Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "badgolferman" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: People ask if the overpriced underpowered iPhone SE can compete with Android Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:52:55 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:52:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36e0006d772c25bb7a59518f2e115798"; logging-data="2122765"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lWRzQoJFfutKbxwTselxmzg4XjVwXoRo=" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.372 (x86; Portable ISpell) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J823VFG6c8phzT5GyHfu10wrvCA= X-Face: 09>j%-W3HnyolA\I${DXfUw}~nKyLDiU8IwUVM'` X-Ref: reader443.eternal-september.org ~XNS:00002BE2 Bytes: 2490 Alan wrote: >On 2024-07-09 17:20, Andrew wrote: >>badgolferman wrote on Tue, 9 Jul 2024 23:43:37 -0000 (UTC) : >> >>>What the iPhone SE has that the Nothing phone doesn�t is iOS. >>>That alone is worth it to many people. >> >>Hi badgolferman, >> >>You'll never hear me disagree with a sensibly logical statement. >> >>So thanks for pointing that out, which, as you're likely aware, is >>almost completely due to pure marketing spending (not R&D spending) >>by Apple. >> >>As you're likely aware, Apple's R&D spend has always been the >>lowest in high tech - while Apple's marketing spend is one of the >>highest on earth. >> >>Marketing alone, e.g., convincing people to believe that the Apple >>ecosystem is safer and more secure, is what drives that high demand. >> >>Not functionality. Not performance. Not capabilities. >>Marketing alone. > >Note the response you got, BGM.... What specifically in his response do you object to? -- "I think the bottom-line difference between being single and married is this: When you're single you're as happy as you are. When you're married, you can only be as happy as the least happy person in the house." ~ Tom Hertz