Let's not forget all the money they're spending selling their own phone under their brand, instead of to another company. The marketing and infrastructure changes to make that happen can't be cheap either.
The company is still profiting in a down economy, and they have a strong plan for moving forward. Even with worse than expected performance, I wouldn't worry.
I seem to notice Android is only popular on the web. But beyond that, in real life...I only have 2 friends who has htc android phones while others carry either the iphone or a dump phone.
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@ok_go: I know 1 person with a G1 and one person with an iPhone. Everyone else has has dumb phones. If talking about people I work with, they all have dumb phones, BB's, Treo's, and Palms.
All they have to do is grab Microsoft's and Google's balls and tell them "Good Bye"... specially that stupid "With Google" tag and start developing Android by themselves.
Good lord, I didn't expect this comment to be so controversial. I thought this was common knowledge. I went to another site and then came back and everyone is bashing me. Anyway, Canalys reported earlier this year that the iPhone had passed Windows Mobile.
It's been that way a long time, guys. Here's the report.
@imTheKing: There hasn't been all that much news wise to talk about, but maybe the stuff I have been talking about was on LH lol
@Eulatos: OSX is better suited at dealing with less savvy people (unless they only know Windows obviously) and I think the whole thing started with artists that are clueless and could care less about how they get from A-B). Don't take it as a dig, it's a good thing. Everyone I know that uses a Mac is either an artist or curious. Personally I use a MB at home because I do IT for a living and keeping up on OSX is a must (if you loose your job the last thing you want to keep you from getting a new one is not knowing an OS).
As far as "tech pro's" go... Really, you run at home what you run at work. It's best to have as much exposure as possible and if you are a pro, you don't need to fight with your computer regardless of the OS. That is just fanboi propaganda.
The last time I had a problem was yesterday as a matter of fact (work lap runs Windows). Comodo pushed some POS update which was using 100% CPU and it took me a couple hours to figure it out because I couldn't login. That is the first problem I have had in over 2 years. I remember because it's when I bought my computer before last, I had a bad stick of ram which was causing issues, again, like this time, not Windows fault per say.
In terms of the "type" of people using Apple products, it definitely varies. But as you said, its easier for the less educated to use a Mac interface so that does to some extent stand true. I think more a more accurate description of Apple's consumer base would be: A) Wealthy Families, B) Graphical / Video / Audio Production workers and C) Less Educated. But really, the same apply across the board with "PC" (Windows) users as well.
@imTheKing: What people always miss about OS X though is it doesnt stop with the easy to use, there is so much power and versatility under the easy to use surface it would literally kill my workflow to switch back to windows, and ive only been using OS X for about 1.5 years. I used to be an extreme anti mac person, you would have thought my father beat me with a IIe when i was a kid. Most of that hate came from my college where they were running os9, which did suck pretty hard.
@Eulatos: Seriously man, it's just an OS. It boils down to what you like, but as I said OSX is much harder to break.
Personally, I don't care what it runs, as long as it does what I need. In some cases you don't have a choice (for work I have to have MMC, EM, Visio, PP, and internal windows only apps) so you run the OS that your applications dictate.
Great, but not if you're still in school since having a cellphone (even if it is pretending to be a calculator) will generally get you thrown out of a test. And if you have to have a hardware calculator anyway, why spend extra on this?
@OMG! Ponies!: i think they're aiming at the gadget lovin' baby boomers that like to blow their cash. not the bacon eatin', crt lovin' gadget gurus that like to jet set from coast to coast.
@Nick: As a proud member of Generation X and the child of two hippies, let me state for the record that Baby Boomers are my sworn enemy. And that includes my two Baby Boomer parents, both born in 1946.
My parents know the rule: They're old. Accordingly, they do not get gadgets without my approval and/or recommendation. The only reason my mother got an Asus eeePC is because I told her about it and recommended it.
iPhones are for ironic Gen-X hipsters, not aging hippies. And yes, as a Gen-Xer, I plan on being every bit as nostalgic-obnoxious as the Baby Boomers.
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All I'm saying is that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
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It's been that way a long time, guys. Here's the report.
[www.canalys.com]
Apple is third place behind RIM and Nokia. Apple is at 13.7 worldwide and WinMo is at 9.0
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Here you go:
[www.canalys.com]
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@Chris Zetye: The title of the article actually says it's due to marketing.
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@Eulatos: OSX is better suited at dealing with less savvy people (unless they only know Windows obviously) and I think the whole thing started with artists that are clueless and could care less about how they get from A-B). Don't take it as a dig, it's a good thing. Everyone I know that uses a Mac is either an artist or curious. Personally I use a MB at home because I do IT for a living and keeping up on OSX is a must (if you loose your job the last thing you want to keep you from getting a new one is not knowing an OS).
As far as "tech pro's" go... Really, you run at home what you run at work. It's best to have as much exposure as possible and if you are a pro, you don't need to fight with your computer regardless of the OS. That is just fanboi propaganda.
The last time I had a problem was yesterday as a matter of fact (work lap runs Windows). Comodo pushed some POS update which was using 100% CPU and it took me a couple hours to figure it out because I couldn't login. That is the first problem I have had in over 2 years. I remember because it's when I bought my computer before last, I had a bad stick of ram which was causing issues, again, like this time, not Windows fault per say.
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In terms of the "type" of people using Apple products, it definitely varies. But as you said, its easier for the less educated to use a Mac interface so that does to some extent stand true. I think more a more accurate description of Apple's consumer base would be: A) Wealthy Families, B) Graphical / Video / Audio Production workers and C) Less Educated. But really, the same apply across the board with "PC" (Windows) users as well.
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Personally, I don't care what it runs, as long as it does what I need. In some cases you don't have a choice (for work I have to have MMC, EM, Visio, PP, and internal windows only apps) so you run the OS that your applications dictate.
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Its like more than half of the entries listed this past month have been about the damn Iphone.
/grrrr
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not iphone - [gizmodo.com]
Firstly,
To exclude a tag, just append /tag/not:tag (replace the italicized portion with the tag you wish to exclude.) ex. [gizmodo.com]
To include only specific tags, append, /tag/tag ex. [gizmodo.com]
These can be combined. Just use the /tag/ portion of the address only once.
For example, to get posts with a cellphone tag, but not with a tag of htc, (/tag/cellphones/not:htc) [gizmodo.com]
Or, ipod vs zune, (/tag/ipod/zune) [gizmodo.com]
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I guess some aren't happy unless they get to complain or hate something. That's probably why the first Matrix was such a failure.
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"Is there any way to turn OFF articles that feature the iphone/Apps/Apple-in-general on Gizmodo?"
easy - just click that little box with an X in it at the upper right hand corner of your browser.
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Tell HP they bollixed the price point.
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My parents know the rule: They're old. Accordingly, they do not get gadgets without my approval and/or recommendation. The only reason my mother got an Asus eeePC is because I told her about it and recommended it.
iPhones are for ironic Gen-X hipsters, not aging hippies. And yes, as a Gen-Xer, I plan on being every bit as nostalgic-obnoxious as the Baby Boomers.
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