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What the heck is the deal with iphone users Vs Android users
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I'm with you all the way up to "never even heard of Android". I would have to assume the number of people never to have heard of Android would be a fairly low figure, and would include mostly the Amish & other non-tech type people.
The Apple owner who's never even heard of Android likely doesn't know how to turn his iPad on.
I promise if you were to ask 100 iPhone users what Android is most will know it is cellular related, or think it is a Verizon phone, but not know what it actually is.
BBC America... love it...
I've DVR'd the new season of Being Human, but haven't gotten into it yet.... making my way through the US version first...
Outlaw71
Android Expert
Right, I understand there are a lot of non technical people out there that don't know anything about these devices. I've talked to sooooo many people who think 'Droid' is simply short for 'Android', and they just think thats the nickname for the phone, they have no clue that Android is the OS... or even what an OS is.
But I can't imagine anyone who's that clueless going into a store and buying the most expensive phone they have. It just seems to me that those that have purchased an iPhone probably did at least minimal research before jumping onboard, so they had to have seen some notion of Android somewhere. Or if they bought it because they heard so many people talking about the iPhone. And it's pretty rare to hear a discussion about one without hearing the other one being compared to it.
Oh you may have the odd teenager who was handed down an iPhone by their parents. But kids talk about this stuff like sports so surely.... I dunno, just seems unlikely that any iPho.e user could have possibly managed to slip by without ever hearing the word 'Android' (or vice versa).
Not having a clue what it is, sure I certainly agree with you that those people are out there.
adi19956
Android Expert
there are iPhone users who have no idea what Android OS is, they don't care because 'everyone knows iPhone's the best'
adi19956
Android Expert
I saw an advert for that, but it was halfway through the series so I didn't watch it.
Is there more than one channel in the US? weird how my taxes are funding your entertainment...
Over a 145 million of your smackers (pounds) were raised as profit by BBC Worldwide last year - and that went right into BBC coffers.
BBC America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC Worldwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I think between advertising and the cable/sat packages we buy with BBCA sending our dough up the foodchain, you have little to worry about where subsidizing us is concerned.
We're grateful to the BBC - personally, I owned a pair of BC-1s and the LS3-5/A was quite a gift to the world - as have been the BBC standards of excellence in broadcast engineering.
But no way are they fiscally irresponsible, and neither do its true supporters increase your burden by pirating it in any way. (Hmmm - there's an echo in here....)
So - I've decided you owe me $30.
j/k lma0
adi19956
Android Expert
I've never looked up BBC Worldwide before, I knew it existed though. Looks a lot different to UK BBC. What does 'adult content is still edited' mean? don't you get... all of it?
And if BBC Worldwide makes money rather than taking it, how come it gets government funds? Incidentally, they're being cut
And if BBC Worldwide makes money rather than taking it, how come it gets government funds? Incidentally, they're being cut
Yep, BBCA is but a shadow of the real deal, and any naughty bits are stippled out on-screen - something that annoyed me on Somerset Murders or Poiriot (sp?) when there was a painting in the background. After all, the US is a nation without Page 3.
If you've seen a lick of our politics for the last decade, then you'll understand and forgive that I won't try to guess at regulatory bodies or funding on your side.
If you've seen a lick of our politics for the last decade, then you'll understand and forgive that I won't try to guess at regulatory bodies or funding on your side.
Yeap - what was I thinking! Midsommer Murders, yes. (And it's been off the air here for a while - I really miss that one.)
None of our papers have page 3 girls - that would be unheard of and would cause marches on our town halls with torches (the kind with flames) and pitchforks, I assure you.
Over here, we'll gladly subscribe you to nukes, but God forbid the naughty bits. I've no idea what was trimmed from the Benny Hill I've seen, for example.
Also - you'll find a huge BlackAdder following here, me among them.
A.Nonymous
Extreme Android User
In American culture, gratuitous violence is ok. Any sort of nudity in any sort of context is met with gratuitous violence. Nudity is not acceptable.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
It's one of our interview test questions - and it's known in house that anyone caught with illicit software of any kind is grounds for immediate termination.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
We went through the same thing. We had a single copy of MS-Office passed around the building and eventually loaded on the Intranet for accessibility. No site licenses, just one copy of Office. We even found parts of Office installed on some production floor test computers, as well.
The higher ups went ballistic.
Bob
I saw that exact same thing at an agency with a site license of all things. One guy didn't know we had that license, brought in his copy of Office and it was everywhere.
Now, we have a small firm and it's known - steal and The Dark One (me) will terminate you.
It should be like that everywhere... for the company's protection. They can get in some serious legal issues if this is discovered.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
I have another one.
Besides modems, NIC Cards, and Palm Pilots, we also manufactured RIO MP3 players. Every unit was tested by computer, but we also put each unit through a manual button test. We wanted to make sure Play, Previous, Next... other buttons worked.
RIO licensed some crappy rock band's music for inclusion with each RIO. One of the supervisors liked Metallica so he loaded a nice selection of Metallica music, and deleted the stuff that RIO was authorized to use and thousands of units were shipped to distributors and end users with Metallica music.
At the time, the music came from RIO and it was incorporated into our test computers test files to be loaded after the PCB passed final test. So it was a simple matter to delete the MP3 files and add Lars and the Boys on the test servers.
RIO (Diamond Multimedia) went bat turd ballistic because they knew what would happen if this little change was discovered.
Oddly, that happened the same week a worker found an honest to God bomb in one of the lockers. Another story, perhaps.
Bob
A.Nonymous
Extreme Android User
Try working in the IT world. It's insane out there. We do outsourcing for a number of different companies in town. I'll never forget we had a company call us once because they were thinking of firing the IT company they were using. We went in to do a site evaluation and found that they had 15-20 computers in the building and they had installed student editions of Office on every single one of them. We were appalled and told them we wouldn't be able to work with them unless they uninstalled those editions and purchased legal copies. This was a doctor's office that was using these student editions of Office. Needless to say, they did not choose to go with our company. $200+ bucks a pop for 20 computers did not fly with them.
Yes - isn't Windows the greatest? I get tired of hearing that and people hating the Apple tax when most I talk to that get rabid that way are using pirated stuff - and can't for the life of themselves see why that's just wrongful thinking.
Bob Maxey
Android Expert
I cant remember what the fines were at the time, but apparently they were stiff. Especially when Office is on a few hundred computers. And you can report illegal software use anonymously and earn rewards. That alone should convince people that eventually, somehow, some way, they will get caught. Think disgruntled worker bees.
Bob
A.Nonymous
Extreme Android User
Not gonna lie. We were very tempted to report them to MS. We figured MS would drop the hammer on them and/or our competitor and probably on the competitor. But our boss didn't want to do business that way so we didn't.
adi19956
Android Expert
But page 3 is great, you read through the (always depressing) first articles then you get to page 3 and it puts a smile on your face
Nudity > nukes
Benny Hill and Blackadder aren't still being aired are they? LOL we still have them occasionally on one channel, but er... wow
You should come to Britain
So, I am tired of hearing so much of the mutual bickering that Android and Apple fanboys throw at each other. It seems that every one of my tech-savvy friends favors or the other.
My solution is this: seeing as Android excels (in my opinion) at productivity, multitasking, etc, and iOS at entertainment, the best idea to satiate your cravings for both is to own both an Android smartphone and an iPod Touch. Android is the better idea for smartphone, because it is widely available on most networks and there is (again, in my opinion), no respectable portable media player out there sporting Android. I also like better its approach at giving the user total control over it. The iPod Touch needs no introduction; it is a multimedia powerhouse, with plenty of great games and such, and is easier to jailbreak (do it at your own risk) than the iPhone. It also does not require a data plan, like the iPhone, and if you are a mobile gaming junkie, it does not use your phone's battery (like it would happen on an iPhone), not leaving you without an emergency connection to the world should you run out of battery.
Now, for the tablet wars: I see no point in having an iPad and a delicious Honeycomb tablet at the same time, and since Android is (I reiterate, in my opinion) better for productivity, which is a tablet's main goal, I think, an Android tablet would be the best option. iPads are awesome too, but their main selling point, a great multimedia experience, is redundant if you own an iPod Touch.
I'm not discrediting either platform; I like both, and I think they are great things to experience. I myself have an iPod Touch and an HTC Desire (bet you knew that already, anyway).
I'm not saying Android is horrible as a multimedia consumption platform, and iOS useless for productivity; both also excel at these, but they are stronger in the fields I already stated, so I would go for having an Android smartphone, an iPod Touch, and an Android tablet. Sure, in a perfect world, the best tablet would be able to run both iOS and Android, but that is very far-fetched, don't cha think?
So, baring of souls aside, any thoughts on this?
My solution is this: seeing as Android excels (in my opinion) at productivity, multitasking, etc, and iOS at entertainment, the best idea to satiate your cravings for both is to own both an Android smartphone and an iPod Touch. Android is the better idea for smartphone, because it is widely available on most networks and there is (again, in my opinion), no respectable portable media player out there sporting Android. I also like better its approach at giving the user total control over it. The iPod Touch needs no introduction; it is a multimedia powerhouse, with plenty of great games and such, and is easier to jailbreak (do it at your own risk) than the iPhone. It also does not require a data plan, like the iPhone, and if you are a mobile gaming junkie, it does not use your phone's battery (like it would happen on an iPhone), not leaving you without an emergency connection to the world should you run out of battery.
Now, for the tablet wars: I see no point in having an iPad and a delicious Honeycomb tablet at the same time, and since Android is (I reiterate, in my opinion) better for productivity, which is a tablet's main goal, I think, an Android tablet would be the best option. iPads are awesome too, but their main selling point, a great multimedia experience, is redundant if you own an iPod Touch.
I'm not discrediting either platform; I like both, and I think they are great things to experience. I myself have an iPod Touch and an HTC Desire (bet you knew that already, anyway).
I'm not saying Android is horrible as a multimedia consumption platform, and iOS useless for productivity; both also excel at these, but they are stronger in the fields I already stated, so I would go for having an Android smartphone, an iPod Touch, and an Android tablet. Sure, in a perfect world, the best tablet would be able to run both iOS and Android, but that is very far-fetched, don't cha think?
So, baring of souls aside, any thoughts on this?
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