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Heh, Major is a comedian. :) He's confusing "smart-phones" with "disposable phones" hence the market share is skewered towards the cheapest phones. It's easier to buy a dollar phone than it is a 400 buck phone :)

Again, Yes. . anyone will always find a phone that's superior to apple if you look at it as a feature based checklist. That's a given. However, good luck using it. The interface to those features are so convoluted that most users end up not using it, whereas the interface in Apple's iphone are made with a purpose. . and useful. that's one thing that phone manufacturers never came to grasp with, such as Nokia. I think the first "semi-smart" phone to figure that out was the Sidekick. Now. . tell me. . did it have all of the features checklist? . .obviously not, but whatever it did, it made sure the feature was actually used and u could interface with it with the least amount of thinking possible.

As for market share. iPhone has 25% of the smartphone market.

Good luck finding a phone that puts ipad to shame cuz none of them do. .why? cuz ipad isn't a phone.

Now. . wanna me quote a number that "Major" pulled out of his butt for Japan? . . how does 72% strike you? That's the market that iPhone owns in Japan for smart-phones. Wait, isn't Japan supposed to have the worlds most advanced mobile phone market. . yet they're all buying iphones as their smartphone choice. . mmm!

Thy're doing very well there. What Major fails to address is the fact that the telephone company in the US practices a literal monopoly. . u cannot use any phones u want, u can only use a certain phone with a certain company. . example, my sidekick. nobody uses it and I can't use it on any other companies line (sprint/verizon/etc). . why? . . that's the way its structured here. . . in Europe, they sell phones (manufacturers) directly to you. . u figure out which phone company u want. . that's why Apple's model was revolutionary inside the US. . it broke the model. .and and twisted the phone companies to let Apple sell their hardware directly to the people without any of those bs softwares that phone companies lump on their phones, etc. .

Separate biz model. . which Major fails to address . .as usual.

As for functional tablets. . . tablets has been around for decades. . its no biggie. . but guess what? nobody bought them. . only the fringe did. . iPad is the first "mass-purchased" tablet ever. . everybody wants one. . is it because of the feature checklist that Major loves so much? of course not. . if it was how the real world operated. . everybody would be buying HP and other tablets by the boatload. . but as I said. .Apple brought the ecosystem to tablets, rewrote the interface for tablets. . . look at all the tablets pre-apple and post-apple. . stark difference. . In fact, the iPad has given Apple roughly 2 years head start in the tablet market. . there's nothing on the market that even compares. . in its entireity. . not that there won't ever be. . I sure hope that some competitor comes up and beats Apple.

Again, Major's cluelessness revolves the fact that the tablet he uses was a "Desktop" version stampled on a tablet. . wrong interface for the wrong format. . U don't put a Pilot's stick in a motorcycle, nor do you put a cowboy's boot on an olympian 100 meter dasher and expect him to perform equally. Every single interface has to be redesigned acordingly to the hardware. . Major fails to see that. so did MS. .sadly. . they had nearly 10 years jumpstart on Apple and squandered it.

Major needs to learn his computer history. . Macosx is based off the BSD kernel. . developed over at Cargine Melon. . it does full multitasking easily. . Macosx does it just fine. . Major Dumba$$ is referring to the iPhone OS. . which is also MacOSX, but stripped down of all things except for essential stuff. . and the 3rd party multi-tasking was clamped down. . .it does multitasking for all of its own primary software with no sweat. . there's a design philosophy behind it. . u already know it.

Guess who owned the company (NeXt) that Apple bought in order to get their OS? . . Steve Jobs. Lose much sleep? perhaps not. . Nokia lost a lot of share. . RIM's going up slowly, Iphone is rocketing, Android is rocketing.
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