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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Posts Guide on Converting to Android from iPhone
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Well, well, well...........
Getting a little nervous after the Samsung verdict Eric? You should be Eric.
Still the same old Eric. Pretending to be someone.
Remember that Cafe where you screwed Steve with your lies over coffee. Still have those digital notes from
your Apple Board Meetings?
Your pathetic. Thank goodness Larry Page put you someplace with money but no intellectual requirements.
Back in your room and close the door, please.
Getting a little nervous after the Samsung verdict Eric? You should be Eric.
Still the same old Eric. Pretending to be someone.
Remember that Cafe where you screwed Steve with your lies over coffee. Still have those digital notes from
your Apple Board Meetings?
Your pathetic. Thank goodness Larry Page put you someplace with money but no intellectual requirements.
Back in your room and close the door, please.
He is responsible for the most abhorrent act of corporate backstabbing ever - not even Bill Gates went that low when "borrowing" from the Mac System...at least the latter had a badly drafted licensing agreement to draw his betrayal from.
That element should be spending time in Guantánamo and nothing else.
As long and the financing big wigs that caused the US recession are right there with him. Time to treat white collar criminals like real criminals across the board. At least this guy only caused harm to certain people
¾ of the people in here do know that you can use, and like, Apple products without treating Android like the bubonic plague, right? It's even possible to like things about Android and still like Apple products, even iOS.
I doubt it. I tried to like Android in the past, and it's just one pain in the neck after another.
I think there are some great reasons to choose Android over anything else. But in this case I think Eric's points are incorrect and he missed the meaningful stuff.
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Have I stumbled into opposite world? Have I discovered an actual other dimension where reality isn't? Has anyone tried to read the "actual" post and replies? Are they serious? Is it the world's worst advertorial? How do you put a comment on it or did Eric and co manufacture (steal) the whole thing from a certain Korean manufacturer and use google translate (how else do you explain their appalling language skills)?
Is Eric s the world's most accomplished sociopath? How the eff did he mange to insinuate himself with Jobs? Seriously. How?
Having Eric on the board must be Steve's biggest ever failure. How could it happen? Is Eric Gate's actual even more evil twin (yeah I know, Gates had Simualted Conscience 3.1 installed shortly before jumping ship, but that's what sociopaths are able to get away with). The banksters (of Wall Street) are so evil they couldn't understand how that step could help confuse the masses or maybe that's just the difference between sociopaths and phsycopaths.
Have I stumbled into opposite world? Have I discovered an actual other dimension where reality isn't? Has anyone tried to read the "actual" post and replies? Are they serious? Is it the world's worst advertorial? How do you put a comment on it or did Eric and co manufacture (steal) the whole thing from a certain Korean manufacturer and use google translate (how else do you explain their appalling language skills)?
Is Eric s the world's most accomplished sociopath? How the eff did he mange to insinuate himself with Jobs? Seriously. How?
Having Eric on the board must be Steve's biggest ever failure. How could it happen? Is Eric Gate's actual even more evil twin (yeah I know, Gates had Simualted Conscience 3.1 installed shortly before jumping ship, but that's what sociopaths are able to get away with). The banksters (of Wall Street) are so evil they couldn't understand how that step could help confuse the masses or maybe that's just the difference between sociopaths and phsycopaths.
Meaningful stuff? Do you mean the tweaking required to get it to run? Do you mean the complete lack of style and taste? Are you one of those people that can't tell the difference between black velvet paintings and Van Gogh or between people's faces?
iOS is in no way perfect but it's not supposed to require an MCSE to run and while it isn't perfect, it's still light years ahead of the copies. Seriously, how can you take anything that runs java as the main user interaction seriously? Effing web pages loaded with that toxic time and data sucking crap is already more than we should have to put up with.
I've seen it on my iPhone 5S.
I've also seen Safari crash a lot.
Nah. I've had a couple of Android phones and they were great. lol also both christmas presents from t-mobile. That said, the HTC was a nicer piece of hardware than the samsung
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- Acquire sharp object.
- Place sharp object at base of skull.
- Have someone hit sharp object with a heavy blunt object, like a hammer, brick, Microsoft Surface, Nexus Fat Tablet, etc.
- Wait until consciousnesses leaves the body.
- Following brain death, expect to have insatiable desire for brain dead technology with horrific platform inconsistencies.
- Want to tell all of your friends that the Android device you purchased is the 'best thing ever'.
- Ignore their rolled eyes and exasperated sounds, and/or laughs.
- Tell people you love other obsolete and still for sale technology. (Wii U, PS Vita, Audrey, Windows 8, etc)
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We are cattle, but some of us are 'Prime US Grade A', and some... Dog food?
Whatever...
Technology should help you, not be something you have to fight with. Just sayin...
You bring up a fair point. But it's a little different when the company issues the statement, then when the CEO does. I don't remember a time when Steve Jobs or Tim Cook put out a public statement saying their friends were tired of PCs and wanted to know how to switch to a mac. And if they did, I know I would feel the same way about it as Eric doing the same thing.
I've been an Android user for about 2 years. Just got a 5s (Sunday, used family's before). I like it, coming from an oversize LG Optimus L9 (it's just a tad bigger than the 5s, 5s fits me perfectly).
As an actual user of both...
- I love Apple hardware
If it sucks, Apple won't make it. Google will let Samsung and LG make slow crap and attach the Google name to it. It's blazing fast, great GPU/CPU... I love the burst mode for the 5s. I like the front camera quality for my vanity - Samsung and others have good small phones... like Moto X... but they focus too much on big handed people. I have a feeling the Moto X is gonna get price slashed soon too, I know Apple won't slash the 5s price.
- Apple sets the bar and is ahead of the curve. When I first saw AirPlay, I was in awe. AirDrop is actually a really big reason I wanted a 5s too, so I could get the actual high quality full resolution pics off my boyfriend's phone (email has limits and takes too long, MMS reduces quality).
- I have the Nike Move+ app now too. It's neat all of the fitness recording it does. I read the Nexus 5 has this too though.
- I was annoyed I couldn't take pics with my volume button (fixed in Android 4.3)... Also, Apple supports generations of iPhones. I have a relatively new L9 and I can't take pics with the volume button because it's not 4.3...
- Apple Maps is kind of neat. It suggests stupid directions sometimes, but I like how it preserves my recent searches without require it logging every search like how Google does
Things I miss about Android- KEYBOARD!!! Show me capital letters for capital letters and lower case letters for lower case letters. I want to just type and look at the letters, why do I need to look at the output or the shift key?
- I miss instant Weather information from Google Now with just the home screen
- It's so hard, after typing and Apple autocorrects, to change the transformed word, to what you wanted it. On Android, I just click the word, and it pops up my previous actual typing or other choices. On iphone, I have to squeeze my finger in somehow, and delete delete delete..
- Notifications... how do I dismiss these things? On Android, I just swiped left/right. Left gets me to Today, the Google Now wannabe, and right gets me to Missed. And where's clear all?
- Also, it's hard to Select All (texts, pics)... design by limitation...
- iCloud is terrible. Photo stream/sharing is just terrible. No pics on icloud.com??? Something I used to do pretty often on Android was take pics, upload to Google+/Picasa (not shared of course because no one uses it), delete from phone, and on a text message, I can access Google+ pictures as if it was on my local storage, and Google+ downloads a real copy to my phone, so it's sent as a pic, and not as a link
- Sharing sucks. Why can't I easily share from Safari to Gmail? Not that I do, I use Chrome so I can access my recent tabs on Windows, but still.
- Game center sucks. Facebook Connect works fine. Candy Crush has no Game Center and it's doing fine. Apple supporting Game Center is just wasting app developer resources... I don't understand why the new Nike Move app even bothered with Game Center.
I think one's not necessarily better, it's good for different people. A lot of the Apple appeal is the lockin effect (better apps, friends have iMessage/Airdrop, friends have those apps that aren't on Android).
I really miss Android. I think I might have liked the Moto X a lot too, great battery life, smaller than the L9 by a little... but for now, I'll enjoy my $700 iPhone
Well, it was honestly a joke, as I have used Android phones before. I don't hate them, but I perfer iOS more than Android.