Technologically, the only way to defeat Apple would be to have phones in a similar performance range. If these were made years ago, they would be generations behind.
This. The amount of people getting out the "pom-poms" for an "ElonPhone" and actually believing it would be successful, are mind blowing to me. There was a time when BlackBerry looked like it would own the business world forever. Apple was able to nearly make them extinct within a few years. it's because the product itself was WORLDS better than the BlackBerry. Microsoft, Amazon, and BlackBerry have all tried to dethrone the iPhone and failed. Until something truly better comes along, you are not going to break people away from that iPhone iCloud ecosystem.
And the phone would have to have equal build quality - which judging by the build quality of Tesla, would have to improve significantly. Tesla's are put together like shit. Build and paint defects galore.
it's because the product itself was WORLDS better than the BlackBerry.
You mean the marketing was.
iPhones have always been overrated and nothing more than expensive toys compared to their similar priced Android counterparts. They've tied people into their ecosystem because the majority of Apple users have no idea how to rip their iTunes music collection and put it on an SD card apparently.
In 2012, I purchased my first smart phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note II. It blew the iPhone 5 away. I could even hook up a controller to it with a USB OTG cable and play arcade and other emulated games on the go.
Agreed. Apple's iPhones are pieces of overpriced shit. My wife demanded to have one, the speaker broke in 6 months (no damage done), Apple replaced it. Then the mic on the 2nd phone broke (no damage done), Apple charged me to speak with them, and refused to replace it.
I tried backing up the data to buy a real, working phone (Android + Samsung) and it was encrypted. After 4 hours I finally managed to extract everything.
I took it outside, cherry bombed it with a metal baseball bat, and never looked back. Apple is a marketing gimmick company with shit quality products that only preserve market share due to how hard they make it to migrate to a better option.
"From 2017 and 2021, Apple barely hit 20% of the global smartphone market in annual sales, according to research data."
They are not some kind of untouchable titan in the industry. Android OS runs circles around iOS. Even domestically, it's less than 50% of the market, and we're hardcore Apple fanbois here in the US.
It's the next Blackberry and I hope someone disrupts the market in a big way. A StarLink phone w/o bloatware and an intelligent app marketplace would be an awesome alternative to have.
You can get an Android phone without the bloatware if you install a custom ROM with AOSP (Android Open Source Project) but you may run into conflicts with apps that relies on certain services and dependencies.
If you just want a bare-bone phone that will only do texting, emailing and some more (calling including), a custom ROM will do all of that and won't come with the bloatware.
we're hardcore Apple fanbois here in the US.
Outside of my social circle, I've seen a lot with an iPhone but the ones I know, don't have an iPhone. The ones who I know that owns an iPhone, are the ones who are naive, gullible and not so intelligent.
This is why I've always considered the iPhone more of a social status for the dummies. No offense to anyone on here who owns an iPhone but for me, it's very limited as if we're in a walled garden and I couldn't do much with it as far as customizing goes. Not even interested in jailbreaking an iPhone to unlock "features" that was already on an Android phone with the stock ROM. Plus it's always 2 years behind on everything. It took Apple forever to implement Bluetooth and NFC (I believe it has NFC now?)
That's why my first smart phone was the G1 and I loved it so much I kept buying Google's flagship phones. I would switch to a different OS/phone now that Google is a cucked company, but my options are limited here.
If Elon's new phone will be Android/Linux based, I will switch to it in a heartbeat, but if it will follow the same vein as the iPhone, no thanks.
Technologically, the only way to defeat Apple would be to have phones in a similar performance range. If these were made years ago, they would be generations behind.
People aren't just buying phones for Twitter.
This. The amount of people getting out the "pom-poms" for an "ElonPhone" and actually believing it would be successful, are mind blowing to me. There was a time when BlackBerry looked like it would own the business world forever. Apple was able to nearly make them extinct within a few years. it's because the product itself was WORLDS better than the BlackBerry. Microsoft, Amazon, and BlackBerry have all tried to dethrone the iPhone and failed. Until something truly better comes along, you are not going to break people away from that iPhone iCloud ecosystem.
And the phone would have to have equal build quality - which judging by the build quality of Tesla, would have to improve significantly. Tesla's are put together like shit. Build and paint defects galore.
You mean the marketing was.
iPhones have always been overrated and nothing more than expensive toys compared to their similar priced Android counterparts. They've tied people into their ecosystem because the majority of Apple users have no idea how to rip their iTunes music collection and put it on an SD card apparently.
In 2012, I purchased my first smart phone, a Samsung Galaxy Note II. It blew the iPhone 5 away. I could even hook up a controller to it with a USB OTG cable and play arcade and other emulated games on the go.
Agreed. Apple's iPhones are pieces of overpriced shit. My wife demanded to have one, the speaker broke in 6 months (no damage done), Apple replaced it. Then the mic on the 2nd phone broke (no damage done), Apple charged me to speak with them, and refused to replace it.
I tried backing up the data to buy a real, working phone (Android + Samsung) and it was encrypted. After 4 hours I finally managed to extract everything.
I took it outside, cherry bombed it with a metal baseball bat, and never looked back. Apple is a marketing gimmick company with shit quality products that only preserve market share due to how hard they make it to migrate to a better option.
"From 2017 and 2021, Apple barely hit 20% of the global smartphone market in annual sales, according to research data."
They are not some kind of untouchable titan in the industry. Android OS runs circles around iOS. Even domestically, it's less than 50% of the market, and we're hardcore Apple fanbois here in the US.
It's the next Blackberry and I hope someone disrupts the market in a big way. A StarLink phone w/o bloatware and an intelligent app marketplace would be an awesome alternative to have.
You can get an Android phone without the bloatware if you install a custom ROM with AOSP (Android Open Source Project) but you may run into conflicts with apps that relies on certain services and dependencies.
If you just want a bare-bone phone that will only do texting, emailing and some more (calling including), a custom ROM will do all of that and won't come with the bloatware.
Outside of my social circle, I've seen a lot with an iPhone but the ones I know, don't have an iPhone. The ones who I know that owns an iPhone, are the ones who are naive, gullible and not so intelligent.
This is why I've always considered the iPhone more of a social status for the dummies. No offense to anyone on here who owns an iPhone but for me, it's very limited as if we're in a walled garden and I couldn't do much with it as far as customizing goes. Not even interested in jailbreaking an iPhone to unlock "features" that was already on an Android phone with the stock ROM. Plus it's always 2 years behind on everything. It took Apple forever to implement Bluetooth and NFC (I believe it has NFC now?)
That's why my first smart phone was the G1 and I loved it so much I kept buying Google's flagship phones. I would switch to a different OS/phone now that Google is a cucked company, but my options are limited here.
If Elon's new phone will be Android/Linux based, I will switch to it in a heartbeat, but if it will follow the same vein as the iPhone, no thanks.