iPhone 5 sees huge demand with preorder record

SaiyanZ said:
That article just shows that Android is a consumer success story. If the author can get free apps on Android instead of paying Apple for the same apps then that is a good thing for him. I'm not going to complain about getting free things :)
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Android was always going to be a consumer success story. That was obvious to me when the first G1 came out. It's got Google behind it, it's free and open source, it has a good quality app market, and it's pretty decent all in all. I'd say it's now become the scaffolding for mobile devices rather than the selling point in itself, but it's stable enough to run on just about anything and customizable enough to be branched into some very unorthodox forms. Quite a remarkable achievement all told and it's obvious that manufacturers would have seen it as a lifeline.

The problem has always been that it was a great, popular idea without a business model to gird it. Which has given Samsung the opportunity to muscle in and devour anything resembling profitability from its ecosystem. Nobody really even knows if Google makes money from it but I guess they must be somehow. All I know is, if the industry continues on current trends, we'll be left with Apple and Samsung phones on the shelves and that's it. So I'm not even slightly impressed by activation numbers when the profitability coming out of the back end is so terribly distorted.
 
HBee said:
Hahahaha, still pathetic with more than 600 000 android devices activated every day. You might think this is nokia etc losing ground, but the fact is that it is apple too. In our office which had 8 apple users, 3 have already capitulated to Android with another 2 concidering it. I know this is not proper marker reasearch, but I figure this is a trend i see unfolding in front of my eyes.
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Actually, there are 1.3 million Android activations per day - http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...bin-confirms?p=8937879&viewfull=1#post8937879
 
mercurial said:
Actually, there are 1.3 million Android activations per day - http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...bin-confirms?p=8937879&viewfull=1#post8937879
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I think that's a pretty amazing thing. It must point to a boom in smartphone activations in third world economies - Android has really democratized access to smartphone technologies. Considering you can now get a quad core 1280 4.5" beastly phone from $250 in China, and on down about as cheap as you want to get - or as expensive. In that sense Android is a very positive development.
 
MyBB should run a poll to see how many iPhone 4/4S users are planning on the iPhone 5
 
I reckon if you're going Apple you gotta buy in the even numbered years. The odd years they just upgrade the internals then you feel like a chump because there's a more stunning phone than yours for a year. At least if you have a 4 you can be comforted that the 4s isn't thaaaaaaaaaat much better.
 
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