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[Haalcyon]

Sadly Pappy will have to deal with some more Apple hypocrisy when the iPhone 6 comes out.
Remember Apple dismissively refusing to use larger screens on iPhones all these years? Claiming smaller screens were superior for mobile phones? And that larger screens were just a fad, a niche? Well, Apple will have to eat its words: the 2014 iPhone 6 will come in 2 sizes, 5,7" and 6,4"! Decidedly large 'phablets'!

Let the games begin!

Perhaps indeed. So what else does your crystal ball tell us?

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[pappy53]

Sadly Pappy will have to deal with some more Apple hypocrisy when the iPhone 6 comes out.
Remember Apple dismissively refusing to use larger screens on iPhones all these years? Claiming smaller screens were superior for mobile phones? And that larger screens were just a fad, a niche? Well, Apple will have to eat its words: the 2014 iPhone 6 will come in 2 sizes, 5,7" and 6,4"! Decidedly large 'phablets'!

Let the games begin!

Did Tim Cook call you?

 

[JeffDenver]

Perhaps indeed. So what else does your crystal ball tell us?

You do not believe there will be an iPhone Phablet this year?

All the Apple sites seem to think there will be.

 

[JeffDenver]

Sadly Pappy will have to deal with some more Apple hypocrisy when the iPhone 6 comes out.
Remember Apple dismissively refusing to use larger screens on iPhones all these years?

Yes.



Can't wait to see if the rumors are true. And if they are, how Apple will magically retcon their previous position.

 

[Haalcyon]

You do not believe there will be an iPhone Phablet this year?

All the Apple sites seem to think there will be.

I would love to see an iPhone at or over 5.5"...a phablet. ...but I wonder if Apple would make such a desirable beast. I figured we may see 5" and even that would be nice...but me no really care. I'm quite satisfied here...on the Dark side.

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[TOTtomdora]

Nazism/fascism flew high in 1933 because people bought it – people bought it because they found value in it!!!

Boy, were they wrong..!

To be fair, your comparison has nothing to do with a phone.

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[JeffDenver]

So, your blab about "Grossly Overpriced" is as moronic as the person that buys a product that was not tailored for him. Apple products are NOT overpriced - their products work better for majority of people in the U.S. and great numbers of people in many other countries.

That is factually incorrect.


comScore Reports January 2014 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share - comScore, Inc

According to Comscore, iOS has 42% US marketshare, and Android 51%. Thats just for the US where Apple is strongest... In the rest of the world it's worse. Android has about 75%+ marketshare in the rest of the world.

If you want to move the goalposts and say "individual products" then that would put Apple ahead. But as a platform, most people are not buying Apple stuff. They are buying from it's competitors, which are mostly Android.

 

[JeffDenver]

I would love to see an iPhone at or over 5.5"...a phablet. ...but I wonder if Apple would make such a desirable beast. I figured we may see 5" and even that would be nice...but me no really care. I'm quite satisfied here...on the Dark side.

If they did, it would make them hypocrites, since they have said for a long time that they would never do a phablet because it's not a real product.

I am indifferent. If they made one I am sure it would be good quality. But it would still have all the same iOS limitations. And they would no longer be able to say "fragmentation" or complain about large phones ever again. So it would benefit Android indirectly in that those criticisms of Android would no longer be seen as valid.

 

[TOTtomdora]

Oh yes it does: it demonstrates painfully IRL that people 'buying' something – even in great numbers – doesn't make that thing 'good'. It can, and sadly too often is, quite the contrary.

You're comparing a political idea to a convenience product. The two are not comparable.

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[TOTtomdora]

FYI: fascism is a convenience product too.

How are ways of thinking in any way convenience products?

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[TOTtomdora]

This way of thinking – fascism in the thirties – conveniently created a scapegoat for everything that was wrong, and conveniently got rid of the competition by gassing it.

What you just said actually hurt your argument.

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[z33dev33l]

That is because Apple has patents to protect.




Google is open-source, so it is easy to copy them. Not as easy to copy Apple, as they have patents.

Between Nokia and Motorola, they own patents on the cell phone itself as well as the smart phone. You don't see them trolling like Apple did in Steve Jobs' era.

 

[z33dev33l]

"What did the G1 copy from the iPhone? Are you trying to claim that all touchscreen phones copied the iPhone?"

Google absolutely copied the touchscreen. And before they trashed the original Android phone, it was a copy of a Blackberry.

Those two were being built side by side, one for the low end and one for the high end. Either way, I had a touch screen smartphone over 4 years before the iPhone dropped and a capacitive screen phone a couple months before.

 

[A895]

Nazism/fascism flew high in 1933 because people bought it – people bought it because they found value in it!!!

Boy, were they wrong..!

Lol. How can you even type that with a straight face?

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[A895]

This way of thinking – fascism in the thirties – conveniently created a scapegoat for everything that was wrong, and conveniently got rid of the competition by gassing it.

I don't even....

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[pappy53]

Those two were being built side by side, one for the low end and one for the high end. Either way, I had a touch screen smartphone over 4 years before the iPhone dropped and a capacitive screen phone a couple months before.

Apple had a patented touchscreen. No one was supposed to use that, but Google did.

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[z33dev33l]

Apple had a patented touchscreen. No one was supposed to use that, but Google did.

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Are you talking about their multi-touch technology? Because that's kinda common sense that people would want that. Not to mention that it's been around since the 80s and was used on several devices before that. They also patented the Capacitive touchscreen to interact with a mobile device despite being the third to use it.

 

[JeffDenver]

Apple had a patented touchscreen. No one was supposed to use that, but Google did.

LOL!

Apple did not patent the idea of a touchscreen. Even one specific to smartphones. That is completely false (and even if true, would be invalidated in court since there are many examples of touchscreens prior to the iPhone).

Please show your source for this ridiculous claim.

 

[pappy53]

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/10/...tent-upheld-by-us-patent-and-trademark-office

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[Almeuit]

Apple had a patented touchscreen. No one was supposed to use that, but Google did.

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So why didn't they sue Google? As you said Apple sued Samsung for copying and they do that when patents are violated... So why not Google?

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