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Apple sends its attack dogs after Samsung... again


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Apple, get away!
By Booster on 1/17/2012 10:20:45 AM , Rating: 2
By now it's obvious Apple has realized the iPhone is destined to become a niche smartphone. The tradeoffs you have to make to be with Apple are just too big. iPhones have tiny and fragile screens, cost a ton a money, are up to the teeth in DRM, you have to use bloatware like iTunes. Need I go on? Android is everything iOS is a more. No wonder it's winning.

Plus is you want an iPhone (sounds strange somehow, who'd seriously want it now ;-)), you have to pay a premium price since noone else makes them. This is Apple's Achilles hell - they want too much money for their products and don't let anyone else produce gadgets with iOS. Not everyone wants to pay a huge premium to buy an overpriced and very limited product. So go to court, Apple, it won't help you in the long run. A few years from now iPhones will be where Apple PCs have always been - with only a fraction of the market share.

RE: Apple, get away!
By Booster on 1/17/2012 10:39:40 AM , Rating: 2
Sorry, lots of typos in the above post. No way to edit.

To sum it up, what can an iPhone do that an Android phone can't? There just isn't such a thing. Maybe there aren't any Androids with square 3.5-inch screens? There are quite a few, but who needs them when you can enjoy a 4.2-inch goodness at a much lower price point than an iPhone?

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RE: Apple, get away!
By FaceMaster on 1/17/12, Rating: -1
RE: Apple, get away!
By Solandri on 1/17/2012 2:20:22 PM , Rating: 3
I agree, Apple really should release a larger version of the iPhone, with a gorilla glass display. Oh wait, they have. I guess you'll blame that for being too large?

AFAIK, the iPhones have always had a 3.5" display. For a lot of people, this is too small. And it's not really just a critique of the screen being too small. It's a reference to the lack of choice when you buy an iPhone. I'd actually applaud Apple if they gave you the option of a larger screen. But at this point that would still leave iPhone buyers with a far, far inferior selection than Android phone buyers.

The fragility he's referring to are the numerous informal drop tests and stories you can find on Youtube and the Internet. For whatever reason, despite using Gorilla Glass, the iPhone/iPad screen seems more prone to shattering than the competitors' screens.

At first I thought this was just a natural consequence of there being more iPhones/iPads than any one model of phone or tablet. So naturally you'd expect to hear more reports of breakage. But Apple has been on the losing end of all the side-by-side drop tests I've seen.

RE: Apple, get away!
By SoCalBoomer on 1/17/2012 5:58:46 PM , Rating: 2
Primary reason is that only iPhone has the edges of the screen exposed while everyone else has a bezel.

Gorilla glass is extremely strong, but if you hit it from the edge, that's its weak point and it will shatter from there.

I'm horribly hard on my devices. My HD7 has been been dropped numerous times and the only harm has come to the bezel - it's dented, dinged, and scratched but the screen is intact.

It's a beautiful design, but not very practical or durable; at least not for someone like me who WILL break it! LOL

RE: Apple, get away!
By tamalero on 1/18/2012 10:24:15 AM , Rating: 1
That is why you do round corners to prevent the energy and pressure to concentrate there.

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It seems more people than want any other handset.




