This is exactly what I was looking for. Great post. Thanks!
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Well, they think I'm nuts at the Best Buy but I returned the RAZR as I didn't like the UI and that the charge plug is at the top and decided to get another S3. All the constructive comments in this thread and elsewhere on this site and others really helped me get a grasp of how Android is supposed to work. I may purge my body of iDNA yet.
The Maxx is a good phone, has a killer battery but is now a generation behind. I still order them for field people and people that don't want all the choices that they sg3 has, the Maxx also has really good radios better than the galaxy 3. I'd say that the sg3 is a computer first phone second and it is opposite for the Maxx..
I devices came out during a time that people still synced with their computers, when bandwidth was hard to come by and slow. That time has passed. My lte is faster than my cable modem and WiFi is becoming ubiquitous, so Google has taken it to the next level and untied the phone from the computer, and built it into the os. I have used icloud before on I devices that I support and it feels totally bolted on, no undelete for contacts on icloud and just not where Google is with Gmail. Yes it doesn't do a full recovery but that isn't always a bad thing, I guess it's all perspective.
Did you see the otg cables? Be able to plug other devices into your phone and tablet, like flash drives, mice and keyboards? Amazon has them for 89 cents or so.
Also microusb, some hate it lots like it but it is sooooo nice to have charger for everything and not have it costs a fortune.
Lots of choices, and that isn't bad. Also there is video out check for the mhl connector I think, it is a connector that is on the sg3 that apple could have used if they weren't out to milk people, it does everything that people say they want out a plug without a drm chip in it.
Does android take a little work sure, but that work means that it is customized for you, how your mind works, how you want to see things.
Have you seen tektags?
I devices came out during a time that people still synced with their computers, when bandwidth was hard to come by and slow. That time has passed. My lte is faster than my cable modem and WiFi is becoming ubiquitous, so Google has taken it to the next level and untied the phone from the computer, and built it into the os. I have used icloud before on I devices that I support and it feels totally bolted on, no undelete for contacts on icloud and just not where Google is with Gmail. Yes it doesn't do a full recovery but that isn't always a bad thing, I guess it's all perspective.
Did you see the otg cables? Be able to plug other devices into your phone and tablet, like flash drives, mice and keyboards? Amazon has them for 89 cents or so.
Also microusb, some hate it lots like it but it is sooooo nice to have charger for everything and not have it costs a fortune.
Lots of choices, and that isn't bad. Also there is video out check for the mhl connector I think, it is a connector that is on the sg3 that apple could have used if they weren't out to milk people, it does everything that people say they want out a plug without a drm chip in it.
Does android take a little work sure, but that work means that it is customized for you, how your mind works, how you want to see things.
Have you seen tektags?
Then you missed when they cut off support for Olympus cameras and the rest of Android phones that supported the Digital Image Media standards.
Support for the SGS3 is far from perfect, but it's not all on Samsung's side.
Just saying.
All I know is that OS X came before the SGS3. The fact that it is completely incompatible with OS X, is quite embarrassing, especially when they're desperately trying to snatch up iUpgraders. It's no excuse blaming OS X. There should be some official software available, from Samsung/Google, to sort this.
Tell me - if you go out and buy a generic tech product, bring it home, plug it into your PC and find out it's incompatible. Who is to blame? Microsoft? No. Windows has been around for a lot longer than that product in your hands. Products are made to work with OS', not the other way round. I've never seen a box with "probably compatible with Windows 9, 2015" on the side.
I am now using Windows on my Mac to sync my i9300. It's a minor irritation for me, but someone with less time/know-how would find this unacceptable. It means I can't use Apple's sync services to keep copies of backups on my iMac and MacBook Pro.
Szadzik
Extreme Android User
Do you really think it is abnormal that you cannot sync Android to iPhone? To me it is nto strange. It is like saying that the engine from your Mazda somehow dose not fit a Porsche.
Here is your solution:
http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/JSP
Well, manufacturers have to support existing standards; however, they need to choose which ones to support. The reason that some decide not to support OSX is because only a small percentage of users owns Macs. This percentage is even lower overseas. At the end, Samsung needs to make choices that have an impact on development costs and support and it chose not to support the OSX. Knowing the rather "adversarial" relationship between Apple and Samsung, I cannot say that I blame them.
Covart
Android Enthusiast
Well, I hate to say this, but I doubt Google or Samsung give much concern over what amounts to relatively few users of OSX and just a percentage of that are having issues. Additionally, Mountain Lion was just released. Do you know how many 3rd party Apple apps didn't function when I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion? It was so bad, I reverted back to SL! So should I blame Apple, because software companies are slow to adapt? Do you blame developers of apps or Apple for causing 90% of ios apps to letterboxing to 3.5" on the iphone 5.
Now, if you want to sync things from any platform to another, regardless of pc, mac, tablet, ipad, android phone, iphone or smart tv, and regardless of what kind of file it is, then download Dropbox and Dropsync. Problem solved.
By the way, I have a 27" iMac running Lion and have no issues plugging my S3 into it and using Keis. Good luck to you.
Heisenberg123
Android Enthusiast
Kies works flawless on OSX 10.8.2 and if you want the "Finder" look of your internal drive or SDcard , you do it from the Summary tab just clock the explore button beside the desired drive
MTP is a Windows standard.
Google came out with Android File Transfer to not lose the Mac owners. That small percentage is a big number so it matters.
Samsung has screwed up MTP several times. (Links of coding errors by them are available on the web.)
Apple has purposely screwed up Android and Google interfaces, more than once.
Android is Linux. Mac is unix. Anything less than plug in simplicity is the fault of all parties involved except the users.
Google came out with Android File Transfer to not lose the Mac owners. That small percentage is a big number so it matters.
Samsung has screwed up MTP several times. (Links of coding errors by them are available on the web.)
Apple has purposely screwed up Android and Google interfaces, more than once.
Android is Linux. Mac is unix. Anything less than plug in simplicity is the fault of all parties involved except the users.
Sync Android to iPhone? You have misunderstood the discussion.
@EarlyMon, agreed.
@Covart/Heisenberg - I'm also on a 27" iMac, OS X 10.8.2. Installing Kies is ok, plugging Samsung in does quite literally nothing. The S3 goes into MTP, my iMac sits there, silent. I'm going for a reinstall...
Edit: Reinstall worked on iMac!!