple is going down year after year. They stopped making industry leading phones since the iPhone 6.

No. Their problem is their super high pricing. Huawei makes phones at all price points.
 
"Industry leading" could encompass many things. Let's take software support for example:
  • Timely security updates
  • Timely OS/feature updates (for the entire life-cycle of the phone)
  • Overall length of that life-cycle (six year precedent set by Apple for the 5s)
If you care about those things, then I think iPhones are indisputably "industry leading". Ongoing software support is always the elephant in the room when it comes to Android. If reviewers and users actually gave that aspect of phones the appropriate weight, then iPhones would look a lot more competitive. You could almost view it as a false-equivalency issue. Reviewers compare day-one Android phones to day-one iPhones, rarely mention the update issue. Updates are not glamorous and exciting to users. No one seems to be able to see past the fancy cameras, into the cesspool of woefully insecure, abandoned Android phones.

This is from someone who generally dislikes Apple and most aspects of iOS, and has current threads criticizing Apple's latest camera, but credit where credit's due.

Also, last time I looked, Apple's mobile SoCs are also industry leading in terms of performance.

Whilst Apple do support their phones for longer, I wouldn't call 2-3 years of OS updates/ security updates as being woefully abandoned.

Software support is longer for ios but some might find ios lacking compared to android (not me). However even I can see that android is feature rich compared to ios.
 
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What support, it took apple like 5 years to implement features that are available on android since android 2.1. That's just funny.

And where did they get to? Shut downs, power savings, slowing down older phones, still lacking software, bugs, stutters..

Don't talk about software support, because all you get with newer versions of iOS are just numbers in the OS version and bug fixes.

Apple software support is just a joke.

That's why I left this platform. It feels like symbian nowadays. They are stuck in 2012 in terms of software.
 
While we’re at it. I’m just gonna leave this video here to ponder upon.

 
He shared the images via lossy social media platforms to an uncritical audience (most of whom were probably comparing those images on tiny phone screens), and proved that people are suckers for cheap tricks like oversaturation. What exactly am I supposed to be pondering?

That most people have no clue about which photo is better if they don’t know the model. I thought that would be easy to get to. Apologies.

Also, I’d like to point out that this was probably the most relevant test carried out relating to how pictures from smartphones actually gets used / shared.

And given the number of his followers, I’d safely presume there would be some very critical people in there.
 
I love my iPhone XS but there’s no denying competitors cameras in low light situations are better. Here’s an example of the Huawei P30 Pro low light.

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/10/...ro-review-periscope-camera-zoom-android-phone

I really hope Apple ups its game in the camera department. There is absolutely no reason iPhone shouldn’t be the best smartphone camera, period.

To be honest where are the settings/metadata? I only skim read as I really don't care (I use DSLR) but anyone of these may have been taken using a longer shutter on a tripod to achieve similar results, I didn't see anywhere the report mentioned handheld, even then without metadata you can't even see if the same rules were applied to show the image differences.
[doublepost=1555054298][/doublepost]and Huawei only make devices so they can steal your data.
 
That's what I'm saying - apple hasn't introduced new stuff in their OS in years. Just bug fixes (to the PERFECT OS), security updates and gimmicks like these animojis. And performance crippling features.

And yes - you can take pictures like the above, handheld with a Huawei P30/Pro.
 
That's what I'm saying - apple hasn't introduced new stuff in their OS in years. Just bug fixes (to the PERFECT OS), security updates and gimmicks like these animojis. And performance crippling features.

And yes - you can take pictures like the above, handheld with a Huawei P30/Pro.
For once I'd like an honest answer, why are you still here?
 
People are suckers for cheap tricks like software updates with AR emojis.

I invested €1000+ for the innovative Animoji's by Apple. Besides that, I see no other real productive use of a €1000+ smartphone.

No, I am fine with using my iPhone how Apple decided it to use, why would I use a smartphone the way I (!!!) want to use it?


oh, wait...
 
Because I want to show my disappointment?
To who? Who will listen? Tim Cook? Phil Schiller? Steve Jobs' ghost?

Anyway, OS updates are not just about gimmicks, those gimmicks are what are marketed sure, and Apple messed up with iOS 11 regarding the throttling, but there are lots of bug and especially security fixes that most people never care about in any case.
 
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Because I want to show my disappointment?

Noooooo... you are disappointed that you don't own 'The :apple: iPhone' or maybe paid by the Chinese Government to spread malaise....but then again, the Chinese Government is full of iPhone users received as gifts, so the latter can't be true. :p.

BTW, your country is very beautiful and I hope to visit it soon. I saw the road markers to Sofia, when traveling within Serbia.:)
 
That's what I'm saying - apple hasn't introduced new stuff in their OS in years. Just bug fixes (to the PERFECT OS), security updates and gimmicks like these animojis. And performance crippling features.

I think you’re confused. Why does Apple have to introduce new ‘stuff in there OS every year? One of the reasons Apple’s iOS is so popular, is because they do provide continued stability with updates throughout the year, which makes it more fluid and provides longevity in software updates for the iPhone performance over any android device. The trade off being, consumers are devoted to the software experience, not the hardware. Maybe that’s what you’re not understanding others have conveyed to you.
 
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IPhone still exists because of inertia, fanbase and US subsidiary.

Software lacking, subpar hardware (excluding the cpu), subpar features, old and ugly design. And it all comes at a hefty price for what you get in return.

Software updates bring performance crippling to older devices, unexpected shutdowns.
 
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Software updates bring performance crippling to older devices, unexpected shutdowns.

You’re blatantly spreading misinformation. iOS 12 main core focus was to actually help perform sustainability for older devices (iPhone 6/6s, ect) and improve performance. So what you’re saying is unequivocally false.
 
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To improve performance, that was crippled in iOS 11. Nice one.

Do you know why android doesn't feature battery health status? Because :
- android doesn't throttle down the cpu when batteries get old
- because they don't shut down unexpected
- because no one with an android phone gives a damn for the battery health, because they don't need to.
 
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