The great combined Smrtphone OS thread

[mr selfdestruct]

rofl ipee so much fail hehehehe

[ipee]

lol

And you know what the most amusing part is about Samsungs smartphone dominance? It's that Apple helped finance it.

When 20% of the iphone is basically made of Samsung tech, then Apples basically got no choice but to keep on giving them billions each year.....unless they want to put with huge shortages of course.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology...ectid=10825535

Apple's reliance on Samsung chips for its best-selling phones and tablets will be worth as much as US$7.5 billion to Samsung this year, a 60 per cent jump from 2011.

Because Apple would struggle to find an alternative supplier for the main processor in its mobile devices, the computer maker can't quit buying from its competitor any time soon, whatever the trial's outcome.

"As much as these companies go head to head, there's a definite intertwining there that makes it a real ugly divorce if it were to take place," said Len Jelinek, an analyst at market researcher IHS.

"Apple cannot, under any circumstances, be caught in a capacity-crunch situation."

Apple's spending has helped arm Samsung with resources to fuel a surging mobile-phone business that's now the global leader.

[cyc]

Originally Posted by ipee

And you know what the most amusing part is about Samsungs smartphone dominance? It's that Apple helped finance it.

Dear Mr Brain Damaged,

Do you even understand what the word "dominance" means?

Phrack posted this earlier:

NPD’s research also revealed that the lion’s share of smartphone-market growth is concentrated in the top two brands. In fact Samsung’s and Apple's combined smartphone unit sales rose 43 percent between Q2 2011 and Q2 2012, as unit sales for other brands fell 16 percent.

According to NPD, the top five smartphone brands, and their market shares, in Q2 were as follows:

Apple: 31 percent
Samsung: 24 percent
HTC: 15 percent
Motorola: 12 percent
LG: 6 percent

FUCKING SAMSUNG DOMINANCE ALRIGHT.

[Ab]

That Android userbase just keeps growing

http://articles.timesofindia.indiati...eme-pure-value

Commercial app developers will be queuing up to get a piece of that market.

[ipee]

Originally Posted by cyc

Dear Mr Brain Damaged,

Do you even understand what the word "dominance" means?

Phrack posted this earlier:



FUCKING SAMSUNG DOMINANCE ALRIGHT.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/27/i...artphones-but/

[Ab]

[Charismo']

Originally Posted by fidgit

Oh so I see the new amaze balls Google Now is going to be available on android 4.1 phones. Do you... Do you know which phones that'll be? It's all of the android phones that I could buy from Vodafone, telecom or 2 degrees in the last year right? Oh it's not? But, how could this be the most amazing thing ever and they're not even trying to add it to their entire line-up? I'm... I'm confused. It seems like they're just *crippling* android by not making this available for all phones the day the update releases. I must have misinterpreted.



Maybe I'll ask Suri to explain.

LOL. I'm sure ipee will have some ridiculous bullshit to spout about android fragmentation being a feature that users love and/or it's JUST THE PRICE TO PAY FOR FREEDOM!

[ipee]

I've got an s3, not a 4.1 phone, and yet I'm running 4.1.

"JUST THE PRICE TO PAY FOR FREEDOM!!!" LOL

[mr selfdestruct]

Why do you guys even spend time replying to ipee? It's just not worth it. He has no fucking idea what he is talking about, ever.

[Phrack]

Originally Posted by ipee

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/27/i...artphones-but/

Good work comparing shipments vs sales. Do you understand the difference?

[DrTiTus]

Originally Posted by fidgit

Maybe I'll ask Suri to explain.

It's pretty bad when you need a 6 year old girl to help you understand technology.

Meanwhile, Android users are furious that their entry level smartphone lacks features of the new flagship models. "I chose Android because I'm poor and they promised freedom. Now they're saying that to have the latest and greatest features, I'll need to buy a better phone. New phones are hardly free! If I wanted my phone to become obsolete when new features come out I would have become an Apple customer!"

[Saladin]

Entry level android users are probably thinking "I want a phone that makes and receives calls, sends and receives SMS, and has Bluetooth. I don't care about all that other fancy new shit."

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by Ab

To be fair, that's not exactly representative. The others haven't decreased that much, but Apple's increase has lifted the entire market. I'm sure there's another graph around somewhere showing that.


edit:

[[LvN]N3misiS]

Originally Posted by Saladin

Entry level android users are probably thinking "I want a phone that makes and receives calls, sends and receives SMS, and has Bluetooth. I don't care about all that other fancy new shit."

Amen

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Saladin

Entry level android users are probably thinking "I want a phone that makes and receives calls, sends and receives SMS, and has Bluetooth. I don't care about all that other fancy new shit."

[TnT]

One of the more interesting rumours on Cupertinos new shiny that I'm thinking would be cool, is the new pin connector, if it has one, and the possibility of it being a magsafe type connector. Magsafe connectors are the shit, really cool little feature.

[ipee]

Originally Posted by mr selfdestruct

Why do you guys even spend time replying to ipee? It's just not worth it. He has no fucking idea what he is talking about, ever.

Says the Windows guy lol

And don't ruin it for me cunt ... they have the right to respond to my informative posts.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Phrack

Good work comparing shipments vs sales. Do you understand the difference?

Data from the court case: iPhone outsold Samsung's entire phone range 3 to 1 in the period June 2010 - June 2012.

[mr selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by ipee

Says the Windows guy lol

And don't ruin it for me cunt ... they have the right to respond to my informative posts.

What do you mean?! Your cool little graph said windows phone was up 115%! ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN PERCENT BRO!

DOMINATING EVERYONE RIGHT?!!! hahaha :P

Your pretty much a tabloid magazine. You spout BS and when everybody shuts you down you ignore it and keep posting more BS headlines.

Class

[Cowboy]

[fidgit]

Originally Posted by mr selfdestruct

Why do you guys even spend time replying to ipee? It's just not worth it. He has no fucking idea what he is talking about, ever.

Well I was hoping he'd explain to me why Google Now was so much better than Suri. But he just ignored my question :/

[Trigger]

i got my first smartphone, google nexus s on monday
really impressed with how the phone feels and runs, it is quite amazing value for money
21st century never felt so good

[TnT]

and this is part where we deride your for your choice in phone, call into question your sexuality, assassinate the character of your parents and not to forget ridicule your heritage.

now with that aside, ain't it cool? I get really shitty at my phone, and then there are times when I remember Louis CK and I go, yeah that's right, this is actually fucking amazing, the interwebs is where ever I am now.

[wugambino]

Hi Guys

Just dropped by to say I love my SGS2, best phone I have ever owned.

I will let you return to your pointless and circular arguments

[mr selfdestruct]

I just tried the S3 yesterday. I have to say, they definitely put that processor thats a bagillion times more powerful than the iPhone 4S to good use and actually pulled off 'smooth ui'. Makes it seem all worthwhile now :P

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by fidgit

Suri

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by mr selfdestruct

'smooth ui'

[mr selfdestruct]

Originally Posted by Phantom

Nice eyedrops.

[fidgit]

Originally Posted by Phantom

Twice in two pages I made that mistake haha.


I guess it wouldn't have happened if I'd been able to dictate my post to Google Now.

[p01s0n]

[mr selfdestruct]

I have to say, the iMore podcasts actually look like real people as opposed to these freaks! :P Also, iMore have a chick, props.

[Ab]

You guys may not know this, but that guy in the middle is actually Steve Wozniak.

[Heresy]

Vanity Fair investigate just how weird Ballmer is, how much he has ruined MS, and write a massive article about it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2...-steve-ballmer

[Ab]

too easy, someone else do the honours

[Heresy]

p01s0n's holiday to China didn't go as planned

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08...sues_in_china/

[p01s0n]

[TnT]

Originally Posted by Ab

too easy, someone else do the honours

Originally Posted by Vanity Fair

Cool is what tech consumers want. Exhibit A: today the iPhone brings in more revenue than the entirety of Microsoft.

No, really.

One Apple product, something that didn’t exist five years ago, has higher sales than everything Microsoft has to offer. More than Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, Windows Phone, and every other product that Microsoft has created since 1975. In the quarter ended March 31, 2012, iPhone had sales of $22.7 billion; Microsoft Corporation, $17.4 billion.

I'm quoting this purely because, it's staggering.

[Ab]

How many smartphones did Samsung ship in Q2?

50.2 million.

That’s the estimate from IDC. So why bother asking?

Because that is an estimate. Of the 104 million Android phones shipped in the quarter (itself an estimate from another, possibly different methodology), I could only account for 7 million actually reported.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/08/13/how...ng-ship-in-q2/

Summary: even a specialist mobile-industry business analyst has no fucking idea how many - or how few - phones Samsung has really sold.

[Charismo']

where's ipee? I wanted to post this:

[p01s0n]

so basically what you're saying is:
poison was right.

is that correct?