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From: badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The facts show Apple is two generations behind Android
 in AI (artificial intelligence)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:39:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> badgolferman wrote on Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:28:00 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>> However, I also note that AirTags are NOT an iPhone feature; so we're
>>> still waiting for even a single iPhone feature that leapfrogged that
>>> of Android.
>> 
>> AirTags are a hardware function of the iPhone feature FindMy.  It is
>> because of FindMy that AirTags have become the standard among trackers.
>> As the document I provided shows, Apple's (iPhone) FindMy network is
>> far more robust than the Android Find My Device network for now.
>> Undoubtedly Google will get it sorted out at some time.
>> 
>> This is sort of a double-edged advantage though.  Trackers are
>> considered anathema to those who value privacy.  For iPhones to have an
>> advantage in something which devalues privacy is somewhat ironic.
> 
> Hi badgolferman,
> 
> The discussion below contains technical and factual and logically sensible
> nuance that an adult should be able to easily comprehend.
> 
> I will never disagree with a logically sensible statement, where I grant
> you that Apple's marketing "leapfrogged" Tile's tags by a million miles.
> 
> Let's accept that as a fact so we don't need to belabor the obvious.
> 
> Now you assert that the AirTags are an iPhone technology, much as you would
> then have to assert that Tiles are an Android technology - which is false.
> 
> However... even those Tiles aren't Android tech any more than AirTags are
> iPhone tech, it doesn't matter to my fundamental observation that Apple is
> five to ten years behind Android technology (due to lack of R&D spending).
> 
> Since you're an intelligent adult, you must understand my point that if
> AirTags are Apple iPhone technology then Tiles are Android phone technology
> - but now comes the nuance that adults are supposed to be able to
> comprehend.
> 
> Let's say you're right:
> a. Let's say that AirTags are Apple iPhone technology
> b. And let's say that Tiles are Android phone technology
> 
> Even if we stretch the "facts" to that (absurd by the way) level, 
> that still means that out of every Apple poster on this newsgroup, 
> you are the only one who found even a *single* iPhone technology that Apple
> leapfrogged Android phones on.
> 
> One item in ten years?
> 
> If we grant you Tiles/Airtags as Android/iPhone technology (which is
> absurd, but I'm willing to grant it as it makes no difference to the main
> point...)... 
> 
> Even if we accept AirTags a priori, that means in the past ten years, Apple
> has "leapfrogged" Android in only a single technology (instead of zero).
> 
> Do you understand that this still makes my point for me?
> 
> Unless people can find more than one technology that Apple has leapfrogged
> Android technology in they past ten years, then my statement will be true:
> 
>  *Due to lack of R&D spending, iPhones are 5 to 10 years behind Android*
> 

Notwithstanding the actual hardware, my point was the FindMy network and
technology behind its use is what Apple has done better than Android. Since
I really don’t know much else about Android that was the one thing I
thought of when you issued your challenge.