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by tambourine_man 840 days ago
Yes, App review sucks, it's only slightly better than nothing.

> I was asking for proof, which you still haven't provided.

And won't, since that's not public information. The best anyone can do is show that it sells like hot cakes.

Reliability doesn't come from sandboxing or notarization only. But from forbidden behavior, less rope for you to hang yourself with. I think that amounts to a much higher percentage of sales than the cool factor of simply attaching an Apple logo, but the precise amount is everyone's guess, of course.
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lapcat 840 days ago
> And won't, since that's not public information.

> the precise amount is everyone's guess, of course.

When I asked "Do you have polls or other consumer research to back this claim?" you could have simply and honestly answered "No", saving us both a lot of wasted time and text.

> The best anyone can do is show that it sells like hot cakes.

This is a red herring. The fact that the iPhone sells, which everyone knows, doesn't explain why it sells.

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tambourine_man 839 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601658
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lapcat 839 days ago
When I asked "Do you have polls or other consumer research to back this claim?" you could have simply and honestly answered "No", saving us both a lot of wasted time and text.
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VladTheImpalor 840 days ago
You've spent a lot of time arguing yourself in circles. Unless you can show that it sells like hot cakes because it's locked down, your argument holds no water. It might sell because marketing, because nice hardware, because great camera, because peer pressure.
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tambourine_man 839 days ago
The camera sensor is a commodity, lenses are limited by physics. UI has basically converged/standardized. The A series is 25% faster than the competition. Apple's marketing is great, but Samsung and Xiaomi are no slouch. Peer pressure alone would assume hordes of brain dead consumers, which is unlikely.

What is the other major differentiation the iPhone has to justify being among 7 of the 10 most sold phones?

You may choose to only make assertions given Tim Cook’s spreadsheets, or you can choose to infer based on the data we have. You can also skip this thread if you think that’s just idle speculation, of course.

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