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To: Swordmaker

Your Opinion is just that....yours

I am shopping for that junk right now, and I am willing to spend 3-6X the price for said junk.

Have an apple


63 posted on 11/23/2015 6:45:24 PM PST by dila813
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To: dila813
I am shopping for that junk right now, and I am willing to spend 3-6X the price for said junk.

So you say you are willing to pay 3-6 times the price for low end Android tablets and phones from white box makers who build junk they install older versions of Android on that can never be upgraded? Why would you do such a delusional thing, dila, because that is the large percentage of Android tablets and phones I was referring to. Many of those Android devices lack the ability to be updated or even connected to the web. If you WANT to buy that junk, more power to you. . . But that is what about 40% of the reported Android devices are. Junk. . . Suitable only for landfills, which is where many of them wind up because they don't sell.

Even Samsung's product mix turned out to not be what they represent. Under court order, Samsung was forced to reveal they actually ship a product mix of only about 30% smartphones, 40% feature phones, and another 30% basic dumb phones, all listed under the umbrella of their "smartphone" phone shipped statistics! Many Android makers do not even attempt to compete in the smartphone category, choosing to concentrate on the feature phone market instead because of bandwidth concerns in much of the second and third world where smartphones are of little use.

64 posted on 11/23/2015 9:08:31 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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To: dila813
I am shopping for that junk right now, and I am willing to spend 3-6X the price for said junk.

So you say you are willing to pay 3-6 times the price for low end Android tablets and phones from white box makers who build junk they install older versions of Android on that can never be upgraded? Why would you do such a delusional thing, dila, because that is the large percentage of Android tablets and phones I was referring to. Many of those Android devices lack the ability to be updated or even connected to the web. If you WANT to buy that junk, more power to you. . . But that is what about 40% of the reported Android devices are. Junk. . . Suitable only for landfills, which is where many of them wind up because they don't sell.

Even Samsung's product mix turned out to not be what they represent. Under court order, Samsung was forced to reveal they actually ship a product mix of only about 30% smartphones, 40% feature phones, and another 30% basic dumb phones, all listed under the umbrella of their "smartphone" phone shipped statistics! Many Android makers do not even attempt to compete in the smartphone category, choosing to concentrate on the feature phone market instead because of bandwidth concerns in much of the second and third world where smartphones are of little use.

65 posted on 11/23/2015 9:10:17 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
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