I guess all you tech-wise freepers understand these things. Me? Not so much. My daughter gave me a Samsung Galaxy5 for Thanksgiving present…Best Buy was giving them away for $1 plus a two-year contract with Verizon— Verizon being the only company that provides good service to her very rural location, that was perfect.
So I should be happy?
I am totally flummoxed by this thing…if I can just make calls and send texts, that’s really all I want. But even that is a miserable experience.
A youtube how-to use the Galaxy5 refers to Samsung as Samsh*t and now I know why. To be fair tho, a techie will not have the same problems I have with it….probably not.
Does anyone like this thing?
Some of the real tech-minded people like the idea of “thinking like a computer” in order to use one (likewise with the phones). They like fiddlling, many options, having to fix things (this or that), fiddling some more, and doing all sorts of tech-stuff to it. That’s the mentality of many ... “think like a computer” in order to use one.
On the other hand, much of the consumer public doesn’t want to “think like a computer” in order to use devices. They just want stuff set up and ready-to-go. Now, Apple has accommodated itself to the consumer way of thinking about these things, and has tried to take away that “think like a computer” and all the “fiddling” that techies like to do.
That’s one reason why Apple has captured such a large market for their products, these days ... they try to set things up for you so that you can just use them. That very way of thinking (of how Apple does it) is a “disaster” in a “techie’s mind” you see ... and they hate Apple for it.
I think it comes down to ... do you want to have to accommodate the machine, or do you want the machine to accommodate you? Apple tries to make it so that the machine accommodates you (and not all the “techie-fiddling” that techies do).
I have a relative who was given an Andriod phone device, and probably with good intentions ... but she can’t stand it, can’t use it and finds it terrible. I find it terrible, too ... in looking it over. Of course, I’ve been used to the Apple way of thinking of having the “machine accommodate you” ... since the first iPhone out there (and even before that).
Good luck with that terrible device ... maybe someday you’ll be able to get an iPhone, which will be an absolute joy to use!