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like Chris I focused on the "which company do you feel is furthering innovation the most?"
prior to the iPhone we had smart phones which allowed us to check our email and run whatever applications we stumbled across and were permitted to run on our iPhone. 
when the iPhone came on to the scene we got iTunes, the App Store and the ability for developers across the world to deploy and profit from these devices. with this approach came the idea that the smartphone was so much more than what the manufacturer or wireless provider defined it to be. the community of developers and users started to take more control over giving it a definition.
since the iPhone we have had others come out with competing ideas (example Android) while at the same time we have Apple in its persistent fashion of pushing the barrier in consumer electronics.
the crown for furthering innovation belongs to Apple and the iOS (IMO) because every device we see is compared to it and how it ranks against it. all sorts of companies are trying to develop something better to win the battle against Apple and it's because of that reason why Apple wins in furthering innovation the most.
ok, I am done with the soap box who wants it now?
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// ♫ 99 little bugs in the code,
// 99 bugs in the code
// We fix a bug, compile it again
// 101 little bugs in the code ♫
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I'll go with you!
AlexCode wrote: but that usually has nothing to do with the inovation of the OS itself.
Something differs here, in terms of Mobile based innovation. Just think here we have small screen unlike Giant Screens we have with PCs. So its necessary to bring something innovative which makes it user friendly and which fits in small screen.
AlexCode wrote: If you look at Windows Phone 8 you can say it kind of tries to innovate but clearly
Clearly its failure.
AlexCode wrote: RIM lost it completly. It's still holding to its proven but deprecated concept.
Soon, they will be in category of dinosaurs while Nokia is already in that age unless they stick to Windows.
AlexCode wrote: Today Android is the shiny new toy
And they're catching up things smartly bringing every aspects that iOS have even some of them are new.AlexCode wrote: Microsoft for not feeling old and not trying to mimmic anything else on the market.
It would have been better if they have done something nearly similar.For my point of view UI is failure in terms of user friendly-ness.
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Right... But do you have a case where you would want a picture on your phone and not synched with your PC (or back up storage?)
Photos of the mistress.
Don't want them making their own way to the family PC.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Really... boasting about file syncing... 
Check Dropbox... Anyone can have it and also customize what is sync on what device + share specific folders with other dropbox users
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Yet another survey devalued by a bunch of retarded optional text answers
...guess you cant expect everyone to be able to read AND write
My opinions are right, and yours are wrong! (or at least that is my opinion)
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musefan wrote: Yet another survey devalued by a bunch of retarded optional text answers posts
Now that's a great example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Marc
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If it doesn't glitter and taste like BACON then it don't count. I use and dev [a bit] on Android and feel that because it is open [for a given value of open] it is allowed to be the most innovative. But it still doesn't include free BACON samiches
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By closing everything off Apple are stifling innovation, regardless of what they can or will do themselves.
True innovation comes from giving as many as possible the possibility to do anything.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Although I vote for Apple... I would say new Windows mobile 8 with its metro applications looks quite cool... its just I haven't had a chance to evaluate it so going by what I have seen... Apple it is!
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Is innovation (as a concept) the being cool?
A cool product is not "innovation": is much more a matter of fashion and design.
Innovation is "changing the way things can be done".
From an i-phone and a W8-mobile I don't see a "boost on innovation": just a market share between two different ways to do very similar things.
The real step to innovation was the introduction of multi-touch screens, wide enough to let "browsing" sustainable. Apple was the first who introduced them, in fact, changing the concept of "phone" and "palm" merging them to a same appliance, thus allowing the deployment of application bridging the two worlds.
Now, until a new user interface paradigm will not be introduced, it no more innovation, but just a matter of design, fashion.
2 bugs found.
> recompile ...
65534 bugs found.
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When I vote for Apple it precisely is for launching iPhone (and not its successors). iPhone with its multi-touch and many other features was an innovation... now a days it is more about copying and some fancy here and there...
But with Win8... there is another new dimension coming in... possibility to use the same gadget as a phone/tablet as well as a regular pc. This is with reference to an idea I read in some article during win8 launch which suggested the requirement of some docking options and more processing power built into the phones (we have already reached dual core now) so that they can be docked and connected to other peripherals and used as a regular pc.
btw... your signature is cool... quite familiar situation 
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... nice expensive toys. Let them duke it out which one of them will eventually take the throne and which ones must go the way of the dinosaurs. Until then I lean back, watch the show, shake my head over all the hysteria and by the way save lots of money.
And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"
And I smiled and was happy
And it came worse.
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Then you have what I don't have: A good reason to have one of those things. And up to now not even the best salesmen could give me an answer up to now.
And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
"Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"
And I smiled and was happy
And it came worse.
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I'm curious to know: what does a mobile app gives you that a desktop app or website doesn't? Seriously, that's not a rhetorical question.
Do you gain a huge advantage by having notifications always on for example?
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Thanks, it was very interesting!
'As programmers go, I'm fairly social. Which still means I'm a borderline sociopath by normal standards.' Jeff Atwood
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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