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Originally Posted by Lumiaman View Post
Symbian was at one point the largest producer of smartphones, yet we know how that ended.
Symbian was a 'producer' of smartphones? WTF are you talking about?


Originally Posted by Lumiaman View Post
I think we have to look at how individual manufacturers are doing. By my account, Apple (closed system) was until recently the most valuable company in the world. Wow. With a single phone delivered on a yearly basis. Wow.
I always have to laugh when Apple fanboys boast about how hard they've been shafted, they see it as evidence of Apple's greatness rather than of their own gullibility

You've paid ten times over the odds for a crippled feature phone, sucker! I bet you bought cabbage patch dolls, pet rocks and go-go hamsters too.

Even the 'ecosystem' is all smoke and mirrors - a gazillion fart apps and the worst mapping system in the entire history of the cosmos, you'd be better off navigating by the stars.