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[FFR]

Google copying Apple for a change

When you buy an Apple product, you're buying a quality built device that yes, may not have the best specs but is flawlessly optimized to utilize them. Not only that but rather than playing the coin flip game with the OEMs or resorting to rooting you're paying for a consistent and, in this time, unparalleled update system for a pretty good period of time, longer than most need. You're also paying for some of the best support in the technological world and the promise that your phone won't be bogged down in two months. They are what people, at least those that care about the consumer, strive to be. Nokia is working towards it but they're not quite to the extreme that Apple is.

Nokia is out of the mobile phone game.

 

[pappy53]

Apple has the absolute best customer service in the business. That alone is worth something.

 

[z33dev33l]

Nokia is out of the mobile phone game.

Microsoft then, going to be interesting, THE software giant with quite likely the best OEM in terms of sheer quality together under Satya Nadella... Amazing things will be happening.

 

[z33dev33l]

He was heralded as M$' golden boy months ago. Not a peep out of him, M$, or Nokia since then. It's awfully quiet.

Honestly, he always struck me as a Steve Jobs with tech know how. I doubt a peep will be heard from him til the products are ready to hit the market.

 

[JeffDenver]

What gap is that? Quarterly? Yearly? total of all time? Please try to keep those goalposts in one place kthx.

(Samsung has a single product (the Note 3) that is selling half as much as the entire iPhone line combined according to that forbes article, and that is not even their best selling phone...questions? Comments?)

Since 2012. Note 3 sales were only for one quarter.

Nice equivocation lol

Keep those goalposts mobile.

 

[JeffDenver]

When you buy an Apple product, you're buying a quality built device that yes, may not have the best specs but is flawlessly optimized to utilize them.

...when it works.

Apple’s catastrophically bad iOS6 mapping app causes frustration and mirth

No way to change default Maps app either. There are drawbacks to an "optimized" system.

 

[JeffDenver]

Well, I think it has been established that high end android phones have not outsold the iPhone

If we are basing it on the numbers you pulled out of thin air, then I agree.

 

[JeffDenver]

The figures i provided were over last quarter not the life of the device. Your article was from 2013.

So what? Who determined that last quarter was the one that "counts"? LOL

The assertion was made that high end Android phones do not outsell iPhones. Not that high end Android phones do not outsell Android phones "last quarter".

Keep your goalposts in one place please kthx.

Certainly looks like puppy's assertions are true.

If we ignore all other evidence, I agree, his assertions are true.

 

[z33dev33l]

...when it works.

Apple’s catastrophically bad iOS6 mapping app causes frustration and mirth

No way to change default Maps app either. There are drawbacks to an "optimized" system.

I'd generally rather have poor apps than a whole OS crashing. There's no denying that that was bad but for every major downturn Apple has had I can find dozens for Google and Android.

 

[JeffDenver]

Since 2012. Note 3 sales were only for one quarter.

Feel free to limit claims to a specific time period if you want. So far they have been all over the place.

The Forbe's link was an example of a claim specific to a time period. In that period, Note 3's sold more than half of all iPhones in the same period. That is not counting S4's or Lg's or HTC's or any other high end phones...that one phone alone.

If a single Android phone is selling more than half of all iPhones in the same period, it's a little hard for me to believe that all high end models combined can't make up the other 50%. Sorry.

 

[JeffDenver]

I'd generally rather have poor apps than a whole OS crashing.

Which OS is crashing? I've never seen the OS crash on my Nexus 5. Not even once.

There's no denying that that was bad but for every major downturn Apple has had I can find dozens for Google and Android.

Here's the difference...even if it happened on Android, it would not matter. Because Android does not lock you up into one app. You can use any Maps app you want...any email you want...any browser you want. And you can make them the default.

You cannot do that on iOS.

 

[z33dev33l]

Feel free to limit claims to a specific time period if you want. So far they have been all over the place.

The Forbe's link was an example of a claim specific to a time period. In that period, Note 3's sold more than half of all iPhones in the same period. That is not counting S4's or Lg's or HTC's or any other high end phones...that one phone alone.

If a single Android phone is selling more than half of all iPhones in the same period, it's a little hard for me to believe that all high end models combined can't make up the other 50%. Sorry.

I'm driving at the moment but how did that time frame correlate with release dates?

 

[A895]

I'd generally rather have poor apps than a whole OS crashing. There's no denying that that was bad but for every major downturn Apple has had I can find dozens for Google and Android.

That's because you are biased as hell.

Posted via Android Central App

 

[JeffDenver]

I'm driving at the moment but how did that time frame correlate with release dates?

So is the argument now "iPhone's outsell high end Android phones except when high end Android phones are released"?

This is what Forbes (not an Android fan site) had to say about it.

We can also add in that sales number for the Galaxy S4, which has sales slightly faster (and as above, I’ll assume that the sales rate flatlines) meaning that just these two Samsung models are having unit sales equal to around and about the entire Apple line up of iPhones.

Interesting Number, Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 Alone Approaches 50% Of All Of Apple's iPhone Sales - Forbes

This article was from the end of last year.

 

[pappy53]

I did? So I guess I was correct after all.

I am not a Samsung cheerleader. To me they are just another Android vendor, and not even my favorite vendor. It's not a Samsung vs Apple competition, its an iOS vs Android competition. And in that competition, Android is winning and has been for years now. And is expanding it's lead.

From what I have seen of the sales figures, high end Android sales alone eclipse iOS. S4 + S5 + M8 + M7 + Nexus 4 + Nexus 5 + G2 + G3 + Note 2 + Note 3 ect ect ...add all those together and it will handily beat whatever the iPhone figures are. The S4 all by itself sold 20 million in a quarter.

You made a claim concerning the models listed above. The numbers that I found are from the release date of these phones until the present. I compared those numbers with iPhone sales during the same period. I used 2012 because that is the earliest release year of these models. My goal posts have been in the same spot. All that you want to talk about is one quarter of Note 3 sales, lol.

 

[JeffDenver]

You made a claim concerning the models listed above.

You apparently did not read the entire quote:

From what I have seen of the sales figures, high end Android sales alone eclipse iOS. S4 + S5 + M8 + M7 + Nexus 4 + Nexus 5 + G2 + G3 + Note 2 + Note 3 ect ect ..

Paying attention will save us both a lot of time.

The numbers that I found are from the release date of these phones until the present.

Found from where?

I compared those numbers with iPhone sales during the same period.

Which period?

I used 2012 because that is the earliest release year of these models.

Is it just 2012? 2007 to 2012? 2012 to present? Who knows? You didn't specify.

All that you want to talk about is one quarter of Note 3 sales, lol.

Which quarter? The Note 3 has been out for more than one quarter.

 

[pappy53]

The S4 all by itself sold 20 million in a quarter.

iPhone 5 sold 5 million in one weekend.

 

[cbobb123]

I'd generally rather have poor apps than a whole OS crashing. There's no denying that that was bad but for every major downturn Apple has had I can find dozens for Google and Android.

I never realised it was possible for an entire OS to crash. Interesting....

Sent by my Nexus 5

 

[pappy53]

The S4 all by itself sold 20 million in a quarter.

iPhone 5 sold 5 million in one weekend.

Which period?

"The numbers that I found are from the release date of these phones until the present. I compared those numbers with iPhone sales during the same period. I used 2012 because that is the earliest release year of these models."
Pretty obvious that the numbers are from 2012 to present.

 

[FFR]

...when it works.

Apple’s catastrophically bad iOS6 mapping app causes frustration and mirth

No way to change default Maps app either. There are drawbacks to an "optimized" system.

Anything from 2014 you seem to love posting old news,