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I assume you are implying that if the software can be updated, there would be no need for new hardware. Yet, for Apple, the opposite seems to be true :)
by dukoid 9y ago
I assume you are implying that if the software can be updated, there would be no need for new hardware. Yet, for Apple, the opposite seems to be true :)
- laumars 9y agoApple is an edge case in so many ways that Android OEMs differ: * Apple has a greater following of "must have the latest" consumers than most Android OEMs put together * Apple makes money from the app store. Both selling apps and developers submitting apps that expose cool new features in iOS. * Apple can release iOS updates that coincide with newer handsets but with software features only exposed in the newer hardware. Which also helps with the adoption of newer hardware.
- wvenable 9y agoApple is smart -- they sell one version of their phone -- all the price differentiation comes from continuing to sell last years model (and the year before that, and so on). Compare that to Samsung: they have high end phones, mid-range phones, and low-end phones in addition to last year's model.
- scotu 9y agoto be clear I don't agree with this hw manufacturers. Yet they assume what you were implying. And their products are not the same as apple's