Your as blinkered as the apple disciples if you don't think their products cause a market boom, it happened with MP3 players, smart phones, tablets and more recently the ultrabook. The products apple produce and their popularity force other companies to spend millions competing with them, if your into technology then apple are good in the sense they create the demand for products, which other companies respond to pushing technology further. Are their products original? Rarely. Are they the best? Completely subjective. Do they play a vital role in the technology industry? Almost certainly, you may not buy an apple product but the products you do buy are in some way indebted to the apple equivalent. There was a paper published a year or so ago about it in a technology journal, it showed market values and rival R&D departments budgets correlate closely with apple releases. In its simplest form, if you don't like apple then let the trend followers buy their inferior products and you can enjoy the far superior non-apple equivalent, just accept that apple plays an important role in the technology market regardless of your opinion on the quality of product they produce.
This is spot on actually, and yes, I am grateful to the blinkered fools and their worship of Apple and Satan believing the ****e Apple feeds them, then paying over the top for inferior, but in their little cliques cool crap. You also do a good job of describing them as exactly like Sky too. Amazing to think that something as genuinely awful as iTunes has pretty much cost 2 companies their future this week alone. If that doesn't put Mussie off any iDevice, nowt will!
I believe I was disputing the bit about Apple producing hardware 3 years ahead of their competitors and then I was admiring their marketing to none traditional markets, who didn't know that what they were buying wasn't bleeding edge as they were told, not the market influence of their product. We all had a good laugh at the hype of the original iPhone and never realised how popular it would become so quickly, but it did and Apple changed the market. No one is denying that. Just how easy it is to influence the masses with appearance.
The Iphone original was released in June 2007, the first Android phone was released in October 2008. Hardly 3 years a head. Another thing with Iphone is your stuck with a Iphone. On Android You buy Samsung, HTC and Sony which all have different specs to suit people. The price different alarming as well, Iphone 5 is £520 and Galaxy S3 is £410.
Point taken, I agree their marketing and strategy is quite remarkable, they can sell anything to any generation worldwide, their success is to be admired in that sense.
Did anyone mention Android? That came later. We were talking about touchscreen smartphones, which were running very happily on better technology with Windows Mobile. The rest though I agree with.
I hate Apple products with a passion having been forced to use the Xerox technology based Macs in the past, and in reality there was subsequently nothing ipodding-ly innovative about electronic music either, it was the way that Steve Jobs seized the industry from traditional industry barons that was special. Having said that, Steve Jobs is my hero. His conviction and determination to popularise the ideas of significant 'teckky' others should be an inspiration to us all. His life contribution is proof alone that an innovation or invention is never brand new. It's just an idea that has always been there and waits to happen. As Jobs says, to succeed in life, we should: 'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish'. Indeed, even that Jobs watch-phrase was pinched from the whole Earth catalogue!!!!!
In addition to what Tony Norman's Ace said about touch-screen smartphones, tablet PCs were produced in 2002, long before Apple launced the iPad and subsequently started accusing everyone that followed of 'copying'.
favouring Xperia T at moment because of camera really. decent offer from t-mobile to stay with them £30 for phone and £17 a month! for same deal on Lumix 820, they want £50 up front, and for the samsung s3, £plentytoomany!! I didnt even look at an iphone. Don't do apple at all. I just admire the bloke responsible for making the whole thing happen - even though he's dead of course. But nobody gets famous til they die do they!
to see who really copied/stole what, try to find BBC doc called Billion Dollar Hippy on iplayer, or better still, read Steve Jobs' biography
Can't be arsed to join the debate, I've got an iphone and I know it's overpriced but I like it and find it user friendly so I'm sticking to it. What I'd like to know, does anyone have any good app (games or otherwise) recommendations? I've got 2 hours worth of train commuting per day which I tend to spend knobbing about on my phone so would welcome any recommendations regarding how to pass the time.
