Whether or not the "level of greed" is a problem depends on who you are. As an Apple shareholder, I am ecstatic. And, if you believe that Nokia wasn't into this greed thing until Steve Jobs came along, well, I guess you must believe in the tooth fairy too.
Apple shareholder here. I'm glad Apple is milking everyone. I can buy their products because they're making me plenty of money to afford their products.
Other manufacturers hate Apple's so-called greed, but give them a chance they'll be just as effin' greedy. That's what good business means. Grab every amount of leverage you can and bleed suckers dry.
Microsoft become #1 by stealing or monopolizing everything they could at every chance that could get. Microsoft, so far, is the ultimate company. Their greed is unrivaled.
Anyway if the Nokia N95 is so great and so much better than the iPhone, why not just continue to use it to beat the crap out of the iPhone. No need for Nokia to design a better handset to compete. The N95 supposedly already has so many more features than the iPhone so why bother to add more. Wouldn't that be just considered overkill.
The iPhone has next to no handset market share so why should Nokia even sweat about such a upstart wannabe part-time mobile/home electronics company. Nokia should just leave the US market to the iPhone. Now that the media is already declaring the iPhone a flop and a failure overseas in it's first month, it should be smooth sailing for Nokia and it's current iPhone-killer N95.
Hell, Nokia is so damn good, they should start building home computers. To them, I'm sure a home computer is little more than an oversized handset. They just need to scale up their Symbian/Series 80 OS a tiny bit to put Leopard to shame. They should be able to take over Apple's computer market share in a couple of years.
The above chatter is pure sarcasm. Nokia's smartphones are toast.
Interesting. Don't know much about the negotiations between Apple and ATT but a lot of analysts think that Apple would benefit more than ATT if they were free of the contract. Apparently ATT is getting a lot of value from the relationship with apple in terms of new customers. Not sure how this translates into greed on the part of Apple.
You live in a completely immature market and have no idea about the rest of the world. Who ever heard of paying for phone calls you receive? Anyway, enough education.
Apple has screwed the market. Phones will now cost more as and so will the services from the operators. Who do you think will be paying part of this new revenue sharing model.
In short, Jobs "effed" us all with a 3 year old piece of crap phone. Take away the UI and you have a 2004 SE or Nokia.
No wonder the US is the third world when it comes to mobile telephony.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It's heartwarming to see all these mobile phone CEOs who just 6 months ago sneered at the iPhone scrambling to try to emulate Apple's business model.
Well, in their defense, they probably didn't think that the level of greed that Jobs introduced to the game would fly. But suprise suprise...
Whether or not the "level of greed" is a problem depends on who you are. As an Apple shareholder, I am ecstatic. And, if you believe that Nokia wasn't into this greed thing until Steve Jobs came along, well, I guess you must believe in the tooth fairy too.
Apple shareholder here. I'm glad Apple is milking everyone. I can buy their products because they're making me plenty of money to afford their products.
Other manufacturers hate Apple's so-called greed, but give them a chance they'll be just as effin' greedy. That's what good business means. Grab every amount of leverage you can and bleed suckers dry.
Microsoft become #1 by stealing or monopolizing everything they could at every chance that could get. Microsoft, so far, is the ultimate company. Their greed is unrivaled.
Anyway if the Nokia N95 is so great and so much better than the iPhone, why not just continue to use it to beat the crap out of the iPhone. No need for Nokia to design a better handset to compete. The N95 supposedly already has so many more features than the iPhone so why bother to add more. Wouldn't that be just considered overkill.
The iPhone has next to no handset market share so why should Nokia even sweat about such a upstart wannabe part-time mobile/home electronics company. Nokia should just leave the US market to the iPhone. Now that the media is already declaring the iPhone a flop and a failure overseas in it's first month, it should be smooth sailing for Nokia and it's current iPhone-killer N95.
Hell, Nokia is so damn good, they should start building home computers. To them, I'm sure a home computer is little more than an oversized handset. They just need to scale up their Symbian/Series 80 OS a tiny bit to put Leopard to shame. They should be able to take over Apple's computer market share in a couple of years.
The above chatter is pure sarcasm. Nokia's smartphones are toast.
Interesting. Don't know much about the negotiations between Apple and ATT but a lot of analysts think that Apple would benefit more than ATT if they were free of the contract. Apparently ATT is getting a lot of value from the relationship with apple in terms of new customers. Not sure how this translates into greed on the part of Apple.
You live in a completely immature market and have no idea about the rest of the world. Who ever heard of paying for phone calls you receive? Anyway, enough education.
Apple has screwed the market. Phones will now cost more as and so will the services from the operators. Who do you think will be paying part of this new revenue sharing model.
In short, Jobs "effed" us all with a 3 year old piece of crap phone. Take away the UI and you have a 2004 SE or Nokia.
No wonder the US is the third world when it comes to mobile telephony.