After 4 months with the 6Plus, is anyone else bored?

[iApple_man]

But with something purely subjective as that what do people's opinions about their experience with it matter? If enough people love what they did it means absolutely nothing to someone else who will do it and hate it for their own personal reasons (or even really no reason), or vise versa.

I believe what he was saying is that it's good to get the average user experience vs the paid reviewers on YouTube etc. I agree with that to because for the most part were all the same in some sense when it comes to daily life and things. I also go to the store and play with models so I see that point to as well, but u need more insight so we come to forums like this to gather ideas.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I was so excited to get the 6plus, but after a few months with it, I've grown quite tired of it. Not the size, but the lack of things I can do WITH that size.

I've been thinking, and the only reason I have an iPhone is because I have a Macbook and iPad. Certainly not a good reason to keep paying a company for a phone you're not completely happy with.

I'm wondering if anyone has made the switch to Android (unlikely, seeing as the phone has only been out 6 months), or if anyone is similarly underwhelmed and thinking about switching. If you have switched or are considering it, which device are your eyes on?

Remember when a cell phone was 'just a phone'? Remember when all it did was 'make calls'? Remember when we had notebooks to carry around to get on 'the web'? Remember when we carried pagers to get 'instant messaging'?

Remember when ADHD was something everyone else got? Remember when you could sit and wait for page refreshes, and page loads?

I had a cellphone that was 'just a phone'. (Talk about BORING) I also had a 'smart phone' that made me look like an idiot because none of the 'smart features' ever worked. I find that getting bored with technology is less a statement about the technology than about me.

I love my 6+. And yes, 'it works' pops out of my mouth a lot. Why would I have a device that didn't. For all of the promises of a 'simpler life in the future through technology', I find my 6+ a welcome addition to uncomplicate my very surprisingly complicated life.

This is all tongue in cheek, but I remember the 'old days', and really like this new paradigm and the 'smart phone' concept. And I do try to be more patient in my life, because it's all over so quickly...

 

[C DM]

I believe what he was saying is that it's good to get the average user experience vs the paid reviewers on YouTube etc. I agree with that to because for the most part were all the same in some sense when it comes to daily life and things. I also go to the store and play with models so I see that point to as well, but u need more insight so we come to forums like this to gather ideas.

More information is good, but paid or not paid they will only take you so far and none of it will really change how you feel about it once you actually do it yourself.

You can read a lot of mattress reviews and how people feel about them, but it won't affect what your body will feel like once you get a particular one and sleep on it for a while. Just because tons of people might like a plush one would mean nothing if your body really needs a firm one and just won't feel right on a plush one once you actually sleep on it for a bit and realize that.

 

[HenryDJP]

I believe what he was saying is that it's good to get the average user experience vs the paid reviewers on YouTube etc. I agree with that to because for the most part were all the same in some sense when it comes to daily life and things. I also go to the store and play with models so I see that point to as well, but u need more insight so we come to forums like this to gather ideas.

It was still a failed argument by the OP because he used the paid YouTube reviews as a way to dismiss his lack of reading up about the phone from real users before making his purchase. Nobody is required to upgrade to the latest iPhones. That was HIS choice.

The paid YouTube argument was a failed one for many reasons. First, it's pretty easy to tell a paid review from one that was uploaded by an average joe customer that wanted to put up a review of his experiences.

Secondly and more importantly, THIS FORUM is the #1 source to get information from in terms of negatives about Apple products. The internet has made it way too easy to find honest reviews from real people.

MacRumors members buy Apple products the microsecond they are released and this forum enjoys putting out the negatives about Apple's products much more than they do praise so the OP could've gotten real reviews right here the first week the iPhone 6 Plus was released. No, he just had the "I gotta have it first, I gotta have it first" mentality and it's his own fault if he's not happy with the phone.

Does that mean Apple couldn't have improved on the iPhone? No. There's always room for improvement but to buy it immediately and then come here and cry about it as if Apple duped you shows you weren't being a smart shopper and refuse to accept any responsibility.

Any company can put out any product they want in any fashion or design. It's up to the consumer to vote with their wallet and check things out wholeheartedly before laying down a load of cash. If the consumer can't be smart about it and do that then it's the consumer's fault 100% and they have no just cause to complain.

 

[iApple_man]

More information is good, but paid or not paid they will only take you so far and none of it will really change how you feel about it once you actually do it yourself.

You can read a lot of mattress reviews and how people feel about them, but it won't affect what your body will feel like once you get a particular one and sleep on it for a while. Just because tons of people might like a plush one would mean nothing if your body really needs a firm one and just won't feel right on a plush one once you actually sleep on it for a bit and realize that.

True about the first paragraph re more information and doing it yourself.

The mattress example?, can I use that theory on marriage advice? Kidding

I get your point but their are things that I know that I don't need to experience for me to make a decision. Sometime just reading other people's experiences confirms what I was feeling all along about a certain product.

If anything the OP should just (watch this), "try" a different OS altogether. Remember I said I agree with doing things yourself.

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It was still a failed argument by the OP because he used the paid YouTube reviews as a way to dismiss his lack of reading up about the phone from real users before making his purchase. Nobody is required to upgrade to the latest iPhones. That was HIS choice.

The paid YouTube argument was a failed one for many reasons. First, it's pretty easy to tell a paid review from one that was uploaded by an average joe customer that wanted to put up a review of his experiences.

Secondly and more importantly, THIS FORUM is the #1 source to get information from in terms of negatives about Apple products. The internet has made it way too easy to find honest reviews from real people.

MacRumors members buy Apple products the microsecond they are released and this forum enjoys putting out the negatives about Apple's products much more than they do praise so the OP could've gotten real reviews right here the first week the iPhone 6 Plus was released. No, he just had the "I gotta have it first, I gotta have it first" mentality and it's his own fault if he's not happy with the phone.

Does that mean Apple couldn't have improved on the iPhone? No. There's always room for improvement but to buy it immediately and then come here and cry about it as if Apple duped you shows you weren't being a smart shopper and refuse to accept any responsibility.

Any company can put out any product they want in any fashion or design. It's up to the consumer to vote with their wallet and check things out wholeheartedly before laying down a load of cash. If the consumer can't be smart about it and do that then it's the consumer's fault 100% and they have no just cause to complain.

Totally agree!

Whats funny I had at least a year 1/2 of research before I switched to Apple recently,(Dec 2014), and most of my research came from watching YouTube, paid and avg reviews and reading forums of course. I knew I wanted to try Apple as soon as the screens got bigger. Also co-workers constantly telling me to switch planted some seeds as well.

 

[scott99]

I love my 6+. Love everything about it. Love taking pics with it, love surfing the net, love reading books on the Amazon Kindle app, love playing games on it, love watching movies on it. Just an amazing phone. I've had every iPhone since the original, and this is the best iPhone I've ever owned, though I've loved each one. I even used to read books on the Kindle app on my iphone 4 (3.5 inch screen), now on a 5.5 inch screen, I started reading a lot more. Hell, the phone hardly leaves my hand. Having bad eyesight, the 5.5 inch screen is a godsend. I can't find anything about it that I don't love.

The only con I can find is with my carrier. AT&T has a lot of false advertising, In NY and Long Island, the service hasn't gotten better since my iPhone 4 on 3G, and when the phone falls from LTE to 4G, the 4G is pretty useless when it comes to data (surfing the web), hell, AT&T's 3G was a lot better than their 4G. When I'm on the train, I can have 5 bars of service on 4G, and I still can't get onto a website. So that's pretty useless.

 

[sunking101]

People can get bored of most things and need a change of scenery.
Years of iPhones, the same basic UI and incremental hardware updates lead to a very 'samey' experience. Throw underspecced RAM and a majorly buggy o/s into the 6+ and is it any wonder that the OP is bored/disappointed/whatever?

 

[meistervu]

This is how I see it. Phones are just tools. When I get my new cordless impact driver I was amazed by what it can do despite its size. Eventually I get used to it and it no longer excited me. But that's not what I got it for: I use it to build thing, not to admire it.

Some people are tools collector, others are users. If you collect tool, you will get bored once the newness wear off. If you actually use the tools to create other things or to enjoy other things, then as long as the tool perform as well as it did when you first got it, why would it bore you?

 

[MACelmore]

I'm sure those that are replying now haven't read every post, but are rather responding to my OP.

So, to clear my name, I'll post this again here:

It's not the phone itself that I'm bored with. The build quality is top class, and it's just a phone. I'm bored with iOS, which is why I'm not downgrading to a regular 6, but rather thinking about switching to Android.

Hope that clears some stuff up.

 

[C DM]

I'm sure those that are replying now haven't read every post, but are rather responding to my OP.

So, to clear my name, I'll post this again here:

It's not the phone itself that I'm bored with. The build quality is top class, and it's just a phone. I'm bored with iOS, which is why I'm not downgrading to a regular 6, but rather thinking about switching to Android.

Hope that clears some stuff up.

Well, if you are bored with iOS then it sounds like you need to go with another mobile OS (and thus another phone). Pretty simple.

 

[cardinalryan]

An android user is calling ios buggy.
Lmao
My 6 plus is jb and runs great.
I like it and it's not buggy at all.

Ok...this post is just uninformed. I can handle any argument, but when people spout off without knowing facts, it is irritating.http://www.techtimes.com/articles/32936/20150216/android-5-0-lollipop-stable-ios-8-report.htm

 

[Applejuiced]

Ok...this post is just uninformed. I can handle any argument, but when people spout off without knowing facts, it is irritating.http://www.techtimes.com/articles/32936/20150216/android-5-0-lollipop-stable-ios-8-report.htm

Dont get upset that your droid runs worst than windows 95
In the end, you're here viewing and browsing an iphone forum for a reason.

 

[nooaah]

I've come full circle, I got bored then jailbroke and did tons and tons of tweaks for a really long time. And now thats gotten old to me. I like my boring, reliable phone again..I even have the default wallpaper. HA.

Just jailbreak and that should entertain you enough, if not then yeah try an Android phone.

Totally the same. First jailbroke to gain functionality back when the phone was first released through ios 6. Got bored and tried android and wp. Enjoyed wp the most and still prefer it overall but the app selection and quality is pathetic. Once ios 8 rolled around adding quick reply to iMessage I completely lost motivation to jb. At this point I'm done with spending time on my phone when in the end it's really just a way to pass time (regarding customizing and adding new features). Now that I'm on ios 8.3 and noticing more speed and stability with my 6+, I'm just going to leave it alone.

 

[Tthomas612]

I've had both and I agree with this. I've had more frame rate drops and app crashes on my 6+ than I did on the 6.

I'm keeping the 6+ because I'm in love with the screen and the performance seems to be improving some (or I'm just getting used to it). IMO, you put a full HD screen on the 6 and it becomes the superior phone and it's not even close (again, my opinion).

What the 6 needed was a full HD screen and bigger battery. The 6 and 6+ are two of the best smartphones we can buy right now.

However iOS 8 has been very buggy on its own. On top of that you have the 6+ tht most definitely needed two gigs of RAM.

 

[Whatintheworld7]

I'm talking about the 32Bit iPhone 5, and not the 64Bit iPhone 5S which was also under spec'd with RAM.
I'm amazed that your screen has never frozen. Mine does it all the time, and despite several clean installs of iOS8. The genius even told me that his 6+ screen frequently freezes, as does my friend's. Perhaps we use ours more heavily than you do, or maybe we all have faulty hardware and you don't. Who knows.

I can test too to my 6 Plus screen never freezing at all. I experience the Control center bug sometimes on the lock screen but not a huge dealbreaker. 8.1.3 on my Plus has been quite stable actually and i update my apps every single day so that could be a reason why my phone works great and has 60 FPS frame rate essentially all the time

From what people are saying about 8.3, it all runs better on the 5S/6 clearly and is even faster and smoother from what people have reported from beta testing

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Ok...this post is just uninformed. I can handle any argument, but when people spout off without knowing facts, it is irritating.http://www.techtimes.com/articles/32936/20150216/android-5-0-lollipop-stable-ios-8-report.htm

Do you realize only very high end android devices only are on Lollipop right now? Devices with hardware like the 805 and Tegra K1 and Snapdragon 801 with 2/3GB of RAM and quad cores

While devices like the 4S and old ipads with the A5 and 512 mb being a decent portion of iOS 8 users makeup and the crash rate is ONLY 0.2% worse then Lollipop , iOS devices with 512mb-1GB of RAM only, that tells you something right there very much.

When lower end devices start getting updated to Lollipop (devices with slower quad/dual cores and only 1-2GB of RAM) that crash rate is gonna go up for sure. 95% of users of Android are on Kitkat and that crash rate is at 2.6% , higher then iOS 7/8 and basically all active iOS users on the planet as a whole, so really Android as a whole is crashing more then iOS

 

[FieldingMellish]

That sounds plausible.

 

[Smartass]

I'm not bored because I want a new device. I'm bored because there is no way to optimize all of that screen size, and I feel like it's wasted.

Then buy a Samsung Galaxy Note, you can pretty much do anything with that big screen. Yes, i said the "S-word".

 

[6r4ff3r]

If you are bored with a device, get a life

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Meaning no disrespect, really, but hearing people say they are 'bored with iOS' is like finding out that Paris Hilton is paid for showing up at parties.

She is so bored with life, that she gets paid for parties... That is just weird.

Given the bipolar relationship I had with the Windows phone operating system on the Treo I had, I'm actually pretty happy with 'boring'. Dealing with the temperamental and eccentric behavior of that OS was like living with a person with schizophrenia. 'Hmm, I wonder what personality is in charge today. Will I still have my contacts? Hmm. I wonder how many dropped calls I'll have, and if I'll be able to get my voicemail, or even know if anyone leaves any. Oh, and maybe caller ID will work today.'

To be fair, I don't know how much of that was hardware, vs software, but it wasn't fun from a user standpoint. Finding out that Verizon deliberately crippled some of the functionality of the phone didn't add to the warm fuzzies either.

I relish in boring...

 

[TechnicallyTee]

I'm sure those that are replying now haven't read every post, but are rather responding to my OP.

So, to clear my name, I'll post this again here:

It's not the phone itself that I'm bored with. The build quality is top class, and it's just a phone. I'm bored with iOS, which is why I'm not downgrading to a regular 6, but rather thinking about switching to Android.

Hope that clears some stuff up.

To make it simple bro, try and android. I have done it plenty of times and I like it for a limited period of time and always find myself reverting back to the iPhone. I have done it every time since the 4S. If you were going to switch to Android I would wait for the HTC M9 since that will give you an like iOS like smooth experience with Android system. Don't let people bash with getting bored with phones and saying get a life and all that. I get bored with them all the time but what im realizing is boring is pretty good to me. That means im not fixing issues and everything is working just like I like it.

 

[sunking101]

To make it simple bro, try and android. I have done it plenty of times and I like it for a limited period of time and always find myself reverting back to the iPhone. I have done it every time since the 4S. If you were going to switch to Android I would wait for the HTC M9 since that will give you an like iOS like smooth experience with Android system. Don't let people bash with getting bored with phones and saying get a life and all that. I get bored with them all the time but what im realizing is boring is pretty good to me. That means im not fixing issues and everything is working just like I like it.

I wish I could get that boring, simple and effective experience with my iPhone. It constantly irritates me with its buggy and frustrating o/s. Add to that the fact that the last update impacted on my battery somewhat, and I find that I'm forever trying to fix issues on my 6+. I'm always doing a reset, always doing a restore, and always craving the next iOS update.

 

[62tele]

How does one get "bored" with a smart phone?
It's a phone. It's a small computer. It has utility and has functions you need or may rely upon but, other than that, it's still a phone coupled with a mobile computer. In and of itself it's just hardware with a native operating system and is only as useful and entertaining as the apps you have.
You don't often find people who complain about their desktop or laptop being boring. It has form and function and nothing more. It should be the same with a phone.
If excitement, fascination and enchantment can be found in an Android or Windows device then, by all means, make the switch. Ultimately the novelty wears off and a person is still left with the core utilities of the device: phoning, messaging, gaming, informing, task management etc.

 

[HenryDJP]

It constantly irritates me with its buggy and frustrating o/s. Add to that the fact that the last update impacted on my battery somewhat, and I find that I'm forever trying to fix issues on my 6+. I'm always doing a reset, always doing a restore, and always craving the next iOS update.

Yes, yes, as you've mentioned to us over and over and on multiple threads. And I will mention over and over that your issues are YOUR issues because I haven't experienced a crash or a screen freeze with my 6 Plus and I have had this phone since the day of release. My buddy and I bought both this phone on the same day and no issues with his either. I thought this thread was about the OP being bored with iOS. Was I mistaken that this thread was really about OS problems? Hmm.

How does one get "bored" with a smart phone?
It's a phone. It's a small computer. It has utility and has functions you need or may rely upon but, other than that, it's still a phone coupled with a mobile computer. In and of itself it's just hardware with a native operating system and is only as useful and entertaining as the apps you have.
You don't often find people who complain about their desktop or laptop being boring. It has form and function and nothing more. It should be the same with a phone.
If excitement, fascination and enchantment can be found in an Android or Windows device then, by all means, make the switch. Ultimately the novelty wears off and a person is still left with the core utilities of the device: phoning, messaging, gaming, informing, task management etc.

Hear hear! Excellent post! Some people need a dose of reality because the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Anytime I've ever switched to a different product it was because the previous product would never offer features I needed which stifled my daily production. Boring doesn't make me switch. Oh first world problems when you need an Operating System to keep you from getting bored.

 

[C DM]

Yes, yes, as you've mentioned to us over and over and on multiple threads. And I will mention over and over that your issues are YOUR issues because I haven't experienced a crash or a screen freeze with my 6 Plus and I have had this phone since the day of release. My buddy and I bought both this phone on the same day and no issues with his either. I thought this thread was about the OP being bored with iOS. Was I mistaken that this thread was really about OS problems? Hmm.



Here here! Excellent post! Some people need a dose of reality because the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Anytime I've ever switched to a different product it was because the previous product would never offer features I needed which stifled my daily production. Boring doesn't make me switch. Oh first world problems when you need an Operating System to keep you from getting bored.

"Hear, hear!" that is.

 

[HenryDJP]

"Hear, hear!" that is.

Ah, will fix that.