Don’t just roll your eyes. You really should give this one a full body roll — it’s easier than you think, try it. A market research firm is reporting that Apple’s iPhone is gaining on Android, which means the smartphone war (and the attendant pointless fan boy tantrums) is anything but over.
When your head’s buried in the sand, it’s rather difficult to have any sort of perspective on what the competition’s up to. Alternately, if you were the person in charge of peering into the future for Microsoft, what else could you say, ‘You got me, we suck’?
The paradox of choice — in general, having more choices doesn’t make people happy. Stand in front of the toothpaste, scores and scores of largely meaningless “choices,” at an average grocery store to feel it. Some folks thrive on that and others just want to brush their teeth without wasting too many cycles.
In retrospect, it’s obvious why Tim Cook et al seemed a tad flat during Tuesday’s iPhone 4S introduction — Apple co-founder, CEO and all-around genius, Steve Jobs, was on the brink of death. Now, that the back story is clear and the fog of grief is parting just a little, iOS’ big new (and until now unheralded) feature deserves another look.
One of the first things Steve Jobs did when returned to the company he cofounded was he got rid of a lot of superfluous products. Today, Apple doubled down on “not much to announce” by not killing the iPhone 3GS. And, although we weren’t expecting much vis-a-vis the iPod, we got almost nothing — all of this leaves me asking, “What’s for Christmas?”
It’s war! Apple and Samsung lawyers are going at it tooth and nail in courts around the world and, for the time being at least, the iPhone maker is winning. But, if the Korean electronics giant decided to drop the mothership tomorrow, how bad would it hurt? The only way to find out is to get under the skin of an iPhone 4.
From the miscarriage of justice department comes news that paying for stolen property isn’t a punishable offense. A “journalist” paying a source? Not a punishable offense. However, being a stupid punk is punishable by up to a year in jail and two of those have been charged.
Apple über alles, right? There’s what people say and what they actually do. Right now, about half of all global smartphone users are voting with their dollars and getting an Android something. But, don’t shed a tear for Steve Jobs, because his Cupertino, CA-based company is bringing home the only numbers that matter.
One of the first casualties of Steve Jobs’ smartphone revolution was Windows Mobile, a platform that has all but vanished in the four-plus years since the iPhone arrived. Now, both Microsoft and Nokia hover on the edge of oblivion as the world awaits Apple’s next master stroke.
A “new” report from one of the usual suspects states Apple’s mobile operating system has “full protection” against malware attack and that Android has “little protection.” So, will this news cause you to drop Android and/or switch to iOS? If not, what are you personally doing to protect yourself?
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