Yes, Apple did it before. They literally push the OS on the same day the phone gets ready for shipping.
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Yes, Apple did it before. They literally push the OS on the same day the phone gets ready for shipping.
Ha! I don't even know why people bring up butter pecan anymore. They haven't been a relevant flavor in YEARS!
Then go to the damn butter pecan forums, fanboy! This is a vanilla forum for vanilla lovers! We don't want your kind here!
What I like about apple is software updates for older hardware. I want a pure android phone that google should push out updates too. I don't like the S3 flavor of android.
One thing that scares me is going from my iPhone 5 to android. I'm hooked into the apple ecosystem with an iPad, 2 macs and my wife on an iPhone.
http://www.apolloniathisweek.com/archive/issue_17_world.html
Dr. Pellegrinos team found that lovers of rich, dark chocolate also tended to be trustworthy, dependable, intelligent, multi-talented, and extremely attractive. On the contrary, those who claimed to prefer vanilla were often shifty, cowardly, unethical, physically compromised, and raised in broken homes.
The results were not at all surprising to the researchers. Well, duh who doesnt love chocolate? Nobody you would want to stand beside, thats who [because they smell], begins the published findings. Overall, chocolates deliciousness quotient was measured at over 1,000 while that of vanilla topped out at 0.25.
Scientists remain unclear as to why people would claim not to prefer chocolate, despite the fact that, statistically speaking, they are stupid and wrong. While the study did not go so far as to condemn vanilla eaters to life on a remote windward island without clothing or shelter, it did include a cartoon depicting vanilla eaters as dirty immigrants
I really want a 5" iPhone. Sure, OSX is stale, and could use some tweaks (Settings for one), but I just want a bigger screen #1 of all.
If Apple tries to tell me 4" is good enough for me, then I'll have to assume they don't want me as a customer anymore.
If Apple tries to tell me 4" is good enough for me, then I'll have to assume they don't want me as a customer anymore.
Then go to the damn butter pecan forums, fanboy! This is a vanilla forum for vanilla lovers! We don't want your kind here!
what you got against butter pecan?! it's basically vanilla with butter roasted pecans? it's innovative!!!
Apple vs. Samsung
The screen size of smartphones will not go larger than 5 inchs or they will categorized as part phone, part tablet--phablets. Which brings up my point, that if Apple were not so arrogant they could be on top of the game. Instead of the iPhone 5 going from a 3.5 to a whopping 4 inch screen, had they issued it with a 5 inch screen(to coincide with the name iPhone 5), and a bezel to bezel screen, they would have taken a huge leap over the competition. Now, next year, we will have to watch Phil Schiller eat his shorts when he announces the iPhone 6 with a 5 inch screen. How embarrassing is that.
The screen size of smartphones will not go larger than 5 inchs or they will categorized as part phone, part tablet--phablets.
Which brings up my point, that if Apple were not so arrogant they could be on top of the game. Instead of the iPhone 5 going from a 3.5 to a whopping 4 inch screen, had they issued it with a 5 inch screen(to coincide with the name iPhone 5), and a bezel to bezel screen, they would have taken a huge leap over the competition. Now, next year, we will have to watch Phil Schiller eat his shorts when he announces the iPhone 6 with a 5 inch screen. How embarrassing is that.
No they're not slow at all, because processors and ram have nothing to do with user experience. If you were some able to run a test in which the iPhone 5 and the S4 were to encode something with the exact same software, of course the S4 is going to be much faster, but thats not a real world experience and its only faster because its so much bigger!
Oh please. Who reads that blog. You know the editor was kicked out of a Vanilla convention for stealing a new bean prototype? Yeah - no vendetta against Vanilla I'm sure.
Oh please. Who reads that blog. You know the editor was kicked out of a Vanilla convention for stealing a new bean prototype? Yeah - no vendetta against Vanilla I'm sure.
I have to admit I'm greatly amused by the chocolat/vanilla show down.
(Dulce de leche ice cream is the real thing!)
IMO Apple could get bitten by their 2-year hardware cycle. Other hardware manufacturers are moving much faster, and a 5S in 2013 will change the perception of Apple from market-leading to market-trailing. For a while they were able to fall back on the superiority of iOS, but that ship has sailed. Now they're playing defense on both fronts, instead of defining the market. That's an ugly place to be for a company so heavily invested in image.
*drool*
Between that and the HTC One, Apple really have some catching up to do.
Good on Samsung for using 4.2 as well. This is what annoys me about HTC, the Sense interface is great but even their just released new flagship is STILL on 4.1 (goodness knows if/when my One X will get 4.2 if they can't even be bothered to have the latest version on a brand new model)
Come to think of it, HTC chose correctly in their short-term strategy of beating Samsung to market last year, which is no doubt behind their reasoning when it comes to doing a half baked effort this year. If I'd have been patient, I would've waited for the S3, but the One X came out first. Not such a great long-term strategy though, as I'm not sure I'd make the same mistake again...
Between that and the HTC One, Apple really have some catching up to do.
Good on Samsung for using 4.2 as well. This is what annoys me about HTC, the Sense interface is great but even their just released new flagship is STILL on 4.1 (goodness knows if/when my One X will get 4.2 if they can't even be bothered to have the latest version on a brand new model)
Come to think of it, HTC chose correctly in their short-term strategy of beating Samsung to market last year, which is no doubt behind their reasoning when it comes to doing a half baked effort this year. If I'd have been patient, I would've waited for the S3, but the One X came out first. Not such a great long-term strategy though, as I'm not sure I'd make the same mistake again...
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Looks nice. Nice screen. The HTC One will have like 468ppi and the s4 has like 440ppi. iPhone 5 has like 336ppi only. But that's technology and such, everything changes within 6 months.
Looks nice. Nice screen. The HTC One will have like 468ppi and the s4 has like 440ppi. iPhone 5 has like 336ppi only. But that's technology and such, everything changes within 6 months.
Look at the specs. Chocolate has far more kilocalories than vanilla. And flavonoids. That's real innovation.
I have an iPhone 5 and Siri is working wonderful. Thanks for asking.
EDIT: Btw, iPhone 4 came out in April of 2011 and yes, it didn't get Siri, but it still was eligible for iOS 6. And if you want to try and make a point you should look at the Galaxy S2 which came out in May 2011, (a month after the iPhone 4 was released) and it didn't get S-Voice like the S3 or S4. If the updating pattern for iOS continues then most likely the iPhone 4 will get iOS 7 (again, might omit certain features but the security fixes are there) where as the latest update for S2 is JellyBean 4.1 not 4.2 and I'm betting Samsung wont bother updating that phone again anymore.
Yeah, fragmentation exists but Apple does a better job at handling it.
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They could get it from Samsung. You think Samsung wouldn't sell them panels? They supply them with memory, processors, and screens already. Samsung is a business. If they can make money off of it, they'll do it.
Well, prove me wrong, show me actual numbers from Apple about how many iPhone 5 phones it has sold. And not the numbers from the first three days after the model was released.
So yeah, what I really know is that Apple hasn't done that.
I have a iPhone 5. It can do Facetime. Play music. Store files. Show images. Record and play photos. Take photographs. Send emails and go on the internet. It can play millions of Apps and can run all these things at lightning speed on an extremely hi def colour screen - as well as having bluetooth, 4G and Wi-Fi ... and all in a palm-size format which only a decade ago wouldve seemed unimaginable. An amazing feat in nanotechnogy which truly is a modern day wonder.
But all I really wanted it for was to make telephone calls.
Why oh why do they have to keep mucking about with it?
Just leave it as it was.
Thanks
But all I really wanted it for was to make telephone calls.
Why oh why do they have to keep mucking about with it?
Just leave it as it was.
Thanks
You could have just bought a small old cheap android phone if that's the case.
Wow, very unimpressed. Basically just another plastic phone with some spec bumps and more gimmicky tools. They need to copy apple again with their naming conventions. Should have been called the Galaxy SIII-S
Looks like Sammy just put out the welcome mat for HTC and company to steal their market share
Looks like Sammy just put out the welcome mat for HTC and company to steal their market share