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| Samsung outsells iPhone, breaks shipping records |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-07-28 10:10:08 |
| In case you were still doubting whether or not Apple's lawsuits against Samsung were a case of 'if you can't compete, litigate', Samsung's financial results should seal the deal. The company shipped round and about 50 million smartphones, twice as many smartphones as Apple shipped. So, not only is Android doing better on smartphones than iOS, there's now also a single manufacturer outselling Apple. Oh, the next avenue for de-emphasizing this achievement has already reared its head: Samsung has a wider portfolio, and as such, the comparison isn't fair. Nonsense, of course - Volkswagen sells lots more models than, say, Mazda, but that doesn't mean you can't compare them. Maybe, just maybe, having a wide portfolio of devices to meet the various different needs of the market is simply a very good strategy. It'll be interesting to see just how much Apple can take back with the next iPhone, especially since the full potential of the Galaxy SIII hasn't been realised yet and will be accounted for in Samsung's next quarter as well. Fun, such a fight between titans. Just too bad one of the two titans plays dirty by opting for the courtroom. |
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| History will repeat itself... |
| By moondevil on 2012-07-28 10:28:09 |
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I am slowly convinced that the way things are going, Apple will return to the PC wars days, with the same outcome as it happened before. Steve is no longer around to save the company a second time, and he was the soul of Apple. During the time he was away, Apple had issues to stay afloat, and was even more proprietary than Microsoft actually. Now that he is sadly no longer with us, I am not sure how long the current board will manage to stay innovative enough to attract new customers, while not scaring existing ones. |
 - Score: 7 |
| quality |
| By Janvl on 2012-07-28 11:05:31 |
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My customer bought 2 iPhones, he has his office in an old building with thick bricks and therefore less signal. His former nokia phones did work, the iphones have trouble staying connected. Seems Apple did not solve the issue with the antenna. I own an extremely cheap samsung (20 Euro) that stays connected inside this building, I only need it for phonecalls and that works flawlessly, batterylife of almost a week. So my point what is "design" good for, if the basic function (telephone) is crappy? |
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| RE: quality |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-07-28 11:12:10 |
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I wouldn't attribute that to the phone alone. There's so many factors involved in reception that it might very well be possible that in the building next to you, things are reversed and the iPhone has better reception. This is a subject that really can only be judged using hard science. |
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| RE: quality |
| By viton on 2012-07-28 11:30:33 |
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> So my point what is "design" good for, if the basic function (telephone) is crappy? iPhone4/s has high sensitivity antenna. Probably your customer is holding it "incorrectly" =) http://www.pcworld.com/article/2... |
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| RE: quality |
| By chithanh on 2012-07-28 11:31:24 |
| Nokia knows how to build proper antennas. Motorola knows it too. Apple doesn't. The other manufacturers are somewhere in between. |
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| RE: History will repeat itself... |
| By ricegf on 2012-07-28 11:42:14 |
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What's interesting to me is that Microsoft is following Apple's lead, constraining innovation in WP phones and WinRT mobile devices, while Google has adopted Microsoft's old open approach. The open approach worked very well last gen, and seems to be working just as well now, with Android covering a huge variety of interesting devices and rapidly growing its market share. I'm still hoping for a third option to arise to ensure competition, but certainly not the new, closed Microsoft 2.0. Rather, an open option like Android but with a different feature set to cover different use cases. I was rooting for MeeGo until Nokia's insanity hit. Perhaps Jolla will thrive yet; certainly outselling Nokia's weak WP line would be poetic, if unlikely. It's like all the fun of the home computer wars of the 1980's. :-) |
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| RE: History will repeat itself... |
| By Sodki on 2012-07-28 12:13:53 |
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> I am slowly convinced that the way things are going, Apple will return to the PC wars days, with the same outcome as it happened before. Steve is no longer around to save the company a second time, and he was the soul of Apple. During the time he was away, Apple had issues to stay afloat, and was even more proprietary than Microsoft actually. I'm not sure. Steve Jobs managed to do something else, the creation of the Apple identity and mindset. I'm sure it's "pupils" learned the lesson and will try to use it well. When Jobs went away the first time, his ideas were thrown away and substituted by others. Not this time. |
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| RE[2]: quality |
| By _txf_ on 2012-07-28 13:40:30 |
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> This is a subject that really can only be judged using hard science. Even then It is notoriously difficult to classify the environment for radio transmission. If you ever buy any radio silicon of some kind, the datasheets are extremely vague on on things like transmission range, data rate etc. simply because providing a definitive relationship is extremely difficult. Radio in controlled environments is difficult to understand but can be understood. Radio in the open environments is still pretty much black magic. |
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| Lawsuits |
| By michaelz on 2012-07-28 14:44:11 |
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Why is Osnews allways stating that there's just one party suiing the other? They both filed suits at one and each other. Btw; own à galaxy s and an htc and they both suck. Rebooting randomly, crashing at will. It's like running Windows 95 all over again. |
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| Same for Macs |
| By grahamtriggs on 2012-07-28 15:02:03 |
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This is the primary reason why MacOS X is still a very small percentage of the overall computer market. Apple would dominate the OS market - if not already, certainly after Windows 8 is released - apart from the limited and expensive choice of hardware that it runs on. |
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