I think it goes both ways as evident in threads on this forum. Fact is - no one should feel the need to justify their own purchase or their use case. We all have different (sometimes similar needs). As long as you're happy with what you use - no one should care about your decision anymore than you should care about someone else's.
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I think it goes both ways as evident in threads on this forum. Fact is - no one should feel the need to justify their own purchase or their use case. We all have different (sometimes similar needs). As long as you're happy with what you use - no one should care about your decision anymore than you should care about someone else's.
I think we're nitpicking here if we're going to gripe about carrying an iPhone and a thumb drive (which combined would still probably weigh about as much as a GS3 or Note II).
I'll give you that sharing between certain apps on the iPhone may not be as "simple" as dragging and dropping a folder from one location another. But how many ways do you feel you need to be able to share a given file? I mean there's iCloud, Dropbox, Amazon's cloud, Mocrosoft's cloud, not to mention tons of third party apps that work with just about every other device. Then you also have proprietary sharing tools like Photo Stream (which rocks by the way) and AirDrop (which I wish was on the iPhone). You can post to FB and Twitter from most any app.
I guess I'm just at a loss for what else I could be sharing/what ways I could be sharing.
Android phones have way to big screen.
The SIII is way to big for my pocket as well.
iPhone 4S and 5 are PERFECT.
The SIII is way to big for my pocket as well.
iPhone 4S and 5 are PERFECT.
But again - it's not about weight and whatnot. It's about the difference between carrying one device vs two. But to each their own 
With the iPhone - I sometimes would need to send from one app - to dropbox (or similar) and then open up another app and go into dropbox and open in the app I want. This is vs on Android what you can do. Is it a HUGE issue - no. But enough of an annoyance that I give props to Android for making it efficient.
And sometimes I have a picture that I want to share via multiple apps or online. I can do that with Android easily. Especially with the app Andmade share. For example- I can send the same picture to contacts on WhatsApp, post on Facebook, Twitter and also email it to someone via a checklist. This would be several steps with iOS.
Is it something I do often? No. But again - just one (small) example how sharing in Android by not being tied to the developer or OS is handled better.
With the iPhone - I sometimes would need to send from one app - to dropbox (or similar) and then open up another app and go into dropbox and open in the app I want. This is vs on Android what you can do. Is it a HUGE issue - no. But enough of an annoyance that I give props to Android for making it efficient.
And sometimes I have a picture that I want to share via multiple apps or online. I can do that with Android easily. Especially with the app Andmade share. For example- I can send the same picture to contacts on WhatsApp, post on Facebook, Twitter and also email it to someone via a checklist. This would be several steps with iOS.
Is it something I do often? No. But again - just one (small) example how sharing in Android by not being tied to the developer or OS is handled better.
That is a load of crap. While this is apparently your opinion, it has no basis in fact. Please refrain from making incendiary and stupid comments such as this.
As or my, I happen to need a "smartphone" for my work and I have found (through review and hands on experience) that iPhone does the job better for what I do. It also has much better integration and MUCH better app selection for the apps that I need. Hence, I went for an iPhone 4s and am quite happy with it.
And when the next round of android/windows/iOS phones come out, I will similarly review them to see which does what I need best.
I have tried the different Android "smartphones" and just have not been that impressed by the experience.
I don't think your numbers are correct. There is no way that Samsung sold 20 million GS3s and Notes in Q2 2012. The GS3 was only on sale for a month. It didn't even reach 10 million in sales until the end of July.
Please repeat it... I'd like to see another run on sentence.
You initially said "a lot" and then, in the same sentence, said "a few". Which one is it, a lot or a few?
Both represent very different values if quantified and in fact I'd go so far as to say very opposite.
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Yeah I remember those conversations. Then after Apple come out with the feature that everyone was saying was useless and Apple would never do it, it become the most innovative thing ever that no one has ever seen done "right". How long did it take us to get Notification Center?
Feel free to write your latest novel or the codebase of a large software product with Notepad, Pico or VI. While all of those tools can technically be used to write software or a novel, nobody in their right mind would use them in this day in age. Even when the KRZR was new, nobody in their right mind would have actually used one for composing even a medium sized email whereas you could compose an email with pictures on the original iPhone.
When you have a screen as cramped as the KRZR was, it is effectively useless because of the lack of usability. I am not interested in debating a "turning" test of what is possible on a piece of crap like the KRZR but whether the average person would have used it as a smartphone. I would confidently say that almost nobody used the KRZR as anything other than a phone to talk and text on and even texting would have been a pain pressing the number pad numerous times to output the desired letters in the desired case.
I stand by my claim that you people are viewing things through rose coloured glasses. Without a QUERTY keyboard of any kind, only a masochist would type an email to someone.
You're entitled to your opinion. Others are entitled to theirs. That doesn't negate theirs or makes yours superior. And I already commented on the hypocrisy of the rose colored glasses comment.
Oh, I totally agree. I've seen decades of such device debates come and go. Nobody's minds are ever changed
At the same time, it's helpful for those debates... which cannot be stopped... to be based more on facts than wildly incorrect myths. Otherwise, they're even worse than useless.
I've come to the conclusion that debates over screen size should mostly be kept within each operating system.
The primary reason is, iOS was not designed to easily handle larger screens being used with one hand. The Back button is just too far away most of the time. Therefore it's understandable if iOS users don't want larger screens, while Android and WP users have no problem with them.
(I was using my iPad while reading in bed last night and for the millionth time I was frustrated at having to take a hand off and reach way up to go Back. That's when it hit me.)
Phone sizes are fashion based. The original iPhone in 2007 was monstrously large. Or people thought so at the time. That was the time when phones got smaller and smaller to the point where adults couldn't enter a phone number anymore without the help of a toothpick. Personally I think that with some of the large phones, you just look ridiculous making a phone call. But that's just me.
Eventually screen size won't matter as much because of developments like google glass (and other tech like it) + being able to use any surface as a keyboard - or even the air.
Lots of business users spending time just surfing the web? No wonder your economy is in the sh***er.
And yours is doing any better? Lol...
That small change matters in my pocket.
Jeans have really small pockets mate.
Womens jeans ? Sure most dont even have pocket.
Now mens jean ? Yeap they fit like any other phone and im sure when apple bumps the screen again it will fit
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Sure, but its kinda true.
4-inches in today's market is still pretty small.
Its not just Samsung. Look at Microsoft, RIM, HTC, LG, etc.
Just saying.
lol.... iphone 5 is the number 1 phone on earth
For sure not in Hong Kong. All you you see on the MTRs and Busses are GSIIIs and Notes. In the shops you can find now more accessories for Samsung phones than iPhones.
The strategy of offering only one screen size which is relatively small in comparison to the popular Androids will lead to Apple's decline in the mobile market, I am afraid.
Would it be so hard to offer 2 screen sizes for Apple?
More disturbing: lots of my colleagues who switched to a GSIII or Note tell me, that the phone is nice enough in order for them not to want to go back to Apple, even if they offered a bigger sized phone.
According to Samsung projection, they think they can sell 30M S3 and 20M note 2 by year end... The 100m total for Samsung seems to be low.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...axy-s3-sales-to-surpass-30-million-this-year/
Fake.
No corrosion and bending of the iPhone.
By the way, what's the ugly plastic thing underneath the beautiful smartphone on top?