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Kuramakun on 11 December 2012

Well Deserved also. The Wii U isn't perfect but it does alot of things right, Wanna take a shit and take your HD gamming? Go for it. Wanna let your daughter watch Dora the explorer while you own noobs on COD? go for it!
Wanna show off or comment on games on Miiverse? Do it! How about troll your wife and change her channels with your Gamepad making her think the TV is possesed Awesome! Oh, and the Internet on it it's super fast! I could go on and on!



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Faxanadu on 11 December 2012

Surprised to see no Nexus 7 on there. But then again they have goole maps, so no innovation as opposed to iphone 5.



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blackstarr on 11 December 2012

Wait. This is the weirdest list ever. I'm not happy with Wii U being number 2 because the rest of the list is such ... crap.
iPhone 5? I mean, aside from being the next installment in iPhones, did it do anything new? Did it improve really anything?
And macbook pro with retina? I have one of those and I love it, but it hasn't actually done anything different or significant. ......

... This list SMH



leo-j on 12 December 2012
1337 Gamer said:
leo-j said:
1337 Gamer said:
Surprised the iPhone 5 was number 1. Considering its about the same thing as the 4s which was about the same thing as the 4 which was the same thing as... You can get the rest. Apple has not made much of any progress in their phones since the 1st iphone. They always just release something for the sake of releasing something and people seem to just eat it up... Quite sad really as there are much better alternatives to every single one of their products.


I guess you haven't even touched or played with an iphone if you think that..

iphone 3gs was a major up from iphone / 3g and iphone 4 was a major overhaul for iphone as well

iphone 5 was a pretty big improvement too.. just not as big as the first two

Actually ive owned just about every model of the iphone... I get them for free from work. So please dont lecture me. Infact i have an Iphone 5 64 GB that i got almost on Launch Day. The first iphone was revolutionary. But thats it. Every single iphone has always lacked features that all the other smart phones at their time had. THe original lacked 3g functionality, the 4 and 4s lacked 4g... ETC ETC. Apple has ALWAYS been overpriced, Late to the game, and underpowered. THe only reason they sell so well is the fact that they are the "must have products" the products that all the Cool kids have. No company in the world has more diehard fanboys than Apple. They will buy everything and anything that carries the apple insignia.

 

Personally I have used mos and Hate just about all of apples overpriced POS. The one thing I will give them is their good build quality. 

The 4s has 4G/HSPA plus

apple is overpriced.. but in comparison to how companies selling their droids sell their phones like samsung.. they aren't over priced at all..

and I wonder why apple products are must have products? I mean there must be a reason why ios is so much more popular than any other mobile operating system for cell phones..

and iphone 5 is no way in hell under powered.. check your research and don't bring in the dual vs quad core processor ordeal, iphone 5 is one of the fastest phones I have used



 

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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 12 December 2012
gergroy said:
spurgeonryan said:
Is the iphone 5 really much different than the iphone 4?

Good job wii U!


does it matter?  it is apple... so... it must be god of all technology... right?


yes, you're spot on!!!



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1337 Gamer on 12 December 2012
leo-j said:
1337 Gamer said:
leo-j said:
1337 Gamer said:
Surprised the iPhone 5 was number 1. Considering its about the same thing as the 4s which was about the same thing as the 4 which was the same thing as... You can get the rest. Apple has not made much of any progress in their phones since the 1st iphone. They always just release something for the sake of releasing something and people seem to just eat it up... Quite sad really as there are much better alternatives to every single one of their products.


I guess you haven't even touched or played with an iphone if you think that..

iphone 3gs was a major up from iphone / 3g and iphone 4 was a major overhaul for iphone as well

iphone 5 was a pretty big improvement too.. just not as big as the first two

Actually ive owned just about every model of the iphone... I get them for free from work. So please dont lecture me. Infact i have an Iphone 5 64 GB that i got almost on Launch Day. The first iphone was revolutionary. But thats it. Every single iphone has always lacked features that all the other smart phones at their time had. THe original lacked 3g functionality, the 4 and 4s lacked 4g... ETC ETC. Apple has ALWAYS been overpriced, Late to the game, and underpowered. THe only reason they sell so well is the fact that they are the "must have products" the products that all the Cool kids have. No company in the world has more diehard fanboys than Apple. They will buy everything and anything that carries the apple insignia.

 

Personally I have used mos and Hate just about all of apples overpriced POS. The one thing I will give them is their good build quality. 

The 4s has 4G/HSPA plus

apple is overpriced.. but in comparison to how companies selling their droids sell their phones like samsung.. they aren't over priced at all..

and I wonder why apple products are must have products? I mean there must be a reason why ios is so much more popular than any other mobile operating system for cell phones..

and iphone 5 is no way in hell under powered.. check your research and don't bring in the dual vs quad core processor ordeal, iphone 5 is one of the fastest phones I have used


Great the iphone 5 has 4g/HPSA plus too bad its only a year later than any of the other heavy weights... And how is samsung overpriced? Last I saw they had phones in every prce range and the heavy weighters that cost the same as an iphone 5 cram alot more features and tech for the same price? And the android operating system is alot more popular than iOS dont kid yourself...

And yes the iphone 5 is pretty snazzy and fast thats for sure. However I still think the puny 4 inch screen sucks. Anyways To each their own. You like apple products then good for you. Im not trying to start a flame war here im just stating that the Iphone 5 didnt really bring anything new to the table that hasnt been on other smart phones for atleast a year or more now. Apple is still playing and probably always will play catch up in the technology department. Obviously technology does not translate into the absolte best product. But at the price point that apple charges I would wish that they would give consumers a bit more "firepower" under the hood of every single one of their products.



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Scary4Eva on 12 December 2012

That's great. Congrats to Nintendo.



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Jumpin on 12 December 2012
crissindahouse said:

gratz to wii u!

and something like a new phone which is only little bit different to the predecessor in the top 10 is a joke for me (and that counts for all and not only for apples iphone)

seriously, there is new tech every year and they put a phone upgrade on number one omfg

and if they do it it's a joke that they put iphone 5 on 1 and the models of other companies which are as good as this are not even in the top 10. i would really like to read which crazy tech the iphone 5 has which other expensive phones don't have.

The difference is when an iPhone releases, it's a major event. When any other phone releases, only nerds on the Internet really care about it, and the phone companies end up having to give them away for free to their customers. The phones that don't look like an iPhone have trouble even being given away for free, no one wants them at all.



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binary solo on 12 December 2012
Soleron said:
pokoko said:
 But why is a 15" laptop ranked over the Surface?

Poor sales.

No, because Apple is that 15" laptop, so naturally Apple > anything else tech-wise.



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Soleron on 12 December 2012
binary solo said:
Soleron said:
pokoko said:
 But why is a 15" laptop ranked over the Surface?

Poor sales.

No, because Apple is that 15" laptop, so naturally Apple > anything else tech-wise.

And their name alone makes them the world's most valuable company, that is making money so fast they literally cannot spend it, not even by actually handing money to shareholders?

If it was so easy why can't HP or Dell do that?