Samsung Pays Apple $1 Billion Sending 30 Trucks Full of 5 Cents Coins

[d000hg]

MS haven't shafted the WP7 userbase. Such claims seem to be made on behalf of the WP7 user base by people who are not, per se, part of it.

I'm happy with my £160 Lumia, running 7.5.

[The Spartan]

MS haven't shafted the WP7 userbase. Such claims seem to be made on behalf of the WP7 user base who are not, per se, part of it.

I'm happy with my £160 Lumia, running 7.5.

7.5 is ok but things like toast notifications and live tile updates could work better, but we are be abandoned make no mistake about it

[Spacecadet]

7.5 is ok but things like toast notifications and live tile updates could work better, but we are be abandoned make no mistake about it

I'm sure that xda developers will un-abandon you

[bobspud]

What's dumb is people spending 3K just because they think a product will makes them look cool. If App£e continue's with law suits to stifle competition their brand image will inevitably be damaged similar to the way M$'s did in the mid to late 90's. If you detach yourself from technology side of it for a minute and look at it from a market/brand perspective you might see this.

Having the kit to do the job is not about looking cool.

For a little background: Before I spent several thousand pounds on Mac Equipment I bought an HP envy the year before, it was total tulipe and for a business laptop, spent more time away from me being not repaired by HP and their moron sub contractors for various faults than I had it on my desk. It was smallish but had a power pack that you could club a mule to death with and is now considered the worst pile of tulipe I ever bought in IT.
Telling your client that you don't need /want their laptop only to spend most of the contract on your emergency spare that was even worse than their offering is a pain in the arse!

Compare that with the experience I have had with mac equipment and there is no comparison. I bought my MBP, 3 weeks before the new model, they offered me a no quibble upgrade to the new model and a refund as the memory was cheaper...(2010 - 2011 model) I destroyed a pair of ear buds as well. It took me 5 minutes in covent garden to have them replaced for free... (it was not a technical fault they were broken and I asked to pay to repair them....) That's not a free service, its hidden in the margin that apple make on their products.

If I as an apple customer passively allow samsung and the rest of the crapheads to steal design and functionality from Apple every time they bring out the next product, then eventually Apple will be forced into competing on price and mediocre quality instead. I dont want that I am fairly well off, and I want a service that I know that I can't get from PC world and the other PC manufacturers.

In an ideal world, Apple should have been able to say: Hang on! Last year there were no glass screened touch phones on the market, and now there are hundreds. Samsung prove that you had these programmes running before we launched ours and I will compete with you. Or admit that you reverse engineered our product and made your own version and we will take a licence on every one you have sold as a recovery against the effort we put into defining this market for you...

There are very few Angelic companies out in the world If I said **** it, I wont buy your stuff just because you beat up equally big players to maintain your competitive edge then I would be very rich indeed.

[Spacecadet]

Having the kit to do the job is not about looking cool.

For a little background: Before I spent several thousand pounds on Mac Equipment I bought an HP envy the year before, it was total tulipe and for a business laptop, spent more time away from me being not repaired by HP and their moron sub contractors for various faults than I had it on my desk. It was smallish but had a power pack that you could club a mule to death with and is now considered the worst pile of tulipe I ever bought in IT.
Telling your client that you don't need /want their laptop only to spend most of the contract on your emergency spare that was even worse than their offering is a pain in the arse!

Compare that with the experience I have had with mac equipment and there is no comparison. I bought my MBP, 3 weeks before the new model, they offered me a no quibble upgrade to the new model and a refund as the memory was cheaper...(2010 - 2011 model) I destroyed a pair of ear buds as well. It took me 5 minutes in covent garden to have them replaced for free... (it was not a technical fault they were broken and I asked to pay to repair them....) That's not a free service, its hidden in the margin that apple make on their products.

If I as an apple customer passively allow samsung and the rest of the crapheads to steal design and functionality from Apple every time they bring out the next product, then eventually Apple will be forced into competing on price and mediocre quality instead. I dont want that I am fairly well off, and I want a service that I know that I can't get from PC world and the other PC manufacturers.

In an ideal world, Apple should have been able to say: Hang on! Last year there were no glass screened touch phones on the market, and now there are hundreds. Samsung prove that you had these programmes running before we launched ours and I will compete with you. Or admit that you reverse engineered our product and made your own version and we will take a licence on every one you have sold as a recovery against the effort we put into defining this market for you...

There are very few Angelic companies out in the world If I said **** it, I wont buy your stuff just because you beat up equally big players to maintain your competitive edge then I would be very rich indeed.

How much did Apple get for your soul?

[bobspud]

How much did Apple get for your soul?

Here is the odd bit. Once I had lost my temper for the last time on ANY HP product, I said sod it and spent just shy of 8k sorting out my office for Ipads, Macs and screens. I thought about how I used to work and refined my working practices using the new toys and as a result, I turned over just shy of 180k in revenue because I was able to improve the efficiency of my working practices at home and on clients sites. This allowed me to pick a few choice little jobs on the side while I was working on my main gigs.

How?

Well for once I was able to run a significant amount of Virtual machines on my laptop so that made it easy to prototype stuff while I was sat on the train or out at sites. I used to have to reserve this work for desktop machines at home when I was using my HP laptop because the screen was not good enough. I bought Thunderbolt screens so I now my laptop can use Visio to a design studio standard. My clients were very impressed with the improvement in the standard of designs. That gave me more control to work from home because they know I can do that sort of stuff on their kit...

Now I know that as long as I stick inside my ecosystem I get to spend my time working on fee earning stuff rather than fking about trying to make stuff work or rebuilding my laptop... That panned out to 50k in additional work I could not do in a PC environment. in my first year as a mac head...

So to me paying for Apple blingware made me more comfortable at work and a 40k profit

[d000hg]

we are be abandoned make no mistake about it

If you say so.

[Bunk]

If I said **** it, I wont buy your stuff just because you beat up equally big players to maintain your competitive edge then I would be very rich indeed.

And you wouldn't own anything.

I agree though, the way people seem to be treating Samsung as a plucky independent being bullied by Apple is hilarious. They're flipping massive, they can look after themselves.

[The Spartan]

If you say so.

Ahhhh I'm just being dramatic as I used to harp on about how good WP7 is, if they would just make a few little improvements more in 7.8 I would no doubt be happy.

On the subject I own a 5th Gen iPod Nano which I use regularly and have had for some time problem was there was nothing else out at the time and I believe it was overpriced at the time for what it is which is just a portable music player

[Spacecadet]

Here is the odd bit. Once I had lost my temper for the last time on ANY HP product, I said sod it and spent just shy of 8k sorting out my office for Ipads, Macs and screens. I thought about how I used to work and refined my working practices using the new toys and as a result, I turned over just shy of 180k in revenue because I was able to improve the efficiency of my working practices at home and on clients sites. This allowed me to pick a few choice little jobs on the side while I was working on my main gigs.

How?

Well for once I was able to run a significant amount of Virtual machines on my laptop so that made it easy to prototype stuff while I was sat on the train or out at sites. I used to have to reserve this work for desktop machines at home when I was using my HP laptop because the screen was not good enough. I bought Thunderbolt screens so I now my laptop can use Visio to a design studio standard. My clients were very impressed with the improvement in the standard of designs. That gave me more control to work from home because they know I can do that sort of stuff on their kit...

Now I know that as long as I stick inside my ecosystem I get to spend my time working on fee earning stuff rather than fking about trying to make stuff work or rebuilding my laptop... That panned out to 50k in additional work I could not do in a PC environment. in my first year as a mac head...

So to me paying for Apple blingware made me more comfortable at work and a 40k profit

So you bought some HP crap without properly checking the specs before hand and now Apple are the saviours? If you had bought a decent IBM/Lenovo or Dell Precision laptop you wouldn't have had the problem