Apple Reports Largest Profit In Holiday Quarter For Any Company In History

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LurkerJ said:

walsufnir said:

Best camera on a phone? Don't care anyway. Every camera above 80 euros is better than anything on any phone anyway.

You don't care. Many others do. The comfort and protability of the smartphone camera beats any stand alone camera.

Gaming? I don't game on a phone.

You don't care. Many others do as evident by the App store charts. Games are always on top.

Guaranteed long term support? Thanks, I have a Nexus 4. Even if Google drops support, I will get newer software releases.

and I had a nexus 5. Outside of nexuses devices and goolge play edition phones , long term support isn't guaranteed.

Control over personal data? What would that mean or be?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6955281

Benchmarks? On a phone? Either phone feels snappy or doesn't, no need for benchmarks to prove my phone is fast enough for my use-cases.

Agreed

Best application support... Well, besides games, I don't see what one might missing but ok. I guess there are still the most apps on iOS, right?

Not just the most apps. But better supported apps that are frequently updated because iOS userbase isn't fragmented.

Yes, the iPhone is a good phone but still I don't see why I should get one instead of any other phone. In fact I am even not sure if someday I won't buy a blackberry (android app compatibity) or Windows Phone (as a secondary, that is). And it's a shame that no Apple phone is capable of dual-sim, in my opinion. If you want or need dual-sim you can't buy anything from Apple (excluding 3rd party adapters).

True, iPhone isn't the place for people who wants dual sim.

I get it. You don't want an iPhone. I didn't want either until recently. The world doesn't revolve around me. I was happy with my Nexus 5, I am happy with my iPhone 6. I completely understand why people are buying them in bulks. It's not hard to get. Let's just drop it here. I am tired of repeating myself.

In a more interesting topic, mid ranger phones are rising in popularity and quality, can we talk about that instead?

Soon enough they will be good enough for most people. Apple will have to engage in the mid range war sooner than later. Miscrosoft is the best candidate to win the mid-range war imo. Look up the Lumia 730, fantastic phone for a fantastic price. Thanks to Qualcomm new, cheap but excellent processors. 2015 and 2016 will be interesting to watch. Despite Apple's fantastic numbers, the premium market will start shrinking and mid range phones will be the next game changer.

In another mroe interesting topic. Mobile processors are advancing very fast. It will be interesting to see if they progress fast enough to threaten Intel's leadership. Look up apple's a8x processor that's powering the iPad air 2. Fantastic perfomance with fantastically effcient energy consumption. I can't wait to see what the A9X will be capable of!

None of these things REALLY matter, the iPhone is the 'in' product. The reason why everyone and their mother has an iPhone isn't because they check out the benchmarks, or compared other camera's in low level lighting (Z1/2/3 and S4/5 are the best smartphone camera's I've seen) or care about app data privacy etc. They are bought because they look pretty (design of the phone and UI) and are popular. Lets keep it real, even if it was a tiny bit faster than the 5s but looked the same as the 6 and 6+ do it would've sold pretty much the same.