On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: >A sweeping statement that's not true. Where I live (Scandinavia) by >law you can only tie a consumer down 6 months, and many phones are >sold entirely "Uden håndjern" (without cuffs).
What is the most common practice in Europe? I am curious, how much does an iPhone sell for in Scandinavia? How about an equivalent Android Phone (like a Nexus S or Galaxy)? > They do, but they still have to go out and buy much of this from i.e. > Samsung who are supplying other vendors and their own product teams. > It's interesting for instance, that Apple has no OLED product in their > lineup, generally considered TFT superior and a technology of the > future. > Probably 2 issues here. 1)OLEDs suck in the sun 2) getting enough supply. OLEDs always seem to have supply constraints. > I'll refrain to comment on the "decent software" part - I would > personally would rather eat dirt than use iTunes. ... > Interestingly, I see the fact that you have to have a wire to iTunes > to activate or move content, as the achilles-heel of the Apple > products. I mean, here you have father Steve preach on stage about the > post-PC era, and then it turns out that your new iPhone or iPad is > absolutely useless by itself, without a PC! > FYI: iTunes is a lot better on Macs. I hear it's terrible on Windows, but haven't tried it on windows for 3-4 years now I so I can't comment on it strongly. And it isn't quite true that you have to connect to your computer. You do initially to activate - although you can get the Apple store to activate for you if you like. I find a lot of people almost never dock their iPhone/iPad with their computer. The only times these people do it are for 1) upgrading the OS 2) backing up. You can buy apps/songs directly from the phone. Although I did have to download the TomTom app and sync from my computer last week because it was 2 gigs and I didn't have enough room on my iPhone to do a download/replace. Curious - is there such a thing as a 2 gig app on Android? I won't get into the prediction game, but I'll reformulate my original > statement: I see no reason for why Android tablets wouldn't be able to > compete, on their own terms. Two distinct attack vectors appears to be > applied by Google, Android embedded into TV's and the cloud in > general. I think it's more likely that Google can counter Apple than > the other way around, regardless of Apple being constructing "one of > the largest and most magic data-centers in the world". > If you want to ding Apple, the cloud is a good place to ding. It's absurd that I can't sync my Google Chrome bookmarks to my iPhone over the air. Only way you can do it on iPhone is via Mobile Me ($99/year), which only syncs with Safari anyway. And the stupid exchange account hack you have to do to sync Google contacts is absurd. People defend Apple to no end because of "user experience". Well when it comes to using gmail/google services on iPad/iPhone - the user experience sucks. It's because Apple has chosen to promote Mobile Me OVER user experience. They purposely are crippling Google products User Experience because they are competing against google's services. So in this case - the user does not come first! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
