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Samsung's 'iTest' Lets You Try a Galaxy Device on Your iPhone
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I like Android, I don’t like Samsung’s flavor of launchers and other bundled apps. For people like me, the test experience may actually deter people from the platform.
Wow, this is actually quite neat. They even simulated a kid spamming you, and even a call coming in. Somebody definitely had a great time making this. An interesting approach in the era of lockdowns and pandemic.
Maybe Apple can do the same, simulating iOS from the web.
Maybe Apple can do the same, simulating iOS from the web.
Have you used a Samsung phone in the past five years or so? They’re actually pretty nice. I own an iPhone 12 Pro, but every time I go to Best Buy, I like to fiddle around with the Galaxy Fold on demo. It’s pretty neat. You should go and mess around with one. I know you won’t, but you should.
Also, Samsung Phones have great battery life, and their cameras are on par with the iPhone Camera. I’ve owned numerous Android phones over the years, and guess what? They operate pretty much the same way iPhones do.
But I’m not gonna argue about the crap you wrote, or which is better. I just have one question:
Are you (and the many others who write basically the same copy-paste insults at Samsung or any other not Apple company) just not interested in tech, et al? Because there’s a ton of really cool stuff made by companies that aren’t made by a company named after one of the most annoying fruits to eat.
Do you own stock in Apple, and that’s why you write stuff like that? Or, are you only interested in what Apple makes, and that’s it, decision made, cemented, you can never possibly change your mind? Because if so, that’s freaking sad.
One last thing, and this isn’t directed at you, but Macrumors in general: This is one of the first websites/forums I really dug into when I started getting into tech, which was caused by my fascination with the Palm Treo 650 that I took to Iraq with me, then the iPhone, iPad, etc.
But over the past year or two, I’ve noticed that I’m coming here less and less, and it‘s mainly because the comments/forums are slowly turning into the comments/forums on Apple Insider, another tech site I used to visit all the time but stopped a few years ago. Apple Insider is dying a slow death, caused by an infestation of “Apple or Nothing!” sycophants. Articles that used to get 100, 200 comments now get 10, 12.
Macrumors, take heed — the same thing is starting to happen here. Your actual content is fine, but your forums have lost the fun, youthful energy that they had 10 years ago. Now it’s just a bunch of middle aged folks, a large percentage of whom probably work in IT, and likely say, “this country’s going in the gutter because of these damned Millenials” a half dozen times a day. Everyone here seems to be mad about something; no one ever seems to be excited about anything.
I know once I remove y’all from that sweet spot in my favorites bar, and stop coming here, no one will miss me. But I know I’ll miss what this site used to be. I’m just not going to let y’all rob me of my enthusiasm for all tech, and slowly convert me into one of the “Mads.”
Tried it; reminded me why I chose iPhone. Apple is so much easier to navigate.
Neat idea for a web app though. Imagine Apple making one for Android (minus the 15% off airpods deal) 😂
Neat idea for a web app though. Imagine Apple making one for Android (minus the 15% off airpods deal) 😂
Imagine if Apple releases something like this for Android users and the script will flip calling it amazing. But nah it’s another company especially that Samsung copycat who sells OLEDs and other iPhone components but who cares.
Apple should release a web app like this for future iOS upgrades for present and last users to experiment with to decide if they want to upgrade or not and get a feel after WWDC to refine the OS experience prior to release.
Excellent work Samsung, I hope Google does the same with future OS upgrades as this benefits the end users to opt in or out of a particular upgrade.
While I am not an AndroidOS users this demo is meant to provide a general user experience not to be a emulator. I think it was well executed.
Yep iPhones sure do have Samsung OLED screens and now we have an OS demo implemented via webapp, I like the creative thinking.
Imagine app developers using a similar web app experience prior to purchasing an app and can extend to a free trial period before considering purchase.
Some people don’t understand what is and is not enforceable as their feel the need to protect a large tech corporation for free, pathetic logic.
Cool, thanks for playing and coming out. I would like to see you or other bashing this to come up with a creative web app implementation for whatever your heart contends.
Actually I challenge anyone on this forum to create an iOS web app like this.
The naysayers are just jealous that Apple did not do something like this for iOS to demonstrate its abilities to Android users. It’s sad really but Apple does not feel pressure to attract new users. Though this would be excellent as a quick online interactive iOS tutorial.
It can be changed to a single line, three lines, etc. I dislike that iOS since the introduction of iPhone X still has the single line on the Home Screen bottom, permit users to remove it ffs.
You do not install anything on your iPhone while running it, it is essentially a web-page that you run in Safari in “full-screen” mode. 🖐
It could work in her browser if Samsung did not put a filter to exclude Android users, telling them something like “Congrats, you are running the best possible OS on the best possible phone!” sort of thing. 😋
I doubt it would help your mother, though, as she already has the real thing in front of her. Might help you, however, guiding her roughly where to look for things. That demo is quite basic with very limited functionality, so not very good as a tutorial, IMO.
But how would you know if you wanted one before trying? This is what this web-tool does, you can try it without much effort. As a promotional tool it is genius, IMO.
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Does it also serve ads while you are in the middle of something, like many apps used to do when I was using an Android phone ?
What and do away with android devices company? Just have android as an app on iPhones?