Re:Google Trusted Contacts
by Mister_Snuggles on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:00AM
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I've owned iPhones since the 3G and have always backed up the old one and restored the backup on the new one and the new phone picks up the previous locations, etc. This whole thing is integrated into the initial setup of the new phone, though it relies on iCloud backups. Doing the backup/restore through iTunes works very well too, just not quite as smoothly.
Her one laptop is a Chromebook. That doesn't work for her.
Re:Google Trusted Contacts
by Mister_Snuggles on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:10PM
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iCloud backup doesn't require a computer, just Wifi.
> Currently Apple has a market share of about 12% and has 103% of the profit share. This means every other phone companies combined loss money as a whole and Apple out performed them.
What kind of maths is this? O.o
Re:Google Trusted Contacts
by realityking on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:02AM
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Enough competitors loose money on smartphones that the total profit was negative but Apple made a nice dime.
Imagine the profit of the phone industry as a whole was $100 and the profit of Apple's phone division (with 12% of the market share) was $103. So the rest of the industry (considered as a single whole, which of course it isn't) must have lost $3.
I mean... does that mean that Facebook is making 100.000% of profits because Twitter is losing money?
How is that kind of mangling of numbers useful except for stroking Apple fans?
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Even though, on second thought, we should start putting "Making 1400% of profit!" on our marketing materials as well. Has a pop to it :)
There's no mangling that I can see? Take your profit number. Take the profit number for the industry as a whole (there's an opportunity for gerrymandering here, but phone sales are a pretty natural category). Divide a by b.
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra/pre-algebra-rat...
Percentages are ratios. when you are over a 1:1 ratio (AKA 100%) and then is over 1:1.5 or 1:1.03
Profit Apple = $1,000,000,000
Net loss Android = -$3,000,000
> What kind of maths is this?
SORRY - Above 4th Grade Math
Sorry Snarky and not trying to be a jerk but TRYING to just make a funny commentary on society. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to sit in a room of very intelligent people and they have no math skills!!!! How is it acceptable to say "I'm not good in math."
Apple 100% is profiting off you and your family members just not off of sharing data which has pluses and minuses. They have milked out that Apple Tax to build the world's richest company.
Money dictates these positions. Currently Apple has a market share of about 12% and has 103% of the profit share. This means every other phone companies combined loss money as a whole and Apple out performed them.
http://bgr.com/2016/11/04/iphone-profits-apple-samsung-share...
Apple's Achilles heel is with AI and has to do with their position with data. What a pain it was for my rebellious daughter (She buys Apple products and laughs in my face) to go from one phone to the next and it has to relearn her because things don't transfer. Apple Maps doesn't know where she use to go on her old phone etc..
Tim Cook and company will have to start collecting and sharing data between devices and spaces. This will be done to save SIRI and what I get with Google Now. You might think I am sipping the kool-aid but I believe that our data will serve us more tin the future and this present Apple stance will have to change.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3131586/apple-ios/apple...