19 million iPads, in one year, in the midst of a crushing global recession. That really is an impressive feat, there's just no other way to look at it.
Why Android is better than iPhone.
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19 million iPads, in one year, in the midst of a crushing global recession. That really is an impressive feat, there's just no other way to look at it.
Some analysts are talking about Apple selling 40 Million iPad2s...I doubt that...but they should hit 30 no problem.
I thought 10 million iPads was a ridiculously high estimate. I think the fact they've sold almost 20 million is staggering. Given that, there's no reason they shouldn't sell 40 million of the next generation. We're one year into a new product life cycle, and only the early adopters have come to the table so far. Tablet computing is going to be a disruptive technology, and when this hits the later adopters in the next 12-24 months, the numbers are going to grow quickly.
Yes there is......
Job's is a marketing magician, and the average American is in debt upto their eyeballs as they continue to rack up credit to buy items they don't really need.
Average credit card debt for each household in the US is $14,750.
Anyways, with the proliferation of some damn fine competing Tablets coming to the market, although the ipad will continue to sell well, a more realistic view is that Apples market share will shrink just as it has with the Android devices.
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40 Million would concern me, that makes Apple untouchable in the tablet arena and it would stagger innovation because they would have no need to. There are rumblings about an Apple HDTV....
Update: Apple sold 5 million iPads in 2 weeks...maybe 40 million is plausible.
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Yeah, and all 40 million users are having their movements tracked and stored secretly by Apple without their knowledge.
iBrother is watching you. :lmao:
How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...n-without-your-consent-and-why-it-matters.ars
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/21/senator.apple.tracking.ars/index.html
iBrother is watching you. :lmao:
How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...n-without-your-consent-and-why-it-matters.ars
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/21/senator.apple.tracking.ars/index.html
This is simply the result on non-technical people panicking that the sky is falling when they really have no clue how this technology works.
I copied the file in question offy iPhone and used SQL lite to see exactly what was in it. There are two main tables. CellLocation and WifiLocation. The data in these tables are NOT used by apple to track you but simply assist the GPS device optain a very fast lock. CellLocation has the location of all nearby cell towers and their "id"s. These cell tower entries have an estimated accuracy between 4.5 to 5 km. If a wifi lookup fails during a gps lock, the system default to cell location if the cell radio is switched on.
The WifiLocation table had many more entries. These entries contain locations and MAC addresses of Wifi base stations and a time stamp of when the wifi router was last detected, and their location. How does this all fit together?
The user loads google maps and activates location services. The system will ask the wifi device for all nearby wifi MAC addresses. This list is queried against the list of known WifiLocation entries. If one is found, the system reports a GPS lock. If not, the system will query the CellLocation table. If the cell tower location is found, the system reports a GPS lock, albeit over a much larger area.
If those two methods fail, the system will just sit and wait until manual GPS lock can be achieved.
So in simple terms, it's a CACHE! (hence why the file is in a folder called cache...). This technology simply allows the iPhone to get an extremely fast GPS lock.
Panic over nothing, that's all this is.
Poser
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although people will try to read and find something to report about the iphone (iOS), and that they read android is not subject to that issue, they feel good(pfffttth),
i don't have too much on this matter to talk about, so meh!!!!
but for those who care,
"Ryan Petrich has released a Cydia tweak to prevent your iOS device from tracking your location and saving it to consolidated.db
Continuously clean up locationd's history data in the background.
This package installs a daemon (process that can run in the background) to clean the consolidated.db file.
No new icons are added to your homescreen. There are no options to configure.
You can install untrackerd from the Big Boss Cydia repository."
pretty much the ongoing theme of this thread.
yes cydia implies jailbreak, its not as if the iphone folks don't know that already.
imkruzen
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Poser
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U.S. Army Picks Android for Its First Smartphone
The U.S. Army wants every soldier to carry a smartphone and it looks like its initially selected Google's Android for its operating system, according to Wired.
A prototype device running Android called the Joint Battle Command-Platform, developed by tech nonprofit MITRE, is undergoing tests. The development kit behind it, called the Mobile /Handheld Computing Environment, will be released to app creators in July, the Army says.
Joint Battle Command-Platform will feature a mapping function, a Blue Force Tracker program will keep tabs on where friendly forces are, and "Critical messaging" will exchange crucial data like medevac requests and on the ground reporting.
The prototype device will reportedly be able to withstand the physical wear-and-tear of soldiering."
The U.S. Army wants every soldier to carry a smartphone and it looks like its initially selected Google's Android for its operating system, according to Wired.
A prototype device running Android called the Joint Battle Command-Platform, developed by tech nonprofit MITRE, is undergoing tests. The development kit behind it, called the Mobile /Handheld Computing Environment, will be released to app creators in July, the Army says.
Joint Battle Command-Platform will feature a mapping function, a Blue Force Tracker program will keep tabs on where friendly forces are, and "Critical messaging" will exchange crucial data like medevac requests and on the ground reporting.
The prototype device will reportedly be able to withstand the physical wear-and-tear of soldiering."
SeanB
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I am usibg my Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant with Bell and that is all I really use these days.. I have a nice Toshiba laptop and Acer laptop in my room wanting to get fixed and I just havnt.. My droid works perfect! I do prefer my droid over an iphone.. Had an iphone and it was trouble
The US Army thing doesn't surprise me one bit. That organization is VERY big on Open Source software and most of their stuff is already running on the GNU/Linux platform (for performance and security reasons). ACE (Army Core of Engineers) is also pretty big on various spatial data collection/retention/analysis packages (hell, they released GRASS as Open Source) and it doesn't take much effort to port stuff developed for the GNU/Linux platform onto Android. While MeeGo would have been an even more natural fit for them, it's a dead project, so they took the second best option.
http://www.infowars.com/investigation-government-ordered-cellphone-companies-to-spy-on-users/
your government wants to know where you are all the time
your government wants to know where you are all the time
In China, you're obligated to register a handset under your name and now the government wants to routinely use the phones to track people "to monitor traffic congestion patterns and use the data to effectively plan both the public transit system and general infrastructure." The scary part is that I wouldn't be surprised if governments in Europe and the Americas followed suit.
The only requirement is to be able to locate a phone and provide that information to 911 operators. There is no requirement to track the phone, or log the phone's movements, or backup and distribute that information in any other manner. So no, government is not Big Brother here, corporations are.
