charlesarthur

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by charlesarthur 11y ago
D'oh. Proof that it's always good to have someone else read. Thank you - updated.
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
Some argue that Android is itself "a competitor that runs the same OS" - look how many UI/UX features are common to both. "I'd also question whether every device sold by Samsung and the other "premium" And
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
I can't tell if you're being ironic (I suspect you are), but the figure needs to be seen against the market context: in 2Q 2014, total smartphone shipments were 301.4m devices [1]; in 2Q 2015, they were 337.2m [2]. That's an
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"iOS market share has declined tremendously since 2010, from approximately 80% to approximately 20%." Not so. IDC data: iPhones shipped in 2010: 47.45m. Total smartphones shipped worldwide in 2010: 303.9m. iPhone share: 15.6%. iPh
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"There was discussion in reddit about an article about Moto on how its going to change the way mobiles are purchased. One of the top commented reply was about people not willing to buy $400+ mobiles." Motorola is not going to chan
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"Flash(and upcoming AIR) was at the time a true contender for becoming the cross platform desktop/native type application interface. Once Apple banned Flash, companies moved away from the platform and it withered." Simply not
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"Apple pushing ahead with this will just make Google desperately push Android as hard as they can." What does that mean, exactly? "they might be more willing to see Android devices put into consumers' hands at break-even
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"Greater China sales fell by 21% from $16.8 billion to $13.2 billion" That's reading sequential quarters, which pretty much nobody in finance (who wants to be taken seriously) does, because it overlooks seasonal factors. The
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
What's happened is that they've gone to "sites with smaller viewports and less precise input methods because they don't have a mouse and keyboard attached". And in case it had also passed you by, mobile is the predo
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by charlesarthur 12y ago
"I'm pretty sure it takes a little bit longer than swiping my card." It probably does, but swiping your card is about as insecure as a transaction can be. (Thieves love it though - they break into POS systems and there are to
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by charlesarthur 12y ago
No, name it. Why should known bad players go unnamed? They're the ones which will ramp up the cost of doing business because they get defrauded, and you can bet it's not coming off their yacht bills.
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by charlesarthur 12y ago
If you know a better way to get sales figures relating to Amazon products, please let me know.
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by charlesarthur 12y ago
I wrote the original piece above - would love to hear all about your experience. Email easy to find.
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by charlesarthur 15y ago
"I didn't read all the disclosure documents on my mortgage, but I bought the house anyway." You should have read them. All those people who got stung by Adjustable Rate Mortgages? Didn't read the terms either. Now imagine that an app has te