An article from Apple Insider trashing Android? Shocking! On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 2:51 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.
-- with Regards:
blog.denniskioko.com <http://www.denniskioko.com/>
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