Posted on 08/28/2016 4:19:35 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Makes sense since corporations are starting to standardize on iphones, now lets see if they will switch their own phone
As long as Cook keeps the privacy needs of his customers as a priorty, I'm ok with whatever non-Jobs mistakes his company makes in design.
Android Samsung is trash. I owned 5 devices, various models and OSes. The software sucks, buyer beware google writes poor software.
Always the next version will be stable. Google trash.
Android Samsung is always the next model will be stable.
The most recent trash is Google’s decision to privilege their own internet browser so better browsers cannot organize their bookmarks. Strictly a selfish Google FU to their customers.
Google Android considers internet “Organized Browsing” a feature customers should do without.
Google Android is sick and twisted. Google is evil.
btw Install StartPage, it minimizes Google Evil.
No one, not even Apple, except the non-Apple users have been implying that users are somehow superior for buying Apple products. That is a timeworn anti-Apple meme spread by the Anti-Apple people and their competitors used to put down Apple users ad nauseous. Frankly we are getting tired of it.
My son was an Iphone user since Iphone4.
He just switched to the Galaxy Note7 and he likes it a lot.
He was going to give his Iphone6 to his mom, but its got the “Touch Disease” which Apple says you have to buy a new phone to fix.
So He’s going to have to mail it off to be fixed before mom gets it.
Water Resistance:
Uh, the iPhone 6S, 6S plus, and iPhone SE are fairly water resistant.
"The first video pits the iPhone 6s Plus against the Galaxy S6 Edge in a small container, under a few inches of water. Each smartphone survived an impressive thirty minutes submerged under water, and appeared to retain their entire functionalities afterwards. As noted by Keaton Keller, the creator of the video and part of the TechSmartt channel, last year the iPhone 6 died after a brief minute facing the same test." Source — MacRumors, Monday September 28, 2015
On the other hand, the Samsung is the only major Android phone claiming water "proof" and it didn't fair too well in Consumer Reports testing for water resistance.
Samsung Galaxy S7 Active fails Consumer Reports Water Resistance Test.
Wireless Charging
That's not such a big deal, and certainly not "HUGE" as you characterize it. Apple's Apple Watch uses wireless charging so it is certainly not something that is beyond Apple's capabilities. However, it's not a game changer unless you can "beam" the power to your phone from anywhere, because you are STILL tethered to a power cable to the wireless charging station and have to put the phone ON the induction charger. It is no more or less work to plug a handset into a reversible cable, something that takes ten seconds or less to do, than it is to put your phone on its charging pad. Extra charging stands for your Samsung phones run anywhere from $20 to $100. iPhone chargers can be had for $2 to $15, or you can merely plug the data cable into the nearest computer and charge it. Sometimes tech is just a cool gimmicky marketing ploy.
IRIS Scanning for security
HEHEHEHEH. Have you seen the advisory list of suggestions Samsung has provided on what to do if your phone doesn't unlock with an Iris scan? Or the reasons it may not work? Try cleaning the Iris camera. Move to an area where there is less glare. Move to an area with less sunlight, one that is "slightly shaded." Take off your glasses. Remove your contact lenses. Hold the phone at the correct distance, the one you used when you registered your irises. If your eyes are "slightly swollen" or partially shut, it's likely the iris scanner won't recognize you. Oops. If any of these prevent the iris scanner from working you'll have to use an alternative method to unlock your phone. You do realize that iris scanning has been shown to be one of the least secure means of preventing entry because a high resolution image of a person's eyes can fool the scanner? It's another marketing scam to make Android users think they are more secure when they are not.
On the other hand, Apple's "fingerprint" scanner does not even read the actual fingerprint, but rather looks under the fingerprint and reads the ridges and valleys of the fat pad below the skin, something that cannot be determined by an image or a contact fingerprint and thus requires a real human finger to be pressed to the sensor. That is much more secure.
Stylus
ROTFLMAO. The stylus is the latest technology? Give me a break. The whole point of smartphones with a multitouch, capacitance screen interface is to obviate the requirement of the stylus which was required with the old resistance single touch screens. As Steve Jobs, ahem, "pointed out" humans always carry the best pointing device with them, the human finger. You can't lose it, it's convenient, and it's intuitive to use. With the algorithms that Apple invented and patented, the accuracy that was made possible is sufficient to do everything you need to do on a phone.
Yes, Apple has the most sophisticated stylus on the market for their iPad Pro, but it does far more than any mere stick stylus does. Look it up if you don't know what it's capabilities are. Read the reviews. In addition, there have been third-party styluses available for the iPhone for those who wish to have them for nine years.
Device Speed
The iPhone line has been the fastest phone on the market for the past five years, bar none, beating every Android phone on the market. Despite using fewer cores in the Apple A series processors, the iPhones and iPads have consistently drubbed the four and eight core processor Android phones and tablets in both the majority of benchmark and real world tests.
Security
There is literally no contest here. Android is a hot bed of malware with millions of malware in the wild and hundreds of millions of Android devices STILL at risk of being hijacked because they have not been updated to the latest Android OS or even security patches. The number of exploits for iOS in the wild in the last nine years can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand and the number of actual devices compromised is approaching zero.
User Privacy
Apple's encryption is built-in to the hardware and iOS. Android's is an optional add on which has to be downloaded at the request of the user. Even Samsung's vaunted Knox security was found to keep its passwords in an unencrypted text file in a library where anyone who looked could find them . . . in other words, not secure at all. Android security is a joke.
Lemmings revisited
The real lemmings are those who follow the Android crowd, the most traveled road and the least common denominator of operating systems.
The samsungs seem to have pretty good cameras.
28 August 2016, 8:11 am EDT By Fritz Gleyo Tech Times
Apple's mobile devices, which accounted for more than 70 percent of the company's 2015 revenue, has consistently stayed on top of other brands in terms of reliability. This is supported by a collection of well-documented annual studies in which Apple consistently held on to the top spot in the reliability metric — until now, that is.
A recent study by the Blancco Technology Group titled "State of Mobile Device Performance and Health" for Q2 2016 reveals that iOS devices are almost twice as likely to fail when compared with competing brands that run on Android.
iOS devices charted a 58 percent failure rate, which more than doubles the 25 percent they had for Q1 2016. Android devices, on the other hand, managed 35 percent, which is an improvement from its 44 percent back in the first quarter of the current year.
"Plagued by crashing apps, Wi-Fi connectivity and other performance issues, the iOS failure rate more than doubled to 58 percent quarter-over-quarter," says Blancco after noting that iOS lost the smartphone performance battle to Android.
“The real lemmings are those who follow the Android crowd, the most traveled road and the least common denominator of operating systems.”
Nice ad hominem from the main Apple supporter on FR.
In my house, I have both. Each have idiosyncrasies, and I can get a better and faster results typing a phrase into a web browser than asking Siri for help.
Phone are tools. I don’t care is one is supposedly better than the other. If they do the job, great; if not, I’ll start looking at the competitor. But to say people are lemmings for using on versus the other is petty nonsense.
I have been using a Windows Phone for Years.
Before that, Android.
The next Phone is an iPhone.
However not all Androids accounted for in that percentage are smartphones, approximately 60% are either feature phones (not completely smart) or dumb phones (very limited features) that just happen to fun Android as an operating system.
All other repair depots report iOS has a far better record than Android devices. None of the other Android devices out in the Wild have changed an iota from what they were in the last quarter. What could possibly have changed in them to suddenly make them less prone to failure?
This Blanco claim is based purely on those users who have to install Blanco's management software on their iOS devices. I know of no one who does such an idiotic thing. It requires the users to cede control of their devices to a central control run by Blanco. I would suspect it is more a failure of Blanco under iOS 9 than anything about Apple's hardware.
That is not an ad hominem. An ad hominem is an attack on the other person doing the debate. He was the one who first claimed that Apple users were lemmings. I countered with the same argument pointing out that if he wanted to take that road, the majoritarians were the more likely candidates for that sobriquet. In other words, kosciusko51, I threw his ad hominem argument back in HIS face.
Fine. Then while the poster disparaged every FReeper who owns an iPhone, you disparaged every FReeper who owns an Android phone. And to what purpose?
Yes, I remember you saying that if it had smaller than a 4” screen (like the iPhone 4 and earlier) it was a feature phone, not a smart phone.
I’m not buying it.
Does it run a browser? Does it allow you to load apps? Does it have a camera, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth? Does it have a touch screen? Then it’s a smart phone. It does what smart phones are supposed to do.
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