Re: People ask if the overpriced underpowered iPhone SE can compete with Android

Jolly Roger wrote on 11 Jul 2024 15:59:31 GMT :

You're clearly doing it wrong.

The point of this thread had nothing per se, to do with Apple being a
purely marketing company with almost no R&D as reported many times and
confirmed by Steve Jobs & Tim Cook since they can't lie about financial
metrics.

Apple has essentially no R&D for its size.
But Apple is on the Coco-Cola scale for its advertising.

Don't you wonder why Apple is years behind Android in almost everything?
Hint: 5G modem...

Back to the point, where badgolferman astutely confirmed that it doesn't
matter to most Apple owners that Apple can't compete with Android on
functionality or price:performance since Apple advertises otherwise.

And the Apple user believes it.
Why?

Heh heh heh... some day you'll figure out why the Apple user believes every
single thing Apple has ever told them - and - in the case of you rather
strange religious zealots - you don't even believe Apple's public reports.

Such as the fact that Apple's R&D spend is atrociously puny compared to the
size of the company when compared to ANY other similarly sized tech outfit.

Apple's R&D spend is even more abysmal when you compare Apple to phone
manufacturers, such as Samsung - but Samsung makes more product than Apple.

The fact is Apple's huge profits are all due to marketing - not innovation.
You know that because you can't dispute the numbers which are widely known.