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Switching from android, is iPhone really that good?
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Okay, I get it - you have no one to play with - carry on, soldier.
Sure. Mind if I repost some of your past posts where you don't mind getting personal?
On second thought, that would be bad form on my part. Carry on.
As another 24 year old, who just switched from Android to 6s Plus, I'll give you advice: make the switch.
Everything you mentioned was a problem for me too. I've had the 6s Plus for 2 months now. It's got far fewer bugs. Far more games. Far more options, in general. Better support. Battery is amazing.
I don't regret switching one-bit. I won't be going back to Android after being this satisfied.
Everything you mentioned was a problem for me too. I've had the 6s Plus for 2 months now. It's got far fewer bugs. Far more games. Far more options, in general. Better support. Battery is amazing.
I don't regret switching one-bit. I won't be going back to Android after being this satisfied.
No matter what you wrote in your signature: you clearly don't have an iPhone OR you actually don't know anything abut it.
You can store your photo in Dropbox, Onedrive or other cloud services you wish.
Chromecast is a joke compared to AppleTV.
Using one of the above mentioned cloud services you can sync whatever you want with your PC, if you can't afford a Mac (which I highly recommend over a PC).
I don't like iTunes but it is not even close to the mess you described and it supports drag and drops for almost everything.
Gmail on iOS have PUSH since the beginning. Nothing "second class" about the iOS app.
You put in your post an incredible number of false BS pretending to be an Apple user while every single of your posts is downplaying Apple.
Unfortunately in Brazil prices are out of the market ....
I wouldn't buy an Apple product there.
If you compare high-end models there's no match: Apple wins hands on.
He wrote a full list of plain false points.
He's trolling the forum with anti-Apple propaganda.
I would invite you to do a very fast search on this guy's activities on the forum: he is actively posting only on threads bashing the iPhone. Amazing...
I won't feed it.
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Lessons from 1983. (Applies to Global Thermonuclear War, Chess, and Trolls)
I back up all my photos to OneDrive and never had an issue. Dont edit so thats not an issue but if i did want to i could just download to any PC from OneDrive then save it back.
I currently use my iPhone and iPad with a Chromecast and i can stream stuff no issue and mirror using Momocast app.
Adding music to my phone from iTunes is a doddle...i have a playlist that i update and sync to the phone. So to add stuff its select the music, add to playlist, sync...job done in three steps!
I've used Gmail for years on my phone, push email worked fine until Google turned it off unless you paid them. It still worked for users who had it on the same phone\ipad prior to the change but new devices, or what Google perceived to be a new device, couldnt have it any more. I restored my phone as new a while back and lost it then. That said i still use fetch every 15mins and works fine for me.
I generally use Google Maps over Apple maps just out of habit, use Chrome on the iPad sometimes and various other things.
I think you make a big deal about Apple doing things to make folk do what Apple want you to do without a lot of proof to be honest. No one is forced to do anything with an iPhone and you can use apps from all sorts of folks to do things. I use MS office over Apples stuff as another example. I'm also into my 3rd year on the same iPhone 5 and its running iOS9.1 without any issues and i feel no reason to upgrade unless i make the decision to have a new phone. Previously i ran a 3GS for over three years and again updated when i decided it was time to have a new phone.
I'll gve you ringtones but in the grand scheme of things its hardly something to gripe about.
As mentioned i back up to Onedrive that gives me a perfectly functional viewing option within the app after uploading to it and i can access from my iPhone, iPad or any web connected PC\Mac. I also use other cloud storage providers such as Dropbox for personal stuff, Google Drive for a back up of the My Documents on my laptop and the Box for all the digital camera photos we have...all for a total cost of £0.
Some of what you responded to is the way things are with iOS, sprinkled with a healthy dose of hyperbole. But great response.
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Loving this thread. Some good comedy from several drama queens.
At 10 this morning I'm going to my IT folks to pick up my work issued iPhone and get rid if my SGS5, the buggiest crappiest work phone I've ever had the misfortune of using.
The IT person who took my order said that the majority of the people who initially picked Android devices are requesting early porting over to the iPhone 6.
So......yah.....seems most of my agency has spoken and the iPhone IS that good.
At 10 this morning I'm going to my IT folks to pick up my work issued iPhone and get rid if my SGS5, the buggiest crappiest work phone I've ever had the misfortune of using.
The IT person who took my order said that the majority of the people who initially picked Android devices are requesting early porting over to the iPhone 6.
So......yah.....seems most of my agency has spoken and the iPhone IS that good.
I've literally never had any of those issues.
itunes in windows is just awful, and it is not any better in osx either. in windows it is very laggy, unstable and just horrible to use - i refuse to use it whenever it is possible (win/osx). it is uninformative, sometimes i have no idea what it does or if it even does anything. backuping your device is just from another dimension. some data is in the folder x and some are on somewhere when the rest are no where and it is abit difficult to change the drive where it stores your data (e.g. c is full but it only makes backuping for c)... using itunes to make a custom ringtone? i had to read step-by-step manual to do it. and i have been using computers since dos and know unix/linux/win/osx. so i have to agree, i havent seen so confusing software since.... ?
you dont need to buy AppleTV to mirror/airplay your content to tv from iphone. you just need to buy an android tv box that can do it. i use my android tv box weekly to airplay/mirror my mbpr/iphone/ipad... i prefer android tv box because i can use kodi/airplaying/mirroring and run GApps and use bt keyboard and mouse to control it. easy to stream and no connectivity problems.
sharing files isnt good in ios and sometimes you get gray hair. opening the file between apps causes that you have several copies of the file. some apps like "documents" (must have!) help alot but still... you cant choose default apps to open files which makes things complicated sometimes.
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I disagree. I have several phones that I use everyday: Note 4, Note Edge, iPhone 6+, iPhone 5S and even an old Nexus 4.
I think there are some things that each platform does better but in the end, I still love my iPhone a bit more. I like the music app better on the iPhone over the Google music app. I think there are far more apps optimized for the differences between iPad/iPhone rather then one version for Android phones/tablets that just scale up for a tablet.
Battery life on my iPad/6+ is outstanding compared to what I get on my Note 4/Note Edge. I have two batteries each for both of my Note phones and I simply swap them out each day or two. Usage on either phone can vary from 1 hr of on screen time to sometimes 2-3 and standby from 16 hrs on up to 2-3 days. I don't do anything special from day to day on them so I am unable to tell how much usage I can count on each day. The plus side on the two Android phones is that I can use an SD card on each although I really have no use for them. I have a 16GB SD card in one of them.
My 6+ is outstanding in how much usage I can get out of it between charges. I frequently get between 2-4 days of standby but I tend to average at least 2 days. I bought the phone in February and my jailbreak battery app shows I have only 108 cycles on it to date, slightly less than the cycles I have on my now two year old iPad Mini 2.
I never liked the battery life that I got using Lollipop on the Note 4/Note Edge so I went back to KitKat on each and find the experience much better. There is a thread on some of the Android forums where people have done the same thing and haven't missed Lollipop. I have also gone back to KitKat on my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7. Loliipop 5.1.1 made those two devices unusable.
I am on iOS 9.0.2 on all my iOS devices so that I can stay jailbroken. I also have all my Android devices rooted, mostly so that I can block ads in everything from my browsers to apps.
My next phone will be a 6S+. I may be pulling the trigger on that today. There just haven't been any Android phones to catch my attention since the Note 4/Note Edge. To me, nothing beats the app quality I get on iOS.
again someone not knowing iOS / trolling and speaking about iOS ...
Using cloud services/iCloud Drive you don't need to have more copies of your files.
If you can't handle iTunes Im sorry about you ... even my wife can (and she is the worst computer user ever)
Well in his defense iTunes is pretty difficult to use at times. I'm not in favor of using iCloud because I have to pay for it after 5 gigs.
I have figured out how to create a custom ringtone in iTunes but again somethings are more difficult with iTunes than with android. Just the nature of the game.
Not an huge fan of iTunes , but it is not difficult (my wife is the proof
).About iCloud, the 50 Gb plan is amongst the cheaper on the market ($0,99). The world is changing towards cloud services, deal with it. OneDrive, Dropbox or iCloud, choose whatever you want, but you have to pay to have an usable service.
I found quite ridiculous that people can afford $600-700 phones and complain about $0,99
Not an huge fan of iTunes , but it is not difficult (my wife is the proof
About iCloud, the 50 Gb plan is amongst the cheaper on the market ($0,99). The world is changing towards cloud services, deal with it. OneDrive, Dropbox or iCloud, choose whatever you want, but you have to pay to have an usable service.
I found quite ridiculous that people can afford $600-700 phones and complain about $0,99
Any of the cloud services really don't work for me for a few reasons.
I use iTunes exclusively to manage what I have on the iPad and iPhone in conjunction with local storage on my computer.
I do store my address book and pictures on iCloud right now but that's very small.
why android OR iphone ?
android is much cheaper, so take both (I recommend nexus 5 or old 4) and iphone
android with its fundamentals (API..) is much more open to the world and competitions than iphone, each platform has pros and cons, take both.
sideloading of apps is much more easy on android than ios (that is if security concerns, take iphone)
On android times that root and customization was for me important, are gone. I am on non root stock rom nexus and satisfied, I can do almost everything possible and thinkable, see forums on xda-developers.com
Iphone is closed to the own world and you are in jail inside its ecosystem (and planned obsolence), it is for users without specific needs, only content consumption
yes you can be slave of one man show (saurik, cydia substrate nad some weird cinese groups with poor jailbreak for x.y version of ios) but jailbroken iphone is not as capable as rooted android, but I do not in these recommend days rooting and jailbraking
Iphone is rock solid, better responsivness, smoothness than android in everyday use so if this is what you want, you will be satisfied with iphone, but as I said, it is not device for geeks, but for sheeps that are willing pay blazing apple prices although everyone knows what margin apple has in one iphone for years, but truth is that used iphone is better for sale (better price) than used android device
android is much cheaper, so take both (I recommend nexus 5 or old 4) and iphone
android with its fundamentals (API..) is much more open to the world and competitions than iphone, each platform has pros and cons, take both.
sideloading of apps is much more easy on android than ios (that is if security concerns, take iphone)
On android times that root and customization was for me important, are gone. I am on non root stock rom nexus and satisfied, I can do almost everything possible and thinkable, see forums on xda-developers.com
Iphone is closed to the own world and you are in jail inside its ecosystem (and planned obsolence), it is for users without specific needs, only content consumption
yes you can be slave of one man show (saurik, cydia substrate nad some weird cinese groups with poor jailbreak for x.y version of ios) but jailbroken iphone is not as capable as rooted android, but I do not in these recommend days rooting and jailbraking
Iphone is rock solid, better responsivness, smoothness than android in everyday use so if this is what you want, you will be satisfied with iphone, but as I said, it is not device for geeks, but for sheeps that are willing pay blazing apple prices although everyone knows what margin apple has in one iphone for years, but truth is that used iphone is better for sale (better price) than used android device
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Ha. And do you really think I'd take a video of the mobility program manager attesting to this so that you would be satisfied? Come on.
And I've got no reason to make this up. The fact is that most of the people chose an iPhone when the choice became available. And why right now, in my team, not one single person out of the whole group has an SGS5.
The Good Technology app on the SGS5 constantly dropped the connection. The device itself would run hot and continuously reboot.
You can choose to believe this or not. Your choice.
Doesn't change the fact that my agency's IT department has been getting inundated with requests for an early port to a new phone, and they want to move to the iPhone.
