@Martin - I totally agree. Maybe you actually should go ahead and do the blog so that we read :-)

@Dennis - 2 points you have brought about which I don't agree with:

1. "So this guy is proud that it costs Apple less than $200 to make an iPhone but that they sell it for $700 to a "premium market""
No where has he said this - I personally wouldn't want to buy an iPhone for $201 even if it costs $200 to make it. The premium market is in the cost of the handset, and never in the cost of goods - Btw, the $200 tag is cost of goods, you haven't added the marketing & other human factors that costs Apple to run the iPhone-world

2. Malware on Android is more by design than by the OS being of poor quality.
This is exactly what it is, poor initial design quality! 

The biggest selling point of the Android OS (multi tasking) is actually one of the biggest misgivings of the system. The system, for example, treats a touch just like any other process running and thats why you can actually have issues with response times on touch, while iOS stops everything the system was doing to respond to a touch. - This to me was a big trade off. You can't have both worlds, but to the user, you must respond as fast as possible to the touch

./Ok3ch


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
So this guy is proud that it costs Apple less than $200 to make an iPhone but that they sell it for $700 to a "premium market" ?

Motorola had the misfortune of choosing who it wants to sell to, like HTC. They were selling good Android handsets to "premium market" that already owns iPhones. 

Most of the Android market does not have access to Motorola handsets, Nexus handsets or HTC.

I will also go ahead and assume the likes of Tecno are losing money according to the insider, unless they get in the "premium space."

Android biggest issue is that of upselling, where manufacturers want to engage in a wasteful habit of selling you a new smartphone every few years for you to enjoy a better experience. Google does it too by refusing to support Nexus handsets beyond 18 months. Samsung does it with the Galaxy SIII, S4 and S5 by delaying release of software to older versions. 

I don't see the point of the article besides it proclaiming Apple has survived Android  while convincing people to spend a premium on the handset. 

It's good to have both Apple and Android there, no need fighting. Someone might like Apple cause it gives them the feeling of preimumness while I may decide to settle on Android because I hate task switching (I actually hate task switching, prefer multi tasking). 

Also, Motorola had fingerprint recognition (albeit poor implementation) before iPhone. 

The assumption that iPhone is premium has also resulted in a bad habit of iOS apps being ported to android the developers ignoring the feature set in Andoid and limiting the app to the featureset of iOS. 

Malware on Android is more by design than by the OS being of poor quality. There is also lots of way to gain access to your data rather than malware as has been demonstrated in the number of hacked firms in the last year. 



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