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I agree with you. How much you should worry about a company is relative to how that company makes their revenue. Here's a breakdown for Apple I made for a frien

I agree with you. How much you should worry about a company is relative to how that company makes their revenue. Here's a breakdown for Apple I made for a friend: https://imgur.com/a/uujaLjS https://imgur.com/a/uujaLjS Even with the growth in services (this doesn't reflect the recent quarters numbers), the hardware sales just dominate their numbers by so much.

s3r3nity 8y ago
Thanks for the chart - surprising to see that "Services" is now #2! Can't sleep on that iCloud / Apple Music growth
asdfman123 8y ago
That kind of puts things into perspective. That giant slice of blue is composed of people who say, "But Android phones are for poor people! Of course I'll spend $1000 on a phone I'll use 1-2 years!"
- tortasaur 8y ago
  No need to start a flame war. Also, considering the pie chart is Apple-only rather than having anything to do with market share, I don't get what Android has to do with anything.
- PopsiclePete 8y ago
  I have 2 Android phones and a couple of IPhones lying around as well. One of the Androids, using sweet-cookie-icecream-sundae whatever version, has the camera app crash on startup pretty regularly. I'm sure "I'm a fool" for using the vendor-supplied crapware and not doing a fresh reinstall and rebuild with this one custom kernel XXX_sw33tH4x_69 put on that forum that uses gcc -03 optimizations, but no, I don't think Androids are for poor people per se, they're just for the same people who thought buying a Wintel laptop in '08 was a good decision. Yeah, it might work out of the box, and you might get "support" from your vendor for the next 6 months, but only if you're lucky. You also might get spyware, adware, and shitware that crashes and makes your CPU's heat up your living room 24/7/365. You never know. Androids are either for people who don't care, or for people who really really know what they're doing and can wipe/clean the OS - same people who bother with Linux at home because they like to tinker. I'm a tinkerer, so I get it, and it's why I have Androids - I'd just never depend on one. Otherwise - I have no idea why anyone would bother. I'll take that new IPhone for $1000 now, thanks.
  - ThrowawayUry 8y ago
    Not all Android vendors are the same (like not all Wintel laptops were the same). I'm on my 5th Android, and I've had awful, mediocre and very good experiences. I currently own a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and it's a fantastic device and will continue buying Xiaomi in the future. I also have a company-issued Samsung Galaxy S8 for work and it's also pretty good (though I don't use it nearly as much as the Xiaomi). I was burned by the Samsung Galaxy Ace though (very crappy). If you have enough money and like the best out of the box experience and don't like tweaking, iPhones are probably your best bet.

s3r3nity 8y ago

Thanks for the chart - surprising to see that "Services" is now #2! Can't sleep on that iCloud / Apple Music growth

asdfman123 8y ago

That kind of puts things into perspective. That giant slice of blue is composed of people who say, "But Android phones are for poor people! Of course I'll spend $1000 on a phone I'll use 1-2 years!"

tortasaur 8y ago
No need to start a flame war. Also, considering the pie chart is Apple-only rather than having anything to do with market share, I don't get what Android has to do with anything.
PopsiclePete 8y ago
I have 2 Android phones and a couple of IPhones lying around as well. One of the Androids, using sweet-cookie-icecream-sundae whatever version, has the camera app crash on startup pretty regularly. I'm sure "I'm a fool" for using the vendor-supplied crapware and not doing a fresh reinstall and rebuild with this one custom kernel XXX_sw33tH4x_69 put on that forum that uses gcc -03 optimizations, but no, I don't think Androids are for poor people per se, they're just for the same people who thought buying a Wintel laptop in '08 was a good decision. Yeah, it might work out of the box, and you might get "support" from your vendor for the next 6 months, but only if you're lucky. You also might get spyware, adware, and shitware that crashes and makes your CPU's heat up your living room 24/7/365. You never know. Androids are either for people who don't care, or for people who really really know what they're doing and can wipe/clean the OS - same people who bother with Linux at home because they like to tinker. I'm a tinkerer, so I get it, and it's why I have Androids - I'd just never depend on one. Otherwise - I have no idea why anyone would bother. I'll take that new IPhone for $1000 now, thanks.
- ThrowawayUry 8y ago
  Not all Android vendors are the same (like not all Wintel laptops were the same). I'm on my 5th Android, and I've had awful, mediocre and very good experiences. I currently own a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and it's a fantastic device and will continue buying Xiaomi in the future. I also have a company-issued Samsung Galaxy S8 for work and it's also pretty good (though I don't use it nearly as much as the Xiaomi). I was burned by the Samsung Galaxy Ace though (very crappy). If you have enough money and like the best out of the box experience and don't like tweaking, iPhones are probably your best bet.