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Post by qualitywte on Dec 17, 2012 15:13:01 GMT -8
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Ted
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Post by Ted on Dec 17, 2012 19:53:17 GMT -8
Thanks, Quality. Great article. If only Horace would take stab at quantifying what percentage of "Android devices" are actually Google's Android. Anything to debunk their bogus activations number and seeming "dominance"...
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macorange
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Post by macorange on Dec 17, 2012 21:30:21 GMT -8
Best article I have seen in years. Thanks for sharing.
The average buyer of an Apple product becomes a long-term Apple ecosystem user and customer. The average buyer of an Android product will buy an Apple product as soon as he or she can afford it.
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Post by qualitywte on Dec 18, 2012 7:39:31 GMT -8
Best article I have seen in years. Thanks for sharing. The average buyer of an Apple product becomes a long-term Apple ecosystem user and customer. The average buyer of an Android product will buy an Apple product as soon as he or she can afford it. Yes, even if these android market share numbers were legit (which they are not), you still have to consider the "stickiness" of the customer base. The Apple ecosystem certainly has that going for it.
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Post by hledgard on Dec 26, 2012 11:08:34 GMT -8
Neat article. What a thoughtful piece of quality work. Carefully constructed analysis. Thanks !
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Post by rezonate on Apr 29, 2013 13:11:03 GMT -8
Today I received this update for a tiny bluetooth device that we'll be using to keep track of our luggage this summer on the way to and from the world cruise. It gave me an insight into the ongoing disaster that is Android. Samsung is just bumbling along. The advantages of a unified hardware-software-services hegemony are reinforced at every turn. Hi Finders,
With the release of the new Samsung Galaxy S4, we have received questions from new S4 owners. In regards to Samsung S4 compatibility with SNF:
Samsung has decided to finally support Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE). They have released Beta libraries so that we could make Samsung devices compatible with our StickNFind Stickers. The only catch is that the libraries that Samsung released work with Android OS 4.2 and newer. This means that the current Samsung-supported devices with 4.1.2 are not supported by the new libraries released by Samsung.
Samsung S3, S3 Mini and Note 2- devices that are running 4.1.2 as well as the Beta libraries we hacked to work with SNF, are and will stay compatible with SNF stickers and Android app. MUST BE STOCK ROM.
We intend to release SticknFind app with the new 4.2 support very soon. It will be a matter of weeks. We have S4 phones here for development and we are full steam ahead!
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Post by sponge on May 1, 2013 19:04:34 GMT -8
The bottom line is developers. Show me the money is where it all ends.
Initially it may seem like an opportunity of a lifetime to reach all those millions of Chinese Android owners with the right apps.
But fragmentation described by the article will make that very challenging. Sure there will be apps, but quality will be lacking. The good app developers will attempt for a few years before giving up due to lack of profits.
This is a long road and we are in the first few miles of the mobile revolution.
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Post by thomson on Oct 11, 2013 9:27:17 GMT -8
Android market share is having a great capture on the market and this is the way they are increasing their share in the market.
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