First of all with ALL of the competition, I don't expect Apple to remain the only guerrilla in the smart phone/tablet market place, but it certainly looks like it will be a major player for at least the near future, maybe longer. Their products have been dead on for meeting consumer needs and wants. Everyone else is and has been playing catch up. It really is amazing. While geeks enjoy the freedom of the messing with the Android, millions of others enjoy the convenience and safety of the Apple IOS environment. Seri is amazing. I've played with it on my wife's iPhone and the convenience of not having to type messages very nice.Does Android currently have this ability?
Regarding the Samsung Galaxie Note, I see a trade off between a tablet size and a phone. I'm hoping the next iPhone is bigger, but as big as a Samsung Galaxie, it might be a little too big to be sticking in your pocket. But if they thought this is what people want in their phones, I could see Apple going there easily at least something that is larger than the 4S.
What you said was this:
The shortages at launch have been pretty short lived (less than 2 weeks for the last two phones). This could be taken either way, though so I will concede that you may very well have a point.
Yeah. Its a nice looking device. Especially the white version. Very eye-candy'ish.That's pretty funny.
I understand what I said!
No, it's not at all. It's an indicator that more people prefer non-iPhones for a large variety of reasons including price and availability.
Maybe, but that has nothing to do with what I said. (And I'd like to see the numbers to back up your claim.)
No, it's not. Apple gained market share on Android last quarter.
Again, not true. Apple gained market share last quarter. That means it grew faster than the market.
It's hard to look at that because, again, it's not true.
Nope. The iPhone 4 was not meeting demand over 6 months after launch.
http://blog.daveburrows.com/2011/01...em-apple-still-cant-provide-enough-iphone-4s/
And, as I said earlier, the iPhone 4S is just this month spreading to a second carrier in China. The iPhone is not nearly as widely distributed as Android.
Engadget and GSMArena got it wrong as usual.
That's 5 million sold, not shipped.
Source: This is Samsung's official blog.
http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=12717
It's percentage used over a period of time.
We've been over this many times
Channel inventory is NOT what retailers have on their shelves.
Channel inventory is Apple stock that's ready to be shipped (sold) to retailers (*) via the distribution channel.
When Apple says they have "six weeks' worth of channel inventory", they're telling investors that they can meet the demand of current and new markets, without having too much. Apple is certainly not claiming that every retailer in the world has six weeks' worth of inventory sitting in their stores or warehouses. No retailer would, because that's Apple's job.
(*) For example, when Electronista wrote: "... channel inventory -- the stock available to retailers ", which they make clear is different from stock on the retailers' shelves.
Meanwhile, I used my iPhone nearly 7 hours. If the Note would have been my main device it would have been dead at around 6 hours with 2 hours of actual use, ridiculous. I did end up with an extra battery for it but still, not sure I want to be carting around batteries too. The Note does have the biggest battery of any Android phone I have had, just sucks it also dies the fastest.This is the exact reason I could never make the Note my main device. You can see the battery time is decent at 15hrs 25mins, but most of that was it just sitting there. Look at the time on which tells the real story. I didn't even get 2 hours of actual usage before my battery was at 22%
