Comment Re: Upset the industry? (Score 1) 234
Who needs a cellphone carrier if they have access to the internet?
So who do you think is going to provide this ubiquitous internet ?
Who needs a cellphone carrier if they have access to the internet?
So who do you think is going to provide this ubiquitous internet ?
It's nice to see Apple chasing irrelevance instead
The most valuable company in the US with one of the highest net profits is irrelevant?
Why do developers still develop for iOS first then Android?
I'm not surprised. Face it, Ipads are EXPENSIVE toys for most people buying them. Yea, it runs IOS like a lot of phones, but at what price?
Amazon has been selling their Kindle devices for a LOT less, given what you get for for the money. I'm not a Kindle zealot (I hate that they are totally locked down) but Apple needs to face the fact that there are now other options out there that do just about everything that IPad can and they are cheaper. Add to that the large scale adoption of Android in both the handset and tablet market (including the Kindle, under the covers) and it is clear that Apple's dominance of this market is over. What can apple do? Add memory, processor speed, flash and battery life? Maybe higher resolution display hardware but what's that worth if you cannot really see a difference? Apple is about done with the tablet, unless they can innovate into something else, but what? Their run is over.
Who is surprised by this? Apple is getting its clock cleaned by Android, which is a trend I don't see changing. Not to mention that Microsoft is pushing pretty hard to stay relevant in the market. This is the problem with being in first place, everybody is gunning for you and it takes serious innovation to keep ahead of the pack. It may not be time to be short selling apple, but if I owned this stock, I would certainly have standing stop orders in place around any major scheduled press conferences.
Yes, that's the ticket. If Apple competed on price they may be as "successful" as all of the other Android manufacturers (besides Samsung) who are losing money.
Because chasing market share at the expense of profits worked wonders for all of the PC makers.....
This brings me to another ideological point about the iPad with which I disagree. Google [google.com] and Microsoft [microsoft.com] publish the guidelines of their respective app stores. Apple, on the other hand, treats its App Store Review Guidelines as a trade secret and locks them behind a $99 per year paywall. Is there a public log of important changes to the Guidelines that I should be reading?
ow many iPhones have been released with alternate/paid search providers?
Anyone who is willing to outbid Google for being the default search engine for iOS devices is probably welcomed to do so.
Or Safari and all the other Apple apps on a Mac or iPad. In the 90's MS got bitch-slapped for doing something that's absolutely standard practice today. A consumer would probably be pissed if you installed an OS today and it DIDN'T come with some sort of standard browser and default search engine.
Apple owns both the hardware and the operating system. No one would complain if Google ships Nexus devices any way they see fit. The issue is forcing third party vendors who license Android and want Google's other proprietary apps.
You never need more than a text editor to write code. Now get off my lawn.
You had a text editor? Wimp.
Real programmers didn't have editors. If we wanted to change a line in an Applesoft Basic program we either had to type it over or 'List' the line press ESC and up arrow to the line.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/21/palms-ed-colligan-laughs-off-iphone/
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone, PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."
How did that work out?
android (iphone is eating the dust of android phones)
"Success" for a profit seeking public company is defined as making a large profit. Have you seen Apple's latest results?
You mean a timeline where Apple adopts BeOS instead of the kludge they (were) bought (by) instead?
Yes because bringing Gasse back - the person who almost killed Apple by insisting that they don't make lower cost Macs - would have been the definite ticket to success. Do you really think that the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, or the iPad would have happened without Jobs?
Ironically, that's basically the same squeeze that Apple has traditionally profited by avoiding in the hardware market:
It's called "Commoditize your complements."
Apple wants media to be cheap so they can sell hardware.
Microsoft wants hardware to be cheap so they can sell software.
That's not true. It was true in 2012 but not in 2013 or 2014. The carriers have been trying to prevent the formation of an Apple monopoly in the USA and pushed Android subsidies up to Apple levels. Apple is currently negotiating for yet another increase for the iPhone 6 so this may happen 4Q2014 but for about 18 mo it wasn't the case.
Why would carriers push other manufacturers subsidies up that would cause then to spend more money.? If anything, carriers are trying two things to spend less on subsidies:
1. Encourage contract customers to buy cheaper Android phones so they could spend less on subsidies.
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
2. Move away from a subsidy model and offer 0% financing on the phone so that the customer pays for the phone and plan separately.
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...
Now moving away from subsidies could hurt Apple, but would a consumer really balk at paying $25/month for an iPhone over paying $18/month for a high-end Android?
You can see it most frequently in iPhone vs Android discussions after Android very clearly passed iPhone in market share. Then the argument became "but Apple has much higher profit". Yes, they do, and it is coming out of your wallet, why are you happy about that?
The typical user in the US pays the same amount for a high end iPhone as they do for a high-end Android - $200. The carrier pays Apple a larger subsidy for the iPhone. Why should the end-user care how much of a subsidy that the carrier has to pay?
Maybe you're thinking of Apple's "goto fail" SSL exploit where we really don't know who or what or when and probably never will because it's not likely Apple is going to release their RCS logs.
Well we know the when and we know the what .
The fact that Apple fanatics are clinging to past glories is not news. Show me a value phone...or even a watch. Otherwise just watch your market share continue to shrink.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
