XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.apps   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2024-07-22 12:16, -hh wrote:   
   > On 7/22/24 11:06 AM, Andrew wrote:   
   >> -hh wrote on Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:46:05 -0400 :   
   >>   
   >>> nds more on R&D than all but three companies.   
   >>>   
   >>> Plus Apple clearly does a lot of "Make or Buy" business assessments to   
   >>> decide on where to prioritize their R&D investments.  This leads us back   
   >>> to his belief that no one company can be successful unless they   
   >>> personally invent and make every last component totally in-house, which   
   >>> is totally absurd and followed by literally no one.  Likewise, his   
   >>> apparent belief (also quite absurd) that every S&T project is always and   
   >>> immediately fully successful as originally envisioned.   
   >>>   
   >>> Reality for both is quite distant from these beliefs, which is why even   
   >>> his attempts to worship Android fall far short of this vision, as   
   >>> illustrated by how Android handset manufacturers *also* have had to   
   >>> outsource their modem chips to Qualcomm rather than to invent & fab them   
   >>> in-house like he's trying to ask of Apple.  Yeah, hypocritical.   
   >>>   
   >>> As I said, it shows that "Andrew" has never professionally worked on any   
   >>> technological development efforts ... except perhaps as their janitor.   
   >>   
   >> An adult would prove me wrong - but a child acts like hh just did above.   
   >>   
   >> The fact remains that nobody in high tech spends less than Apple on   
   >> R&D as   
   >> a percentage of revenue ...   
   >   
   > Oh, look, "as a percentage of revenue..": its a goalpost move attempt!   
   >   
   >   
   >> - and - plenty of phone companies spend more even   
   >> though none are anywhere near the size of Apple in terms of total   
   >> revenue.   
   >   
   > And of course you can clearly explain why that's relevant...right?   
   >   
   >   
   >> Alan Baker cannot dispute that fact because it's a well known fact.   
   >   
   > Really?  I was under the impression that the Android fanboys keep on   
   > harping that the total worldwide Android sales is bigger than Apple.   
   > Better go check your revenue numbers again...   
   >   
   > ...and especially not get them confused with net profits.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> It's that lack of R&D that explains why Apple is five to ten years behind   
   >> Android technology - which - if you want to disprove - all you have to do   
   >> is list what iPhone technology is better than similar Android technology.   
   >   
   > *Yawn* others have already done so   
   >   
   >>   
   >> HINT: It's just as absurd to claim that AirTags are exclusively iPhone   
   >> technology as it would be to claim that Tiles are exclusively Android.   
   >   
   > Because that's invalid because Tile isn't exclusively Android.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> Name a *single* exclusively iPhone technology that Apple has innovated   
   >> upon   
   >> in the past five or ten years that is better than the equivalent Android.   
   >>   
   >> Hint: You can't.   
   >   
   > Well, there is Apple Vision Pro's EyeSight Feature:  its innovative   
   > enough that Meta has tried to file a patent clone/derivative of it:   
   >   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>   
   >> Why not?   
   >> Because Apple doesn't invest in R&D; Apple is all about marketing.   
   >>   
   >> Prove me wrong.   
   >> That's what an adult would do.   
   >   
   > Already done, repeatedly.  Now "adult up" and accept being wrong.   
      
   Good luck with that.   
      
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