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Apple doesn't care what icons are on the home screen as long as that home screen is on an iOS device, because the device is where they make their money. I doubt
by YooLi 14y ago
Apple doesn't care what icons are on the home screen as long as that home screen is on an iOS device, because the device is where they make their money. I doubt Apple is losing sleep because I don't use their mail app.
The more revealing take-away from people having iPhone home screens full of Google apps is why they aren't using an Android phone.
- Zikes 14y agoIsn't Apple notorious for shutting down apps that usurp their markets?
- its_so_on 14y agomore specifically, Apple is Apple for shutting down apps that usurp their markets. But don't worry - Apple won't be Apple for much longer, and it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots.
- betterth 14y ago"Apple won't be Apple for much longer, and it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots." That's some hilarious armchair analysis. Got any polls, statistics or.... anything... to back that up? Or just stereotypical Apple-is-going-to-fail bs that people have parroted for the past two decades straight?
- its_so_on 14y agoThis time it's different. This time it's failing by deciding to act as much as a beige undifferentiated manufacturer as possible. If you like I can send you a complete analysis.
- betterth 14y agoSeeing as I completely and totally reject your conclusion on a fundamental level, I would like to see the analysis. Apple has remained sexy in the face of mainstream, a feat that I'm incredibly impressed by. Say what you will but many, many people still buy iPhones today because of the allure of it -- and if what you had said was true (that Apple was acting as as a beige undifferentiated manufacturer) than the exact opposite would be true. People wouldn't find Apple's products alluring any more. Seems to me that the only people who don't find Apple's products alluring today are the same ones who never have -- and Apple gives as many shits about them today as they did a decade ago (none).
- stcredzero 14y ago> it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots. Elaborate?
- seabee 14y agoYou lose your premium sheen when you start giving away your products (iPhone 3GS for free).
- betterth 14y agoNotice how unlike Android phones, they don't introduce NEW phones at cheap price points? How they use old models for free and cheap models? This is intentional -- users understand that free and cheap go along with old, and users don't mistake their old/cheap device for the new hotness. Now, with Android, the effect you're describing happens 100%: People buy brand-new Android phones that are free/cheap and get disappointed "but I thought it was an Android, I thought it was better than iPhone" or something. I think Apple's maneuver here is deft, because you won't see a 3GS owner claiming they have the new hotness, but you will see them still coveting the new hotness (which is 100% the point).
- its_so_on 14y agothey very much do care. If the only button anyone clicked on the home screen was "Firefox" and then did everything from there forever, pretty soon people would realize they don't really need an iPhone and would buy a far-less premium device. This is exactly what will happen in Apple allows Chrome. They should remove it from the app store. It's against their policies and just like flash in mobile safari (firefox on ios is exactly like flash in mobile safari): All the arguments about not being "as native" are just as true, and Apple no longer has a Safari community across its devices to corral around and for developers to target. Tim Cook is running Apple into the ground by removing Apple's user experience differentiation. He is creating beige boxes. Samsung can do that. Asus can do that. He needs to take a look at what the fuck Apple even is.
- benihana 14y ago>Tim Cook is running Apple into the ground by removing Apple's user experience differentiation. He is creating beige boxes. Samsung can do that. Asus can do that. He needs to take a look at what the fuck Apple even is. Are we thinking of the same Apple? Because the iPad 3 and the retina Macbook Pro don't really conjure up images of beige boxes for me.
- betterth 14y agoAnti-apple fanboys are rabid in this thread, today. But as anyone who deals with the anti-fanboys on a regular basis can tell you: haters gonna' hate.