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I've explained this a few times to a few diehard apple fans, and the reaction is the same every single time.

"Oh. Oh shit. I understand now".

And this isn't about them losing the smartphone market, or about them losing the video editing market to Avid, or losing the TV market to Google, or the fact that daily android tablet sales are finally surpassing apple (they lost 10 percent of the tablet market last month alone). This is a very dumb mistake they made a while back, and it will make a lot of seemingly dumb things apple has done seem very clear.

Apple made a big mistake a while back with iOS. In the depths of their ignorance, they wrote iOS to use a specific screen resolution.

What this means:

It means that's the reason apple users are stuck with that dinky screen. It's the reason apple users can't have a 7" tablet.

In order for apple to support a resolution on a device that isn't iphone resolution, or some multiple of iphone resolution (the ipad is exactly double), every single app on the apple app market would have to be rewritten

That bears repeating.

Apple users are stuck with either a really dinky screen, or a really big screen, and will have to wait until smaller screens can be made until they ever see different sized devices.

Apple made a mistake of microsoft proportions. Biggest reason? apple doesn't make anything. That means they are stuck waiting for someone else to make better screens for them. Right now that somebody is Samsung. Apple is Samsung's bitch. Not a great relationship to have with your major competitor that's kicking your ass all over the place in multiple markets.

Even better, they can't build their phones or tablets without samsung.

That's why apple lost the smartphone market. That's why they are losing the tablet market right now. That's why they will lose the tv market. They aren't a manufacturer, they pissed off their parts suppliers by suing them, and they made a retarded design decision that is going to cost them both the tablet and smartphone market.

I'm sorry.

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We had a bunch of beer and liquor and whatnot from the last time. I of course am not partaking because I quit smoking cigarettes about 13 days ago, and even the hint of alcohol and I'll be running to buy a pack.

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GRATS to Samsung for being the top selling smartphone maker in the world!

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Apple Rules Q4 but Samsung Takes 2011 Smartphone Sales Crown – Mobile and Wireless – News & Reviews
Killer Apple iPhone 4S sales enabled Apple to take back the distinction of No. 1 smartphone seller during the fourth quarter. Samsung, however, was the overall 2011 winner.

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THESE ARE THE PEOPLE that will be joining us from Facebook soon since teens are allowed here now. I'm going to be sick. Thanks Google!

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Didn't expect this either! Android tablet sales have surpassed Apple. Already. Jesus, it isn't even February yet. And you know what this means. Just like with smartphones, the gulf will only widen. It's only a matter of time now before Apple loses the tablet market also.

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Android Tablets overtake iPad shipments in December 2011
I've been predicting it for over 6 months here on Google+ and on my blog. That Android Tablet daily shipments would overtake the iPad before the end of 2011. The Strategy Analytics number linked below talks only about the full 3 months of Q4 2011, so not yet comparing daily activations/shipments/sales during just the month of December. I'm pretty sure Android Tablets global daily sales have now overtaken the iPad.

The reason is Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, Archos G9, Arnova G2, Samsung GT 7.0, many other new Android tablets have only been released since around December.

Amazon publicly said they shipped over 4 million Android Kindle Fire tablets in December alone. Apple sold 15.4 Million iPads in 3 months. December sells a bit more than October and November, but you add all the other Android tablets sold worldwide in December, it is thus obvious that Android tablet worldwide daily activations/sales have now overtaken the iPad.

Unless some analysts other than myself and companies directly come with measurements for December and daily sales numbers preferably, you might not see the actual quarterly Android dominance reports before early April 2012 when analysts release Q1 2012 estimations and measurements.

I see no reason for Android tablet market share growth to slow down against the iPad in Q1 2012, the number of new Android tablets is only rapidly increasing, the performance rapidly increasing, with 1.5Ghz Dual-cores, Quad-cores, newer 1920×1200 10.1" screens coming up, more sub $250 high-end Android tablets coming out, it only makes sense that Android tablets just as Android smartphones will only grow in daily activations global market share.

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Strategy Analytics: Android Captures Record 39 Percent Share of Global Tablet Shipments in Q4 2011
BOSTON, Jan 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global tablet shipments reached 27 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. Android jumped to a re…

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I'm a big fan of the Galaxy Nexus, but this still surprised me.

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Galaxy Nexus is better than the iPhone 4S. It costs about $200 to manufacture a Galaxy Nexus (especially because of the 720p 4.65" Super AMOLED HD screen) while the iPhone 4S costs only $150 to manufacture. Ergo the Galaxy Nexus is better hardware than the iPhone. Samsung does give us far more for our money. That is a fact. Samsung represents about 30% of South Korea GDP. It's a huge gigantic company. And their Android business is their strongest fastest growing most promising business. Within about 2 years, Samsung has basically replaced Nokia in the market space that was advanced feature phones and is now becoming Android smartphones. This is exactly where Samsung wants to be, both making the best high-end phones in the world and being the leader in low cost smartphones to be the best positionned to reach the next 5 billion smartphone consumers, which is the ONLY future market for smartphones, soon enough all rich people will have bought their expensive smartphones and soon enough only sub-$100 Android phones will be the ones selling.

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Samsung Beats Apple as 2011's No.1 Smartphone Maker
With 37 million iPhones sold, it's no suprise that Apple dominated the smartphone market during the fourth quarter, but for 2011 as a whole, Samsung managed to edge out Cupertino as the year's top sma…

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My Favorite Fred&Pid'jin

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Top 4 Pid’jin episodes of 2011 | Fredo and Pidjin. The Webcomic.
2011 was a great year. We only wrote 22 episodes, but managed to reach 2.4 million readers, which makes our small black hearts very very happy. Here are our

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One of the things a lot of us have been doing for a while is using dark or all black backgrounds. So I decided to do some real world testing based upon how I use my phone at work. The measure of whether a phone has "enough battery" for me is whether it can last all work day on a worst case scenario day.

1) Phone is in my pocket on vibrate.
2) I'm probably taking 3 or 4 short and 1 long phonecall during the day.
3) I'm probably checking email, gmail, g+, texts, g+ messenger, schemer, and tapatalk messages 200-300 times a day.
4) Something happened to a production system and I'm at work 10-11 hours.

Worst case remember!

Best case scenario after this day, my phone is at 40-50 percent battery when I get home. And the background wallpaper makes no difference. Why?

Because I'm busy. I'm not screwing with my phone. I don't have time to sit down and charge it because I'm constantly on the move. I'm checking my phone on the run because I'm constantly moving or working on something and it's there and convenient. I'm not spending any amount of time on the background at all to reap any power savings.

1) Unlock phone
2) pull down notification bar
3) start grabbing things
4) read them, reply
5) shut off phone

On a typical "chill day" it's irrelevant. I'll still be at 40-50 percent after 8 hours (probably closer to 70) and if I do get stuck in a bunch of long meetings where I'm not really there to participate or pay attention, and I do play shadowgun for 5 straight hours, I have a charger at the desk.

Absolute worse case, I have a spare battery in my wallet, due to have a superior cellphone design that allows you to swap out your battery.

That's why I just embraced my inclination to go way way orange. I know I have a problem.

note: This is a single frame from the end of a series called FLCL I'm using for a wallpaper, and I think it's awesome. So there.

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Was kinda happy for the apple fanboys actually. They haven't had anything to be happy about in a while. Sadly, it was wishful thinking. Android actually grew at a rate double that of iOS.

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http://blogs.computerworld.com/19607/apple_closing_in_android?source=rss_blogs

Yes they are, no they're not bahahaha

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No, Apple isn't 'closing in' on Android
Tons of websites are reporting that Apple is catching up with Android when it comes to smartphone market share — but those websites are completely misinterpreting the data.

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