Sorry that I have to quote myself but perhaps you missed it:
So, why do people prefer iphone, istuff in general.
It is a simple matter of what people like more. It's more like a question of why person A has a lot of fans despite being what-ever-what, while person B doesn't look worse but people don't like him so much.
Simple psychology, very weird.
No, you have the feeling peoples prefer Iphones... Apple just own 15% of the mobile phone/device market... when Samsung own 37% of it with their galaxy line .. But Apple have a larger visibility on public news and global large public audience magazine have Samsung. With Apple you have a pure marketing effect who give the feeling, Apple is number one and there's only Apple then the other.
If we take global mobile device market: Samsung is number 1, then come Nokia, and far of them you find the other brands with Apple ( both Nokia and Samsung own 75% of the market, other are in the last 25% )
( with the bad popularity of Nokia thoses last years, it can be surprising to see them on the second place with 3.5x more devices sold of Apple, outside marketing publicity, you can see this due to the revival of the financial market in large public audience, and Apple with his incredible financial have there again a large publicity )
AMD GPU over the last years, are really stable: if we take IGP in consideration they sell 2x more of Nvidia ( Intel number one followed by AMD and Nvidia have 2x less gpu sold in this case of AMD ).. if we take only retail gpu... they hover around 50/50 ( AMD could be at 47% and Nvidia at 53%, last year or 2010 AMD was even higher with 51% vs 49% for Nvidia ).. offcourse the sell change, whatever it is when AMD release is full line up during the first 3 months of the year and Nvidia during the second half of the year, etc .
When i read some comment i have the feeling AMD own 15% of the gpu market and Nvidia 75%... it have never happend. CPU wise vs Intel this is another story..
ATI really didn't come into its own until the release of the 9700 Pro.
Haaa the 9700Pro Maya edition, i still have 2 of thoses sitting here ( one is surely still working, the other is part of the cards i have kill on overclocking and benching ) this was a so magic card. ( then i have got 2x 9800Pro ( killed too on overclocking ), then 2x 6600GT SLI and 2x 6800 ( killed too, but after have down many scores with the 6600 GT's ( damn good overclocking cards in SLI with subzero cooling ), then a x1800XT PE 512mb edition, 2x x1900XTX + 1 X1950XTX GDDR4 ( still working ).. ( dont laugh but i have nearly 15-20 gpu's unused who are sitting here ( need said i allways build SLI and CFX system till the 6600 period ).. ( its easy, i have absolutely no more any place for put my old motherboards box and gpu's in this room, I even have some old AtariST 1024 + Atari SH205 HDD who are still working ... If i make a list of all hardware who is sitting here...
(offtopic, i try to set for a friend 2 monitors with different resolution: a 12" and a 22" with cloned mode, if someone know how to do it on a GF104 ... ( i dont know why it allways switch to 800/600 whatever is the primary setup, on amd driver it keep both frequency and resolution in this mode for the different screen )
