whats the market research for ? how heavily invested in AAPL are you?
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whats the market research for ? how heavily invested in AAPL are you?
Interesting. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Dre
I thought I would but more or less...Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Dre
Does not justify the price
I definitely need an upgrade but the only thing I would be glad about is the OS, not the device
I do not hate Apple, I actually used to like them but in this world you gotta open your eyes to see that it's just wasted money when you can get the same or even better for a lower price
I am planning on getting a Nexus since it doesn't have all that bloatware :)
I might just get 1 for the hell of it.
@Chuitox: I can respect that reasoning for not getting one. They are expensive. And then you have to add a 2-year contract on top of that. An iPhone can cost thousands of dollars each year...and most companies don't allow you to upgrade! :mad:
Why do you have to get a 2 years contract?Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Dre
That's just how the phone companies are with most new cell phones in the USA. You can buy an unlocked iPhone for *full* price, but you need to still have a contract to have a "good" phone plan. Most contract-free plans are not that good. Actually, they can be worse than contract plans because of the fees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aquilla
Here you just get a locked phone for the full price but no contracts or any of that shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Dre
Yeah, that was dumb. Wait all day for something then break it. Smooth bro.
I'd fucking headbutt the reporter lol They made him nervous xD
I've bought the Iphone 6 64 GB. It will be delivered at the 26th of september probably.
Buy a case for it now. Don't drop it like that idiot!
Haha I will for sure!Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Dre
Hardly think it got broken by that little drop.Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Dre
Looked perfectly fine after aswell.
It was an over exaggeration meant to be comedic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fleet
I am so not getting it.
I see no point in paying twice for a device with less "free access". An iphone is great for one reason, and one reason only. Everything works on it It barly ever crashes unless the memory is full.
But that doesn't make up for the price they charge. And you're not allowed to do much on a apple device. Androids users can basicly ue their phones as computers. Even download torrents.
samsung ftw. plague be upon all iphone users and swagg yolors
http://images.rapgenius.com/9xqb4j0h....360x253x1.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by HolmaN
I agree about the price (of an unlocked phone), but for a contract, it's the same price as all of Samsung's Phones here in the U.S., and I can sure as hell do torrents and whatnot on my iPhone. About 98% of my movies/music, etc. are all from online sources.
Who cares about downloading on Android when we have LimeWire?!
Wow, those poll results. It's strange. I suppose XenoBot members are a horrible pool of individuals to collect data from. According to several sources, the iPhone is still the most popular phone in the world, with more than 500 million sold (worldwide) as of June 2014 (all iPhone models up to 5C & 5S).
The iPhone 6 & 6 Plus are expected to be the most sold iPhone's yet (http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/20/7...-2014-earnings). In one quarter, they sold nearly 40 million phones. That's approximately 3 months.
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Apple said it sold 39.2 million phones, up big from the 33.8 million iPhones it sold during the same quarter last year.
@J.Dre It isn't the fact that we are bad for data collections. It's the fact that a large portion of this community isn't mind walking zombies that have to have the most over priced phone on the market. Every time I see the Android commercial on tv it makes me laugh because it's so true.
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Originally Posted by J.Dre
I'm not sure how you think 500 million beats 900 million (a number from Q2 2013, compared to Apples Q4 2014 number).
But then again, it has been universally decided among XenoBot mods that you are retarded, so your conclusion actually seems to be only mildly ridiculous.
@J.Dre You should probably take anything you read The Verge with a lump of salt.
They're the most biased tech site I've ever been to, they're on the verge of choking on Apple's dick.
buy/sell/hold??Quote:
Originally Posted by sausting
Generally, with personal investments, you really should not be investing in individual corporations like Apple unless you have very high confidence or you feel like making minimal gains, IMHO.Quote:
Originally Posted by sausting
Mutual funds have much higher annual returns, and even the riskiest ones are less risky then even the most reputable corporations. If you want to invest in things like Apple and Google, the best way is through a tech-centric mutual fund that happens to invest in both companies, along with hundreds of others. Honestly, though, I find biotechnology and general utility funds to have the best returns. I'm gaining around 20% annually with this strategy.
Wow, so offensive. Damn... What did I ever do to you?Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkstaR
It's not my conclusion. I was just stating information found online.
Yeah, after reading some other sources online, I found they are not reporting entirely accurate information. As in, they're only reporting one side of the story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syntax
EDIT: It's also worth noting that "nearly 1 billion activated Android devices" make up devices from the following companies:
vsCode:Acer Inc
ALCATEL ( TCL corporation )
Bluelans Communications
NCE casio Mobile Communications
Cherry Mobile
CSL
Dell
Garmin
Geeks Phone
General Mobile
High screen
HKC
HTC coroporation
Huawei
I-mobile
Lenovo
LG
Motorola
Samsung
Sony Ericsson
Videocon
ZTE
Considering Apple makes up more than half of that (iPhone's alone) is very impressive, to say the least.Code:Apple
It is interesting, though, to see how many people on XenoBot dislike Apple or refuse to purchase Apple.
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Originally Posted by J.Dre
Not, no its not. Android sells from many companies because its an open platform that encourages any hardware vendor to use it. iOS sells from a single company because it doesn't let anyone else use it. Hardware isn't the discussion here, it's software. and if you try to argue that hardware is part of the iPhone, then that's even worse, as most of the iPhone hardware is made by Samsung. Including the flagship "retina" displays.
I'm not arguing anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkstaR
You said I'm retarded because I reported that there are 500 million Apple iPhone's sold. Then you said, there are more than 900 million Android ACTIVATED devices. So, it does matter for the sake of discussion because for every activated device there is an Android device sold. You can't have an activated device without a physical representation of hardware, having first been sold to a customer. So, hardware technically is related to this discussion because of the software tied to it (i.e. activated Android's).
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Now it's turning into an argument... :rolleyes: But I won't take part beyond this post. I believe you are intentionally starting arguments with me because you get a thrill out of proving people wrong, and that's exactly what you are attempting to do. You obviously have some issues with manifesting tendencies to outrage. I won't be your enabler. We have not had a single conversation without you first insulting me in one way or another. I find your inability to have a mature, calm and adult-like conversation to be quite disturbing.
Whatever I did to upset you, I apologize, but that does not justify your rude remarks. You need to let things go and move on.
Hardware doesn't matter if we're talking about the OS, it does matter if we're talking about the vendor. Andriod is an OS, not a specific vendor, so in Android v.s. iOS, it is not relevant. In Galaxy v.s. iPhone, though, it is. Also, calling you a retard, or whatever, has nothing to do with this thread specifically. It just so happens that your overall personality and nearly every point you make is retarded.
Lastly, you are stating a bunch of facts and figures, and when I refute them, you try to give more information as to why they still fit your view. That, by definition, is an argument. And it takes 2 to argue, buddy. But okay.
Yeah, okay. ;)
Back to the topic... So, we have a very large majority of people who aren't purchasing the iPhone 6, but not many replies as to why. Feel free to share. I'm curious.
Because it is a closed platform provided by a narcissistic company, and is less capable than the open alternative. It also has very few hardware variants compared to the competition. It doesn't follow any of the industry standards (instead of microUSB, it uses thunderbolt; the fast charge interface over USB uses an entirely different protocol and is incompatible with non-apple speed chargers; the headphone/microphone port has swapped pins for ground and mic, making it incompatible with non-apple amplified headsets [like turtle beaches]; their applications basically require you to use the Apple suite of tools for content delivery; you don't have strait-forward direct file system access; the list goes on).Quote:
Originally Posted by J.Dre
Lastly, many people must find it ironic that Apple will sue companies constantly for "stealing their ideas", and yet they stole a feature from one of the most classical products in the world: the bendy straw.
I'm not buying iPhone 6 or 6 Plus cause I still feel like it was yesterday when I bough my 5s, and seeing that 6 Plus tends to "bend", no thanks.
I'll be buying next 2015 iPhone I guess :)
Just lol'd, two co-workers iPhone 6s already bent after about 2 weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkstaR
Yeah, it bending was unexpected, lol.