A new way of parental control
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@IRJ said:
@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yup, people choosing Android because it is $50, good for kids that might break it and comes with lots of free apps are not good customers. People spending a high price to get what they perceive as a premium product are the customers that you are likely to really get. Apple customers either have more money to spend or are generally more willing to spend it than Android customers.
I'll contend that the iPhone and iPad are just a better user experience for most people.
For example, my uncle, wants to know where his bank app is on his Kindle Fire. Sorry, not there. Kind of like what @scottalanmiller was saying about developing for Apple first as opposed to getting into Google Play. They have limited resources, they are going to go where the money is.
I am really shocked how far behind you guys are in the mobile device industry. In the world where we toss our devices every year or two price is everything. People are starting to understand that you can get the same thing from Android at a fraction of the cost with even better hardware. The iPhone 4 was the last time Apple did anything absoultely ground breaking
http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-v-android-market-share-2014-5
You're experience is considerably different from my own.
Those around me, including the $11/hr workers around me mostly have iPhones. Sure, several of them have older iPhone 4's, but they are still iPhones.
I have seen very little conversion from iPhone to Android. And even those few that I have seen switch are definitely not switching for cheaper hardware, they've all bought things like Samsung Galaxy Notes in the $800 range.
Sure the third world is making huge purchases of Androids, but the influential are still mostly sticking to apple devices.
As I stated earlier 80%+ of all mobile online purchases made for black Friday came from an iDevice, even though they only have 15% of the sales volume of total phones sold.
Oh, and I think I read that that 15% of sales was still considerable more valuable than the entire other 85% combined, because iPhones cost so much more.
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@Dashrender this lines up with my experience. I don't see iOS declining. Maybe Android is increasing. We continued to buy iOS devices this year and, since they were so cheap, tossed in a handful of Android ones. But our "real" devices aren't going to Android... just four cheap, "toy" devices.
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I was surprised iPhone ownership was so low.
Almost everyone I know has an iPhone. Except the people who hate Apple, and the people who think their Android phone is so much cheaper when it really isn't, apples to apples. (No pun intended.)
When general users ask me, I almost always point them to an iPhone/iMac. As I said, I think it delivers the easiest/best experiences, which is what most people are looking for.
I'm not a huge Mac fan, and I think the PC is easier and much cheaper.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Why would we toss devices every year? Our iOS devices are completely usable for five years. No need to toss them.
I saw an iPhone 4 (or 4S) last Friday, and I don't know how the user uses it. The screen is just too small.
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@BRRABill said:
I was surprised iPhone ownership was so low.
Almost everyone I know has an iPhone. Except the people who hate Apple, and the people who think their Android phone is so much cheaper when it really isn't, apples to apples. (No pun intended.)
When general users ask me, I almost always point them to an iPhone/iMac. As I said, I think it delivers the easiest/best experiences, which is what most people are looking for.
I'm not a huge Mac fan, and I think the PC is easier and much cheaper.
I think the low numbers come from the third world and other non-US locations. It's when you realize that your iPhone count is one stat but the Android numbers get propped up by things like ChromeCast and Amazon Fire Sticks at $25. It makes Android numbers much higher than the "comparable to iPhone phone sales" numbers.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why would we toss devices every year? Our iOS devices are completely usable for five years. No need to toss them.
I saw an iPhone 4 (or 4S) last Friday, and I don't know how the user uses it. The screen is just too small.
I'm on a 5S and I'm beginning to feel like it is pretty small.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why would we toss devices every year? Our iOS devices are completely usable for five years. No need to toss them.
I saw an iPhone 4 (or 4S) last Friday, and I don't know how the user uses it. The screen is just too small.
That phone is over 5 years old (at release date at this point in time).
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@DustinB3403 said:
@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Why would we toss devices every year? Our iOS devices are completely usable for five years. No need to toss them.
I saw an iPhone 4 (or 4S) last Friday, and I don't know how the user uses it. The screen is just too small.
That phone is over 5 years old (at release date at this point in time).
I got a new 5S just a few months ago. You can have a 4S that was given to you by Apple support not all that long ago.
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@BRRABill said:
I was surprised iPhone ownership was so low.
What most of us don't realize is that that 15% is the USA and Western Europe. It's the rest of the world that makes up most of that 85% of Android.
That might be overstating it. Apple's 15% is mostly USA and Western Europe, and Android probably has around 5-10% of it's sales in USA and Western Europe, but the mass majority of the rest of the globe is Android because of cheap devices.
This is also where MS phones sing. Why, because MS also makes Cheap Phones.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I got a new 5S just a few months ago. You can have a 4S that was given to you by Apple support not all that long ago.
Huh?
Explain, I'm confused. Unless you mean that you can still get a new iPhone 4S in plastic-wrap. Which OK sure you can, but why would you really want to?
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The thing about iPhones is that when well treated they can last a very long time. We have several iPads at or about to hit five years, all going through full charge cycles every day and they still run perfectly well. We've only replaced iPhones because we just wanted to update or because we broke the phones - never because they "got old" yet.
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@scottalanmiller The same thing goes for cars, trains and planes
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@scottalanmiller said:
The thing about iPhones is that when well treated they can last a very long time. We have several iPads at or about to hit five years, all going through full charge cycles every day and they still run perfectly well. We've only replaced iPhones because we just wanted to update or because we broke the phones - never because they "got old" yet.
Same here.
Though my 3G was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow I finally caved.
That doesn't seem to happen anymore. All of the newer devices run the new iOS updates and run them pretty well.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I got a new 5S just a few months ago. You can have a 4S that was given to you by Apple support not all that long ago.
Huh?
Explain, I'm confused. Unless you mean that you can still get a new iPhone 4S in plastic-wrap. Which OK sure you can, but why would you really want to?
Because you go to support with a phone issue and they give you a new phone. That's what happened to me. Dropped on in a lake... got a new one. So my iPhone 5S cost me "nothing" and is just three months old.
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@scottalanmiller Oh, well doesn't that speak to the fact that they are either really good at refurbishing the phones that come back, or way over built the phones in advance if you're getting a new phone for free?
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@Dashrender said:
@BRRABill said:
I was surprised iPhone ownership was so low.
What most of us don't realize is that that 15% is the USA and Western Europe. It's the rest of the world that makes up most of that 85% of Android.
That might be overstating it. Apple's 15% is mostly USA and Western Europe, and Android probably has around 5-10% of it's sales in USA and Western Europe, but the mass majority of the rest of the globe is Android because of cheap devices.
This is also where MS phones sing. Why, because MS also makes Cheap Phones.
Without the context, those sales figures are very hard to follow. Android is a range of devices, many of which are not compatible with each other. All four of our Androids right now are all Amazon Fire devices and aren't compatible with Google Play devices, for example. They are their own ecosystem even though they share code with the rest of the Android world. Two are tablets, two are set top and none are phones. All four together were about $150. How do you compare that to our two iPhones for a combined $1,400? Are the Androids 10% by money? Are they 67% by volume? Do tablets count? Do "TV" devices count? Do phones count?
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Because I very highly doubt that Apple is still manufacturing an iPhone 4S and 5/5S.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller Oh, well doesn't that speak to the fact that they are either really good at refurbishing the phones that come back, or way over built the phones in advance if you're getting a new phone for free?
Same as any other support / warranty system.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Because I very highly doubt that Apple is still manufacturing an iPhone 4S and 5/5S.
Why? They are super cheap to make now.
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Never said it wasn't.
But it's new to you (repaired and sitting on a shelf) it's not new like the "new car smell".
It's perfectly acceptable, but its likely not new.
