Analysts say that device activations show that Apple wasn’t able to capitalise on the dramatic recall of Samsung’s Note 7. Despite the damage done to Samsung’s reputation, and the opportunity that created for Apple to persuade owners to switch platform, most Note 7 buyers ended up replacing it with another high-end Galaxy phone, said Stephen Baker, primary hardware analyst at tech industry research firm NPD… More at 9To5Mac.
Lets be honest here and say that the iPhone 7 isn’t much of a bump over the 6s. It was the first new iPhone I looked at and thought ‘meh’.
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I went to the site and read the article and then read some of the comments. They turn into the typical Android vs iOS pettiness. I wonder if people who buy high end Android do so because they want Android. Maybe other high end Android phones did better out of the Note 7’s recall. And maybe people even went and got the S7, which is also a very nice Android phone.
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Just read them, thought people had moved on from that, but obviously not.
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TBH, I have to think WAY back to any phone hardware bump that was all that great? Like, the original iPhones had no GPS, 3G max networking, a crap camera and a very quiet speaker. Subsequent generations fixed all those things, so for a long time the only driver for new hardware is bumps in the camera, and even that has been at a very acceptable state for years.
I assume the same thing is true in Android land. It’s like we were saying on the “my app collection is stable” post here; people are going to stick with what they know. They might be bummed they can’t get the big ol’ screen plus stylus in a new model (and the stylus is the one thing i envy on the Android side) but not so much that they’ll be like “welp, Apple it is, then”
And yeah- the comments on that article link are horrendous. It’s AMAZING how much of their own ego people vest into their brand loyalty! Or sports. Or all of that.
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Yep, one of the things I’ve always liked about coming to LIM, and all it’s previous incarnations, is that the comment section is always mature and civil. But these kinds of comments have been going on since forever and they get tiring.
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