iTunes is OS X/PC only. Music/Videos apps are what are on iDevices and are the easiest out of their competitors.
iTunes is fantastic on OS X and awful on Windows.
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Does iOS 7 have any features that Android 4.2 doesn't have?
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iTunes is fantastic on OS X and awful on Windows.
The iPhone 4 on iOS 6 is slow when browsing and loading intensive apps thats a fact. 33% of devices are running Android Jellybean 4.1.X-4.2.2 a devices not running the very latest version is not such a big thing as the things added/fixed in the point releases would most probably of been in the manufacturer customised version on Android. Having the latest version of the operating system on a devices is not such a big deal as it is on iOS as Android is modular all the Google apps are updated by Google themselves independant of the OS so bugs in core apps get fixed alot faster then in iOS.
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That phones been out for 15 months, not making excuses for HTC as it is crap they arn't supporting their devices properly unlike Samsung which are making an effort to support their devices for a long time.
iMessage is SMS based as a backup so anyone with an iPhone gets iMessage and anyone else receives them as texts. Hangouts requires Google+ and does not have SMS as a backup to support anyone who doesn't use Google+.
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I asked my old roommate who got a new Samsung Note 2 to see if it has FaceTime-like app, he could not find it anywhere.
Skype, which is everywhere.
The newest and greatest HTC one is on a old version of android. Thats rubbish and its true. It took Verizon 8 months to get the current version of android on to the Nexus. Thats also rubbish. Android is a laggy, fragmented, and cheap user experience.
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You also don't get read receipts with google+
Yep. iMessage a text message app. Its interoperable with the rest of the world and free for iOS people. Google+ Hangouts is none of those things.
Thats true and you might as well use Facebook messages. Since the only people that use google+ is google and its advertisers.
You're so full of lol, tell me what first hand experience have you had so Android? And the HTC One is getting updated to 4.2.2 as of right now. It's not rubbish at all it matters less if a phone does not have the latest version of Android then if a phone has the latest version of iOS because the Google apps are updated independently of the OS, it's a FACT. You come across as someone who has very little knowledge of the subject you're preaching on.
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Its two months old and the att version will not get that upgrade for awhile. I can show you a list of my android devices. I don't know if you realize this but 4.3 is the latest version of android.
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Its two months old and the att version will not get that upgrade for awhile. I can show you a list of my android devices. I don't know if you realize this but 4.3 is the latest version of android.
If you think the SGS4, SGS3 and HTC One X offer a laggy, poor user experience then i don't know what to say. And Android 4.3 has'nt been properly released yet as none of the Nexus devices have it yet and Google as far as i'm aware have not even mentioned it.
iOS 7 isn't released yet
Yet I have it. Android 4.3 is out this month and it will be a year by the time the galaxy s4 gets it. My old galaxy s3 was less laggy than my S4.
I don't know about a poor user experience but it's definitely laggy compared to iOS on an iPhone 4S/5 with 6.1.x. The latest Android UI, even with project butter, just isn't as responsive. That is noticeable by iOS users.
I can think of one; the feature that allows one to waltz into an Apple store, discuss one's issue(s), and waltz back out again, ten minutes later, with the issues solved or a brand new phone.
This "feature", if you will, is called stellar customer care. Try that with your little green men!
This "feature", if you will, is called stellar customer care. Try that with your little green men!
Proper working ecosystem. that and I have far more content available to me in NZ
With Google play I have Games music and apps. With iOS I have Books,movies,magazines,apps,music, passbook. Maybe you folk should get out of the US bubble.
This is a huge deal to me. I just bought a 4S because I couldn't take the dying battery on my 3G any longer. I like new gadgets, but I also like to make the most of resources (conflict minerals is not an insignificant issue), so I don't need new hardware every year, especially when I also have an ipad. Software support is way more important than the latest and greatest hardware. There is always later and greater hardware. The fact that I can run even iOS 7 on the 4S is fabulous. (I'll get a 5S in the fall and give my mom the 4S to replace her 3G since she didn't really like the larger form factor of the 5, but I'd have talked her into the 5 if not for the great update support).
I wouldn't say it' laggy. I've used the S4 before and I would say it responds less granularly compared to iOS (less sensitive to swiping, and therefore less accurate and true to your finger movements). Animations though are smooth.
Sorry to appear pedantic, and this really is NOT my intention, just so you are aware, and I really try NOT to be a faux-intellectual, quoting things... but "lag" is defined as:
"lag 1 (lg)
v. lagged, lag·ging, lags
v.intr.
1. To fail to keep up a pace; straggle.
2. To proceed or develop with comparative slowness: The electric current lags behind the voltage.
3. To fail, weaken, or slacken gradually; flag.
4. Games To determine the order of play in billiards by successively hitting the cue ball against the end rail, the ball rebounding closest to the head rail indicating the player to shoot first.
v.tr.
1. To cause to hang back or fall behind.
2. To shoot, throw, or pitch (a coin, for example) at a mark.
n.
1. The act, process, or condition of lagging.
2. One that lags.
3. A condition of slowness or retardation.
4.
a. The extent or duration of lagging: "He wondered darkly at how great a lag there was between his thinking and his actions" (Thomas Wolfe).
b. An interval between events or phenomena considered together."
I see something not being responsive as lagging, as I am waiting for it to respond, and it is not, ergo it lags.
Android is one BIG bag of lag.
Yeah, basically that. So fine, it lags
.Before, it was worse when the animations themselves jerked around.
Yeah, basically that. So fine, it lags
Before, it was worse when the animations themselves jerked around.
Didn't Google have "project butter"? They could have beefed that up a little, and called it "project jerky"
I was always the kind of person who thought it was the job of the product designer to fix these things, not the customer. I must be wrong, and Google must intentionally leave things half-baked, so "power users" can fix them, then brag about how they're able to tweak and customise, and have never-ending debates about the best rooting method etc... Been there, done the whole "Spin the wheel of Android, and see which button combo your handset implements to enter recovery mode"
Oh dear. Thanks Google, and thanks for using Java - valiant of you.
Galaxy S4: "Beefed up, still jerky"
