{"id":11773,"date":"2009-09-16T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11773"},"modified":"2010-07-30T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T00:03:11","slug":"incredible-amazing-awesome-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/16\/incredible-amazing-awesome-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>A couple of days ago I had yet another one of those discussions about Apple, where I was trying to figure out why people buy things like iPhone.\u00a0 After all, you don&#8217;t have to be a particularly technical person to know that other phones had more and better functionality than iPhone.\u00a0 And, as always, the discussion falls from the technical and &#8220;common sense&#8221; to fashion and &#8220;cool factor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Today, by accident, I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nx7v815bYUw\">video<\/a>, which provides a lot of explanation to the phenomena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nx7v815bYUw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>A couple of days ago I had yet another one of those discussions about Apple, where I was trying to figure out why people buy things like iPhone.\u00a0 After all, you don&#8217;t have to be a particularly technical person to know that other phones had more and better functionality than iPhone.\u00a0 And, as always, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/16\/incredible-amazing-awesome-apple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[2190,2418,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-humor","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15337,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/26\/mark-malkoff-apple-store-challenge\/","url_meta":{"origin":11773,"position":0},"title":"Mark Malkoff : Apple Store Challenge","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a funny short video where Mark Malkoff tests how far Apple Store will let you go. Things that he tried and got away with are: Pizza delivery. Romantic date. Darth Vader iPhone repair. Bring in a pet goat. That's pretty cool. \u00a0The biggest surprise for me though is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15455,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/31\/android-vs-iphone-fight-is-still-ahead-not-behind\/","url_meta":{"origin":11773,"position":1},"title":"Android vs. iPhone fight is still ahead, not behind","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"SlashGear points to a new ComScore report of the US mobile market share. \u00a0Both Android and iOS are growing their market shares, with the rest of the platforms going down. To me it says that there is still enough space for Android and iOS to peacefully co-exist, despite all the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/comscore_july_2011-500x258.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14536,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/10\/android-vs-ios-revenue-comparison-by-game-maker\/","url_meta":{"origin":11773,"position":2},"title":"Android vs. iOS revenue comparison by game maker","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 10, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"DownloadSquad shares the revenue comparison for the Pocket Legends game, which is exactly the same on iPhone and Android. \u00a0Never-the-less, for some reason, it generates\u00a0substantially\u00a0more revenue on Android. \u00a0Why could that be? 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