Very true! Who cares what Android owners think, and who care if they slam the iPhone? It's just a phone! If people get upset because someone with a different phone criticizes their phone, then they really need to get a grip on reality.
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Poor Apple, Android Users Put Them in a Can't Win Situation
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Very true! Who cares what Android owners think, and who care if they slam the iPhone? It's just a phone! If people get upset because someone with a different phone criticizes their phone, then they really need to get a grip on reality.
I take a different view, as an Apple customer with an iPhone, iPad, macs, and iPods.
What Apple did wrong was fail to implement these features earlier. It took Apple over one year to admit that they had done some things wrong, and that others had done it right.
It makes me feel like a chump as a customer. I'm paying top dollar but getting an inferior OS experience because someone in Cupertino has an ego the size of Texas. On top of that, I get sporadic hardware updates that basically force me to make compromises with hardware.
Until now, the tight integration of hardware and software+Apple service has made the equation balance in favor of the iPhone. Now, I'm not so sure. If Apple's software is going to keep being 9-12 months behind, then the longer I stay with the platform, the more difficult it will become for me to change platforms later, if the differences become too serious to ignore.
Or up to a year or more in some cases. Android phones had superior notifications last summer.
Double Sync air
Since day 1
HTC sense
Google features Built into the phone Since Day 1
Google Talk
Really? iOS devices where the only ones weighted down.
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Poor misguided op. The entire concept of android is based on other companies and peecee fanboys hating on Apple so hard that they had to rush something to market. I would rather have 1 phone that works (and my iPhone 4 has been stellar and flawless btw) than buy a new whatever flavor droid of the week. Like it or not, all droid users eventually wave their swill-oid under my nose and announce it is the iPhone killer. I remember when every new sports car got front page billing as the Boxster beater. Ya, I drive an old Boxster too. As was said earlier..."it really doesn't matter". Question is, "Regardless of what it is or what it I'd not, are you happy with what you have?
Poor misguided op. The entire concept of android is based on other companies and peecee fanboys hating on Apple so hard that they had to rush something to market. I would rather have 1 phone that works (and my iPhone 4 has been stellar and flawless btw) than buy a new whatever flavor droid of the week. Like it or not, all droid users eventually wave their swill-oid under my nose and announce it is the iPhone killer. I remember when every new sports car got front page billing as the Boxster beater. Ya, I drive an old Boxster too. As was said earlier..."it really doesn't matter". Question is, "Regardless of what it is or what it I'd not, are you happy with what you have?
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Eating it all the way to the bank.
Eating it all the way to the bank.
I'm saying beyond the usual 1 year upgrade cycle. Even the 1 year is quite a bit for unoriginal ideas. And if they are delaying the phone for the OS, why? Lots of people have a contract up in the summer. And why not at the very least reassure them that there WILL be a phone this year, and give a more specific date than any time from 3 months from now til mid December? They're lucky the SGS2 is farting around because they would lose a good amount of customers if it came out in the summer.
Apple is a leader. Either follow or get out of the way.
Funny the new iOS notification system looks and functions exactly like Androids notification system right down to the swipe down gesture to reveal notifications.
Yeah I honestly didn't understand that either. It doesn't seem like any features in iOS 5 are going to be requiring fundamental new hardware.
That's what I mean when I say I feel like a chump. I'm paying full price for old hardware, older software, and the pleasure of being told I should be thankful for the opportunity.
Android is literally all talk and no show. It has the features and in theory is amazing but it isn't polished and is so fragmented.
iOS and Windows are polished which matters most in usage. I've tried so many Android devices from Droid X, Thunderbolt, Fascinate, etc etc and they crash too often. They lag in the OS and are troublesome.
iOS hasn't crashed on me once - and to think in the past I hated iOS so much (that is because I never tried it)
Windows is amazing as well. I used it for a couple days and it is so polished.
iOS and Windows are polished which matters most in usage. I've tried so many Android devices from Droid X, Thunderbolt, Fascinate, etc etc and they crash too often. They lag in the OS and are troublesome.
iOS hasn't crashed on me once - and to think in the past I hated iOS so much (that is because I never tried it)
Windows is amazing as well. I used it for a couple days and it is so polished.