The title is enough: "HTC knocks Apple of top spot as display sizes grow."ToTTenTranz said:Why do you "pity the fool who made his investment decisions on that piece", based on the scarce information you get from looking at a brief abstract?
Yes: I pity the fool who, at the time of this publication, thought it's be a good idea to invest in HTC. Right before they came crashing down because of uninspiring bland me-too phones with a big screen.
There's 2 possibilities: either title/abstract is a meaningful indicator of the report's content or it is not. I'm suggesting it is, and I'm not willing to pay to find out. That's all. If you think the title/abstract is no representative enough to make conclusions, why don't you apply the same standard for your original link?
Absolutely. See: if there's one thing Apple has proven over and over again, it's that most customers don't know what they want if you ask. Yes, that's condescending, but it doesn't make it any less true.Are you willing to neglect the statistical work of a world-renowned analyst company about screen size preferences just because it doesn't match your personal preferences?
People were screaming about the lack of a HW keyboard on the iPhone. And, yes, there are still people who prefer it. And there's nothing wrong with that. But it turned out that many more are willing to not have one in return for a touch screen. (Personally: I've never used a HW keyboard on a phone, so I don't know. But I do know that my BB lawyer friend was impressed how wicked fast I am on my iPhone keyboard.)
People were screaming how useless a MacBook Air is without an Ethernet port, DVD slot etc. Look where that got them.
No customer opinion survey with tons of fancy statistics would have given that result.
Analysts are a dime a dozen. They're also every often wrong. And they get quoted all the time in publications everywhere.