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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Posts Guide on Converting to Android from iPhone
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I just had a friend switch to an s4 from iPhone I told her she'd be back it's not easy to switch to android when all you've known is iPhone......took 10 days....she just got a 5S lol
how is flagship qaud core Android devices struggling to keep up with iPhone? As far asy experience, both my Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 are great woth Android 4.4....
You are living in some dream where iPhone is the best... let us face it, iPhone is great
but it is not the best...To regain "the best" position, starts with screen size and make the OS more usable....
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so memebrs in circles related with Apple are all Google fanboys... Think before you speak....
You haven't seen the benchmarks, have you? Take a look.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5
The only hardware area where competitors soundly beat the 5S is with screen size, and that's more a matter of preference than anything. I personally feel silly holding the massive slabs you see in the android market up to the side of my head to talk.
I have a Nexus 4. Don't use it. Can't trust Android. No way to block apps from doing what they want, if you have to use those apps. For example, FB app has full control over your contacts. Remember that little fiasco where the FB app replaced the default email with the facebook email address? Remember the "secret network" that's built by sucking up contacts from your phone?
Lots of fun. And don't even think about securing your phone. Encrypting it takes 45 minutes. And then you have to login just to boot the phone. Pretty sad...
I am quoting Apple fanboys famous quote: benchmark means nothing...
And you know where Android beats Apple? It is god damn OS... This OS still cannot reply emails with file attachments, still cannot navigate files easily and still cannot share stuff easily...
Owned iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4S. Loved them.
Currently own Nexus 5. Love it more.
I don't give a rats ass about specs, ecosystem or whatever the hell anyone else does.
Android feels right to me. Especially 4.4
D.
Currently own Nexus 5. Love it more.
I don't give a rats ass about specs, ecosystem or whatever the hell anyone else does.
Android feels right to me. Especially 4.4
D.
The article doesn't mention it but at the bottom of the guide under the PPS it says to download Google Chrome vs Safari because Chrome is safer and better............... Wow.
I don't think you understand computers, if you were to compare 2 computers, one with a Intel processor to a AMD processor would you also just base it on the clock speed, your forgetting the cache, the RAM (and RAM speed) GPU, architecture, bus speeds, hard drive specs, etc (for those of you enjoying this feel free to also look up delay in touch screen responsiveness and wireless strength and speed too). I'm not saying your wrong (or right), its just hard to tell from that alone so don't jump on some numbers so quickly.
You have a point, but it's not like these phones have hugely disparate architectures. Save for the Intel Atom, all the phones in the use some variant of ARM. This is not so different from comparing current generation Intel CPUs to current generation AMD CPUs in desktops/laptops; yes, the performance difference will be there, but not to the extremes you see in these benchmarks.
The reason the Android devices perform so much worse is because the OS itself is a royal mess and thanks to the frenzied development cycle faced by manufacturers, optimization is nigh impossible. It's really sad, if the S4 for instance were running iOS or Windows it'd be ripping the iPhone apart. The software is holding it back to an extreme degree.
Safer: We don't need to hack around the browser restrictions, so we won't cop another fine for being evil.
Better: Because we need to earn the revenue, not Apple. {damn it our bluff with maps really screwed us}
See, safer and better.
The fact you might need a guide indicates that it's a bad idea. You don't need a guide to go the other way.
So are these friends he's clamouring about like the celeberties that advertise for Android companies and then go on twitter to say how much they love their Android? "Sent from twitter for iPhone"
Sorry buddy. The only thing your friends are going for is the bargain buy 1 get 3 free phones.
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Where the hell is my damn 4.4 update for my nexus 7? Damn thing died in 3 days with 30 minutes of legit, hardcore, and intensive app switching and app debugging.
Sorry buddy. The only thing your friends are going for is the bargain buy 1 get 3 free phones.
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Where the hell is my damn 4.4 update for my nexus 7? Damn thing died in 3 days with 30 minutes of legit, hardcore, and intensive app switching and app debugging.
What I don't even understand is why these comparisons are even being made. It's the device as is used by the consumer that matters. Who really cares about hardware specs? Never understood that. User esperience is all that matters. Whenever I see spec sheets I take them with a grain of salt. And then throw it all away. Because it's irrelevant. User experience is the only relevant thing (unless maybe you are a deceloper doinf home brew OS something or other)
Although I am moving from Android back to iOS with a new 5S, malware on Android does not affect the average Android user. As long as the user installs apps only from one of the approved stores (Amazon - Play store), you really don't have to worry about malware.
I love my 5s, hated my S4, love my Nexus 5. The Nexus devices are where Android feels right. The experience you get with the Nexus devices is what all Android devices need to feel like, but sadly it probably won't happen.
I felt the same way. On paper the iPhone 5s is super fast, has better build quality, has tons of accessories and high quality apps. But with almost 2 months under my belt with the 5s it did not feel right. It was not the size because coming from a Note 2 I appreciated the portability; the phone just hides in the pocket. The real problem was iOS. Just too many limits on what you can do and how you must conform to Apple. Even with locked down Android bootloaders you still feel as if you can do more. iOS almost feels like a glorified App launcher and all the features of the OS are just there. And having iTunes control your library is just a pain. It does not get any simpler than just connecting a cable to your phone and seeing a familiar folder layout. And I found apps to cost more in the Apple store and the quality was not that much different then the Android counterpart. I still found apps that had black bars top and bottom. It's been over a year and app developers don't care. I wonder how it's gong to be next year when Apple changes the resolution again.
I agree, my friend. Had a Galaxy S3 before the Nexus 5 and it was like night and day for the OS.
I have no problems with iOS, I just like (pure) Android better.
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