Normally iPhones are packaged with data plans in most of the places whether one needs or not. While S3 users need not use maps app while on the move since they can exclude in their monthly plans while depend more on built it navigation system in their vehicles and WiFi for browsing.
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Chitika: iPhone 5 Passes Samsung Galaxy S III in Web Usage
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Bloody hell, where did they conduct this study, Cupertino?! Don't get me wrong, I love my iPhone 5, but for me (and the several other fanboys I know who pre-ordered one), Maps is unusable. If you look at where I live there is literally one out of around twenty Bars and resteraunts in the right place, a footpath ends in nothing after crossing a bridge because the path on the other side is missing, and a road goes through a building.
It's not moaning over nothing or making a mountain out of a molehill, it's just a terrible terrible mapping service in my part of the world.
Partially agree: unimportant and clearly MR needs to get hits and fill posts and threads, so we come back.
Wound up , not so much, just stating facts.
No, it just means that a company which tracks advert impressions, then extraploates that data as best they can into what it believes would be typical data usage by a surfer, reasons that more data is being used by iPhones.
It's not by any means an acurate statistc of real world data usage, but a best guess from the ad tracking company. They would use these figures to target ad campaigns, i.e. a greater spend on ads that would be of interest to an Apple user as opposed to an Android surfer based on the trends they are seeing.
The actual reasons for the impressions could be affected by new releases, promotions, very newsworthy stories relating to the devices concerned and a whole multitude of other things. But the ad companies need some method of targetting and it's the best they have at present.
Figures here in the UK put the S3 sales above the iPhone 5 but I don't think that is true of the North American market. No idea on other countries.
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It's always been the case that iOS is way ahead of Android in usage data collected. It's very strange but the gap between iOS and Android is quite large when they measure usage through web surfing and things like WiFi connections at restaurants and airports.
Heh. Like the scuffing and purple len flare. Much ado about nothing. The media hungry for eyeballs jumps at and blows up anything that could be twisted into a possible Apple scandal.
Given how little iPhone sales is affected by the so called "bad press", either a) most people don't read tech news, in which case the tech press is really just playing to the fanboys (of both camps), b) people have come to realise most tech news these days is sensationalised hot air and have started to ignore it.
But, but, but...
I thought Android was outselling iOS 3 to 1. I guess most of those must not have been S3s.
I thought Android was outselling iOS 3 to 1. I guess most of those must not have been S3s.
Two of my iPhones (the ones the kids use) do not have data plans. They are the older phones that I gave to the kids when I upgraded mine and my wife's to the 4S. Since the plans were new but the phones were not, I just had to buy a $15/month voice plan for each, and they use WiFi for data.
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Wait, so some of you are using the results of a single survey of "primarily North American consumers" to dismiss the whole maps situation as a non-issue?
Interesting. I was under the impression that the verdict was that Apple Maps were passable in N. America but were more lacking in some other parts of the world. Also do we have any idea how many of those surveyed use maps regularly enough to form an informed opinion? Perhaps a lot of them "haven't experienced any problems" because, you know, they've not used it that much.
Apple Maps has issues. If you've not been personally affected, well done, have a cookie; this doesn't mean others are kicking up a fuss simply because they like to moan or are anti-Apple, however.
Interesting. I was under the impression that the verdict was that Apple Maps were passable in N. America but were more lacking in some other parts of the world. Also do we have any idea how many of those surveyed use maps regularly enough to form an informed opinion? Perhaps a lot of them "haven't experienced any problems" because, you know, they've not used it that much.
Apple Maps has issues. If you've not been personally affected, well done, have a cookie; this doesn't mean others are kicking up a fuss simply because they like to moan or are anti-Apple, however.
Do you even understand the difference between a PHONE and an OPERATING SYSTEM? (Hint: that's a rhetorical question). You are the type of person who is an embarassment to our education system. I realize you may need this repeated and pounded in....more IPHONES are sold than ANY Android PHONE.
Come back after you graduate middle school.
Shouldn't you be trying to find a reason to laugh at Apple being a Samsung supporter?
Wow, I love how the blind loyalists just quickly jump over any survey results that put Apple in a favorable light, but are completely skeptical of anything that puts Apple in a negative light or puts the competition in a favorable position.
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All this means is that the iPhone is tracked more easily than the GS3. There is nothing to be excited about here. It's just downright pathetic. Your browsing is more easily tracked. Your proud of something majority of this world does not want, a breach of your privacy. I would easily say the average GS3 user is a lot more informed about privacy settings than the average iPhone user.
There's already a thread about this issue here.
And this was the Source quoted in the thread.
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All this means is that the iPhone is tracked more easily than the GS3. There is nothing to be excited about here. It's just downright pathetic. Your browsing is more easily tracked. Your proud of something majority of this world does not want, a breach of your privacy. I would easily say the average GS3 user is a lot more informed about privacy settings than the average iPhone user.
There's already a thread about this issue here.
And this was the Source quoted in the thread.
I love it how people judge how good a phone is by how many people have bought it vs the other phone. Look at the world. It is in a huge mess and you know why? Majority screwed it up. What does that tell you? There are 3 idiots to 1 smart. Now apply that to the phone market. Not saying this is the case but you really should think twice before saying another phone is **** just because it didn't sell as many times.
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You must make the software for iOS and Android lol.
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You must make the software for iOS and Android lol.
what a load of *******
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i think ppl here can read 10 size fonts. they dont need headlines
9 out of 10 users did not see a problem with maps.... So Tim apologized publically for the 1 out of 10, yet another example how these firms manipulate stats data, about as useful as all those tech analysts that try to predict what apple will do. Load of bs.
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What's the point of a smart phone, without data????
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What's the point of a smart phone, without data????
Not familiar with which's tests, but if they tested battery life at maximum brightness then it is a huge fail. Each mobile should be calibrated and tested at a standard brightness. For example at maximum brightness the s3 is well less than 1/2 the brightness of the iphone5. 562 vs 224 according to Displaymate.
Do you even understand the difference between a PHONE and an OPERATING SYSTEM? (Hint: that's a rhetorical question). You are the type of person who is an embarassment to our education system. I realize you may need this repeated and pounded in....more IPHONES are sold than ANY Android PHONE.
Come back after you graduate middle school.
But be honest there are only 4 iphones on the market compared to a huge number of droids. Upshot is lack of choice means that the latest iPhone will always have a large proportion of sales.
If you only had 4 versions of Android phones available, then the Androids would logically be outselling individual iPhones. Stupid point really.
No, it just means that iPhone users are spending more time on Facebook than other smartphone users.
There's a difference in being tech savvy and being a settings freak or a 'geek'.
A huge part of tech savvy people enjoy using all features they'll find, however, they're not necessarily equally inclined to fiddle with lots of settings or hunt for the best keyboard replacement app.
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While this might be true for Android phones in general, one would assume that an expensive high end smartphone like the Galaxy S3 is preferably chosen and bought by people who actually use it as a smartphone.
My assumption is that it has a lot more to do with the fact that there are now millions of new iPhones sold + novelty factor than with usual usage patterns.
Yes, that is a stupid point. If iOS were licensed and put on hundreds of phones, iOS could clearly dominate the marketplace. Unfortunately, in that case, iOS would become as unstable, inconsistent, and buggy as Android.
Before my iPhone 4 I had an HTC Desire. Not a whole lot of difference in raw power.
But I just used the HTC Desire as more of a phone as I just didn't like the mishmash that was Android. When I got the iPhone I barely stopped touching and using the thing. I'm always surfing the web on it, reading interesting stuff before falling asleep.
It's the same with Android tablets. I've barely seen one in the wild, not even these new cheap 7" hyped Nexus tablets. But I always see iPads.
While tech-heads and forum-bores like to moan about iOS in the real world it seems to encourage people to actually use their devices to the full more than Android does. The web traffic data doesn't lie. Indeed, on all three of my websites, after Windows and Mac OS, iOS is miles ahead of Android and other platforms.
But I just used the HTC Desire as more of a phone as I just didn't like the mishmash that was Android. When I got the iPhone I barely stopped touching and using the thing. I'm always surfing the web on it, reading interesting stuff before falling asleep.
It's the same with Android tablets. I've barely seen one in the wild, not even these new cheap 7" hyped Nexus tablets. But I always see iPads.
While tech-heads and forum-bores like to moan about iOS in the real world it seems to encourage people to actually use their devices to the full more than Android does. The web traffic data doesn't lie. Indeed, on all three of my websites, after Windows and Mac OS, iOS is miles ahead of Android and other platforms.
A comparison like this is so useless when Samsung has just dethroned the S3 with the Galaxy Note 2. Samsung has no fear when releasing something that is bigger and better every few months. Even S3 owners are buying the Note 2. And then Samsung is going to hit Apple again with the S4 early to mid 2013 when iPhone sales typically slow down and then again with the Note 3 in late 2013.
Is there anyone here that truly believes that the S3 is better than the Note 2? I wouldn't be surprised if another Android devices takes down the Note 2 in a few months.
Is there anyone here that truly believes that the S3 is better than the Note 2? I wouldn't be surprised if another Android devices takes down the Note 2 in a few months.
So you're basically saying that iOS is stable, consistent and bug free.
1. Apps developers are forced to update all their apps for iPhone 5 larger screen. It takes time to update apps and if the developers abandoned the app you SOL.
2. There are plenty of apps that are buggy and are not compatible with iOS 6. Just read some of the reviews. Even Tim apologized for maps.
3. iOS 6 on 3GS vs 4 vs 4s vs 5 vs iPad vs iPad 2 vs new iPad. Not one version is exactly the same across the board. My iPhone 4 is not good enough for turn by turn directions but any Android device with 2.0 and above has it.
4. And now you have 5 processors, 600mhz A8, A4, A5, A5X and A6. No different than all the the processors that Android has.
5. 5 screen resolutions across different iOS devices but Android devices can handle different screen sizes and resolution much better than iOS. The Android OS is much more flexible for different device types.
Your points were true maybe 2 years ago but Google keeps making Android better with every update. Apple just sits back content with what Steve Jobs created 5 years ago.
Very melodramatic and just proves you haven't used a modern Android.
The point I was trying to make however is that it is useless comparing sales figures between two very different beasts. iPhone aims at one narrow area of the market, namely premium phone buyers. Android aims at every segment of the market, so trying to argue sales figures for individual phones is ridiculous. You are try to compare phones aimed at different targets that only overlap with the premium Androids.
Do you even understand the difference between a PHONE and an OPERATING SYSTEM? (Hint: that's a rhetorical question). You are the type of person who is an embarassment to our education system. I realize you may need this repeated and pounded in....more IPHONES are sold than ANY Android PHONE.
Come back after you graduate middle school.
Wow, do you even read threads in their entirety before posting? Check a few posts up for my first post. Remember context is important.