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http://m.techspot.com/news/53011-parents-to-receive-itunes-credit-cash-payments-to-settle-apple-in-app-purchase-lawsuit.html07-23-13 07:36 PMLike 0 - What would your opinion be of this article that Apple is fleecing its customers?
http://m.techspot.com/news/53011-par...e-lawsuit.html
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2mikeo007 likes this.07-23-13 07:39 PMLike 1 -
- Smartphone squeeze cools Apple
Although Apple’s iPhone sales in the quarter came in well above analysts’ expectations, the company’s overall gross margins were 36.9 per cent, a sharp decline from 42.8 per cent in the same quarter a year ago.
The Blackberry's gross margins are similar.07-23-13 08:17 PMLike 0 - Smartphone squeeze cools Apple
Although Apple’s iPhone sales in the quarter came in well above analysts’ expectations, the company’s overall gross margins were 36.9 per cent, a sharp decline from 42.8 per cent in the same quarter a year ago.
The Blackberry's gross margins are similar.undone likes this.07-23-13 08:24 PMLike 1 - What would your opinion be of this article that Apple is fleecing its customers?
Parents to receive iTunes credit, cash payments to settle Apple in-app purchase lawsuit - TechSpot07-23-13 08:58 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1007-23-13 09:07 PMLike 0 - Good quarter for the iPhone, even if It's 4 or 4s, people chose those over current BB and WP with much better specs!
The high end is locked up. BlackBerry has to improve BB10 so it can run with less hardware and sell millions of units in indonesia, india, venezuela, etc. ..Or slide into irrelevance.07-23-13 09:43 PMLike 0 -
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- Since I'm in the industry and work for one of the big 3 providers in Canada, it makes perfect sense that profit margins would be down. Out of all the iPhone sales, a vast majority of them are iPhone 4. The only reason people want the iPhone 4 is because it's free on a contract.
Now I admit for some people the iPhone is the perfect device, but what really irks me is when I ask a customer why they want an iPhone and their response is because my friends have one. They have no other reason to get an iPhone besides that fact, that they want to blend in with the "in" crowd. The iPhone is the phone all the teens want and it's the phone many first time smartphone owners will get. iPhone also has the older audience locked down because it's seen as an easy to use device. I have to admit even though I push BlackBerry as much as I can, there are times when it's just easier to sell an iPhone. I think the devices are garbage and the amount of problems I see with iPhones only solidifies my opinion of them.
It seems to me that for the most part Apple has the younger teens and the older generation on their side and the 20-45 year olds are jumping ship to Android, WP or BB10.
As much as I utterly despise iPhone's, I have to hand it to Apple and their marketing department. They have created a product that works just well enough that people will continue to buy it and will buy it just because their friends have it.
Now don't get me wrong, I'd love to see BlackBerry sell a fraction of the 31.2 million phones that Apple did this past quarter, but I'd also hope that those customers would have a better reason for buying the phones than "my friends have it".07-23-13 10:14 PMLike 2 -
Or am I imagining this?
Not disputing there's an app gap of key titles or more to do. Just have a big issue with this pervasive, "there's no apps on BlackBerry mentality". I have plenty. I use plenty. And yes, I use them on my iPhone and iPad too. I think it's insulting to the developers who've made productivity apps to say there aren't any or aren't any good ones.grover5 likes this.07-23-13 10:20 PMLike 1 -
- Since I'm in the industry and work for one of the big 3 providers in Canada, it makes perfect sense that profit margins would be down. Out of all the iPhone sales, a vast majority of them are iPhone 4. The only reason people want the iPhone 4 is because it's free on a contract.
Now I admit for some people the iPhone is the perfect device, but what really irks me is when I ask a customer why they want an iPhone and their response is because my friends have one. They have no other reason to get an iPhone besides that fact, that they want to blend in with the "in" crowd. The iPhone is the phone all the teens want and it's the phone many first time smartphone owners will get. iPhone also has the older audience locked down because it's seen as an easy to use device. I have to admit even though I push BlackBerry as much as I can, there are times when it's just easier to sell an iPhone. I think the devices are garbage and the amount of problems I see with iPhones only solidifies my opinion of them.
It seems to me that for the most part Apple has the younger teens and the older generation on their side and the 20-45 year olds are jumping ship to Android, WP or BB10.
As much as I utterly despise iPhone's, I have to hand it to Apple and their marketing department. They have created a product that works just well enough that people will continue to buy it and will buy it just because their friends have it.
Now don't get me wrong, I'd love to see BlackBerry sell a fraction of the 31.2 million phones that Apple did this past quarter, but I'd also hope that those customers would have a better reason for buying the phones than "my friends have it".
You don't sound like you work anywhere. You sound like an agitated fanboy who is crying because Apple turned in another quarter of "apple-like" numbers.
You noted that "the only reason people want the iPhone 4 is because it's free on contract." Guess what guy, so is the Z10. That phone is four months old. The i4S came out,...when? I don't even know but it was a while back.
Not sure if you're trolling, but I just wanted you to know it sounds like you are.kenshaw likes this.07-23-13 11:11 PMLike 1 - @Tchocky only bestbuy in the states is selling the Z10 with contract at $1.... people are not jumping on bb10 because of poor marketing and misleading media bashing.
Sent from my BB10 smartphone.07-23-13 11:14 PMLike 0 -
Z1007-23-13 11:16 PMLike 0 - They have not evaded taxes they used the law at their advantage like any other corporations on Earthppeters914 likes this.07-23-13 11:17 PMLike 1
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