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Has the mobile industry gone nuts?

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socrates
socrates Original post #1
Aug 21, 2011 at 1:10 PM
See: Elgan: Mobile in chaos -- Has the industry gone nuts? - Computerworld ;-)
Krow
Krow #2
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:32 AM
All offtopic and/or useless posts in this thread have been deleted.

Kindly post matter which is relevant to the original post please. This is not a chit chat thread.
Extreme Gamer
Aug 22, 2011 at 12:51 AM
My post was relevant to the topic. From this article we learn that Apple is evil.
Krow
Krow #4
Aug 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Tut tut. I don't see how aggressive marketing is so 'evil'. Apple makes good products. People are willing to pay a hefty premium, that is not Apple's fault. If Apple is so evil, let people stop buying Apple products.

As for whether your post was relevant or not, we can read and decide.
skeletor
Aug 22, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Android > all.

Regarding sissy lawsuits and patent trolling, the industry has gone nuts.
xtremevicky
Aug 22, 2011 at 11:58 AM
I wont say that the industry has gone nuts but Android has really changed the way the industry was before.

Another new OS from Nokia and then it would be fun !
N
noob #7
Aug 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM
Another new OS from Nokia and then it would be fun !


really ? last i heard they have dumped their own OS and will be using WP7
Extreme Gamer
Aug 22, 2011 at 1:23 PM
@Krow:They dont have ethics. They create a reality distortion field, especially when it comes to Macs.

The LG optimus 2X and the Samsung Galaxy SII beat the Iphone 4 at lower price.
montsa007
Aug 22, 2011 at 1:54 PM
Most of them launch a new handset every week or so with a hope to stay in the market...
doomgiver
doomgiver #10
Aug 22, 2011 at 3:39 PM
@Krow:They dont have ethics. They create a reality distortion field, especially when it comes to Macs.

The LG optimus 2X and the Samsung Galaxy SII beat the Iphone 4 at lower price.

they dont. its all because of the "sheep" syndrome.
p1 : oh, you got an "x", i'll get one too, even tho i'll only ever use it for playing angry birds and tetris.
p2 : yeah, look this company makes other white pieces of **** too, lets buy up all of them and look the same.
(thanks to a particular company which sells white pieces of ****, we face the end of individualism and ppl are mass produced clones. good luck finding your wife in that world. i wonder what nelson mandela has to say about that.)

and because the products are damn simple (read, crippled funcionality) to use, even your average village idiot can use it in a minute.

also, apple beleives in not giving the full worth of the consumer's price in one go. so they release intentionally broken products, and create a totally hyped sales pitch.

after everyone has got their product, they then add a few functionalities(which are EXTREMELY basic and fundamental, like a radio or usb port) to the same shitty product and market it as a totally "NEW" "IMPROVED" device.

and the poor guy who spent all his life's savings on ipoop so that he could finally join the "hip" crowd (read: emotionally disturbed and suffering from a distorted view of reality) finds that he cannot afford the ipoop 2 with the "new and improved" rechargable battery (ipoop 1's battery had to be removed and disposed off after one charge with the same procedure as radioactive waste) and an actual gui.

see? this is why apple is bad. you can find any number of more functional and cheaper products, like android phones, cowon/philips/iriver PMP's etc, but because of hype and mis information, apple will always have a few takers, and thats because people are STUPID, and they dont know whats good for them.
Extreme Gamer
Aug 22, 2011 at 4:26 PM
The world is an expert at making idiots.

So no matter how many engineers we have, the quality and quantity of idiots will always outnumber the idiot-proofness of any device.

Apple has realized this and so it removes all the features, making it "idiot-proof" in the process. Lesser the number of features, lesser the number of idiots to deal with.
The idiots see that it is "hassle-proof" so they tell their idiot friends how "cool" it is. Apple takes advantage and rips them off with the overpricing. They dump old stock in india and charge an even heftier premium over it.
S
Aug 23, 2011 at 10:31 AM
they dont. its all because of the "sheep" syndrome.

and the poor guy who spent all his life's savings on ipoop so that he could finally join the "hip" crowd (read: emotionally disturbed and suffering from a distorted view of reality) finds that he cannot afford the ipoop 2 with the "new and improved" rechargable battery (ipoop 1's battery had to be removed and disposed off after one charge with the same procedure as radioactive waste) and an actual gui.
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see? this is why apple is bad. you can find any number of more functional and cheaper products, like android phones, cowon/philips/iriver PMP's etc, but because of hype and mis information, apple will always have a few takers, and thats because people are STUPID, and they dont know whats good for them.

This is so depressing. Recently, there were news about some Chinese guy selling his kidney for iPhone and some girl announcing to sell her 'virginity' for new iPad.

I'm confused who's to blame here, Stupid sheep mentality people or 'evil wolves' that hunts them down.

Damn, this thread's gone offtopic. Sorry.
doomgiver
doomgiver #13
Aug 24, 2011 at 4:56 PM
sheep mentality.

you can make fences to keep out wolves, but you should blame the sheep when they jump out of the fence into the wolf's belly on their own.