A story to escape from all the complaining.

[Figbash Acrobat]

But I do like the irony of a member named 'Hellishness' starting a thread to 'escape complaining' with the disclaimer: Do not read if you are a negative person

Suppose that's good for a laugh!

 

[Figbash Acrobat]

Not really, it's a statement of fact which would be classified as a positive, just as pointing out a lie would be. Now, if I'd blown it and instead said something like "Well, I double dog dare ya!!!" that would have negative since the expectation is that I'm enticing a dispute...

And you can actually make one post that covers what you'd like to say instead of making multiple ones for each reply. There, that's something positive towards your edjumication...

But anyway... how about those Mets?

Really? You wanna quibble on this? LOL ...to me, asking that someone's statements be stricken from the record is negative. But that's just me. You're free to disagree. You know, for the record. Don't hate on me for trying to lighten up a thread claiming to be an escape from the negativity up in here as of late.

P.S. I'll do what I want. Try not to be such a stick in the mud (and edjumicate me, as you say).

 

[Hellishness]

Just wanted to point out that DoodleJump has not been updated for iOS 4 and doesn't work with multitasking. So the part where you were playing DoodleJump, then checked FaceBook, then went back exactly where you were in DoodleJump didn't happen.


Just saying...

Ok, I don't remember EVERYTHING that happened, but I think I went to another app while DJ was paused and went back to DJ with it still being paused as I left it. Not 100% sure tho...

But I do like the irony of a member named 'Hellishness' starting a thread to 'escape complaining' with the disclaimer: Do not read if you are a negative person

Suppose that's good for a laugh!

LOL good observation

 

[keyofnight]

Cool story.

A quick observation:

When people try to sell me on Android, they talk about what it can do. You know…the "features."

When people talk about how much they enjoy their iPhones, they talk about what they end up doing with it.

I think there's a huge difference between the two mindsets. I remember I used to use Sony Ericsson phones. Each of my Sony phones had cut and paste in the software, but I hated using it on those phones because it was so time consuming. It's not "what" it can do, but "how" it does it—or how it feels to do it.

Your friend's exclamation is great—"Well, the Droid can do everything the iPhone 4 can, except multitasking[…], but the iPhone can just do everything so much better!" It sounds like he learned the value of the experience.

 

[br0adband]

Try thinking of it this way:

I've got an iPhone 4. It doesn't work as advertised, so I'm stating a fact - a positive. And I'm not alone, and other people are pointing out that they too are having problems with their phones - all statements of positive fact in our specific situations and with our specific experience. That's a very important distinction there...

People out there not having issues with their iPhones don't always come at it from the perspective of "Ok, my iPhone 4 is perfect, I have no problems with it at all" which is positive, they could make such a statement and nobody realistically can call them on it. But it's when they take it a step further and say basically the same thing but add in that little negative at the end:

"Ok, my iPhone 4 is perfect, I have no problems with it at all, and anyone that says they're having problems is crazy" or adding anything past the positive that turns the entire statement into a slam.

I got no beef with people that have no problems at all, I congratulate them on a regular basis (pretty much every time someone admits or states they're not having problems) - it's the ones that take it that step further and turn a positive statement into a slam against those of us that do have problems.

Your iPhone 4 works? No problems at all? Man, lucky you, congrats. Mine is pooched. No, seriously, it is. No, I'm not crazy, no I'm not returning it, no I'm not slapping a case on it, etc etc.

They don't really have to defend that the phone works for them - that's the natural state of the device, as it should be. So why do we people having problems have to defend that yes we're having problems?

Is it so difficult to believe that Apple has potentially (important word there) made a rookie error and let this product come to market with some issues that could be causing some of us problems?

Anybody that says "No, it's not possible" is simply stupid, and ignorant to boot on top of it because they're dismissing actual first-hand reports (no pun intended) of people not being able to use the iPhone 4 in their hands which is pretty bad considering it's a hand-held cellular phone.

The prevalent attitude of many iPhone 4 owners that are bothering to comment in a negative fashion is something like this: "My iPhone 4 works flawlessly, therefore all iPhone 4's must work the same way" and they aren't even going to budge on that one, ever, so I don't even try. I just tell 'em "Hey, good for you, but I am having issues" and that pretty much covers it, sometimes with a lot of words, sometimes with a few.

I type really fast...

 

[Figbash Acrobat]

*yawn*
So much for an escape...

 

[nukztar]

Cool story.

When people try to sell me on Android, they talk about what it can do. You know…the "features."

When people talk about how much they enjoy their iPhones, they talk about what they end up doing with it.

Im not sure i understand your comment?

You are right, its not all about specs. But I like to think of myself as an intelligent consumer who does his research. When I do my research i look at the pro's and con's of each device and find something that best fits my needs.

Previously, the iphone (3GS and prior) did everything in a gorgeous and user friendly way, but mutlitasking is a deal breaker for me and the iphone didnt do it. Hence I went with Android as it better met my needs.

As the products evolve, I will continue to base my decisions on the features that are most important to me.

So when you say "you know, the features",,, thats a pretty big statement because i consider "features" quite important!

What they end up doing with it?
If i bought an apple and it didnt have certain features im looking for like tethering, multitasking etc but i end up using it for games, that really makes no difference to me because it didnt meet my initial needs. I still need tethering and i still need multitasking, games and pretty pictures wont distract me from that.

 

[Qinetic]

When people try to sell me on Android, they talk about what it can do. You know…the "features."

When people talk about how much they enjoy their iPhones, they talk about what they end up doing with it.

Cool story.

Im not sure i understand your comment?

You are right, its not all about specs. But I like to think of myself as an intelligent consumer who does his research. When I do my research i look at the pro's and con's of each device and find something that best fits my needs.

Previously, the iphone (3GS and prior) did everything in a gorgeous and user friendly way, but mutlitasking is a deal breaker for me and the iphone didnt do it. Hence I went with Android as it better met my needs.

As the products evolve, I will continue to base my decisions on the features that are most important to me.

So when you say "you know, the features",,, thats a pretty big statement because i consider "features" quite important!

What they end up doing with it?
If i bought an apple and it didnt have certain features im looking for like tethering, multitasking etc but i end up using it for games, that really makes no difference to me because it didnt meet my initial needs. I still need tethering and i still need multitasking, games and pretty pictures wont distract me from that.

Clearly you don't understand the point he is trying to make, and I really don't wanna explain it to you. I realize you stated you didn't understand, but you ranted like you did anyway.