Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile...
by zimbatm on Saturday July 27, 2013 @06:27PM
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No need to get all worked up. OP is right that Apple fanbois always come up with excuses.
By the way thanks for giving us the next goal post: build quality and overall coherence ;-)
Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile...
by coldtea on Sunday July 28, 2013 @05:39AM
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>By the way thanks for giving us the next goal post: build quality and overall coherence
"Us"? Let me get this right: I'm a "fanboi" (sic) for talking general business observations, but you are not while identifying directly with Samsung?
As for reaching that "next goal post", good luck.
For a consumer it's the only one that matters, and if you were satisfied before it was reached, why start being more demanding now?
Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile...
by zimbatm on Monday July 29, 2013 @06:05AM
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You're making good points but it's missing the underlying current that OP was building. I was being facetious about it and the "us" was just to poke you a little bit :)
In my view Apple is a premium product and the quality gap is closing in quickly. We've already reached a level where non-experts don't see any real difference or at least not enough to justify the price bump.
Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile...
by hahainternet on Sunday July 28, 2013 @08:42AM
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You're a fanboy for aggressively but completely ignorantly trying to address points and move goalposts. The smugness with which you say 'good luck' is defeated by the clear bitterness and defeated attitude of the rest of your post.
Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile...
by cremnob on Saturday July 27, 2013 @09:48PM
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They're still working on the profit goal post ;-)
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/27/samsung-has-not-de...
Really? Because all the BS press I've seen at the time (and ever since) always mentioned how "iPhone is doomed" because of Android.
>Awhile later when Android took off a bit and all of the Android devices together sold more than the iPhone, people were quick to say how it's just one supplier (Apple) vs many suppliers producing Android phones.
Besides the fact that who the fuck compares the entire mobile industry with a single company, the reason they outsold the iPhone is because they make models that cover a wider price range.
iPhone just is, take it or leave it -- at best you can get the last model on discount (and even that keeps it price well). Android, they make models that a poor piss guy in Southern Banzania can buy too.
>Bit later, Samsung is doing really well with their Galaxy range, and suddenly Samsung alone is selling more devices than Apple. People then say how Samsung sells tons of different devices while Apple only sells one.
Seems like you mixed a bunch of thing nobody said (or merely some fanboys on some sites) and some legitimate concerns that still hold, and you mix and matched them to create a timeline.
The actual story was always "OMG, iPhone is Doomed" or "Android is Winning"
>The real issue is that Google/Android are out competing Apple in features, price and 'freedom'.
Apple never competed in "features" and "price. Heck, they don't do that even on their PC line, and that has been going for like 30 years.
They compete in high end, build quality, overal coherence, ecosystem and design.