Posted on 07/03/2010 9:38:54 PM PDT by stripes1776
The success of iPhone 4 has been astonishing to witness, despite the antenna issues, proving once again that Apple has a unparalleled ability to differentiate around design and integration, not simply “features.”
Perhaps the best example of this so far is FaceTime, Apple’s take on video-calling. FaceTime makes video-calling on the Android-based Sprint HTC EVO look silly, because the EVO awkwardly requires users to sign up and download a third-party app, then launch it every time they want to talk. Normal people simply won’t do this...
(Excerpt) Read more at techcrunch.com ...
Funny, the author didn’t mention that FaceTime is over WIFI only - it does not run on your 3G network.
On the other hand, Fring on Android runs on the 3G network. So you can use it anywhere, you don’t have to try to find a WIFI connection to have a video call...
I guess that’s ‘dominance’ though?
Going all the way back to the Steve Wozniak early days working out of a garage, the guiding philosophy of Apple has been to build “the whole widget.” It’s what they do. The disastrous few years in the 90’s were the only example of straying from it, then Steve Jobs returned and set them back on track.
Negotiations with the carrier turns out differently for different companies with different carriers. Wow, who’da thunk. The integration of Apple on the one hand via WiFi, versus downloading a third party app and clicking it for 3G ... well, whatever floats your boat. I’ll go with Apple.
One thing is pretty evident regardless, and that is that carriers do not want devices with certain native capabilities on their 4G networks at present. That will no doubt change in the future, but that future is not yet here.
I’ll tell you this. My wife and family got me an iPad for my birthday
, which was June 19th. I love the thing!
From my hospital bed, and now that I am in rehab (I have sitting and standing restrictions due to the massive reconstruct they did in my pelvic area) from my own bed or wheel chair at our apartment here in Houston Getting on the web, watching movies, listening to music, s,die shows of my pics, and even word processing ( (not to mention the many apps) .
I created the PDF and .doc files for my just published Proposal for Border Enforcement on the southern border. You can download those files here:
http://www.jeffhead.com/secure.pdf
http://www.jeffhead.com/secure.doc
I then created a web page to go with them:
http://www.jeffhead.vow/secureborder/
So, the iPad functions for me at about 85% of my laptop, and it is 1/2 inch thick and 1.5 lbs. Slick piece of technology. All touch controlled, when going back to my XPS laptop, I find myself trying to touch the screen to get things done and the have to revert to the mouse.
Don’t get me wrong. I love my laptop. High-end dual core processors, 4 gb RAM, dual nVidia graphics in SLI...but my 64gb iPad is very nice too and wins for portability when I do not have any heavy graphics or heavy processing needs,
Apple knows how to build a fine product.
The dominance is in mobile devices ... not Facetime.
I wouldn’t give up my iPhone 4.
Droids are fugly anyway.
Apple dives like a dead duck.
They have surpassed Microsoft and are second to Exxon Mobile in market cap. Each company that achieves a dominant position will find it very hard to keep it and most of their sales recently were to customers who already had apple products and were upgrading as Mac-heads do. 70% were upgrades. 30% new.
This has been a trend and it has a ending. All the lawsuits and guns of the blogs and media will now turn their attention from the once underdog to the now behemoth marketer, and it won't be good attention.
Underneath it all, Apple is just a marketer. Their innovations are mostly copied from others and the new phone, the 4G, has virtually little benefit over the 3G. Most analysts are surprised at the lack of new to the new phone. The video chat is ridiculous. You can only chat with another I-phone and it has to be on a wi-fi and not the network. Other phones can do network and work with other phones with video chat. What good it it!
Now we find out they have fudged the signal strength indicator....wonder why? LOL....
I think the jig is about up.
Great, so you’d rather not have the feature available most of the time. I guess that is progress, but for most people I don’t think it is.
How hard is it to set up an app? Most people have done it at least once, and pretty much every one can sign up (you do it if you want an MSN, Yahoo, GMail, ICQ or other account).
Yes, Apple integrates a lot of stuff; at the same time, you are limited in what you can do with your phone, and what apps you can use. So if it works exactly as-is for you, great. But if you ever want anything slightly outside the walled garden Apple has given you, well, you’re stuck.
This is a horrible article that is really embarassing for TechCrunch. I don’t know why anyone would post it here. M.G.’s TC review of the iPhone 4 is far better and more worthy of comment than this tripe.
iPhone dominates in mobile devices? Really? You’re aware that Android phones is outselling iPhones, and both are a pittance compared to the heavyweights like Nokia and Motorola and LG...
But he did mention it. Perhaps you read too quickly: "As a technological demo, FaceTime is impressive. It really is one-click-and-it-works provided both parties have iPhone 4s are are connected to WiFi. "
As the author also says: "Yes, I know, other phones have done video chat for some time now. But the fact that seemingly everyone is talking about mobile video chatting for the first time with this release says just about all you need to say." Nobody is talking about video chat except on the iPhone 4. I have seen it in action and it is clear and sharp video. And also it will be open source for any other vendors who want to use it.
If it's not worthy of a comment, why are you commenting?
Mobile devices means iPhones, iPods and iPads. Apple dominates in mobile devices.
How many of those has Android sold?
Oops, yes I did miss it. Seems to me a feature that's available in a very limited number of places (as compared to that same feature on other platforms that are available everywhere) is hardly a reason to trumpet a device.
But like I said, if you're happy with it, OK. As far as claiming it's a "trump card" reason the iPhone is better, well, I think you'll need something more convincing than that!
That's hilarious. Who's copying whom, here? Looks like the nattering nabobs have given up trashing the iPad and are stepping all over themselves to get some Android kludge iClone tablet to market. Same with iPhone, what the heck is Android if not a copy of iPhone?
Then, you have the entire notion of "apps," a stripped down conception of software applications ... wholly attributable to Apple and only three years ago, but you'd think that's just the way the world has always been, to listen to the would-be crowd busily knocking off Apple again and again.
It's been like this since Bill Gates kludged together Windows on top of DOS with the explicit objective of making it look like a Mac, apparently elusive still, but that was the explicit objective. The keyboard commands, everything that could be just like a Mac was just like a Mac, and what couldn't was still like a Mac but backwards, inverted scrollbars or buttons for expanding and closing windows, etcetera.
Apple was largely responsible for every single thing you take for granted, from the first successful desktop metaphor GUI to using a mouse, to color monitors, to, well, you name it. Everybody else fell in line behind them.
So, again, what are you talking about?
What? Are you serious about that? Really?
Wishing you a speedy rehab.
Apple knows how to build a fine product.
Yes, I agree completely. I just got my first Mac computer: an MacBook Pro. It's the best computer I have ever owned. I am so impressed with the quality of the hardware and software. At some point I will get an iPad as well. And my iPod touch goes everywhere I go. I have all my music on it.
And thanks for the links.
How many music players and tablets has Android sold?
I dunno. Maybe because it ticks off the right kind of Applebots.
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