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Now That iOS7 Has Been Unveiled....

Don't get me wrong guys, I've been a loyal user of Android smartphones (my very first smartphone was a Droid 2 back in 2010), and my current plan won't be up until the end of 2014, so i'll have had 4 years with Android. I think I just want something more polished and bug-free now that the open source novelty of Android has worn off (can you believe i'm saying novelty wears off? haha)

But yeah. Also, I can get Android phones for free as I work for a related company...so I guess the saying is true, "the grass is always greener on the other side." I honestly think I'm just bored of Android being Android.. but who knows. I'll probably come to regret my decision to pick up an iPhone in 2015..somehow I like to imagine their battery life rocks though (correct me if i'm wrong).
 
^very valid point. But i love multi-tasking..does anyone know the phone that allows you to watch youtube videos WHILE browsing other websites/texting/etc? Now THAT would be a phone i'd choose in a heartbeat over the iPhone..was it a Samsung?
 
I just find it ironic that many of these features been out on Android and it was so complicated for iphone users. Iphone was just so easy to use, So whats going to be the reason now?
 
I've never bought the easy-to-use meme.

If a UI appeals to you, it's going to be easy to use because you'll relate to it.

The popularity of Sense and Touchwiz have proven that.

If you friends have an XYZphone and say it's easy, so will you.

Then comes the defense of the meme because not to defend it would be to dis your friends.

I think that's basic psychology and Apple's used it very well in guerrilla marketing.

If you've never used iOS, look at your app drawer. Think of that as your basic user interface for years.

I remember when the iPhone first came out. A half dozen of us sat around with three of them comparing how to do things.

Anything different is harder.

I still remember what my 80+ mom said when I gave her a five-minute tour of my Evo and handed it to her to use as her phone on her visit.

After checking her mail and the weather back home she had one question - Why did your sister buy that complicated iPhone?

Easy-to-use is a meme.

A true one.

But automagically easier to use than an Android by some magic reason?

Yeah. No. ;) :)
 
I've designed complex systems for decades, including operating systems and industrial systems.

As a designer, I can say with an open mind that that is excellent marketing. I couldn't finish it.

Here's the truth to the Android side of the story.

http://droid-den.com/editorial/brea...e-power-of-defaults-and-intents-in-android-2/

Hope that helps.

Apple does a great job. I'll give them that.
But that video was a commercial.

And it was biased and close-minded by default.
 
So far I think that the only ads I've liked in the past few years are the Google April Fools and that Windows phone making fun of Apple and Samsung fans battle it out at a wedding.
 
bluebayou said:
Designed By Apple - Intention - YouTube

this is incredible though, as a work of philosophy at least. I encourage everyone to take a look with an unbiased, unaffiliated mind.
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Seems to me to shut down any thinking that anything outside the "given" solution could possibly be the best one for anyone and reinforce the "we know what is best for you" thinking. A marketing video.

That's not btw to suggest that Apple may not be able to put together tightly and well integrated systems. I just do not buy the "lock in" side of things.
 
One of the things that has been mentioned (somewhere) before is that, if iOS is now even more like Android, is there any reason not to go Apple?

TBH I don't think I could switch, especially having paid so much over the years for apps and I also dont think I could use a unrooted device now.
 
With every major Apple and Android change, people switch in both directions.

Why not? Use what works for you, that's what's best anyway.

The consistent trend has been the switch to Android. The new stuff may help Apple users stay, or they may have just reduced the learning curve to come over to Android, or vice versa.

I've not heard of iOS 7 changes affecting their ecosystem approach, so those differences remain.
 
Hmm.

You know what I have been thinking a lot about this lately (10 seconds).

And I know at least ONE thing that will include as default in all iOS 7 builds / releases! :)

They will make this the default song when you boot your iFone / iLock up:


It will be everywhere!
 
EarlyMon said:
I've never bought the easy-to-use meme.



I still remember what my 80+ mom said when I gave her a five-minute tour of my Evo and handed it to her to use as her phone on her visit.

After checking her mail and the weather back home she had one question - Why did your sister buy that complicated iPhone?

:)
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Funny, after viewing my phone with TSF shell and Widgetlocker my mom thought it was far more complicated and difficult than her BlackBerry Torch! i suppose it depends.

Although i do enjoy impressing folks with the Precedent that can do everything. it's a radio, a 1970s-era calculator, a weather radar, a camera, a phone, a MP3 player/downloader, e-reader, GPS, a micro-tablet!
 
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