The Rise of Android: What Does It Mean for Apple, Users?

[titsrock]

The iPhone 4 (I didn't have an earlier iPhone) is the greatest gadget I've ever had. I will never get rid of it. It is the sexxxiest thing ever, the apps/games are great overall (Apple strangely has never embraced the gaming world even though the greatest game ever created was a Mac game known as Marathon :bowdown...and with WiFi capability, how exactly will I run up a fucking huge bill like I routinely did with crappy Verizon? :dunno:

I think Verizon Execs are fucking around with investors and the press too. I don't believe they will have an iPhone in 2011. They will wait for iPhone 5 and simultaneously launch it with AT&T in 2012/13. That seems to make the most sense from a Verizon and Apple POV.

I haven't had any dropped calls. I'm not a Bluetooth earpiece guy, but the iPhone call volume is a bit...quiet...and that has me rethinking the Bluetooth earpiece.

Apple is on another level compared to its competitors. Everything Apple puts to market is much better...iTunes, the new Nano...iPhoto...it's all TITS! :bowdown::thefinger:

If I were an Apple exec the Army of Androids flooding the market will all soon be at fire sale discount at swap meets across the nation...the Android is just too to matter :yesyes:

 

[24788]

I had to Google the game "marathon". Lol, I was like wtf halo looks like this in same ways. I then realized Bungie Studios created it.

I hate Itunes.

 

[aznagent89]

I don't think it will mean anything to them, because since they are already Apple users, they don't mind the Droid or other competitors. 0.0

 

[ForumModeregulator]

... IBM "built" the computer long before Apple did. Apple just built smaller, more tightly controlled PCs.

you are a man of detail...which i admire.

I meant PERSONAL computer. The Apple II was the first PC ever introduced to the market.

 

[Webster80]

Indeed Apple users maintain their brand, whatever happens.
I've never worked with Apple, so I can not say much about it...

 

[shayd]

I'm talking about the sub-markets if you prefer.

I see what you're getting at, but the differentiation between each is so small that it's really negligible at this point. Blackberry set up the market, Apple wanted in, and soon, Android wanted a piece of the pie. At the most basic level, they're all after the same thing.

Everything Apple puts to market is much better...iTunes, the new Nano...iPhoto...it's all TITS! :bowdown::thefinger:

:surprise:
iTunes?!
That hunk of shit program?

you are a man of detail...which i admire.

I meant PERSONAL computer. The Apple II was the first PC ever introduced to the market.

Again, not to nitpick, but that's factually inaccurate. The first REAL PC was the Sphere 1, which was essentially a homemade PC. But Commodore beat Apple to the punch by roughly 6 months when the Commodore PET came out in January 1977. Apple II wasn't even out until early June of that year, and lo and behold, bore a striking resemblance to the PET.

 

[ForumModeregulator]

Again, not to nitpick, but that's factually inaccurate. The first REAL PC was the Sphere 1, which was essentially a homemade PC. But Commodore beat Apple to the punch by roughly 6 months when the Commodore PET came out in January 1977. Apple II wasn't even out until early June of that year, and lo and behold, bore a striking resemblance to the PET.

OKAY...one more try. APPLE II was the first HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL MASS PRODUCED PC...

 

[Petra]

alright....closed for the Daily Draw!

 

[puffypig2]

Have they made one of these that is indestructible yet? I want a smartphone, but am very hard on them because of the physical nature of my work. None of them that I have seen will hold up.

 

[Togath]

The iphone has an otter box that is very water resistant and can take one hell of a drop. The box is designed for construction workers. The other phones dont have this type of case that I know of. The "Otter box" is around $50 U.S. dollars.

 

[larss]

OKAY...one more try. Apple II was the first HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL MASS PRODUCED PC...

So successful that it was outsold by both Commodore AND Tandy until VisiCalc was made for the Apple.

 

[HE1FiNEARTiST]

all these smartphones are just entertainment devices with phone capabilities... THATS IT!!! i hate fuckers that seem to create team iphone or team android, i mean come on, its just a fucking device. ive never had any problems with my iphone, PERIOD! im sure if i had a blackberry or a android phone, i wouldnt have problems either. the folks that hate on att or the iphone are just mad because they use to be with att and ruined their credit so wen apple brought out the iphone and att had exclusive rights to the phone service, they got all butt hurt and started talking shit. lol hey it aint my fault you didnt pay your bill and ruin you credit with att. :1orglaugh

 

[titsrock]

I had to Google the game "marathon". Lol, I was like wtf halo looks like this in same ways. I then realized Bungie Studios created it.

I hate Itunes.

Yeah, Bungie created it WAY back in the day. I played Marathon on a 16MB pre-PowerPC dinosaur Apple but the game was INSANE. :bowdown:

iTunes is perfect. :yesyes: I want my entertainment life easy and at my disposal, not complicated. Sound quality is good enough for me. :dunno: I don't have the money or care to become an audiophile with a $6000 sound system Hell, I would rather spend $6000 on booze and broads :thefinger:glugglug:

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

Detroit area is Verizon all the way. Ill pickup a Droid X or wait for the iphone on the network.

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

Yeah, Bungie created it WAY back in the day. I played Marathon on a 16MB pre-PowerPC dinosaur Apple but the game was INSANE. :bowdown:

iTunes is perfect. :yesyes: I want my entertainment life easy and at my disposal, not complicated. Sound quality is good enough for me. :dunno: I don't have the money or care to become an audiophile with a $6000 sound system Hell, I would rather spend $6000 on booze and broads :thefinger:glugglug:

Ill in enjoy my $3500 audio system with Redbook CD's over itunes. Unless you do lossless version of downloads you are just missing out on great audio, but they are a vast improvement of mp3.

Shame DVD-A and Super Audio CD are dead formats, they sound fanastic!

 

[Boner69]

get android.

 

[shayd]

OKAY...one more try. APPLE II was the first HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL MASS PRODUCED PC...

Commodore outsold the Apple II handily.

iTunes is perfect. :yesyes: I want my entertainment life easy and at my disposal, not complicated. Sound quality is good enough for me. :dunno: I don't have the money or care to become an audiophile with a $6000 sound system Hell, I would rather spend $6000 on booze and broads :thefinger:glugglug:

You mean the iTunes that's notorious for hogging system resources unnecessarily, regularly crashing, the one that can't even properly format meta-data, or play anything other than a handful of audio formats? As in the one that every time Apple patches something in the program forces you to download the entire God forsaken program all over again (all 100 fucking MB of it) instead of just the patch? That program is quite simply a steaming hunk of shit.

If you want simplicity, FooBar 2000, and Songbird are both lighter, more accessable, and extensible, and they can at least handle meta-data like they fucking should.

 

[titsrock]

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I don't think "resource hog" is a strong anti-iTunes or Apple argument. If we turn the resource hog discussion to the Windows world....thread closed. I think the download thing is not that big a hassle with my broadband connection :thumbsup:

I think audiophiles can gripe about the sound quality of iTunes and Apple's format, but, for 99% of people out there, audio sounds pretty good coming through $2 asian manufactured speakers that appear to be the norm in most laptops :dunno:

Christmas List 2010: AppleTV :yesyes:

In Jobs I Trust :thefinger

 

[STDiva]

I have an iPhone 3GS and I like it. That being said, I'm done with Apple until they open up their products a bit more. The iPhone 4 is a joke. Their brand new "state of the art" phone is years behind the standard. I'll be switching to an Android phone next year sometime.

 

[shayd]

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I don't think "resource hog" is a strong anti-iTunes or Apple argument. If we turn the resource hog discussion to the Windows world....thread closed. I think the download thing is not that big a hassle with my broadband connection :thumbsup:

Pray tell, what is this discussion in the Windows world? Or are you just making a widely speculative comment again? You're countering the fact that a simple media player can take as much as 55% of the processing power of an average computer with the fact that a fucking OPERATING SYSTEM uses a lot of memory, despite the benchmarks that have Windows 7 using fewer resources than anything since XP? As in, the software that enables the entire fucking system to operate? Can't seem to find any fault with that.

It really doesn't matter what type of Internet connection you've got. I'm pushing 20 Mbps, and it's still a pain in my balls to even think about having to upgrade the entire God forsaken program again. Why not just do what the industry standard, (and best practice) is, and download only what you need? I can upgrade Songbird, FooBar2000 or about 48034904930 other players in 20 seconds, why the fuck should iTunes not meet that benchmark?