i will switch to android when "Android CheeseWhiz" comes out
Android Gummy Bear?
i will switch to android when "Android CheeseWhiz" comes out
Excellent points.I'm not sure how competition works in the smartphone world anymore...
Asinine === "courage".I'm all for abandoning old tech, but it's asinine to say wireless headphones are the future and then ship your latest iPhone with wired headphones.
Google today announced the next-generation version of its Android operating system, which is named Oreo.
The (only) thing i like in Android is its versions' names, far more humorous that those of macOS since Mavericks.Though Pixel and Nexus owners can expect to get access to Android Oreo in the near future, owners of other Android-based smartphones will need to wait much longer, if they get the update at all. The previous version of Android, Android Nougat, is still only installed on 13.5 percent of devices despite the fact that it was released a year ago.
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The majority of Android devices continue to run Android 5.0 Lollipop and Android 6.0 Marshmallow, released in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
From this site, looks like the J5 2017 will get it. http://www.theandroidsoul.com/android-oreo-8-0-update-release/What device do you have? And do you know if Samsung J5 2017 will get it? for the moment, still running on Nougat 7.0.
yes we get years, but I am under no illusion that I would want to upgrade the iPhone for years.
My iPhone 6 is now sluggish for some apps. I have a card app that when I am at a till trying to open a points card takes an age.
Even the phone app, I take a picture,there is a delay before taking and eventually the photo displays in the small rectangle.
Would I want to upgrade again? I'm not so sure even if I could.
But Apple forces you to upgrade for example, if you get the device replaced due to battery issues.
All of my iPhones apart from the 3GS have been replaced by Apple during their lifetime.
Google's support of many Nexus devices was dismal with support ending a couple months after last availability. The amazing thing is how Google fans still push your lie.Actually this is false, it is 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store, or at least 18 months from when the Google Store last sold the device, whichever is longer.
Apple releases updates for older OS's for a given amount of time. Particularly for older devices that cannot upgrade to a new OS due to minimum spec.Well, unfortunately Apple doesn't really do separate security updates, so if you don't update to the latest iOS, your phone will be vulnerable. In this case Android's model (2 version updates and security updates after that) can be occasionally better than the full iOS minus few hardware-dependent features or nothing model.
Apple releases updates for older OS's for a given amount of time. Particularly for older devices that cannot upgrade to a new OS due to minimum spec.
That process you describe is exactly how my dad got pushed into buying a cheap android phone at his local Verizon store. My husband and I had instructed him to get an iPhone 5 when he asked us what to choose but somehow at the store he got talked into some godforsaken Android garbage phone. I don't even remember the model. I was pretty upset with my dad for letting himself get talked into it.Fair enough, it's good to see a measured response from someone who owns devices from both platforms. I myself came from an Android background before going to Apple several years ago. I remember how there were things you could do on Android and not iOS (and still can't), and was deep into rooting and manipulating code on those devices.
It's also that experience and insight that let me know more about Android than most consumers. Your defence is actually a valid one, because to most consumers, they don't even know their device is having issues. Because of the level of quality delivered by Android, when the device crashes, freezes, slows down, or shows glitchy behaviour, it's something they accept from cheaper hardware, and don't even realize something is going wrong under the hood. I've had several people come to me with their Android devices complaining of all of the above, and then some, and upon deeper inspection, I discover things are much worse, often finding compromised devices.
A LOT of people buy Android not because of personal preference, or even because they are the cheaper alternative... Many buy them because they are uneducated consumers who get conned into it by unscrupulous sales reps who get OEM spiffs (commissions) from the likes of Samsung, LG, HTC, and their carriers, to push Android as hard as they can to make more $. I've heard sales reps make such insanely asinine claims to people, that I've actually intervened in those situations to tell the customer the truth and call out the sales person's lies.
This is one major reason Android gets pushed so hard, and not because it's a better platform, because other than "openness", there is nothing better about it.
Nice to see those numb nuts over at Google once again ripping off functions we on the iOS side of the pond have been enjoying for years, and with little delay in receiving, unlike many sad souls on the Android pond whom almost no one ever sees any updates for their devices...
Stay classy Google, and keep those photocopiers a rollin'!
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And how long do you folks receive updates for? That's right, no more than 18 months from first release of the device, so those who bought a Nexus or Pixel mid way thru it's production run won't even get a year worth of updates!
iPhone's? We get updates for YEARS. Yeah, still a nightmare on Android!
Read his signature, there is a hint thereI can easily make a iPhone 7 and a iPad pro 10.5 crash too.....you are a joke.
I'm not sure how competition works in the smartphone world anymore...With people invested deeply into ecosystems, it makes it a major task to switch. For example, I've purchased $300+ on movies & apps (and in app purchases) over the past 6 years. I got lightning cables galore plus I have an AppleTV. So, even if Android was slightly better than iOS, I wouldn't care enough to switch.
It's like with Apple abandoning the headphone-jack*; I want to vote with my dollars and buy a different flagship phone, but I can't because the change-over is too much of a headache. It's just easier to stay.
*I'm all for abandoning old tech, but it's asinine to say wireless headphones are the future and then ship your latest iPhone with wired headphones.
hi, 2010 called. they want their talking points back.Google NEEDS to take MANY, MANY steps back, stand at a distance and look at the horrific mess that they have caused. They NEED to drop Java in ALL respects , they NEED to stop this moronic "throw more RAM and CPU at it!" idiocy (do you remember when computers had KILOBYTES of RAM, and you had to craft EVERY SINGLE BYTE with care to fit in some registers? No, you are probably a millennial or "generation X" and you probably think that Javascript and Python in a GUI IDE are "programming" (oh, sorry - I meant "coding" (!CRINGE!) - how VERY misguided you are.)
Meticulous attention to fitting code into a finite space has been replaced with meticulous attention to releasing a product on a set date for the sake of the bottom line, and ANY consideration of optimisation or speed is handled by throwing gobs of CPU and/or RAM at the problem, whitewashing over it, instead of FIXING THE ROOT CAUSE. Rapid development is now dragging a few templates around, pasting in some boilerplate code, compiling it, hoping it (just about) runs (and if bits fall off it, just find some software "glue" and stick them back on so it barely functions)
The so-called "programmers" (sorry again, "coders") nowadays wouldn't know a register if it was ripped off the checkout line at Walmart and smashed over their head... it wouldn't even... REGISTER.
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Second worst. Worst feature is that the user agrees to have each and every bit of information on their Android device become the property of Google, et. al. to sell, slice, dice, and concatenate. Zero privacy.
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yes we get years, but I am under no illusion that I would want to upgrade the iPhone for years.
My iPhone 6 is now sluggish for some apps. I have a card app that when I am at a till trying to open a points card takes an age.
Even the phone app, I take a picture,there is a delay before taking and eventually the photo displays in the small rectangle.
Would I want to upgrade again? I'm not so sure even if I could.
But Apple forces you to upgrade for example, if you get the device replaced due to battery issues.
All of my iPhones apart from the 3GS have been replaced by Apple during their lifetime.
Probably the case, but then you wouldn't know that because it would still look like iOS 6I'll be on iOS 22 before 2% of Android devices get this update.
The difference is once I have updated iOS and find it is now slow....I can't go back. Android however....Up until recently this was true, most iOS updates did cause reduced performance on the older hardware, but that is to be logically expected, as the new versions come with more features, larger amounts of code to process, and thus put greater demands on older SoC's. This is something that occurs not just mobile devices, but on Mac's and PC's as well.
Though as of iOS 10.3, with the introduction of AFPS, and going forward with iOS 11 with the expansion of Metal GPU API's to core components of the OS, performance has actually seen an INCREASE on older hardware, which is a welcome change, and hopefully one Apple will continue with going forward.
I've NEVER been able to say the same for Android, and only slightly so with Windows on the PC side...
Exactly why Android was only briefly my first smartphone. Updates were pretty much non-existant. I only chose Android at the time because Apple was slow to take up Verizon's new LTE service. However, I quickly jumped to iPhone 5 once they did. Never looked back ever sinceNot if you have a Nexus or Pixel.
Stop allowing versions of Android to access the playstore after two years and do not allow developers to sign applications that do not have a minimum of 'X' version of Android.