Why Apple is the Top Smartphone Maker

Forbes ^ | 6/09/2012 @ 5:15PM | Larry Magid

[MrEdd]

I never said it was hard to use or wasn’t reliable.
i pointed out that it lacks many basic features, listed a couple of those features, and pointed out that it is not a high end phone.

[Hodar]

Apple needs to start a move (away) from China.

Why does Apple need to do something, that no other smartphone maker does? Maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events for the past 20 years, but did you know that practically every chip in mass production is made in Asia? Did you know that Foxconn also makes products for: Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[37]
Amazon.com (United States)[7]
Apple Inc. (United States)[38]
Cisco (United States)[39]
Dell (United States)[40]
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[41]
Intel (United States)[42]
Microsoft (United States)[9]
Motorola Mobility (United States)[40]
Nintendo (Japan)[43]
Nokia (Finland)[38]
Samsung Electronics (South Korea)[44]
Sony (Japan)[8]
Toshiba (Japan) [45]
Vizio (United States)[46]

Apple is only 1 of their many customers - and Apple is a BIG company. Also, thanks to the EPA and Govermental regulations - Apple CAN NOT make their products in the USA. Steve Jobs is on record of saying that he would like to use American labor, however thanks to over-regulation by the US Goverment - he cannot make products here. The chemicals and some of the polishing processes are "illegal" here. That's why you see other companies simply building their products in China, including Blackberry

[roadcat]

Apple is only 1 of their many customers - and Apple is a BIG company. Also, thanks to the EPA and Govermental regulations - Apple CAN NOT make their products in the USA. Steve Jobs is on record of saying that he would like to use American labor, however thanks to over-regulation by the US Goverment - he cannot make products here.

Very well stated, and needs to be repeated often! The EPA is the bad guy as to why manufacturers build outside the U.S.A. Used to be a lot of surfboards were made in California, but the EPA chased them out to Australia and other countries. Same for Apple products, which used to be produced in Fremont California - EPA bears much of the blame.

[itsahoot]

Apple is doomed I tell you!

[Swordmaker]

Not even slightly delusional.
And... When I point out that iPple’s removable storage specs and replacable battery specs are in fact such utter crap as to not have those important functions on their phones at all... iPple cultists get all huffy and insist that iPhones are still high end even with their very third world specs in very important area.

Uh, yes, you are. What do I need removable storage for? I have full access to the web in the cloud to all the storage I need, full access to my Macs at home and at my office with terabytes of storage, and any photos or videos I take are available on my other devices!

One of the reasons Android phones are not considered for Enterprise use is because they have removable storage... Which makes it extremely easy to steal proprietary data off the phone!

As for replaceable batteries, my ex-wife is using my original first generation iPhone with its original battery... And it still has 80% of its original charge capacity left, five years later! So why do we need a replaceable battery that would add cost, complexity, and bulk to the phone?

If a user wants to swap batteries on an iPhone, Amazon sells a battery, and a tool kit with instructions, shipping included, for $6.92. Sears has them for $7.45. Other suppliers are as low as $4... But you gotta pay shipping.

And you are a typical anti-Apple troll who is ignorant of the capabilities and facts who spouts what he's only heard and doesn't really know.