Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“I think that every kid that has given up his or her BlackBerry seems more likely to have progressed on to an iPhone, and here it gets rather interesting because you then see those who have got an older model (likely handed down from a parent that upgraded), a brand new phone (where did they get the money?) and increasingly the 5c, given it is a bit (but not much) more affordable, but possibly a bit more funky than the metal ones.
I assume it's partly the Apple brand, plus the access to apps and games, plus easy messaging - Whatsapp having now replaced BBM.”
“I think that every kid that has given up his or her BlackBerry seems more likely to have progressed on to an iPhone, and here it gets rather interesting because you then see those who have got an older model (likely handed down from a parent that upgraded), a brand new phone (where did they get the money?) and increasingly the 5c, given it is a bit (but not much) more affordable, but possibly a bit more funky than the metal ones.
I assume it's partly the Apple brand, plus the access to apps and games, plus easy messaging - Whatsapp having now replaced BBM.”
You could be right,
I myself, while i like Apple computers, I have never been a fan of their other devices, but then I am getting into the 50 year old time, so I do not go by what is cool or trendy. Come to think of it, I do not think i ever have
[/quote]
I'm sure in terms of numbers Android does well too, but it's probably all peer pressure. Now it's lame to have a BlackBerry and you need an iPhone. In 5 years, it might all change again.[/quote]
But it is not like for like, IOS is available on phones supplied by one company, and for that they done well and it was apple that really got the the smart phone started as we have it today. That is not to say it would never start, but things could have been very different.
Android is a OS produced by one company that multiple companies are now using to put on their own phones and other devices, like it is not just phone and tablets that Android is on. you can even buy a all in one computer with Android, why anyone would is another thing.
Windows, while MS wanted the phone version to be put onto other phones, it is not really working out the way they have planned and I believe that sooner or later the only company selling phone with Windows on will be MS.
Tablets will be a different thing, so is computers
Blackberry, again their own OS and their own phone, sadly they did not really update and lost the game. I did look at their new touch screen phone just before I got my N4, but it was too expensive.
I do not get into these BBM and Whatsapp, I only got facebook messenger on my phone, because most people i know uses SMS and if I started to put all these message apps on it just confuses thing.




