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Is the iPhone being left behind ?
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1510325" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>Oh, so "beats" has everything to do with sales figures and nothing to do with usability and quality? No problem, I'll play that brand game. By that logic, <a href="http://visual.ly/2012-global-car-sales-statistics" target="_blank">GM makes the best car in the world</a>, <a href="http://visual.ly/2012-global-car-sales-statistics" target="_blank">Lenovo beats everyone else at the computer game</a> and no, <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/27/2979671/samsung-biggest-phone-maker-93-5-million" target="_blank">Samsung is the largest brand</a> (your word but I presume you meant model). And really, the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/11/08/samsung-apple.html" target="_blank">back</a> and <a href="http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/02/20/apples-iphone-5-passes-samsung-galaxy-s3-in-q4-global-sales" target="_blank">forth</a> between the Galaxy S line and the iPhone line is indicative of the problem in using sales figures as a metric for quantifying "beating."</p><p></p><p>Ford sells more cars than Ferrari. Does that mean that Ford builds a better car than Ferrari? Porsche? Lenovo sells more computers than Apple. Does that mean that Lenovo is better than Apple? In fact, should we look at how many Windows licenses were sold relative to OS X ones? I'm willing to bet that the sales figures there would suggest that the Windows brand easily beats the OS X brand many, many times over.</p><p></p><p>See the pattern here? The problem is simple - sales figures say absolutely nothing of "beating" the competition since "beating" them has nothing to do with volume. And, truly, if you want to play the brand game, the Android brand sells better than the iOS brand (again, your choice of wording, not mine). But really, if you want to stick with superficial arguments on the basis of sales figures, I won't argue that but such a concession says absolutely nothing about something "beating" something else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1510325, member: 71075"] Oh, so "beats" has everything to do with sales figures and nothing to do with usability and quality? No problem, I'll play that brand game. By that logic, [URL="http://visual.ly/2012-global-car-sales-statistics"]GM makes the best car in the world[/URL], [URL="http://visual.ly/2012-global-car-sales-statistics"]Lenovo beats everyone else at the computer game[/URL] and no, [URL="http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/27/2979671/samsung-biggest-phone-maker-93-5-million"]Samsung is the largest brand[/URL] (your word but I presume you meant model). And really, the [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/11/08/samsung-apple.html"]back[/URL] and [URL="http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/02/20/apples-iphone-5-passes-samsung-galaxy-s3-in-q4-global-sales"]forth[/URL] between the Galaxy S line and the iPhone line is indicative of the problem in using sales figures as a metric for quantifying "beating." Ford sells more cars than Ferrari. Does that mean that Ford builds a better car than Ferrari? Porsche? Lenovo sells more computers than Apple. Does that mean that Lenovo is better than Apple? In fact, should we look at how many Windows licenses were sold relative to OS X ones? I'm willing to bet that the sales figures there would suggest that the Windows brand easily beats the OS X brand many, many times over. See the pattern here? The problem is simple - sales figures say absolutely nothing of "beating" the competition since "beating" them has nothing to do with volume. And, truly, if you want to play the brand game, the Android brand sells better than the iOS brand (again, your choice of wording, not mine). But really, if you want to stick with superficial arguments on the basis of sales figures, I won't argue that but such a concession says absolutely nothing about something "beating" something else. [/QUOTE]
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