[TexasGunLover]

Safety, quality AND PRIVACY sell. Crap, not so much.

LOL, keep telling yourself that. The iSheep will never understand what garbage they're buying. They're fully consumed in the reality distortion field. In the meantime, everyone else has devices 3-5 years ahead of crApple's stuff.

Try supporting over 300,000 devices in daily real world usage, and you'll quickly recognize Apple products as the garbage they are.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“In the meantime, everyone else has devices 3-5 years ahead of crApple’s stuff. ”

They have to in order to run the complete virus load and collect and sell all user data.

[Swordmaker]

Try supporting over 300,000 devices in daily real world usage, and you'll quickly recognize Apple products as the garbage they are.

There are 1.3 BILLION Apple devices in the world right now, TexasGunLover, which hold the highest resale value of all computers and mobile devices. . . and IBM is switching over entirely to Apple devices and finding they are saving $535 per computer compared PCs when using Macs.

IBM says it is 3X more expensive to manage PCs than Macs

Up to $535 saving per Mac

IBM today told the record-setting seventh Jamf Nation User Conference that it is saving even more money by deploying Macs across the company than it thought: each Mac deployment saves the company up to $535 over four years, in contrast to the $270 per Mac it claimed last year.

That’s a hugely significant statistic for any Mac user and follows extensive use of the platform by IBM. IBM VP of Workplace as a Service, Fletcher Previn, told the conference that 90,000 employees are now using Macs, up from 30,000 in 2015. 100,000 of IBM’s global workforce will be using Macs by the end of the year, he said, and the number is climbing. (That number was over 225,000 at the end of 2017—Swordmaker)

There are lots of reasons for this, not least that better OS software means Apple needs to update its systems far less often than Microsoft updates Windows. "We have to go out and manage the Mac environment 104 fewer times a year than PC,” Previn said. (Emphasis mine—Swordmaker). . ."

. . ."This is fully in line with experiences shared in 2015, when Previn said just 5 percent of IBM’s Mac users needed to call the help desk; In contrast, an astonishing 40 percent of PC staff request tech support help. At IBM last year (2015) just 25 staff supported 30,000 Macs.

That's working out to over $50 million dollars per year internal savings on tech support after getting rid of the Windows computers and non-Apple mobile devices devices for over 220,000 employees, Texas.

So, I guess I will go with the professional people who REALLY do work with the real numbers of Apple devices in the Enterprise and publish their results, not some made up claims.

Apple devices have the lowest repair rate and the highest user satisfaction rate of all computers and mobile devices. In the same article linked above, IBM "reports a hugely impressive '91 percent user satisfaction' from its Mac users."

So, Tex, I think you really do not know what you are talking about.

[FredZarguna]

What I love are the iSheep threads where the Apple fanbois brag about how much more profit Apple makes for the same functionality and product, many of which components are built in the same factories.

THEY'RE the reason for the profitability. iEvil's balance sheet is getting fat on THEIR dime. Talk about clueless.

[ETCM]

The iSheep will never understand what garbage they're buying.

Oh please, judging people on what phone they use is juvenile. Apple makes great quality products as do many of their competitors. I have owned several Android devices (still have a couple) and had fun rooting them, loading various mods, etc. My next device might be another Android. But for now I have an iPhone. It is simple and just works. My phone is not a hobby, it's a phone. It's significantly more reliable and simpler than Android devices I have used. Yes, Apple's "walled garden" is too limiting for many but it works well for the vast majority of their users. And Apple's stand on security and privacy is pretty strong compared to Google/Alphabet.

[Swordmaker]

They're fully consumed in the reality distortion field. In the meantime, everyone else has devices 3-5 years ahead of crApple's stuff.

Oh, as to your claims of 3-5 year lead, where is it? it certainly isn't in the processors:

Speedometer 2.0 is one of the tests run by AnandTech, in which the Galaxy S9
performs worse than last year's S8, is significantly under Qualcomm's
Snapdragon 845 (in orange), and not even remotely in the same ballpark as
Apple's latest iPhones. Source: AnandTech

The speed of the six core processor in the Apple iPhone 8 and X is FASTER than the basic Intel i5 used in many laptops, and in fact it's faster than the Intel quad core i5 used in Apple's own introductory priced MacBook Pro, which is no slouch.

This Benchmark shows Benchmarks for both the
13" Apple MacBook Pro w/ Intel i5 and the 13" Dell XPS w/ Intel i5

On the iPhone X, the Neural Net processor makes 600 Billion decisions per second. There is NOTHING in the Android universe that is even close to that. Not one has anything close to the Secure Enclave or end-to-end, full device 256bit AES encryption done by a dedicated encryption processor that is entirely separate from, and untouchable by the application processor. Android leaves encryption to third-party applications as a bolted on after-thought. Even Samsung's Knox was found to have kept the encryption key in an unprotected, unencrypted clear text library where it is easily found. . . while Apple does not even keep the key on the device.

Cameras? There are two Android devices that compete with Apple's photo gear. . . the top of the line Samsung and Google's Pixel 2. That's it. . . and among the three, it becomes a matter of taste about which has the better approach, and produces the better photos. Most professionals choose the iPhone, which has been used for several dozen magazine covers and even been used to shoot several full-length feature films.

Right now, some Android phones claim to come with 5G cellular capability. . . but the build-out of 5G is non-existent on the cellular network because the standards have not yet been set. That means it is a USELESS advertising hype feature. Nobody knows exactly what those standards are going to be when it will finally be rolled out, and what will be required in handsets to work with those standards. Apple's iPhones will work with every cellular signal currently in use around the world. . . so any claim to the contrary is bogus.

How about screens? The PLATINUM standard in screen testing, Displaymate gives iPhone X “highest ever” rating with an A+, it's far better than any screen ever put on any Android phone, ever.

As for Macs, you've obviously never read the PC magazine reviews where they rated the Apple Macs as by far the best computers on which to run Windows. I used to run NINE DIFFERENT operating systems in Virtual Machines simultaneously on my maxed out iMac, including THREE different installs of Windows, MS-DOS, UNIX, two of OSX, and two different flavors of Linux. . . to better serve the needs of my client base.

I'm semiretired, I still run a network of Macs in an office for a large Dental office where we have had exactly two fail in more than twenty years, one due to a failed hard drive, and the other one was a brand new iMac that was a serial Logic Board killer, which was finally replaced by Apple after something in it succeeded in killing THREE replacement logic boards in less than three months (under warranty, thankfully)—Apple tech support was persistent in replacing logic board after logic board!— but that is among over 150 various model Macs, from original Mac 6200s to the latest MacBook Pros and Mac Pros. Our experience is you have to beat them to death with a Mack Truck. . . and I am not talking at all about numerous iPhones and iPads used by the staff. All of our equipment was either donated to a non-profit or sold at the end of its useful life to us. . .for a good price . . . or went on to another useful life at a non-profit. We typically kept a Mac in service for five years before replacing it.

Mac Screens? Apple had IPS screens long before any Windows PCs. Apple iMacs come in 4K and 5K screens. . . When introduced the 5K iMac was sold at a price less than it cost for just the monitor in 5k for PCs.

Why is it that the other manufacturers copy the designs of Apple?

So, Texas, exactly where is the tech in Android phones that is 3 to 5 years ahead of the Apple iPhones? Where? How about in PCs? Where?

[SamAdams76]

Apple has their competitors licked. Their product is so superior that they can price their devices for healthy profit margin and people still line up to pay the premium. That is the test of a quality product that is head and shoulders above the competition.

I will probably be upgrading to an iPhone X in another month or two. It sort of breaks my heart because my current iPhone from two years ago still works flawlessly and doesn't have a flaw - still looks shiny and brand new like the day I got it. Battery remains strong too despite constant charging. But technology moves on and the iPhone X has many compelling reasons for me to upgrade my perfectly good iPhone 7+.

No doubt whatsoever that the Apple iPhones are the best smartphones in the market. No other device even comes close.