Back when if I said iPhone and iOS are the best smartphones and best operating systems (and I did), people would just agree. No problem.I think the iPhone 5 easily qualifies as top 10. It does offer a few special things.
But it's getting harder (I'd even go as far to say, near impossible) to argue that it's top 1, maybe even top 3, anymore.
There was once a time when it was #1 and people easily could say so and prove it so and demonstrate it as such. Back when [miraculously] people weren't worried about relativeness or preferences!
But now... if I say Android is the better platform, suddenly, people throw their arms up in the air and shout "You can't say that Couch. Objectivity [suddenly] doesn't count. It's all preferences! Preference this, preference that." It's possible to say objectively an OS is better than the other. It's also possible to say subjectively that an OS is better than the other. You can do both. And you need to.
It's gotten harder and harder to defend/recommend iOS. It's definitely not the top anymore with the exception of a few very specific strengths. It is top 10, though.
I think the iPhone 5 easily qualifies as top 10. It does offer a few special things.
But it's getting harder (I'd even go as far to say, near impossible) to argue that it's top 1, maybe even top 3, anymore.
There was once a time when it was #1 and people easily could say so and prove it so and demonstrate it as such. Back when [miraculously] people weren't worried about relativeness or preferences!
But now... if I say Android is the better platform, suddenly, people throw their arms up in the air and shout "You can't say that Couch. Objectivity [suddenly] doesn't count. It's all preferences! Preference this, preference that." It's possible to say objectively an OS is better than the other. It's also possible to say subjectively that an OS is better than the other. You can do both. And you need to.
It's gotten harder and harder to defend/recommend iOS. It's definitely not the top anymore with the exception of a few very specific strengths. It is top 10, though.
Well duh, you're on an apple forum.
Some don't take well to getting the snot beat out of them in their own backyard.
Because you are constantly pressing your opinions upon us as being fact. You believe Android is superior, that's nice, but don't try and claim that your belief of Android being the better OS is somehow objective fact.
I've explained this before. You value certain things in your mobile operating systems, and that's fine- for you, Android's the better OS. Not everyone is going to value what you value though, some people are going to value things that, for them, makes iOS the better OS.
As I've said before, it's all ultimately subjective- it's always going to come down to preference. That doesn't make these discussions meaningless, as you claim. Night Spring said it best in another thread:
That's not how most people who prefer iOS would think (maybe there's a few who do, I don't know of any)- as someone who prefers iOS I can tell you that the ability to select my own browser is unimportant to me. I don't 'prefer' it that way, I just don't care- it's not important to me. The ability to change a browser doesn't factor into my head when buying a phone. What I do care about is things like, for example, how a phone feels to use. As an example of that, I can't handle how you edit text on Android devices- those caliper things that are used to select text are awful, whenever I'd try to edit something I'd written on my N7, I'd begin this long and irritating battle to try and position the text editing calipers that would usually culminate in me giving up and finding another way of doing what I wanted to do (e.g. just rewriting lines that I wanted to cut and move into a different location). The calipers always had minds of their own- they'd jump wildly from position to position, back to where I started selecting text, back to somewhere close to where I wanted to go, back a couple of lines and so on. The iOS version works like a dream in comparison- it has its own irritations, but jeez it's just much, much more usable.
), another example is how some videos when played in the browser will open. Some open a UI somewhat similar to the UI the iPhone uses when playing a video through the browser, you have a position marker you can drag to a certain time in the video, media controls etc, but then some videos open in a different UI where you can't slide a marker to a position in the video, instead you have to tap on a position on the timeline. I'd always go to drag the marker on these videos and end up making the video jump all over the place. On the iPhone, all videos open and use the same UI in the browser- I love that UI and the consistency.That's an interesting statement. What 5 phones would you put in there, and what phones would they replace. I thought his list was pretty solid, but I'd love to hear what 5 phones you'd add.
I'd say too many people are downplaying various features to compensate for their absence in the device they carry.
I don't hear people talk about Maserati very much, but it's still a better car than a Ford. Whether it's being talked about often or not, doesn't change the quality of the device.
