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Apple Isn't Creating Tool to Help iPhone Users Switch to Android
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Does anyone really care?
Either you have an iphone and are happily using it, charging it every five minutes and unable to add storage to it,
Or your using an android phone and enjoying better battery life and have increased the storage for a few $$ but are also used to a broken, advert filled worse user experience.
Either you have an iphone and are happily using it, charging it every five minutes and unable to add storage to it,
Or your using an android phone and enjoying better battery life and have increased the storage for a few $$ but are also used to a broken, advert filled worse user experience.
Damn. I was hoping Apple would make an App to help me switch from OS X to Windblows 10: SpyNet!
Well,
Well, "Justin Bieber's" sells are good.
"Beats" are selling well.
Twilight movies sold very well
Because, thanks to Apple's vision, they, like you, will all eventually realize that an outdated, space-hogging jack is not necessary for a good audio experience. Are you new at this? Android oems have followed this model for the last 7 years.
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They don't focus on consumers yet consumers can't stop buying their products
Well, "Justin Bieber's" sells are good.
"Beats" are selling well.
Twilight movies sold very well
To all of you apple boys that make this article an issue.... Android doesn't care!!! Again, let me know how the new apple car works out while Google does something more world changing with AR and Brillo.
http://www.androidcentral.com/we-really-dont-need-switch-android-tool-apple
http://www.androidcentral.com/we-really-dont-need-switch-android-tool-apple
My point is that to say Apple doesn't care about consumers is silly. Especially considering that consumer satisfaction metrics across it's product line are incredibly high.
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Is there anywhere I can pick up a copy?
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That would explain where the leak came from.
Not sure if that was sarcasm, but modern on-screen keyboards existed before then. Palm OS had virtual keyboards, including ones that could be modified and customized. IIRC, Windows Mobile did too.
The keyboards were designed around styluses, not fingers, but there certainly were custom keyboards 10 years ago.
After reading your comment I envisioned an interaction with the mob...
...then read your name as "Jimmy the Hook"
Yes because Google doesn't have its own car program....
And Apple doesn't have a home automation kit called Home Kit either....
Yep!
I recently went for a day out to London (10am to 11pm). I enabled Low Power mode straight out the gate and brightness on its lowest setting, switched data connection to 3G. Listened to music for 2 hours on the train (wired headphones to save battery life). Used the Maps app to find where I was going, closed it straight after. I took a 4 minute phone call, sent a few text messages, showed a friend some photos for maybe 30-60 seconds. Checked the device every hour for the time. Listened to music on the train back home.
Before I even got back I had to disable data entirely to try and prolong the battery life now at 4% and I needed to make a call when I arrived home.
Yeah. iPhone batteries are pretty bad. I'm surprised you don't know this. I expect my phone to last at least 1 day without having to manage it.
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Anything wrong with iPhone battery life? I have an iPhone 3GS where the battery still lasts all day.
Oh that has made me laugh so much. Only a day - my Xperia Z3C lasts a MINIMUM of 2 days and with light use 3. Gosh owning an iPhone must be like going back to the days of steam.
Anything wrong with iPhone battery life? I have an iPhone 3GS where the battery still lasts all day.
Oh that has made me laugh so much. Only a day - my Xperia Z3C lasts a MINIMUM of 2 days and with light use 3.
Gosh owning an iPhone must be like going back to the days of steam. And I'm sure there's someone else with a similar personal anecdotal experience of going somewhere for a day and coming back with let's say around 33% of battery life left after all of that.
Apple didn't pioneer intelligent onscreen keyboards.
Windows Mobile supported custom on-screen keyboards, some of which had auto-suggest/correct... in multiple languages, too. I think that other PDA operating systems also had this feature. That's where Apple got their basic idea from.
One of the favorites that I used, was from the inventive Russian software house, SPB. In the rounded box below is the advertising blurb from one of the online app stores of the time:
You could even skin it as you wished:
However, most of these keyboards made you edit in its own edit field, which then transferred to the original input field.
Apple, by building in such a keyboard from the start on a large enough screen, was able to go the next step and always keep the original target input field visible, albeit pushed up (a screen hiding problem that physical keyboards didn't have).
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Maybe there is. But it's widely known that iPhone batteries are pretty bad. Even Apple acknowledged that by introducing Low Power mode. I guess my experience fits in with the bulk of them.
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It is. I don't think most of us mind charging our phones overnight, but if there's a particularly heavy day then you're buggered. The target needs to be a minimum of 2 days, translating to 1 day of "oh god everythings gone wrong and I need to use my phone a lot".gnasher729 said: ↑
Anything wrong with iPhone battery life? I have an iPhone 3GS where the battery still lasts all day.
Oh that has made me laugh so much. Only a day - my Xperia Z3C lasts a MINIMUM of 2 days and with light use 3.
I'm not sure it's widely known or accepted. Nor does Low Power Mode that is there to help those who might need some conserved power at times proves anything one way or another--in fact a feature of that type has been there in Android even before iOS which by that logic means that Android phones are known for even worse battery given that the feature was needed there much earlier? Clearly one thing doesn't just imply the other.
Yes because Google doesn't have its own car program....
And Apple doesn't have a home automation kit called Home Kit either....
Pretty sure Self-Driving technology > EV Tech.
Also, screw home automation. Brillo's best use is in engineering and medicine (Apple hasn't even come close to tapping this)
Nice try! But thanks for playing.
I think a large number of people won't want to deal with the "extra cost" at all, be it an iPhone or Android phone. They'll prefer to pay full price and that's where saving 200-300 dollars for a premium phone comes into play. More likely to happen than that, at least in the US, will be a lot more people will hold on to their 6/6s longer than usual (3-4 years as opposed to 1-2 years). In other words, people will treat their iPhones a little more like an iPad.