XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Algeria Horan  wrote   
   > nospam wrote   
      
   >>>> Apple will (I predict) eventually crumble.   
      
   >>> Perhaps. Apple almost went broke once before. One never   
   >>> knows what the market will do. Think Palm Pilot and BlackBerry...   
      
   >> that was a totally different era, when apple was grossly mismanaged.   
      
   >> it's a very, very different company now.   
      
   > I would never have predicted that Apple could   
   > sustain the huge profit margins that it does sustain,   
      
   Because you have never had a clue about the basics.   
      
   > but, you have to understand that the extremly low   
   > (actually dismal) price:performance ratio is what makes   
   > Apple one of the most profitable companies on this planet.   
      
   Wrong, as always. What has done that is that they don’t bother   
   with low end phones/phablets/tablets/media players.   
      
   > I always give credit where credit is due,   
      
   Obvious lie.   
      
   > so I applaud Apple MARKETING for maintaining   
   > those artificially high profit margins on dismally   
   > low price:performance ratios,   
      
   Nothing to do with marketing, its actually about what   
   part of the market they choose to be involved in.   
      
   > and as you know, I have always argued on high   
   > price:performance metrics (which is why I almost   
   > always buy Android equipment that is roughly   
   > around half the price of "essentially equivalent"   
   > Apple equipment for my needs.   
      
   But are too stupid to have gone with the Nexus line which are that in   
   spades.   
      
   > What's *different* now, is that Google seems to be *matching* that   
   > dismally low price:performance ratio, spec by spec, and even down   
   > to the very last dollar (as you so clearly pointed out to me prior).   
      
   > What that means is that the game has changed *if*.   
      
   Nope, Samsung has always been in that part of the market.   
      
   And into the low end market as well, and into all sorts of other stuff   
   that apple doesn’t bother with including even tanks, quite literally.   
      
   > If Google is successful, then the game for Apple has suddenly changed.   
      
   Nope, because fuck all of those who choose to use apple   
   phones/phablets and tablets will even consider the Pixels.   
      
   The most it might be is a real problem for Samsung at the high end.   
      
   > If Google fails at the Pixels, then, perhaps the   
   > game for Apple is still playing well for them.   
      
   It will be regardless of how well the Pixels sell, you watch.   
      
   > It all depends on whether Android customers will stoop   
   > to the level of horrendous price:performance metrics.   
      
   They've been doing that for years now with the high end samsungs.   
      
   > I don't know the answer to that question.   
      
   Yes, you actually are that stupid/pig ignorant.   
      
   > All I know is that I would never pay that much for   
   > such a phone when I can get a phone that is just as   
   > good (for the specs I care about) for far less I'm sure.   
      
   But you were too stupid to do that with the Nexus phones.   
      
   > For example, I care about a dual sim, and I care about an expansion   
   > slot and I care about a removable battery and I care about the GSM   
   > frequencies in my area and I care about having as much RAM as I   
   > can get and I won't ever get a phone with less than 32GB of storage   
   > and I care about the fastest CPU and GPU I can get,   
      
   But are too stupid to use an OS that minimises the use of those.   
      
   > and I care about having Bluetooth file transfer,   
      
   Yes, you actually are that stupid.   
      
   > and I care about Wi-Fi performance and features, etc.,   
      
   But are too stupid to even work out what   
   airdrop, continuity and handoff do.   
      
   > all at the same time.   
      
   > What I don't care about is the color of the phone   
      
   I do, because white phones look tacky. Gold phones too.   
      
   > (for heaven's sake!), or the meaningless NFC specs,   
      
   Nothing meaningless about them when you have enough of a clue   
   to use a decent modern way of using the phone to pay for stuff.   
      
   > or the lousy camera lens that is in all smartphones, etc.   
      
   Even sillier and an even more pathetic excuse for a troll than you usually   
   manage.   
      
   > Given that, I'm sure I can find a far better price:performance   
   > phone than either the iPhone7 or the Pixel;   
      
   You clearly couldn’t manage that with the Nexus.   
      
   > so that's what I'll endeavor to do next (but it's not   
   > the first thing on my agenda, so that may take time).   
      
   Yeah, you have to do much more important stuff like   
   run down to the library ever single day, dinosaur.   
      
   > If Android users have a good suggestion for an Android or Apple phone   
   > that is better in price:performance for the specs that matter, let me   
   > know.   
      
   No point, you'll just ignore that, as always.   
      
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