₦airaland Forum

NewsHub:
You have a wrong notion about how the music industry in Nigeria works. They don't make money from album sales. Rather they make money from endorsement deals and shows.

I believe you know they have been Globacom ambassadors for a while now. Do you know how much they are being paid? What about their performance fees?

Yes there are lots of cosmetic lifestyle in Showbiz but i tell you the truth, some of them are making serious money. And people like psquare that understand the 'biz' aspect of Showbiz, are doing very well.

I used to live with a comedian friend in Abuja and trust me what that guy earns to make people laugh for a few hours (and sometimes for just 1 hour) is equal to a Bank Manager's monthly salary. And funny enough the guy is still an upcoming comedian.

There is money in showbiz. That's the truth! And it's possible for Psquare to be billionaires in Naira.

Endrosements are an average of N30m per tenure. The highest may go up to N60m. That's that's less than the price of a good mansion here in nigeria. Assuming they get paid even say N100m. How would that purchase a few cars worth tens of millions, houses worth more here and abroad, vacations, expensive clothings, drinks, planes, etc?

Two or 3 cars would even gulp the entire amount, and endorsements are not renewed monthly, nor is the payout given in lump sumps.

PQsuare most certainly, definitely ARE NOT billionaires.

machi25:
suit yourself sweety am not gonna exchange words wit you if that's what you want but if you have been a victim of fake pastors and you are frustrated,it's your problem DEAL WITH IT. as for me am JESUS baby and he answers me when I call on him

You're right. I shouldnt make fun of religion. Sorry.

HungerBAD:
Good thing to see Biafran's in France holding their brooms, and shouting Sai Buhari.

Nice one my Diaspora Biafran's.

Those are not igboes. The igboes in France are all in jail.

donholy28:
dat one concern them...anyway am waiting for Linda to marry o

Seun is doing her shakara. Her gums put him off.

DEXTROVERT:
Good day friends, Pls, Disregard the Rumour circulating in social media that President Buhari Short-Listed My Name
Among His Ministerial List, Though HeCalled Me, But I Turned-Down The Offer because of my commitment and dedication to NYSC. Thanks for ur concern.
Have a fruitful week...




In shot...oga seun, what do you think?

First laughter of the morning!

Why are washed out comics like AY making millions when we've original talents like you?

This lying twins are back again.

One week, one new house. Something's fishy here.

For reference, read up on how 50 Cents admitted to living a fake life all centered around borrowing flashy stuff to exude success when he declared for bankruptcy..

I dont believe this guys are billionaires; i dont believe music no one buys or a few shows here and there can make them so stupendously rich to buy a house every other day, or to rent expensive apartments. They spend more time on Instagram than in the studio.

Gombs:
Yaaaay...

Finally, some good news. I hope no strings attached? Not the one that tomorrow now, we'd be surprised to see same sex marriage approved, and lai Mohammed will come tell us that Lord Bubu never said he'd uphold the law as signed by GEJ.

There are 2 things that form a lot of current nigerian paranoia but which can never happen:

1. Same-sex marriage can never be legalized; christians, muslims, and animists alike would fight to the bitter end to prevent it

2. No one can islamize or chistianize Nigeria; the same set of people above would see to that.

Same-sex relationships, even outside religion, are abominations against nature.

DISCLAIMER: I do occasionally watch lesbian p0rn.

Truckpusher:
Jerk off boy with a jerk off face, how are you this morning ?

i'm good. How's the truck pushing? I hope when you push, the truck doesnt push back.

machi25:
that you are in a fight with your Maker doesn't mean that everyone is.. Go settle with God because you have all to lose if you don't. no man can strive or contend with his creator

point is, he's still sick after your voodoo incantation.

I'd take you seriously only when you actually heal him, Hermione, but not just when you just blow hot air like your conmen pastors are fond of doing to milk you ignorant sheep dry of every penny just so they can buy jets and castles.

Octaves:
What do you expect them to sing when auto-tune was doing the singing for them in the studio.
We dont have real vocalists in Naija (except for very few). All we have are commercial hit makers with no real singing talent. Put most of them on stage and give them a standard classic song to perform and 90% will flop so hard. Most Naija ppl dont even appreciate real singing talent. They love auto tune and could care less if an artiste is performing life or playing the very studio record u already have on ur i pad

bless you! this has been driving me batshit crazy. some youg punks here in nairaland have also joined the autotune train.

sonOfLucifer:
hAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH
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SEe the h0rny, unintelligent oaf preaching to me about life. if the life you have is a gift from any Supreme being, I'd rather be dead. What is to be grateful for the act of breathing. Even mosquitoes and ants breath. Go get a life and stop infesting this platform with your irrational, myopic statements. Get a life, get exposure. Nairaland likes won't improve the quality of your life, ask your mentor barcanista.


EDIT: OBLIGATORY GERRARAHEEREE

rip him to shreds! tear that mofo a new one!

And if the rest of the vermin ( tonyebarcanista, truckpusher, severussnape, mogidi ) skulk out of their caverns, kill them all with hell fire.

MichaelSokoto:
Mbanu!

Bet ah u a DSS official?

yes.

now where is that vaseline....

MichaelSokoto:
Sai Baba is workin!



To d poster above me, abeg help me slap dat guy wey comment above u!
Tenk u!

Are you related to kabiru sokoto?

Dont fall for it.

Its all fake, most of those cars were snapped at different locations. im guessing some were his dad's, others were probably visitors to his dad.

This picture is from the Audi Club Miami on instragram/ instawebgram

martineverest:
Sp3 is a yr old compared to ipad..sp3 is gradually taking ipad away 4rm the elites and the enterprise.apple need to be scared.samsung,dell,lenovo and xiaomi are all coming out with their surface-esque windows 10 tablets nxt month.sammy and dell surface devices are to av 4k screen.sp4 ll be lauched nxt month

ok. good. moving on....

caukerzee:
The ban being vetoed is not the issue here (That's America's way of saying "we protect our own", anyway). Apple has been found to infringe on Samsung patents in the past which refutes your claim that the copying goes one way.



The prople who granted the patent probably never heard of the Neonode N1m. Samsung had already brought the lowly Neonode N1m in front of the court there -- and had Apple's claims over slide to unlock determined to be "trivial and likely invalid", and the court refused to consider them even though there was evidence of prior art. That's how the judicial system works over there.



It is not that Apple has blatantly copied the ATIV S, but we can say that it is inspired by the same and Samsung has neatly ported the same for their latest flagship.
You keep talking about profits as if the profits are shared amongst customers. We're talking about consumer satisfaction and experience.


I'm not even talking about my pocket here. For the majority of people who would like to purchase the device ₦ 150 000 is expensive

The Exynos 7420 is actually better in a number of ways. The A9 has not been tested yet so I can't talk about it.
The E7420 SoC has an integrated LTE cellular chip. LTE is capable of downloading at faster speeds than older, 3G technology, Clearly more CPU threads 8vs 2 (Apple A8), Distinctly higher GeekBench result 5478vs 1606 (Apple A8), Significantly faster CPU clock speed 8.0 x 1.5GHzvs 2.0 x 1.4GHz (Apple A8), 14nmvs 20nm (Apple A8), Uses big.LITTLE technology.

These features don't 'confuse', they empower users with choice.



Android fragmentation in 2014 and beyond is a myth. A large percentage of Android users are still not running the latest version of the Android OS, Lolipop 5.0. And Google is making no bones about that, as itregularly posts the latest OS usage figures on its developer portal. Play Services is more important than OS installs when planning and designing an Android app. Play Services, introduced in 2012, is effectively a background download of core services required to run apps on Android. Putting the OS install numbers to one side for a moment, this is the stat that matters to developers – over 93 percent of all Android users are running the latest version of Google Play Services.



So does Android's



It is a future proof spec. Believe you me, Apple in the future will adopt this technology.
Explain how apple, without those high Res screens produce worse battery life and battery management than most android Flagships?



Again the profits the make is non of our business. How well I'm satisfied with the products they churn out is the case. Android offers the luxury of choice, iOS doesn't.



These features are there, in the case of accidents not for fun and bragging rights.



There's something called accident. It can happen to anybody no matter how careful one is. You think one just wakes up one morning and says; "Hey! I'm feeling lucky today. Let me smash my phone over that wall!".



1. How can you say hardware is irrelevant to user experience? For 5K displays to be impactful, even greater levels of GPU acceleration are needed. Additionally, powerful graphics processing advancements are driving new user interface concepts, enabling your device to see, hear, and recognize you, using advanced face recognition, voice recognition, and real-time recognition of hand and finger gestures, biometrics and more.
2. You simply just gave me a really useless history less and didn't answer me. Apple is adopting more features from android than android is from apple. Doesn't matter who started first. A poor copy you say? Tell that to the 80% of the market who use androids.

you know what? I'm bored with this topic, being one of those turf fights that never end. You like your Androids and Samsungs, fine, good for you. ive producst from various OEMs, so this whole thing is moot to me.

It's been an interesting back and forth, but here is where i move on to other things.

See you out there.

TruthisOut:
Don't worry I will tell him to use vaseline.... rubbish! Ethnic bigot!!! I have gone through your posts - why are u so bitter?!!!

The hell is this nonentity?

keep moving, arsehole.

martineverest:
.ipad pro was made due to popularity of microsoft surface pro tablet,which d major reasøn y ipad is wading away.the fall of galaxy note pro 12.2 has made samsung go back to draming board.thus,the production of rumoured windows 10 tablet with 4k amoled screen.which ll be a major competitor to ipad pro and surface pro

Why is everyone assuming that the ipad is a direct competitor to the surface pro? When Microsoft anounced surface there 2 product lines: Pro and RT. Pro is x86/64 based to compete with Macbook Air and other Ultraportables, RT was ARM based to compete with iPad and other tablets. Microsoft killed the RT line in favor of the non-pro Surface which is x86 and competes still with tablets and lower end ultraportables.

As for sales, in the first quarter of this year Apple sold $9 billion worth of iPads, while Microsoft made $713 million from Surface. So yeah, Apple is really afraid of Microsoft

Just so no one accuses me of "licking Apple's arse" again, behold my diversity.

1. Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (Core i5, 4Gb, 128Gb and a 64Gb SD)

2. Apple iPad Air 2 128Gb

3. Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Duos and Galaxy S6 Edge + (arrived last night, 32Gb)

4. Photo taken with LG G 3

5. Plans to buy iPhone 6S Plus and Elephone Vowney insha Allah whenever i get another job, or contract.

So, i dont stick to one brand or platform. I mix and match.

martineverest:
Not really interested,tho.my line is very different 4rm computer science/engineering.

I never studied computer formally, bar a certificate on Cloud Computing from IEEE/Harvard. I studied business admin. i learned out of my own resources, maybe becaue i have the interest. I'm not a technical engineer; i'm a solutions engineer.

i dont code very often or very well, but i speak the language of programming, i know syntax and the principles (pseudocode, algorithm), I know electronics and how almost each component works, i know networking, wireless technologies, astrophysics, atomic physics, rudimentary chemistry, 3D graphics and animation, virtualization, a little linux, semi conductors, software stacks, and so much more. i know gaming, movies, etc

All on my own time and informally. Anyone can be anything they want with a little effort. A friend learned programming and web dev strictly via youtube, now he earns N100k per week in my former employer.

Seems like we're gonna be doing this all day.

caukerzee:
On June 4, 2013, Samsung won a limited ban from the U.S. International Trade Commission on sales of certain Apple products after the commission found Apple had violated a Samsung patent

The so-called ban was vetoed because it was a Standards Essential Patent; you cant enforce a ban on SEP.

caukerzee:
1. Slide to unlock existed on an old Windows CE device in 2005. Two years before the OG iphone was announced.

And this mystery phone is? I only ask because because US patent number 8,286,103 specifically broadly covers continuously moving an image to a general unlock region on the screen to unlock the device.

If the bolded was prior art (i.e it existed before) why was this patent granted to Apple?

caukerzee:
Galaxy S6 isn’t inspired from iPhone, but from Samsung’s own Ativ S which wad out way before the iPhone 6

Heck no. Samsung Galaxy Ativ S image attached at bottom. looks nothing like the iphone 6. It supports Sdcards, has a removable battery, no glass panel at back, no drilled speaker grilles, and it runs windows 8.

caukerzee:
Samsung is the only reason Styluses are relevant today.

partially true, but only as applies to mobile phones, because Wacom has been doing just fine with stylus, being its raison d'etre.

caukerzee:
Heck, apparently apple brought back the stylus because of Samsung’s success with it.

I thought you Android people kept saying Apple brought in a stylus because of surface? Look, Apple has been doing very well more than Samsung. infact, year-on-year samsung mobile can only dream of Apple's profits. Apple brought in a stylus because it was a natural evolution of a touch interface on a canvas large as the iPad Pro's.

caukerzee:
There's a difference between CHEAP and affordable. ₦ 150 000 is not chesp

All prices are relative. To you ₦ 150 000 is not cheap, but to someone wealthier than you or with more disposable income ₦ 150 000 is chicken feed. A Friend of mine last year bought a Vertu Signature Touch for N2.2m.

caukerzee:
Samsung galaxy S6 actually matches the iPhone 6 performance in day to day use. Thanks to the E7420

Matches? Shame on samsung. A 2015 quadcore phone with 3gb ram is bragging about matching the performance of a 2014 dualcore phone with 1gb ram? how revealing!

caukerzee:
Android takes off the training wheels

The key appeal of the original iphone was "ease of use", and it remains so to this day. Boasting of having a bewildering array of features and customization that only serves to overwhelm and confuse the non-geeky users is hardly a plus, and does not help with user satisfaction ratings, where iPhone is king with the highest ratings.

caukerzee:
consumers have a swath of hardware and software to choose from

Which often leads to one of Android's key issues: fragmentation.

caukerzee:
access to key technologies, such as NFC pairing

This is a somewhat valid point, but then again all 1st party and 3rd party accessories for iphone certified by Apple always work seamlessly.

caukerzee:
4K screens that Apple doesn't think its users are ready for.

I've said this before. 4k on phones is meaningless. beyond 422 ppi any additional pixel is pointless battery drain. most people cannot differentiate between 1080p and 1440p, so UHD is just an unnecessary spec. Until the argument can be made that having 800 pixels per inch justifies the cost, GPU cycles, and battery drain, Apple is better off not bothering. However im perfectly OK with 2k. 4k will be useful only when VR takes where the pixel density will reduce the aliasing.

caukerzee:
Google's marketing tagline for Android is "Be Together. Not the Same." That makes sense, because the platform appears on hundreds of different phone models around the world. You can get Android phones with giant screens, small screens, built-in projectors, QWERTY keyboards and replaceable batteries.

True. So people who want choice or are on a budget have a place to go. However the walled garden approach seems to be doing good, since Apple is the only company on earth with $200b CASH at hand on account of the insane profits.

Here's an open secret: No one in 2015 made any profits selling Android devices!

Samsung is losing marketshare, HTC is going the way of blackberry, Sony is bleeding money, Lg is making loses, the chinese cheapos have zero margins, even Google isnt making much money since its primary revenue stream still remains ads, and ads on mobile devices are an anathema.

Meanwhile Apple made more money than the entire smartphone industry combined; and likewise for its PC business. Sure, Apple's shares took a small dive south but thats perfectly normal cycle of busniess around the time of product launches that are mostly evolutionary and iterative.

caukerzee:
Perhaps most important, there are many rugged Android phones that are made to survive being submerged underwater or dropped

Sony just advised people buying the Z5 Premium against placing it in water. And the Z5 has the highest Ingress Protection rating of 68 (IP68). It's practically water proof! OBviously no one in their right sense would want to chance plunging a complex and expensive piece of electronics device into water just for bragging rights.

caukerzee:
If you want a new iPhone today, you have four choices: the a iPhone 6s Plus, a midsize iPhone 6s and three old models: the similarly-sized

Like i said, doesnt stop millions from buying, and Apple from making a ton of money that your variety-producing Android OEMs can only envy.

caukerzee:
None of these is designed to take a beating

why should "taking a beating" be a necessary consideration, since you didnt purchase your expensive phone to subject it to abuse?

caukerzee:
Hardware is VERY IMPORTANT.

So said Nokia. Today Nokia is a footnote in history.

caukerzee:
Stop trying to belittle it's relevance.

It's irrelevant to the User Experience. All modern devices are designed to mask the underlying hardware, the engine. Because primarily the focus of your interaction remains the screen; thus, you communicate with the software on every interaction. Go watch the Surface launch video: Both members of the Surface design team Steven Sinorfsky (software) and Panos Panay (hadrware) called surface "a stage for windows", with Panos saying they beveled or chamfered the edges to make the hardware fade away into the background just to put the software layer front and center. Its an interesting and revealing metaphor that highlights the principle of the modern smart gadget.

caukerzee:
Software also, in comparison, iOS is behind android

you very subjective opinion. to rebut is futile.

caukerzee:
We see IOS adopting more android features than android from iOS

Let's agree on one thing: both Android and iOS look and feel alike; grid of icons, multitouch, pinch to zoom, swipe, etc etc.

When was Android revealed? November 2007

When was iOS revealed? January 2007

So who was first? iOS.

If above holds true, then iOS was first. If iOS was first, then everything Android did that looked so much like iOS was copied from iOS. The entire Android OS was a poor copy of iOS. Android never existed before iOS. Infact, the first Android device was the G1, released in 2008, ONE YEAR AFTER THE IPHONE.

Man, i'm getting tired of this back and forths

Oh, here's the samung Ativ S. In what way does it look like the Galaxy S6?

martineverest:
Am Happy samsung is graduallz taking corrections by settling d rift btw her and microsoft,thus reducing the billions of dollars paid to microsoft by samsung for using microsoft android patents.samsung is also making a surface-like tablet with windows 10 as d major os.

never knew u are into cloud computing...need to learn 4rm ya.thumbs up.

Its the future, right? Azure and OpenStack, i swear by them. One of the Discos here have a great Hybrid platform for their billing, and yours truly is playing a part.

Trying to get into Hadoop, Django and MapReduce for when Big Data/Machine Learning hits big in Naija.

There's tons of resources on the web, including youtube. Use it wisely.

Cheers.

martineverest:
Haha..now u know dat apple,microsoft and facebook are actually best of friends and anti-google.tho,apple and microsoft vowed not to sue each other and both share patents.am quite happy dat azure is gradually taking aws space,while office 365 just overtook google doc.apple just two AR and VR companies,while facebook just opted 4 windows10 as oculus operating system

Yeah, excess competition is harmful and that's a lesson samsung needs to learn, because their obsession with Apple is leading them to make costly mistakes rather than facing their real competition: the Chinese gang of xiaomi, huawei, zte, lenovo, oppo, OnePlus, and elephone.

Right now im working with some medical consultancy outfit to design a hybrid cloud platform using Azure to help HMOs gather data, from there im pushing for Big Data so that we can better map out patient profiles and predict risk. Exciting times!

Azure is to me tje best thing out of microsoft.

Firefire:
Photography administration of APC

Yeye people.

- Picture of Buhari climbing Arafat

- Picture of Osinbajo mounting Mt. Camel

- Picture of Burantai sleeping under boko haram mango tree

- Picture of Aisa frying pof-pof

- Picture of the president's body odor pursuing JP Morgan

Picture of Lalasticlala pushing this to front page

And the administration of pictures and photography continue.

Picture of gej behind pej against protocol

Picture of gej missing at UN due to hangover

Picture of gej eating diezanis pucci

Picture of gej in military uniform impersonating a soldier

Picture of gej's service chiefs dozing

Picture of gej day dreaming at a conference

Picture of gej ruining nigeria

Picture of diezani stealing $20b

Picture of militants in aso rock

Picture of namadi looking like a piece of rock

Picture of darkness after phcn took light

THE BEST PIC: picture of gej calling PMB after getting his arse whupped

HighIQ:
In the past when GSM first came into Nigeria, the service provider used to do what we called validity period for recharge cards loaded then. For instance if you load 500 naira glo or mtn card, you must be able to use it within a certain period of time after which it would expire and become invalid. Although you would retain your credit but you won't be able to make call with it. As time goes on, this regulation was abolished. Now we want NCC to also abolish and annul the one month or days validity period imposed on Nigerians by service providers. Why should you force someone to finish what he or she had bought with his own money within a certain period of time?. They say we must finish it or it roll over. What nonsense! This totally violates human right! If you buy 1000,2000, or even 100 naira data, the data should last long until you finish it . There shouldn't be any embago or rule that should render it invalid after a certain period of time.My fellow Nigerians how do you feel about it. Should it be implemented ? lalasticlala, let them hear.

Absolutely great idea.

untainted:
Nigeria politics never ceases to amaze me.

Anyway, if you a northerner and jobless or even underemployed, this is an opportunity to enjoy government largesse.

Just turn yourself in wherever boko boys (or even girls) are doing so.
Amnesty is coming and you don't want to be left out.
Nigeria is a huge joke.
SMH!

Just because Niger Deltans have no shame doesnt mean all of us are the same.

such beautiful kids.

it's a shame they're flat-heads.

simiolu1:
Guys on here, kudos to you for the comments. I read each one up till this point. These will be my submissions

1. The reason why apple succeeded in changing the mobile device market was that they realised that software was the ish. Hardware to apple is secondary. During an event Steve Jones once said that the IPod is essentially a software and that's why it's different from other mp3 players.

2. Steve was crazy about designs. He was a design major and knew the importance of Good design to successful products.

3. The user experience of every Apple device is premium. No doubt.

However, competitors would not fold their arms and watch you take over the market. If that happens, the monopoly isn't good for the consumer. So Google, Microsoft and Samsung are there to make sure Apple doesn't loose sight that in the market, the consumer is king.

Innovation is broad. It ranges from design to hardware and even software. Everyone innovates. And that's why innovation is different from invention. Sadly only few companies invent new stuff these days.

Also note that innovation is taking an existing product, good or service and improve on it while invention is creating a new product, good or service which is there first of its kind.

In this parlance, everyone is allowed to copy someone.. Just that you must be smart about it.

In the android world, hardware is king but in Apple world, software rules. To each his own.

If only there was a way to port iOS to my S4.

I absoluitely agree 100%.

martineverest:
I guess u also know dat apple is also waiting 4 microsoft to launch its revolutionary augumented reality device,HOLOLENS,before jumping on microsoft patents to produce its own.

Man, im quite impressed with Hololens. more than i am with Oculus Rift!

It's quite possible that Apple may go into VR and AR, but only when the market for these so far niche products mature. But microsoft and Apple now are hardly competing, since they both give their OS for free: both aiming to rope people into their respective ecosystem. Like i said earlier, Google is now the common enemy, with its Android competing with Apple iOS; and Google Search, App engine and Google Docs competing with microsoft's Bing, Azure, and Office 365 respectively.

It's a tag team deathmatch: Apple and microsoft versus google and Amazon. (yes, Amazon! Apple TV is competing with Amazon FireTV and Apple may soon begin original content to beat out Amazon Prime streaming. Also, Amazon AWS EC2 is competing directly with Windows Azure)

yollychika:
I have 3 already n wee buy 6s plus too

lucky you!

too broke now to buy any!

Cant wait for those melons to finally succumb to gravity and sag like empty sacks so that we can all rest