Adobe is crazy doing this, if they actually want to keep flash business.
Note that they aren't making money on Flash itself, but only on tools to create it.
If they want to make money selling HTML5 authoring tools instead, uhm, that's very optimistic of them, good luck.
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Originally Posted by Dylrob
What Apple did really was mainstream the smartphone. Since then these devices have been shifting away from the techie crowd, dropping features which the majority of consumers will never use. For instance they never swap their batteries.
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It is very arguable, whether we wouldn't have smartphones without apple. They might have accelerated it a bit, but only that. Look at Nokia Maemo line of phones, at dates in particular.
I'm old enough to remember microsoft pushing tablets end of 90th. At that time, they cost a fortune, so they've failed.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
The advantage of non-user replaceable batteries is that can get more power in a smaller area because the battery is custom made for the phone.
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Another advantage is forcing user to buy a new phone more often.
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Originally Posted by kjk
My iPad 2 gets over 10 hours of battery life, and is .34" thin.
My Kindle 3 is .33" thin, gets weeks of battery life, and slides into my coat pocket.
Thinness/great design. Great battery life. No fiddly battery doors. Those are advantages for me. |
My galaxy S plus has replaceable battery. It is still very slim and has battery life typical for normal smartphones.
Lithium batteries lose up to 20% of capacity every year. My last phone served me for 6 years.
Most people tend not to buy replacement batteries, since they get subsidized phones every couple of years. (in case of my company it is even cheaper, new phones cost 1 Euro, new battery 20-40 Euro)