Why Android is better than iPhone.
- Thread starter MotoStark
- Start date
There are hundreds of millions of them around the world. In some areas, they are indispensable. You still see them in use everywhere. They have some uncontested technical advantages. For all these reasons, BBs are a mature ecosystem who's only weakness is their ancient devices. Once that gets fixed, what's to stop them?
I really want to see RIM succeed as they are a Canadian company, at this point they are hemorrhaging customers. They really have to pull a miracle with BB10 to succeed. All the chips are stacked against them
Once upon a time, people were saying that about Apple.
Mind you, rather than being "years ahead" as they once were, they are well on their way to becoming the next RIM.
This will be a fun ride to watch in 2013.
A vote here for the underdog.
There are several positives to the company, but will it be enough? They really need to get some serious marketing savvy.
Ultimately, can see them being bought out.
Check out the features of the i5 according to this Fox 5 NY news report..... :lmao:
"has a laser keyboard" and "holographic images!"
the reality distorted sheeple standing in line could have fed her all this. :lmao:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6668cxupH98
"has a laser keyboard" and "holographic images!"
the reality distorted sheeple standing in line could have fed her all this. :lmao:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6668cxupH98
Anyone ask yourself why the news media is so biased towards APPLE products?
Why do they hype up the stock prices? What’s in it for them? Answer: AAPL is necessary to continue the illusion of growth in the nasdaq.
Here are some great blogs from Reggie Middleton:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contribute...acts-mainstream-media-most-analysts-fail-harp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reggie-middleton/empirical-evidence-of-and_b_683589.html
Apple Innovation? Not!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms3Y5xmrYn4
Why do they hype up the stock prices? What’s in it for them? Answer: AAPL is necessary to continue the illusion of growth in the nasdaq.
Here are some great blogs from Reggie Middleton:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contribute...acts-mainstream-media-most-analysts-fail-harp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reggie-middleton/empirical-evidence-of-and_b_683589.html
Apple Innovation? Not!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms3Y5xmrYn4
Last edited:
I thought about you guys when i was at timmies. Tapped my debit card instead of having to swipe and enter the pin, so much faster and smoother.
Cant wait to have a proper system in place on my phone (or that google wallet actually becomes available)
ahaha i should try to stick my debit card on the back of my phone and try to impress people by paying that way LOL
Cant wait to have a proper system in place on my phone (or that google wallet actually becomes available)
ahaha i should try to stick my debit card on the back of my phone and try to impress people by paying that way LOL
I only read the HuffPost article, but that's enough to show the guy seems pretty off base. He spends a whole article discussing market share without one word about profit per unit sold. It's no secret, the majority of the cheap phones being sold are Android phones. Cheap phones translates to more market share, simple as that. More market share does not translate to more profitability if you're only making a couple bucks per unit. That's not even taking into account the App store, where App developers make four times what they do on Google's app store.
That's like saying that Mercedes can't compete in the market because they don't have as much market share as Toyota, no kidding.
For a guy that tries to show himself as being very smart, he certainly doesn't come across as such, or maybe I'm just dumb. Apple's stock price is in the stratosphere, but if you look at their fundamental numbers, it's pretty fairly priced. It's P/E ratio is only a little bit higher than Microsoft for instance.
wonderings
Well-known member
I like the efficiency of this, but unless I am missing something, this is a step backwards in security no? Or do you still have to type in a pin after you "tap" the card?
Yes and no, basically you have to be within 1 cm to put through the transaction, in my case it would mean grabbing my butt... and it has to be a transaction under a certain amount (say $50 default). If its over the amount, it'll ask you for your chip/PIN.
You can even set the amount (say a daily max) before it asks you for a pin when you flash it. So say you put the max at 120, youll be required to enter it as soon as you go over that amount in the day!
more info
http://www.interac.ca/consumers/productsandservices_merch_flash.php
Apple has the sway, they can say no to a technology like NFC and actually drive the market into the ground.
NFC isn't a done deal. Far from, actually. Even if it takes off, it'll be 5 years before it reaches any meaningful mass. Google is watching from the sidelines, and Ebay/PayPal are flat out saying no to NFC, and with good reason. Instead of focusing on merely improving POS terminals, these companies are thinking much further forward, completely doing away with the point of sale idea to begin with. Why should I have to touch my phone or card to a terminal at all? It'd be way better to walk in, grab stuff, and walk out without ever having a "point of sale".
I wouldn't bet on NFC just yet. It might be dead before it even arrives. Isis has delayed launches again and again...
NFC isn't a done deal. Far from, actually. Even if it takes off, it'll be 5 years before it reaches any meaningful mass. Google is watching from the sidelines, and Ebay/PayPal are flat out saying no to NFC, and with good reason. Instead of focusing on merely improving POS terminals, these companies are thinking much further forward, completely doing away with the point of sale idea to begin with. Why should I have to touch my phone or card to a terminal at all? It'd be way better to walk in, grab stuff, and walk out without ever having a "point of sale".
I wouldn't bet on NFC just yet. It might be dead before it even arrives. Isis has delayed launches again and again...
wonderings
Well-known member
I would be more concerned with someone stealing a debit card. Even small transactions can add up, and cause headaches, especially when they no longer need a pass code to use the card.
Perhaps time to invest in some google stock?
Several companies are already working toward a viable autonomous vehicle, with Google viewed as the leading pioneer
http://www.leftlanenews.com/look-ma...cts-most-cars-to-be-self-driving-by-2040.html
Several companies are already working toward a viable autonomous vehicle, with Google viewed as the leading pioneer
http://www.leftlanenews.com/look-ma...cts-most-cars-to-be-self-driving-by-2040.html
Not sure I like the convenience of NFC. I keep my quick pay credit cards in a case that prevents them from being read, not sure I want my phone that connected to my bank/credit accounts.
RandomHero
Well-known member
This. Any purchase below 300 and I just pay with cash. Anything else I just use my cc.
NFC isnt JUST for payments....
Here is a transcript of how one user on another forum uses NFC.
"Many people are aware of NFC as the technology expected to power the future of smartphone payments. What many people don't realize is that NFC has a lot of other practical uses right now. I've been using it for some time now to great effect, mostly for automation purposes.
There are a few things you need to make use of NFC at the moment. For starters, you need an NFC device. I use the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Asus Nexus 7. There are a lot of other Android devices with NFC, as well as several NFC-enabled Blackberrys out there, and Windows Phone 8 will support NFC. However, most of what I talk about here is specific to Android. There may be similar Blackberry apps available, but I've never looked.
You will also need blank NFC tags. You can buy your own tags for a few dollars online. Most tags are re-writable, but be warned; there are different sizes of NFC tags, and if you go too cheap they may not be big enough to store anything of practical value. I'm no expert on the tags, but the ones I bought seem to work well. I bought 10 from eBay. They just look like small white stickers, about the size of a quarter.
The last thing you'll need are some apps to program and respond to the tags. There are a lot of them out there, but two I use the most are "NFC Task Launcher" and "Tasker". NFC task launcher can write the tags, and can issue some rudimentary phone commands. The app's real strength is the ability to set NFC tags to trigger Tasker tasks. If you've never used Tasker, it's an extremely powerful phone automation app. Tasker can respond to all kinds of inputs (eg plugging in headphones, receiving a particular SMS message, reaching a certain time, etc) and can respond however you wish. For example, in one of my tasks, when my phone receives a particular SMS message, it locks the phone under a password, silences it (so you can't tell when you receive messages), enables GPS, and texts back current GPS coordinates. Together, these two apps make a very powerful combination.
Some of my NFC tags are very simple. One in my wallet allows me to quickly add myself as a contact to NFC-enabled Blackberrys and Android phones (if they choose, I can't do it surreptitiously). If I had a business card, I might stick it to the back of that. You can also have them launch URLs automatically.
I have one on the side of my washing machine, so if I swipe my phone past it when I turn the machine on, it sets a timer for 59 minutes (the normal load time on my machine). Another one on my desk at work that turns off my ringer when I put my phone down. I've heard it suggested that you stick one to the inside of the light-switch plate in your front hall. When you leave the house, you can swipe past it and have it enable or disable wifi.
You can get much more complicated. I know some people have their work tags setup to change their wallpaper and ring-tones to something more appropriate for work, just in case. You can also set it so that if it's after 4 pm, it sends a text to your spouse that you're on your way home.
I have a tag in my car so that when I put my phone down where I normally leave it, it turns on bluetooth and connects to the car's handsfree, as well as my OBDII transmitter, turns on GPS, reads any incoming text messages aloud, and (just for fun) reads out the current date, time, and expected weather conditions for the day. If I plugged it into the car charger before I put it down, it also turns on my wireless hotspot (for potential passengers). When I get out of the car and swipe my phone past the tag again, it switches back to normal (disables bluetooth/GPS and stops reading texts aloud). "
Given how powerful Tasker is, the possibilities are extremely wide open. Anyone have any cool ideas they would like to try?"
Here is a transcript of how one user on another forum uses NFC.
"Many people are aware of NFC as the technology expected to power the future of smartphone payments. What many people don't realize is that NFC has a lot of other practical uses right now. I've been using it for some time now to great effect, mostly for automation purposes.
There are a few things you need to make use of NFC at the moment. For starters, you need an NFC device. I use the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Asus Nexus 7. There are a lot of other Android devices with NFC, as well as several NFC-enabled Blackberrys out there, and Windows Phone 8 will support NFC. However, most of what I talk about here is specific to Android. There may be similar Blackberry apps available, but I've never looked.
You will also need blank NFC tags. You can buy your own tags for a few dollars online. Most tags are re-writable, but be warned; there are different sizes of NFC tags, and if you go too cheap they may not be big enough to store anything of practical value. I'm no expert on the tags, but the ones I bought seem to work well. I bought 10 from eBay. They just look like small white stickers, about the size of a quarter.
The last thing you'll need are some apps to program and respond to the tags. There are a lot of them out there, but two I use the most are "NFC Task Launcher" and "Tasker". NFC task launcher can write the tags, and can issue some rudimentary phone commands. The app's real strength is the ability to set NFC tags to trigger Tasker tasks. If you've never used Tasker, it's an extremely powerful phone automation app. Tasker can respond to all kinds of inputs (eg plugging in headphones, receiving a particular SMS message, reaching a certain time, etc) and can respond however you wish. For example, in one of my tasks, when my phone receives a particular SMS message, it locks the phone under a password, silences it (so you can't tell when you receive messages), enables GPS, and texts back current GPS coordinates. Together, these two apps make a very powerful combination.
Some of my NFC tags are very simple. One in my wallet allows me to quickly add myself as a contact to NFC-enabled Blackberrys and Android phones (if they choose, I can't do it surreptitiously). If I had a business card, I might stick it to the back of that. You can also have them launch URLs automatically.
I have one on the side of my washing machine, so if I swipe my phone past it when I turn the machine on, it sets a timer for 59 minutes (the normal load time on my machine). Another one on my desk at work that turns off my ringer when I put my phone down. I've heard it suggested that you stick one to the inside of the light-switch plate in your front hall. When you leave the house, you can swipe past it and have it enable or disable wifi.
You can get much more complicated. I know some people have their work tags setup to change their wallpaper and ring-tones to something more appropriate for work, just in case. You can also set it so that if it's after 4 pm, it sends a text to your spouse that you're on your way home.
I have a tag in my car so that when I put my phone down where I normally leave it, it turns on bluetooth and connects to the car's handsfree, as well as my OBDII transmitter, turns on GPS, reads any incoming text messages aloud, and (just for fun) reads out the current date, time, and expected weather conditions for the day. If I plugged it into the car charger before I put it down, it also turns on my wireless hotspot (for potential passengers). When I get out of the car and swipe my phone past the tag again, it switches back to normal (disables bluetooth/GPS and stops reading texts aloud). "
Given how powerful Tasker is, the possibilities are extremely wide open. Anyone have any cool ideas they would like to try?"
Sorry, but that post sounds like things that the guy does just because he can. They don't seem to add anything to the average user's experience.
I actually think NFC has some really interesting potential, but those things in no way make me want a NFC phone.
iPhone 5 reviews are live now btw.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/09/18/first-iphone-5-reviews/
