Topic: Let's get the facts straight about Apple. - page 2. (Read 6644 times)

Common guys, you cannot honestly compare Apple with Microsoft.

Let me tell you something.....

Microsoft actually feeds billions of people.
Yes they do, because anybody can develop an app or game for Windows, publish it and sell it as much as they see fit, it is worth their time.
With Apple, they decide IF and how much your app will sell, and they get approx 30% of your sales.

Sure Windows are not safe, then again.
Lets say you are a developer, what would be your choice of platform?

Linux?
The average joe does not use Linux.

Apple?
The average joe will not pay an arm and a leg for something that only costs a finger nail

Windows?
Yep, it is what the majority of the world is using therefor your app or game will have more exposure.

Also, I will agree with the person that said that something is up with Google Play Services as well.

After their last update all of my (AIR based) apps have stopped receiving ads from their adMob platform.
In fact, all available adMob ANEs out there have stopped working.
And the funny thing is that most of the top games listed in Google Play are Flash based.
I wonder why there is a problem now....
Maybe Google wants to expand even more by buying off Adobe?

Anyway, back to my original point.
How many people does Apple provide jobs for (not directly I mean)?

Think about it

I know you hate Microsoft but let's be honest, they are number one for a reason.
Their software is easy to use and you are not restricted on what to add to them.

Plain and simple, they are number one because they deserve it.

PS: I would prefer it if it was Linux, but its not is it?

Also, I will leave this post with a joke I have heard once.

There was a Mac guy and a Windows guy.
The Mac guy was making fun of the Windows guy because there are thousands of viruses hitting Windows.

Then he asked the Windows guy, so what are you doing now?
The Windows guy responds I am playing a game.
The Mac guy said, yeah? which one?
The Windows guy - ALL OF THEM!!!!!  

Also, please dont get me wrong.
I use Windows in order to use the software I use for work.
I use a customized version of Debian for everything else

Fact is, there is still no bitcoin application on apple store.

Apple has suicide nets installed around their production facility's in China

Love or Hate.

 I actually have a long list of positive things to say about their products along with the negative but.... out of principle I do not appreciate their business strategy by controlling and restricting their clients. It is rather absurd that any Bitcoin fan chooses to love Apple because they are antagonistic towards many of the key principles that embody the purpose and design of Bitcoin.

Apple sucks, people hate apple.

I think it reached that point a while ago the apple hate is strong.
But it's still far from a Microsoft  
Although when the mobile phone market is pretty much two companies and a few minors its hard to not hate on something.

Your numbers seem to indicate that while apple is dominant brand in the US, over 58% don't use apple phones, thus most people in the US do not use apple. Its good to see they are losing marketshare in the US too.

What about Smartphone Subscriber Market Share

Here's the global one:


And the US one:


Apple is still the leader the US, most people who own a smartphone there own an apple one.

 Apple is quickly becoming the new Microsoft, a company that everyone loves to hate.

Apple had previously removed any bitcoin wallets from their app store... They've since let up on their restrictions (no longer banned).
Apple products by design are a bit oppressive in that there's not a lot of customization allowed and they try to do everything for you. I'm under the impression that that alone grinds the gears of bitcoin types.

Apple has slowly been losing Marketshare against android and iOS definitely isn't 1 in smartphones.

http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp

Period    Android    iOS           Windows Phone       BlackBerry OS    Others
Q1 2014    81.1%    15.2%        2.7%                      0.5%             0.6%

Apple is a company who's business strategy is focused on clever marketing, locking in clients in their walled garden with a 30% tax, repackaging other peoples inventions and than suing their competition.

Well, buying apple is now a trend and I feel like apple perfectly took advantage of it. But for now, it's only the phone industry that apple is coming first in. If bitcoin's future is transaction from smartphones, well that's when we should be worried.

Let's stick with reality:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231595
ASUS Taichi31    749 Shipped (For a brand which tends to beat apple in reliability reports)
-------------------Specs---------------------------
Intel Core i5 3337U (1.80GHz) Dual-core
4GB Memory
128GB SSD
13.3" 1920 x 1080 Dual Screen


http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-air
MacBook Air 999 shipped
-------------------Specs---------------------------
1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
4GB memory
128GB SSD
13" 1440 x900 single screen

So you are paying 250 dollars more for less resolution, less reliable, and slower processor. Additionally, Mavericks is a disaster just like windows 8. I am having to rollback many of my friend's macs back to Mountain Lion because of all the bugs within Mavericks; some of which are devastating(Last one had the screen going black intermittently where many other users had similar complaints right after upgrading- WTF). It has been almost a year as well since Mavericks was released and many problems still persist and with windows 8 you can install a free dock to make it function like 7.

The best windows Antivirus programs are free, and if you believe that OSX is immune to mall ware and viruses than you are very naive. I don't need to pay more to be apart of your fanclub of hipsters; I run OSX and LINUX just fine from my PC sir...

Apple sucks balls Cum Laude.

What is my point? From the information in the article you posted, one cannot infer that iOS is backdoored any more than is android.

OK so one does not _require_ Play. Are you indicating that verizon, AT&T, or whomever does not have the ability to remotely activate elements within your phone?

they have their own proprietary cables so they can charge you $29.95 + S&H for it.

the whole itunes ecosystem is a way to trap consumers into being locked in to them. apple's file transfer system is inconvenient and stupid, but it makes them a lot of money so they continue to do it. they've also, in the past, withheld new technologies so they can give it to you in the following year and then tell you "this. changes. everything."

Agreed.

In fact, Apple (Now this hasn't been confirmed, but evidence leads to it) was thinking of forcing people to buy custom headphones just to be able to use headphones at all. They're considering abandoning the standard headphone jack and replacing it with a smaller cable, or changing it to their lightning-30 of whatever cable that is used for USB connections. Their purchase of Beats would make this a very real possibility.

So yeah, Apple is inconsiderate.

What's your point?

1. Google Play Service has not been proven to have a backdoor.

2. The article is actually dead wrong about Google Play being required. You are free to choose to NOT use Google Play if you wanted, there's a ton of 3rd party app markets you can install on your android. For example, in China google play is not installed on 99% of the android devices, everyone use the local Chinese app markets.

3. Android itself is free and opensource, you can even flash your android device to a 3rd party distro like cyanogen mod.

Did you read the article that you posted, or just scan the headline? :

there are bigger multinational corporations to hate more than apple, but that doesn't mean i don't hate apple. every time i have to use itunes to fix someone else's phone, i just think "i fucking hate this shit." there are so many things that apple does that just gives the middle finger to consumers, and people still buy their shit.