Why Android is better than iPhone.
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watch the video in link,,,http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/12/ios-4-3-beta-arrives-for-devs-brings-airplay-video-support-to-a/
dudes was complaining earlier about how you have to close apps to go to the next one, well check it out now, and its a beta.
multitasking
dudes was complaining earlier about how you have to close apps to go to the next one, well check it out now, and its a beta.
multitasking
Ohh look at that, the mighty Iphopne is doing now what Palm has been doing for two years lol, good for them to finally kinda catching up
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Just to add to this thread; I have left the BlackBerry camp and joined the Android camp. Got myself a new Samsung Galaxy Fascinate to replace my piece of crap BlackBerry Storm. Nothing against the iPhone and I've had a gen 1 iPhone when they first came out (before they came out in Canada....hacked it to work with rogers). So far I'm liking the phone but I've only been using it one day.
I heard Samsung got this one right. Chances are you'll keep on likin' it. As for me.. While I like mine, I'd still prefer to get a Meego device once the platform takes off. It's got market saturation against it, but Nokia/AMD/Intel goin' for it, so it's a tough one to call.
Where's my damn upgrade? lol
At least the 3rd party developers are quick to get out their anti virus programs for the phones.
At least the 3rd party developers are quick to get out their anti virus programs for the phones.
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for some reason you think i was done!
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RIM extending tools to other smartphone platforms, going cross-platform?
Over the past year or so it's become clear that there is a cure for the CrackBerry addict. For many it's called the iPhone, for others it's Android, while still others are getting their kicks from other platforms. IT departments worldwide are relaxing their rules and getting a little smartphone agnostic and now it sounds like RIM is thinking about finding a way to reel those newly straight-edged users back into their former habits. RIM Vice President Pete Devenyi had this to say on the subject:
BlackBerry is and will continue to be dominant in most corporations, [but] it's not going to be the only device given the fact that consumers have the choice to bring in their own devices and IT departments are often letting them in. So there's a question there. Do those corporations have to manage those devices differently or is there the possibility that RIM might extend capabilities to make it easier for those corporations to manage those devices as well? ... If the right thing to do is to extend a subset of those [BlackBerry] capabilities to be able to manage other devices, it's worthy of a conversation
Right now he's just talking about device management, but if this goes forward it could be a sign of a willingness for RIM to move some of its proprietary services to other devices. BBM on Android and iPhone? We know a few people getting positively giddy at that (highly speculative) prospect.
Over the past year or so it's become clear that there is a cure for the CrackBerry addict. For many it's called the iPhone, for others it's Android, while still others are getting their kicks from other platforms. IT departments worldwide are relaxing their rules and getting a little smartphone agnostic and now it sounds like RIM is thinking about finding a way to reel those newly straight-edged users back into their former habits. RIM Vice President Pete Devenyi had this to say on the subject:
BlackBerry is and will continue to be dominant in most corporations, [but] it's not going to be the only device given the fact that consumers have the choice to bring in their own devices and IT departments are often letting them in. So there's a question there. Do those corporations have to manage those devices differently or is there the possibility that RIM might extend capabilities to make it easier for those corporations to manage those devices as well? ... If the right thing to do is to extend a subset of those [BlackBerry] capabilities to be able to manage other devices, it's worthy of a conversation
Right now he's just talking about device management, but if this goes forward it could be a sign of a willingness for RIM to move some of its proprietary services to other devices. BBM on Android and iPhone? We know a few people getting positively giddy at that (highly speculative) prospect.
Even the developers are saying the business model is broken.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913045
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913045
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Apple Q1 2011 Financial Results – $26.74 Billion Revenue, 7.33 Million iPads Sold
Apple just posted their Q1 2011 financial results. The company posted a record revenue of $26.74 billion with 7.33 million iPads sold, 16.24 million iPhones and 4.13 million Macs. The company posted record net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share. 19.45 million iPods were sold during the quarter.
“We had a phenomenal holiday quarter with record Mac, iPhone and iPad sales,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We are firing on all cylinders and we’ve got some exciting things in the pipeline for this year including iPhone 4 on Verizon which customers can’t wait to get their hands on.”
“We couldn’t be happier with the performance of our business, generating $9.8 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2011, we expect revenue of about $22 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $4.90.”
In the last quarter, Apple posted record iPhone and Mac sales with 14.1 million iPhone sold, 3.89 million Macs and 4.19 million iPads. The company posted record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion. In the year-ago quarter, Apple posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion. 3.36 million Macs were sold in Q1 2010, together with 8.7 million iPhones and 21 million iPods.
Apple will provide live streaming of its Q1 2011 financial results conference call at 2:00 PM Pacific, and we’ll update this story with the conference highlights.
Full press release embedded below. Unaudited summary data available here.
Notes from the call:
- Revenue $26.7 billion, increase over $11 billion over year
- Income $6 billion, over $1,7 billion from year ago quarter
- Strong demand of new MacBook Air
- Strong sales of Mac Pro
- Mac App Store available in 90 countries, doing well with over 1000 apps available
- iPod share remains at over 70% in market, iPod top selling in most countries
- iTunes: $1.1 billion revenue
- iTunes users are renting over 400,000 TV show episodes, 150,000 movies per day
- Enterprise: 88 of Fortune 100, 60% of Financial Times Europe testing or deploying iPhones
- Fortune 500, Wells Fargo, Dupont, Staples, Starbucks made iPhone available to employees
- iPad now available in 46 countries
- 160 million iOS devices sold to date
- Over 80% of Fortune 500 are deploying or piloting iPad
- Apple retail: revenue $3.85 billion
- 851,000 Mac sold at Apple retail stores, half sold to new customers
- 323 stores worldwide, 87 outside US
- 75.7 million customers in Apple retail stores
- Four stores in China with highest traffic and highest revenue
- Apple has $59.7 billion in cash now
- $22 billion in revenue expected for next quarter, 38.5% expected gross margin
Quotes From Q&A
Tim Cook: “Very happy with the Mac App Store so far”
TC: “We believe the results from the Verizon iPhone will be huge”
TC: “We are working around the clock to build more iPhones”
TC: Revenue from Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) last quarter was $2.6 billion, up 4 times last quarter
TC: 15 more countries to start selling iPhone in January
TC: “Commodities — going into March quarter. Key metals pricing increasing but other commodities such as batteries and RAM we expect to fall.”
TC: “Apple is doing its best work ever. We are all very happy with product pipeline and the team here has an unparalleled breadth and depth that Steve has driven in the company, and excellence has become a habit. We feel very very confident about the future of the company. I would also note that we’ve done outstanding job in our Mac: 19 straight quarters of outgrowing market, but still have a very low share. It would seem like still enormous opportunity there.” [via]
TC: Apple is not doing a 7-inch tablet, which would be a scaled-up smartphone. It’s a bizarre product.
TC: “Put Android & Windows tablets side by side with an iPad and an enormous percentage will choose iPad.”
TC: “Next generation Android tablets – there’s nothing shipping. They lack performance specs, they lack pricing, they lack timing – so today they’re vapor.”
TC: ” We’re very confident for entering a fight with anyone.”
Tim Cook on iPad sales Vs. Mac sales: “Yes, I think there is some cannibalization”
Apple just posted their Q1 2011 financial results. The company posted a record revenue of $26.74 billion with 7.33 million iPads sold, 16.24 million iPhones and 4.13 million Macs. The company posted record net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share. 19.45 million iPods were sold during the quarter.
“We had a phenomenal holiday quarter with record Mac, iPhone and iPad sales,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We are firing on all cylinders and we’ve got some exciting things in the pipeline for this year including iPhone 4 on Verizon which customers can’t wait to get their hands on.”
“We couldn’t be happier with the performance of our business, generating $9.8 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2011, we expect revenue of about $22 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share of about $4.90.”
In the last quarter, Apple posted record iPhone and Mac sales with 14.1 million iPhone sold, 3.89 million Macs and 4.19 million iPads. The company posted record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion. In the year-ago quarter, Apple posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion. 3.36 million Macs were sold in Q1 2010, together with 8.7 million iPhones and 21 million iPods.
Apple will provide live streaming of its Q1 2011 financial results conference call at 2:00 PM Pacific, and we’ll update this story with the conference highlights.
Full press release embedded below. Unaudited summary data available here.
Notes from the call:
- Revenue $26.7 billion, increase over $11 billion over year
- Income $6 billion, over $1,7 billion from year ago quarter
- Strong demand of new MacBook Air
- Strong sales of Mac Pro
- Mac App Store available in 90 countries, doing well with over 1000 apps available
- iPod share remains at over 70% in market, iPod top selling in most countries
- iTunes: $1.1 billion revenue
- iTunes users are renting over 400,000 TV show episodes, 150,000 movies per day
- Enterprise: 88 of Fortune 100, 60% of Financial Times Europe testing or deploying iPhones
- Fortune 500, Wells Fargo, Dupont, Staples, Starbucks made iPhone available to employees
- iPad now available in 46 countries
- 160 million iOS devices sold to date
- Over 80% of Fortune 500 are deploying or piloting iPad
- Apple retail: revenue $3.85 billion
- 851,000 Mac sold at Apple retail stores, half sold to new customers
- 323 stores worldwide, 87 outside US
- 75.7 million customers in Apple retail stores
- Four stores in China with highest traffic and highest revenue
- Apple has $59.7 billion in cash now
- $22 billion in revenue expected for next quarter, 38.5% expected gross margin
Quotes From Q&A
Tim Cook: “Very happy with the Mac App Store so far”
TC: “We believe the results from the Verizon iPhone will be huge”
TC: “We are working around the clock to build more iPhones”
TC: Revenue from Greater China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) last quarter was $2.6 billion, up 4 times last quarter
TC: 15 more countries to start selling iPhone in January
TC: “Commodities — going into March quarter. Key metals pricing increasing but other commodities such as batteries and RAM we expect to fall.”
TC: “Apple is doing its best work ever. We are all very happy with product pipeline and the team here has an unparalleled breadth and depth that Steve has driven in the company, and excellence has become a habit. We feel very very confident about the future of the company. I would also note that we’ve done outstanding job in our Mac: 19 straight quarters of outgrowing market, but still have a very low share. It would seem like still enormous opportunity there.” [via]
TC: Apple is not doing a 7-inch tablet, which would be a scaled-up smartphone. It’s a bizarre product.
TC: “Put Android & Windows tablets side by side with an iPad and an enormous percentage will choose iPad.”
TC: “Next generation Android tablets – there’s nothing shipping. They lack performance specs, they lack pricing, they lack timing – so today they’re vapor.”
TC: ” We’re very confident for entering a fight with anyone.”
Tim Cook on iPad sales Vs. Mac sales: “Yes, I think there is some cannibalization”
Congratulations, I guess. You've hit 50%...................it's the old update, but it's 50%.
This was the most interesting part of the entire call for me was Apple spending 3.9 billion on a strategic component supply agreement. Must be similar to what they did to corner the market of flash memory for the ipod years ago.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/18/apples-invested-in-a-very-strategic-3-9b-component-supply-ag/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/18/apples-invested-in-a-very-strategic-3-9b-component-supply-ag/
RIM extending tools to other smartphone platforms, going cross-platform?
Over the past year or so it's become clear that there is a cure for the CrackBerry addict. For many it's called the iPhone, for others it's Android, while still others are getting their kicks from other platforms. IT departments worldwide are relaxing their rules and getting a little smartphone agnostic and now it sounds like RIM is thinking about finding a way to reel those newly straight-edged users back into their former habits. RIM Vice President Pete Devenyi had this to say on the subject:
BlackBerry is and will continue to be dominant in most corporations, [but] it's not going to be the only device given the fact that consumers have the choice to bring in their own devices and IT departments are often letting them in. So there's a question there. Do those corporations have to manage those devices differently or is there the possibility that RIM might extend capabilities to make it easier for those corporations to manage those devices as well? ... If the right thing to do is to extend a subset of those [BlackBerry] capabilities to be able to manage other devices, it's worthy of a conversation
Right now he's just talking about device management, but if this goes forward it could be a sign of a willingness for RIM to move some of its proprietary services to other devices. BBM on Android and iPhone? We know a few people getting positively giddy at that (highly speculative) prospect.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH...this cannot be true...seriously even RIM isnt this dumb. Give away proprietary ownership of BBM?? Have they lost their minds? Well maybe they are...they are going to ship the Playbook without native Mail or Contact support (which means you have to use a BB Smartphone bridge...SMH)
http://nexus404.com/Blog/2011/01/19...for-native-mail-calendar-contacts-applicatio/
But, but...but I thought Android was soooooo open and without any lockdowns
http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-employee-confirms-locked-bootloaders-and-bad-attitude
http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-employee-confirms-locked-bootloaders-and-bad-attitude
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some ppl don't wanna have the same stuff
having a different phone, is like having a different bike.
even if you wear the same jacket, helmet, shoes, gloves, etc,etc..
for me the only thing odd, is having the same girl.
heard a couple people mentioned this......im not gonna get a gixxer, because everyone has a gixxer.
but on the flipside,.. don't they ask themselves why, maybe because it is a really good bike.
and.........how many different bikes is there to choose between,... not like cars (there is cars selling that i don't even know about).
its not like androids (so much to choose from,... some i don't even know their names).
1 iPhone, and millions own them, and proud to be owners, and a couple million about to own 1 next month(on Verizon).
+ " TC: 15 more countries to start selling iPhone in January "
Hey, i aint knocking on android, because i will buy an android honeycomb tablet, asap,....but i hope soon enough, it will work together alongside ipad.
having a different phone, is like having a different bike.
even if you wear the same jacket, helmet, shoes, gloves, etc,etc..
for me the only thing odd, is having the same girl.
heard a couple people mentioned this......im not gonna get a gixxer, because everyone has a gixxer.
but on the flipside,.. don't they ask themselves why, maybe because it is a really good bike.
and.........how many different bikes is there to choose between,... not like cars (there is cars selling that i don't even know about).
its not like androids (so much to choose from,... some i don't even know their names).
1 iPhone, and millions own them, and proud to be owners, and a couple million about to own 1 next month(on Verizon).
+ " TC: 15 more countries to start selling iPhone in January "
Hey, i aint knocking on android, because i will buy an android honeycomb tablet, asap,....but i hope soon enough, it will work together alongside ipad.
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