[aMorePerfectUnion]

More at website. This was an excerpt.

[Star Traveler]

Samsung’s big competitor is demolishing it ... :-) ...

Dear Skeptics, Here’s How Apple Will Continue To Demolish Expectations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3251650/posts

Apple delivered the greatest earnings report in history on Tuesday.

That’s not hyperbole. Apple earned $18 billion in net income over the three-month period of October to December 2014. That’s more than any other company has ever earned over a three-month span.

Apple earned those mind-melting profits thanks mostly to the iPhone, which is an incredible business.

Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones, up 46% from the year prior. The iPhone generated $51 billion in revenue, giving each iPhone an average selling price of $687.

[Veto!]

How much is a “won” worth in dollars?

[beethovenfan]

Apple is eating Samsung’s kimchee.

[RayChuang88]

What happened was that Apple rode the wave of the hugely pent-up demand for a larger screen iPhone—and when it did deliver, sales went through the roof. I know of at least 12 people at my workplace that now have iPhone 6 (64 GB) models.

[ICCtheWay]

Samsung has hit hard competition in the way of seemingly hundreds of Android phone brands and models. There are decent Android phones for about $100 or so. It is not enough to have the top quality that Samsung has... The same operating system - Android allows a cheap phone to do most of the same things as an expensive phone - not so with Apple.

Despite Apple’s record profit on iPhone sales — total Android smart phone sales out number iPhone sales by far - just to get a perspective on the size of the market.

[Cementjungle]

And yet Samsung keeps selling chips and other parts to Apple for use in iPhones.

[minnesota_bound]

It is android OS that is the competitor. It is on more devices then Apple OS is.

[yarddog]

I know this is a bit off topic but I didn’t want to start a whole thread for the question.

Has anyone else been unable to log in to Yahoo mail?

I have been unable to since maybe 4 P.M. CST and I have tried 3 different computers and two different browsers.

None have managed to log on.

[catbertz]

I know Samsung is taking a beating financially, but I believe that’s mostly due to poor design decisions. Too many models that all blend together stylistically.

Having said that, I own the Note 4, and I’m very impressed overall. My one hope is that the upcoming lollipop update will see Touchwiz dialed back significantly.

[Swordmaker]

Samsung, Apple's largest Cell Phone competition releases its Financials and it's not good. — PING!

Apple v. Samsung Ping!

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[The Truth Will Make You Free]

My wife and I were set to go Samsung in May, but AT&T changed the upgrade rules. By Nov we stayed with the iPhone instead. No learning curve and the apps I use are better there. I know. I tried an Android HTC for a month and never "got it".

My one gripe with the iPhone is the "Apple knows best" philosophy, which gets down to missing customization features. One example: There's many apps I don't want to upgrade due to horrible reviews, but there's no "skip this version" to make the icon count go away.