impaler
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My original point, precisely. Google drive does. Evernote does. Onedrive does. iCloud doesn't.
Because it doesn't need to, to meet their needs (platform lock in). That would be contrary to why iCloud exists.
My original point, precisely. Google drive does. Evernote does. Onedrive does. iCloud doesn't.
No, honestly I don't care as long as I can use their hardware with my chosen service. I just think they're missing out and surrendering too much of market to Google by having services that doesn't really play well with others. Look at FaceTime, for example, it only works on iOS. A few years ago, this would provide an incentive for someone to buy an Apple product so that they could video chat for free with other Apple owners; now, all it does is providing an incentive for an iPad owner to install Google Hangouts so that they could video chat with anybody and have free phone calls on top. So what does Apple gain by that ?
Apple devices sell like hotcakes. They're not missing anything. Again, I keep saying this, but I'll once again repeat it. For Apple it's NOT about the services...it's about the hardware. If they sell their own hardware, that's their goal. Opening iCloud cross-platform hurts that goal; that's why they don't do it.
FaceTime also works on Macs.
"According to Gartner, Samsung more than quadrupled its total tablet sales over the last year, going from just 8.6 million sold to end users in 2012 to 37.4 million sold in 2013. This has helped Android’s share of the tablet market rise from 45.8% in 2012 to 61.9% in 2013 while Apple’s share has fallen from 52.8% all the way down to 36%."
Again, you don't get it. Apple's not about selling the most of anything. Those that don't understand Apple's view, or really listen to them, think it's about market share. I can also show you stats that show market share doesn't mean much to Apple - Tim Cook's said it many times. Revenue blows away everything else out there right now. Part of what drives the revenue is iCloud - as a binding mechanism to keep folks locked into the platform. Again, you may say you prefer a more open iCloud, but why would Apple change when the revenue is huge?
Android "overtaking" Apple's iPad? Android is an operating system. It's exactly what iEd said. Apple produces one tablet that runs their OS. Android is on almost anything that calls itself a tablet.
The point is, that Android revenue comes straight out of Apple potential revenue.
Not necessarily. Apple revenue is derived from different models and sources than Android revenue. It's long known Google doesn't make any real money off Android, any more than they make money over running Gmail. It's the eyeballs on ads that make them money.
90% of the world runs Windows computers, and nobody will touch their phones, or tablets ... so much for that theory. We gave my sister-in-law a Galaxy Tab 7.2 for her birthday in September which she liked. My nieces husband then gave her in January his old iPad 3 she raves about how awesome it is, and kicked the Galaxy Tab to the curb ...If someone buys an Android tablet, they don't buy an Apple, it's very simple. When it's a tablet that most people buy once every 2-3 years, - if someone bought a competing product, they won't buy yours in another 2-3 years, and chances if they have a good experience they will stay with a competing system. And worse else (for Apple) the young kids now are getting tablets in schools, and many if not most parents are going for cheaper Android tablet for them, so as the kids grow up they are getting used to and invested into Android. If I ran Apple, I'd be providing major incentives to schools, to counter that exposure.
As I said, it's a zero sum game.
90% of the world runs Windows computers, and nobody will touch their phones, or tablets ... so much for that theory. We gave my sister-in-law a Galaxy Tab 7.2 for her birthday in September which she liked. My nieces husband then gave her in January his old iPad 3 she raves about how awesome it is, and kicked the Galaxy Tab to the curb ...