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Post by mattig89ch on Sept 28, 2017 17:30:06 GMT
With the release of apple's new Iphone, I figured I'd ask the tough question. Do you prefer Apple's Iphone? Or do you prefer to use one of the many Android devices out there?
Also, please state why you prefer your choice.
I'll get the ball rolling: I'm an Android user. Always have been, most likely always will be. I'm not willing to rule anything out in the future, but I don't really like apple's products all that much. I much prefer to use third parties, then put everything under one roof.
That and I like to be able to simply place files on my android device, w/out going through a program installed on my desktop. But then, I'm weird like that.
What about you?
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Post by mousestalker on Sept 28, 2017 18:34:14 GMT
I like my android. I swap music and photos out a lot, and android places fewer barriers to that. Most of the photos I take are work related, so saving them in the cloud is not a solution (client confidentiality).
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Post by CrutchCricket on Sept 28, 2017 18:39:08 GMT
Old, but gets the point across:
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Post by Transcended One on Sept 28, 2017 18:48:57 GMT
Windows 10 Mobile. I love the full compatibility with my desktop PC without needing to install additional bloatware (like the Apple stuff), it's easy to use and pretty intuitive, at least in my opinion.
However, there's ofcourse a HUGE con: and that is that the userbase keeps dwindling more and more, and no new (useful/official) apps are released for some time now, apparently in some ways due to Microsoft (besides 'consumers') more or less abandoning it, and not much new devices being released using the platform.
Another con is that the batterylife of Windows phones isn't great, though that may be because of other issues than the OS.
So in the end, when I need to get a new Phone, it will likely be and Android, since in my opinion it comes next in useability. I have tried to work with an Iphone not that long ago, but they don't really attune to my taste.
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Post by Serza on Sept 28, 2017 19:03:47 GMT
Apple will try to sell you something that has half the ability at twice the price.
So fuck them. With a stick. Hard. Up the ass. Forget the lube.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Sept 28, 2017 19:22:41 GMT
Google is turning too scummy, cult-like and CIA-esque, so I would move to iPhone if I didn't have a better choice. But I have and that's windows phone!
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Post by Cyonan on Sept 28, 2017 19:25:37 GMT
To be honest I have an Android phone but I feel no particular attachment to it over an iPhone or a Windows Phone.
I'm one of those "I mostly just use my phone for calls and texting" people.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Sept 28, 2017 19:41:12 GMT
I've known that Google is Satan from the start. (I mean, c'mon, an organization that has "Don't be Evil" as motto? Read your Orwell, people.) You are not Google's customers. IT services are not Google's product. Google's product is an uneven playing field. And you? You are Soylent Green, ye fool sheep. iPhone? Since Steven died, I think it seems Apple is more concerned about their shareholders than their products and customers. That will never end well for Apples' shareholders either. Apple without Steven Jobs is an experiment that have been made already, earlier. I use a MS Windows phone. Always have, and hope to be able to continue. The only problem is that 'local' apps, as provided by smaller organizations, are often only available for iPhone and Android. I can live with that.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Sept 28, 2017 20:12:15 GMT
Send 1000$ to my bank account so I can give you my excellent Nokia N79
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Post by Red on Sept 28, 2017 20:18:43 GMT
Send 1000$ to my bank account so I can give you my excellent Nokia N79 I bet this cell phone can not be destroyed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 21:23:37 GMT
I just started using a cellphone last year, a Samsung, but they at least have a built in headjack.
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Post by LightningPoodleβ on Sept 28, 2017 21:33:27 GMT
Apple have been playing catch-up with all of their actually good features (which were all done on Android devices first...) for years and their only features that are "innovative" are fucking stupid and just make it more difficult to actually use the device. Steve Jobs left his legacy... Idiots will continue to buy shit because it has the Apple logo on it. "Apple is the best! You're not the best unless you have Apple!"
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Post by Lavochkin on Sept 28, 2017 21:43:15 GMT
I've been rocking an android samsung galaxy s4 for years now and am not getting rid of it anytime soon, so yay for Android.
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Post by nanotm on Sept 28, 2017 21:44:43 GMT
poll is missing the windows phone category /
I used to have spamdroid and crapple phones, they looked good and sort of worked but the apps I needed would only work if there was an internet connection, I went back to nokia phones because they had always just worked (had nokia smart phone back in 1999) the only problem with windows phones I have found was with the Lumia 1020 (it was buggy as all hell until they rolled out the update the crippled the camera from 42mp down to 16mp) however I have found a huge problem with certain apps like the facebook Instagram and WhatsApp apps, they seem to be eating battery power all the time, simple solution uninstall them.... quite why those apps need to snoop on everything you do on the phone is beyond me but hey ho, getting rid of them was mildly annoying for my kids but for me it was a no brainer, the facebook app is the biggest one since it literally watches everything even to the point of activating the camera and microphone the entire time there is internet available ...
when my 930 needed replacing I got the 650 and the kids all got 435's and then 550's I was going to get the 950 as well when it released but all the bug reports made me wary especially given its price ..... now the only new windows phones around seem to be junk and for some reason Microsoft has taken a step back from the phone market.... sure they missed a trick with the windows phones though, teaming up exclusively with nokia and dropping the various oem's was a bad move they should have pushed for more oem phones (the htc8x was a fantastic phone) hopefully their new deal with a certain Chinese phone company will pay off and new windows phones will hit the market, but I doubt it...
I was tempted to get the galaxy s7 edge when it was announced you could bootstrap windows phone OS into it but glad I didn't since it became apparent that the phones were bricked by windows update....
now I'm just hoping that a new windows phone will come out that's built as well as the 550/650 for a similar cheap price before my phone bites the dust, if not I'll have to reconsider getting a spamdroid (which to be totally honest I hate because as soon as you buy it you get one maybe two OS refreshes and then its EOL my windows phone seems to get updated at least every month, sure I've gained new phones over the years but mostly just because they were free handset upgrades when I renewed the contract) but if I do I wont be wasting money on getting premium handset that's basically trash after 12>18 months (or two handset refreshes whichever comes sooner) /
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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on Sept 28, 2017 21:56:41 GMT
Google is Satan, and Apple is Mephistopheles.
However, those are software concerns. You are buying hardware. The best bang for your buck, without the slightest question, is anything not branded Apple.
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Post by Urizen on Sept 29, 2017 2:41:47 GMT
Neither. I have a windows phone and I intend to use it to its last breath. After that? Who knows. I bet this cell phone can not be destroyed. Yes you can but in doing so you unravel the space-time-continuum and destroy the universe.
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Post by Transcended One on Sept 29, 2017 4:05:17 GMT
It's surprising to see so many Windows users here in this topic! At we're not dead yet π
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Post by nanotm on Sept 29, 2017 8:50:49 GMT
before they ceased production and made them harder to obtain windows phones were the best selling device in the uk, they outsold apple and android (mostly because of the price being so much cheaper) magically when that 4th quarter report came out the only place you could buy a windows phone was suddenly the Microsoft online store.... every single network and phone store dropped them, then apple pushed out the icrap6 (that broke when in the back pocket and you bent over) then the Samsung phones that blew up if you used them too much.... and the best alternative was a windows phone that was no longer available (because google owns the Indian parliament and pushed to close the Microsoft phone factory in India over fake tax issues)
I understand though that Microsoft was under assault in the EU and the USA at the same time as well as china pushing for them to close their office there, and it was the only way for them to save the core business, get rid of the low hanging fruit and magically all the legal action disappeared.... hopefully if Microsoft decides to push out the home made windows phones in the future they will have learned from this and open factories in every region not just one... but I doubt it
thing is the way it "just works" under windows 10 to sync everything from phone to tablet to pc is magic and 100 x better than any similar implementation by apple or google (fun fact google owns the IP on anything hosted on its servers or created on devices bearing its OS unless you are paying via a corporate account for the privilege of owning your own stuff, and apple reserves the right to steal for its own ends your content and owns all rights to anything you upload to its servers which explains why you have to push everything through its servers, Microsoft initially used these things as a selling point for onedrive but stopped doing so because of legal action from apple and google at a time when it was struggling with liquidity issues....)
give me a windows phone over the other two any day, indeed if it wasn't for the fact the NSA provided the servers apple would of gone bust a decade ago... and its primarily them who want apple to be the primary phone creator .....
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Sept 29, 2017 10:09:31 GMT
Still rocking Lumia 1020. Although now I broke its screen AT LAST. I have dropped it straight to asphalt from 2 meters and... nothing. Then one day it slips from my hands and flies ~3 meters, hitting metal bar glass facing forward.
I've taped the glass but it feels awful to swipe it. New glass+display 99β¬, installed 175β¬. Can get crappy android spyware phone with that price, but I dont want to! This WP8.1 has been working so. much. better. than my android did ever. No waiting, no cursing of audio playback killed suddenly from background. It just works.
I've been looking for android without google if it would work better, but the bad thing is, where to get software then? Warez? Ugh...
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Post by Urizen on Sept 29, 2017 10:13:42 GMT
It's surprising to see so many Windows users here in this topic! At we're not dead yet π "The walking WPer".
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Sept 29, 2017 14:52:08 GMT
Still rocking Lumia 1020. Although now I broke its screen AT LAST. I have dropped it straight to asphalt from 2 meters and... nothing. Then one day it slips from my hands and flies ~3 meters, hitting metal bar glass facing forward.
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Sept 29, 2017 15:00:48 GMT
Still rocking Lumia 1020. Although now I broke its screen AT LAST. I have dropped it straight to asphalt from 2 meters and... nothing. Then one day it slips from my hands and flies ~3 meters, hitting metal bar glass facing forward. Yes .. no.. yes.. maybe
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Post by Pearl on Sept 29, 2017 15:13:46 GMT
I've used both and have no strong preference. I currently have an iPhone 6, but that's only because I don't want to pay for texting my friends and family. You could replace it with any relatively recent Android phone and I honestly wouldn't care.
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Sept 29, 2017 15:24:39 GMT
:rage:
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