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samfibby: @texazzpete From your quotes and replies Its obvious you are stuck to apple, so much so that you would post a revenue chart probably drawn up by apple inc. Yes, a lot of dudes who carry around a iphone or apple product know next to nothing about these phones, they are so eager to join the club of apple users that they are milked dry by apple. There are definitely more android users using free and available stuffs online and equally having a great time with their phone, try get one and see, feel the experience. As regards the name, am i bad, sorry 4 de mixup, the two have a thing in common. MONOPLOY KINGS

Haba!
The image i posted CLEARLY shows the data source below the graph (Flurry Analytics). What then is the reason behind the statement "revenue chart probably drawn up by Apple"?

There are a lot of Apple users that are not tech savvy, just like there are definitely a lot of Android users that know little about technology too. In fact, I sometimes think many Android fans are a lot less tech savvy than we think. When you see the kind of daft things I see from Android fanboys in the Engadget comments...

Finally, just because I rep iPhone a lot doesn't mean I dislike Android. I AM picking up a HTC One X shortly...and that's the best Android phone out there.

abubaka101: You mind am? All those devices are freaking expensive per se! So he is either bluffing or hes working for Boko Haram (laughs).

...or perhaps I have more money than you do?

I just mentioned two phones and two tablets and you're salivating as If i said i owned a private jet.

jp philips: how on earth did the BB and Iphones qualify as smart phones?
when i say smart i expect flexibility beyond umbrages, how can a smart phone not have bluetooth? for texasspette, i cant rem the last time i keyed in contacts to my directory from a colleague or in OPS camp, we share contacts over bluetooth what about instant pics? u transfer through email? when you are out of bundle, then you forget the pics? i dont see any wisdom in that.
more so, its my money give me the functionality and i will choose whether to use it or not, my 4yrs P1i came with infra red and fm radio but ive never used them
how can u pay for an IOS when the almighty experia S has hit the shelves? in case u dont knw, the froyo OS of android comes standard as a Wifi hotspot wonder the big deal in the IOS being a router?
most android hardwares support upgradable versions of the ice cream sandwich.
i can only own an IOS or BOS at gun point
XPERIA S rocks!!!

If Bluetooth file transfer is an essential feature to you, by all means keep using an Android phone. Millions of people around the world KNOW that the iPhone does not support Bluetooth file transfer and they simply do not care.

As I said before, I cannot remember when last I ever felt the need to do a file transfer via bluetooth.

Finally, you're wrong. Most Android devices out there will not get Ice cream sandwich.

[quote author=Sisi_Kill]Dude of course ITunes Revs will be up. . . they don't allow free third party apps!! IPhone users don't got no choice but to buy it!!! I have over two dozen apps on my phone and I can count on one hand how many I paid for.

Open market vs Monopoly dude. . . simple economics. [/quote]Can you people PLEASE speak confidently about things you know about? How can anyone say there are no free third party apps? There are just as many (if not more) free apps on the Appstore as in Google's Play Store.

You say no free third party apps...what are Skype, Facebook, Tango, Temple run and many others?

blink182:  OS wasn't in the comparison, ℓ̊ said belle, android and IOS. Does  even have games worth playing at all.

As for the  being marketed Τ̲̅ђε̲̣̣̣̥ way Ÿ̲̣̣̣̥ø̲̣̣̥u̶̲̥̅̊ claim, ℓ̊ tend τ̅☺ agree, as for the blue tooth stuff, Oº°˚˚˚°h come of it. It makes № sense sending suff with email. You Α̲̅я̩̥̊ε̲̣̣̣̥ probably S̴̩☺̩ used τ̅☺ the apple confinement you see it as normal.

No, I see it as a tradeoff i'm prefectly willing to make to use the iPhone...especially seeing that I rarely come across a situation where I'd want to transfer anything from someone's phone to mine.

Honestly speaking, how often do you do bluetooth file transfers?

blink182: Generalizing to this extent is plain Stu. pid. As a matter of fact you are very ignorant. Please tell me how  OS is both archaic and outdated? The ☎ was made for business people on the go who need to stay connected. Its not a toy like most girls think it is. People who know what the  is for will hardly come here to say anything cos they are usually too busy making money, Then they can have a second ☎ for play usually ios, belle or android. Have used the three OS and as far as gaming goes, they are mostly the same. YES mostly the same.

Blackberry OS 7 is 'mostly the same' for gaming as Android and iOS?!! What have you been smoking? How many 3D games are there on OS7 and of that number how many are remotely comparable to their Android and iOS counterparts?

Secondly, RIM HEAVILY markets the Blackberry phones to the consumer market so it is as much a 'toy' as any other smartphone platform. Anyone who parrots the whole 'Blackberries are serious devices for business' line should go back to 2008 before RIM launched the BB Storm and started promoting BBM.

Truth be told, the BB OS is archaic, unintuitive and slow. You've never questioned why reboots take ages, why you have to reboot after nearly any app install/upgrade and why the phone freezes like mad?

Just for the record, I own an iPhone 4S, third Gen iPad, Galaxy tab 8.9 and a Bold 9900. I'll be picking up a HTC One X in the next 2 weeks. So I can speak confidently on any of the major OS platforms.

samfibby: @texazzpete. I get the feeling you have tasted the poisoned apple products that you are finding it hard to get yourself off the hook. Hear urself, bluetooth being oudated, please, giv some better xcuse, iphone having a better built, a iphone is a iphone in years 2 come dont expect to see anything new in the next few years, xpecially with steve ballmer gone. may his soul RIP. You are sure gonna see a lot of android built, probably one with a TEXAZZPETE design-built. And who says you cant make money designing apps for android OS.Give me a break, there are loads of programmers worldwide, working together,who are smart enough and are making goood money on the THE ANDROID platform. texazzpete, how many times have u heard guys on this forum or others discussing how to develop apps. NEVA , welcome to the tech prison called apple. Get a needle and see what the ANDROID STEROID feels like.

Please STRIVE to put together a sensible argument next time.
I am putting facts on the table. It's a very well known fact that the Google Android market is not anywhere near as profitable for devs as the App Store is. Do I really have to provide links to info you can google up for yourself in 10 seconds?
[img]http://tctechcrunch2011.files./2012/03/revenue-comparison-ios-vs-amzn-vs-android-resized-600.png?w=600[/img]

FYI, Steve Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft and he most certainly is NOT dead. Steve Jobs was the Apple CEO until his death last year. How the heck could you mix them up?!

blink182: Well said, apple this, apple that. Cydia, installous. Jail break, bla bla bla. Recently it occured τ̅☺ ♏έ that apple is so restricted that amenities that come standard on belle or android have τ̅☺ be sourced. Who has heard of transferring file via email. Not even NFC.

Please ℓ̊ need that song, Oº°˚˚˚°h wait let ♏έ attach it τ̅☺ a mail, emmmmm what's чυя email...hahahahahahaha...S̴̩☺̩ lame. ℓ̊ love IOS but stop the hype.

I cannot think of anybody I know who still goes around transferring music via bluetooth. We did that stuff when we were still kids in the University. Look at the sales of the iPhone, easily outselling any Android device in ALL age demographics. Doesn't that go to show you that the whole Bluetooth file transfer thingy is not that essential in the grand scheme of things?

Funny how you complain about 'installous' and 'jailbreaking' and yet you have no qualms rooting and flashing custom roms.

mkpologwu: Hmmm this SNG (Suffering National Gunfriends) will not work in Nigeria because of the Niger Delta oyele. Bakare shld stoping wasted his time!

From the text in Bold above, it appears your parents wasted their money sending you to school.

AdeCisco: i'm still thinking about why it had to be so. why has the owner of the broken down trailer that led to your demise has not been probed? what was the Police Station's statement about the entire incidence. What happened at LUTH when he was under ICU? The radio stations may have forgotten to play your songs. your CDs may be scarce but we know you were the best. would rep you at the slightest chance. RIP Akogun.

Why would the trailer owner be probed? if Dagrin was not under the influence of Alcohol he should easily have been able to avoid running into the stationary trailer that was not blocking the road.

I don't wanna sound harsh but i've lost 3 friends and acquaintances due to drunk driving, mostly when their vehicles ram into trailers that they were too inebriated to notice. Why don't we TRY and make a difference for once and use his death as a sign to sensitize more people about the hazards of Driving under the influence?

Just my 2 cents.

samfibby: If you are pushing 4 a career as a app developer and quite tech savvy, the andriod presents u with a platform to start. The fact that its open source makes android preferable. I personally dont like to b restricted by iphone os, can be very frustration.No doubt, the iphone comes atop in the appearance category, easily appreciated by company excos and ladies but 4 a technical person who wants the tech freedom, appearance could b sacrificed for diversity and custom. Personally, i prefer the android to the iphone.

Exactly why many programmers remain poor in this life

FACT: Applications on the iPhone AppStore make MUCH MUCH more money than apps on the Google Play market.

Apple provides loads of APIs and frameworks to allow you churn out your high quality apps with little restrictions (as long as you aren't doing something illegal) and review your apps to ensure unforseen and unpleasant results do not happen. For a Developer the critical thing should be the market size (number of prospective customers) and potential reward. Asking a dev to focus on Android because it is 'open' is just plain funny

Every Dev knows that of all the > 15 million iPad 3 sold so far, not one is running pirated software. Every dev should know that 10 minutes after purchasing the new HTC One X, people were already copying over their pirate apk app libraries to their phones.

As i said earlier, there's a reason why many programmers remain dirt poor

tobeski: iphones but present on androids, or any other platform for that matter are
Bluetooth file transfer,

Dude, this is 2012. I cannot remember when last I ever thought about doing a file transfer via bluetooth. If you don't have a data plan to enable you send your files by email, why are you using a smartphone?

tobeski: 3g video calling(not facetime, which uses your data and is only iphone to iphone)

Apart from Facetime, Skype and Tango are just TWO of the tens of video calling apps on iOS that are FREE.
I'm curious about your educational history...you say there's no '3G video calling' and yet complain that Facetime uses your data. What do you understand by '3G'?

tobeski: memory card
usb otg,
multitasking(this used to be the basis for differentiating a smartphone from others until even feature phones started having it)

You can spec out your iPhone up to 64GB in size. And not all Android phones have MicroSD slots. The two current best Android phones (Galaxy Nexus and HTC One X) do not have memory card slots. neither of those two even have any models with above 32gb internal storage!

The iPhone has had multitasking since iOS 4. Why are you so uninformed?

tobeski: java support
.zip folder support
flash,

Java? This is 2012 o! Why are you still living in the stone age? Who uses java apps anyway?
.zip folder support is an EXTREMELY niche item. I struggle to see the relevance here
Flash is dying a slow, painful death and often leads to reduced battery life. The absence of flash was a bigger concern years ago but now most web devs are fleeing from Flash and most videos streaming services are moving to HTML5.

tobeski: much better cameras,
ability to save web pages(hard to believe right?),
fm radio, sum phones eg N8 even have fm transmitter i.e the phone becomes the radio station

The iPhone 4S has a top tier camera, easily one of the best out there. Were you inebriated when you wrote this 'better camera' crap?
I have been using smartphones since 2004 from Nokia Series 60 to Windows Mobile to iOS and some dabbling with Android. Never have I wanted to save a webpage. if you had said 'save music' or stuff like that I may have conceded a point to you.
FM radio is no big loss. A huge swathe of the Android portfolio do not have FM radios built in. Why exactly are you babbling about the Nokia N8 which runs Symbian?

tobeski: suppport for divx and many other video and music formats

Perhaps the only sensible point so far

tobeski: Also because of the freedom developers have when writing apps for android you get more brilliant apps with infinite possibilities.

I think even the most rabid Android fanboy will admit that the apps on iOS are generally of visible higher quality than those on android. Can you name just ONE of those 'brilliant apps with INFINITE possibilities'?

tobeski: The list is endless Apple is also notorious for their poor hardware with antenna issues over heating easily breakable screens etc
But if you're content with calling, messaging, photo/music playing and playing with endless apps then you're iphone
but if you want the full power of a smartphone with no limitations, full customisation and more value for your money then you're android
Choose your sides and let the smartphone wars wage on

Apple is famous for the excellent build quality of their Phones. The glass screens on the iPhone 4 and 4S are breakable but not 'easily breakable'. And they are a good sight better quality than the cheap, plasticky builds of many of the 'high-end' Android devices. The current iPhone 4S has NO antenna issues, no issues with overheating and is one of the most beautiful phones out there, from an industrial design standpoint.


In conclusion, I have to say you know little of what you talk about. Stick to Android if you will but stop this ignorant misinformation you're spewing. Some of your points like 'no Java support' are downright laughable

Zizer17: thanx but d story too long, se u won tell me say if u urself dey NNPC dem con give u 10 million as ur share, u no go collect am abi..?
It is easy to criticise them. Who might tell what u wud do if u get there

YOU MUST HAVE MENTAL PROBLEMS!!!

See the interesting analysis this m0r0n is saying is 'too long'. I pity the people who paid for your education.

GboyegaD: Na today yansh start to dey dey bank? Some of thise appointed MD messed up the banks more while they were there cos they saw it as an opportunity to amass wealth. I once wrote on one of the threads on SLS that I never trusted him because despite all petitions concerning these MDs, CBN did nothing. It is however unfortunate that people go this far even up to murder all to get their missions accomplished.

I pray fervently that one day you will obtain the wisdom to differentiate between 'allegations' and 'facts'.

Education is not just about solving advanced calculus and writing term papers. One expects every literate Nigerian to understand the basic principle of law called 'Innocent until proven guilty'.

[quote author=PROUD-IGBO]In one breath you say AU is 'inactive' (echoing what i said in my post), and in another you say South Sudan was 'ordered' to pull back: fool, make up your mind. Why didn't they 'order' Bashir and his lot to stop the killings and genocide all these past years?[/quote]If you had bothered to read the news in recent times instead of acting the m0r0n, you'd have known that the 'order' to the south sudanese president came from the UN. The same western nations you condemn here were the ones desperate to stop Bashir and his allies from genocide.

fajglobal: for your information APPLE is MADE IN CHINA for apple california in USA

You're a lying scumbag, selling a cheap chinese macbook air clone running Windows as a authentic Apple Macbook.
I feel sorry for the people actually buying this piece of crap netbook for 65k. You may already have sold some but rest assured that there's a special place in hell for scamming, lying scumbags like yourself.

For all who may be tempted, this is NO Apple product. The real Macbook Air is aluminium unibody with a core i5 processor and a solid state drive. The pre-installed OS should be OSX Lion or Snow Leopard.

What this fellow is selling is a plastic netbook clone with a slow 1.66ghz Intel Atom processor and a much slower 160Gb HDD.

[quote author=mama-gee][color=deeppink]Who still steals cell phones these days?

boringggggggggggggggg!!![/color][/quote]Still empty headed in 2012, i see.

[quote author=PROUD-IGBO]I wonder why the hypocritical NATO hasn't instituted a 'no fly zone' to protect civilians like they did with Libya, or why Western Governments aren't expressing moral outrage over the murder and intransigence being carried out by Bashir and his blood-sucking crew? Black man in the White House ? You could have fooled me.

Whatever Ghaddafi is accused of doing pales into insignificance when compared with the lives black Africans have lost over the last decade as a result of Bashir, his army and his supporter of APC militia. And in all this, the useless and toothless AU has done fuc/kall to protect them, like they did in Libya.

supporter of APC remind you of anyone ?[/quote]Which 'hypocritical NATO'?
Where were you when the Western powers desperately tried to sanction and secure condemnation for Sudan's president over Darfur only to be blocked by your chinese masters? Have you been living under a rock these past few days that you haven't seen or heard of the frantic efforts being made by the UN to resolve this situation.
Where were you when the South Sudan president was complaining about being 'ordered' to pull his troops back from the contested territory they wrested away from the Sudanese Army?

While Sudan is strategically not nearly as important as Libya, it is brainless and ignorant to say the world has done nothing.

Please Africans should focus more on the AU and their inactions. I suggest you pay more attention to world issues as clearly you're unaware of the situation of things.

ekwah: His opinion, fullstop. Has anyone cared to reason out which wine the bible talked about? How can one say Jesus made ALCHOHOLIC drinks from water? Does the word wine directly mean achoholic? I really find the way some people twist bible verses to suit them size quite interesting. Seek the truth guys.

In the Bible, verses to show God approves of wine are speaking about unfermented juice. Verses that expose the evils of wine are speaking about intoxicating wine.

Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.
Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.
1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God
Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness.

I understand what Pastor Chris wanted to say, but I do not think he said it well enough. The bible says it all, look into it and stop posting ignorant comments on nairaland please.

Where does it say that the wine Jesus made from water was non alcoholic? For the guests to be praising it as the best wine they'd ever tasted, you just KNOW it was alcoholic. The Bible makes many references to wine from grapes. NOT grape juice.

SCAM ALERT. DO NOT BUY!!

Akainzo: By the way, I noticed that you did not say Seun was brainless with his assertion, considering that we both hold the same view and wrote the same thing. Spineless fool!

Seun has proven his intelligence. You, unfortunately, have not. Clear distinction

Akainzo: You have shown again that you still lacked comprehension abilities, you know the words but are lost with the meanings. Below is my original post that you initially replied to.



Now let me analyze for you, in simple language to make it easier for you to understand.

If SLS does not want to pay anything more than the 880 Billion earmarked for fuel subsidy in 2012, then his cause is helped by the price of crude crashing to $50 since the amount of subsidy is then reduced to almost non-existent that Nigeria should not be in trouble due to fuel subsidy payments.

If the price of crude drops to $85, while the 2012 budget is based on $72, then Nigeria would still not be in trouble of a deficit as we are still earning higher than our budgeted figure. However, there would be little in the excess crude account (or Sovereign Wealth Fund as SLS wants it) for the FGN to spend as they may want, but it does not mean they would not have excess money since they can make savings from the amount saved from not paying fuel subsidies.

If the price of crude crashes to $50 however, SLS should not bother about fuel subsidy as that would not be his problem but the deficit that even the 880Billion earmarked for subsidy would not be able to plug. Thus he should not have been hammering on total fuel subsidy removal as if that is the major spend item that would ensure that a crash to $50 does not impact the economy or the 2012 budget implementation.

Hope I have painted to you what I captured in that my small reply that your little brain couldn't understand.

You STILL don't get it, you dolt!
Sanusi is not talking about any 'cause being helped' if oil prices drop. He is not talking about subsidy payment if the per barrel cost of crude oil drops to $50. What he worries about (AS CLEARLY STATED IN THE ARTICLE) is that the $50 per barrel scenario does not occur and meet a Nigeria with little savings to cushion the shock.

I have no idea how you're reading this article. If you have issues comprehending written English, I cannot help you.

Seun: The subsidy won't be a greater problem for Nigeria if the price of oil drops. I don't know why Sanusi keeps saying this. If the price of crude oil drops, the cost of providing the fuel subsidy will drop by a similar percentage. If the oil price rises, it will also go up.

Seun,
The key to what Sanusi is saying is evident in this quote from the OP

Mr Sanusi also said that a sharp fall in oil prices could spell big trouble for Nigeria.

“There will be a very bad day and a lot of gnashing of teeth [size=14pt]if the oil price crashes and we haven’t saved a thing[/size],” he said

It is fairly obvious that Sanusi is not saying Subsidy payments will be crippling for Nigeria if the oil price drops. He is saying a very large drop in oil price will catch a Nigeria with little savings unaware. Hence the 'we haven't saved a thing' part.

Sanusi is talking about the current opportunity cost of the subsidy (reduced savings) and not any future subsidy payments at a low oil price.

yorke: I never said Ibori should be set free. They should give 5 months term in prison because he is right in the cell as i type. Those years should be added along with the jail term. That's my opinion. What happen to those northern corrupt politicians who brings nothing to the table but loots the treasury and still walking freely. Ibori should not be used as a scape goat for others.

How can somebody who has pleaded GUILTY be a 'scapegoat'? As we speak, Ibori's wife and mistress are serving 5 year terms for merely assisting the main criminal. Will it now be justice to give him 5 months while his wife spends 5 years?

yorke: Ibori stole the money of his people and the last time i checked they were not complaining. So what is your problem?

The last time I checked, you did not speak for the good people of Delta State. How exactly did you 'check'? Was it an open survey box system? Did you hand out questionnaires in schools, marketplaces and villages?

Or are you just a greedy sycophant and boot licker, eager to jump to the defence of your thieving paymasters?

In your stupidity you forgot you posted this two days ago on another article

Crazy and corrupt set of lawyers. This country is sick. 10 years for illegal possession of arms? While corrupt politicians gets nothing!

So 2 days ago you were all for the harsh punishment of 'corrupt politicians' yet now you're bleating that ibori should get only 5 months. This seems like multiple personality disorder and i suggest you seek medical help from a trained psychiatrist/psychologist as soon as possible.

yorke: It is your money? Talking like you won't do even worst than he did if you find yourself there.Rubbish!

No, it is not her money. The money belongs to the people of Delta State...Not Ibori and certainly not Uduaghan or their legions of thrice accursed sycophants and bootlickers like yourself.
Next time when you folk whine about 'marginalization', think about where the rightful money for your state is diverted to.

Akainzo: Now you come up with the nonsense you wrote above pretending to have knowledge on what you have no clue about. I have highlighted the different areas of Sanusi's statements and clearly he is definitely concerned about govt paying more for more for subsidy in 2012 than budgeted for. And he is clearly speaking from 2 sides of his mouth.

That I have no savings does not mean that I would not do what I have budgeted for! The budget is based on a benchmark of $72, yet he is saying the entire budget could be at risk even if the crude price drops to $85, now tell me which voodoo economics is that? The only way our budget could be at risk at $85 would be that the excess money that could be saved into the SWF, the govt of the day has some hidden plans for it, and therefore they are concerned that the money would not accrue or would not be enough.

I am not easily hoodwinked by stories, I look beyond the surface, especially at the numbers. Read the entire interview again and check how many times he mentioned fuel subsidies and how many times he mentioned savings. You indeed are an educated illiterate, knowing nothing but covering up with grammar.

Your attempt at changing the goal posts is as obvious as it is laughable. Go and re-read your initial post...you made it clear that your understanding of this discussion from Sanusi was that 'the FG would not be able to pay subsidy at $50 per barrel'. I rightly called you out on that brainless assumption of yours.

If you had showed consistent use of your brain cells and posted your much more sensible concerns on talks of 'deficit' at $85 per barrel, I never would have had cause to doubt the quality of your education. I enjoin you to summon the required courage to admit that your initial post was brainless. That is the first step to your redemption

infofirst: Asked a German journalists calling for the Muslim Saladin Baavugin about the relationship between terrorism and Islam, he replied:

~ 7 - who has Pastrakkak about 180 million Africans as slaves had died and about 88% of them and been thrown in the Atlantic Ocean? Muslims?!
No, they are not Muslims!!!!

Actually, the trans-Sahara slave trade started hundreds of years before the first white men got to Africa. Millions of black Africans carted over to the middle east as slaves over hundreds of years.
The Arab slavers were always more brutal.

Akainzo: That part about the country being in trouble should oil prices drops got me cracking up.

Has SLS forgotten that if oil prices crashes to $50, then there would be no need to pay subsidy. Or is he telling us that the government would pay subsidy irrespective of the actual price of crude

This quoted post above is an excellent example of an 'educated illiterate'.

Sanusi is NOT complaining about not being able to pay subsidies if oil prices crash to say $50. He is concerned that we do not have any meaningful savings to cushion the devastating effects of such a price shortfall, and is pushing for a reduction in Government expenditure on subsidies which should lead to increased savings.

Smh.

marleygab: Yes. not all ultra books comes with ssd's though.

Can you name any Ultrabook that doesn't have an SSD? All Ultrabooks have SSDs.