Oh, really: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-2 … sales.htmlUzique wrote:
funny when a phone manufacturer knows that they are getting so utterly dominated in their chosen market that they have to then try and siphon off some income from the big daddy. "apple has more cash than the us government" say cheeky news reports over here... next report "htc are phone industry's food-stamps scroungers"...
They are only counting smartphones. Are you going to segment the iPhones also by storage capacity?Uzique wrote:
aaand we're back to the argument about RIM having several mobile phones available at different market niches / prices / appeals.
i'm not surprised samsung and nokia are shifting those many units... after all, they both offer about 20 phones for every price-point and need.
Like I said, marketing genius.Uzique wrote:
consider replacing apple with 'ferrari' and the other mass-market manufacturers with a range of increasingly 'inferior' products as 'ford'. now ford sell a whole lot more cars and make a whole lot more money than ferrari do. why is it that the luxury ferrari of the phone world outsells the common everyman's equivalent, hands down, every financial year? come on... the iphone is good.
I have no interest in paying ~$400 extra for a plastic shell and uncomfortable keyboard.Uzique wrote:
rofl. just buy a macbook and stop being so queer.
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I use macbooks a lot, most of my friends have them. I despise the keyboards. My Dell Inspiron 1521, which I have had for probably about 5 years is much nicer to type on (for me at least). Macbook keyboards look very nice, but I find them to be a huge pain to type on. I have no need for a backlit keyboard, and have never seen any evidence that the touchpad is noticeably better than any other laptop. I couldn't care less about the case, thinkpads may be less attractive than macbooks, but that doesn't justify paying any more to me. I went through apple's site today, and I couldn't find a macbook within my price range that I liked. I really only need OSX for a few things, and can't imagine using it as a primary OS. There are plenty of mindless sheep who buy Macs, I'm sure even you wouldn't deny that. There are definitely benefits to buying macs over PCs, but the majority of mac owners didn't research any of that before buying.Uzique wrote:
uncomfortable keyboard? with the exception of my mechanical keyboard my macbook keyboard is the nicest kb i have ever used. especially considering it's a laptop. good luck finding a keyboard and mousepad that are nicer than the macbook's backlit keyboard and touchpad. you won't. and yeah that plastic shell... oooh boy! go fork out $400 extra for your 1980's prototype IBM lenovo aesthetic then, then put OSX and maybe even linux on it and be extra cool because you didn't cave in and join the mindless sheep
p.s. every single macbook / macbook pro available today now has an aluminium unibody - no plastic. and you'll be hard pressed to find a better designed exterior for a laptop. please link me if you do though!¬!!!
My 5 year old $600 inspiron does multitouch.Uzique wrote:
i'd say fair enough if you didn't specifically ask for a laptop to run OSX... but you clearly want something portable with the simple and super-fast OSX platform. why not just get one of the brand new entry-level macbook airs (that replaced standard macbooks) for $999? that packs amazing design, OSX-as-native with the touchpad which brings OSX to a completely other level of functionality. i don't understand why you're gimping yourself with this pointless anti-apple bullshit, it's so tired. if you want a laptop with OSX you really can't do any better than the cheapest macbook (air). it's just the best solution to your request, period. even the neatest non-apple laptop won't have a touchpad with all of the gestures, multitouch and pinch/spin features that the apple trackpad has. why gimp yourself?
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