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Comment Re:Not like Nokia's other phones were selling (Score 1) 409

by Flipao (#41677359) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

Samsung shipped a lot of S3s to retailers but they aren't actually saying how many of them sold. I have only seen three in the wild, approximately one for every seven hundred iPhones I have seen.

Ah yes, the old shipped but not sold bullshit, here:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2203312/samsung-brags-that-it-has-sold-20-million-galaxy-s3-handsets

Also, their sales are increasing, not decreasing:

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/10/04/iphone-5-launch-and-apple-patent-trial-boosted-galaxy-s3-sales/

Comment Re:Not like Nokia's other phones were selling (Score 1) 409

by Flipao (#41672523) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

Profits on Android phones can be measured in the $5-10 per unit range, not the $150-350 *PROFIT* per device that the iPhone has.

Who cares what the monthly sales figures of Android are? You could fling them out the cargo door of a C-130 over Somalia and it'd be no less profitable for the phone manufacturers.

You know it really cracks me up when people say shit like this, "people buy Android phones because they're cheap" and then you bring up devices like the Galaxy S3 which is sold at the same price as the iPhone and was outselling it for most of the year and they go red in the face and say "IT'S MADE BY SAMSUNG IT DOESN'T COUNT".

No why the fuck are Samsung's WP7 devices not selling at all?

Comment Re:How many more? (Score 1) 409

by Flipao (#41672227) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

The optimism for Windows Phone in the press really does surprise you? Why? It may be distinctly mediocre, but it is backed by massive advertising and connections.

People said this 2 years ago when WP7 first came out. 1 year ago when the first Nokia WP7 phones came out and 6 months ago when Nokia's flagship WP7 phone came out.

Comment Re:Too little, too late (Score 5, Interesting) 521

by Flipao (#41671945) Attached to: Microsoft Surface Pricing Goes Toe-to-Toe With Apple iPad

You're right, when it comes to the consumer market. But Microsoft is still firmly entrenched in business. I predict large corporations will eat up Microsoft's new tablet.

Yeah. Microsoft is like RIM. Entrenched in business. They have nothing to worry about from Apple.

Right now MS Office compatibility, lack of mouse support and USB host file access on an iPad are the only things stopping me from taking away the laptops from our sales force, so for now they're getting both a laptop and an iPad. They're all leaving their laptops at home and using them at the end of the day.

Apple have every chance to kill Microsoft if they so choose, they just don't know it yet.

Comment Re:Android is designed to be lightweight (Score 1) 99

by Flipao (#40848229) Attached to: Android 4 Coming To the Raspberry Pi

So, what you're saying is that it's "write once, run anywhere but android"?

No, but you already knew that,p... doesn't even hold up to scrutiny on the Java VM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere

The catch is that since there are multiple JVM implementations, on top of a wide variety of different operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Solaris, NetWare, HP-UX, and Mac OS, there can be subtle differences in how a program may execute on each JVM/OS combination, which may require an application to be tested on various target platforms. This has given rise to the joke among Java developers, "Write Once, Debug Everywhere".

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