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What the heck is the deal with iphone users Vs Android users

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Jrife said:
My cousin has the iPhone 4 I got the Samsung Fascinate. It seems to me both phones are overall the same. My Samsung is faster with a bigger display has a better keyboard swype. Better app store with more premium apps for free. No itunes needed and I get free music with music downloader in the market. What is so great about the Iphone anyway?
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1- Both are the same in my view. Freedom to spend money on things you do not need is what makes this country great. In Communist Russia where I currently live, we only have the nYetPhone. We only get one phone number, the Kremlin; and three songs from the store which is always crowded.

I use Big Buttons Keyboard on my phone. I avoided Swype because there are far too many Swype Fanboys using it. Bob blazes his own trail, baby. When I want to send important email, I use my iPad which I guarantee has a better keyboard than you Android users, so naa, naaa, naa, naa.

And . . . consider this: Apple comes with little white Apple logo stickers. I don't see Android manufacturers offering robot stickers, it would improve performance. Much like the Edelbrock stickers on my truck that makes the truck go faster.

2- Are you saying you cal DL almost all music? I have seen those programs and apparently, there are no shortage of free music programs for Android and plenty of places to DL this so-called free music. Thank God . . . now I do not have to pay for "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" by the Ohio Express.

That free music you are so proud of is not free, by the way. It took time and money and effort for the artists to create it. Oh, you mean free as in I don't have to pay for it, got ya.

Come to think of it, there is one very popular iPad program that gives me access to most apps in the Apple Market, so there you go.

3- I love my iPad and I do not use iTunes. But let me ask, what is so wrong with iTunes, anyway? It was free, after all. I had to pay a greedy developer for my iTunes alternative and I do not like it as much as I like iTunes. Perhaps someone can tell me why iTunes is bad and everything else is better than iTunes.

Now that I think about it, should have gone iPhone all along.

Bob
 
shadowninty said:
my points were related to Googles handling of the Market and Device access to it ;)
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And that has nothing to do with open-ness. That has to do with officially approved Android-based devices getting a license to distribute software.

A.Nonymous said:
I just want to throw out there that the term "tar balls" makes me giggle. I know what it means and it still makes me giggle.
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Made for a lot of "too soon" jokes when the disaster in the gulf happened :D

lunatic59 said:
Then we should refer to compressed PC files as "Zip balls" and Mac archives as "Stuffed balls" ... after all, fair is fair.
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I'll take 10 stuffit balls, please :)
 
Didn't Apple do something about DRM? That was the main problem with the download sites before. Everything was totally crippled. Sony had those CDs that installed crap on the computer. I converted a lot of my CDs over. I figure it was fair use and they got no more sharing than a family member borrowing a CD.
I worked for an outfit that brokered radio commercials, and we had the ability to edit them. They used to come in on reel to reel. We could all change formats and edit if we needed to.
Needless to say, with my boss being totally experienced with sound hardware and editing, and what I knew about file formats and installation - the worst thing we tried to install was the software for an Ipod Shuffle. It wanted this, it wanted that, and despite the fact that we had professional sound equipment, it grabbed all the file formats. Had to go and reassociate all of the file formats to Sound Forge.

The devices may be nice, and if you have bought into the whole Apple experience you might enjoy the ease. I am just down on Apple as I think that Quicktime and any Itunes or whatever have NO RIGHT to change anything on my computer. Nowhere in the TOS does it say that they have the right to associate all your file formats to Apple.
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zuben el genub said:
The devices may be nice, and if you have bought into the whole Apple experience you might enjoy the ease. I am just down on Apple as I think that Quicktime and any Itunes or whatever have NO RIGHT to change anything on my computer. Nowhere in the TOS does it say that they have the right to associate all your file formats to Apple.
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Weren't you asked if you want to associate this and that when you installed Quick Time? I seem to recall that I was asked which files I wanted associated with QT.

Not sure what your pointy might be. Seems logical that when you install software, the developers/installers assume that you want to use it so they give you the chance to associate file types with the program you are installing.

Not a big deal and it is not just Apple, it is VLC, WinAmp and a gazillion others.

Bob
 
Quicktime has never given me any option. Neither did Realplayer if that turkey is still around. You have to watch all the others like a hawk, but most of the time there is some checkbox on the download screen. I've got an older copy of VLC, and won't change unless I have to.
I do read TOS, and have refused to download programs.

I don't use Winamp. I do use VLC but since I like Midi ringtones I usually have to find something that will deal with them.

I've refused to use MS Office for years. Will use Open/Libre Office once my Wordperfect 9 won't run due to hardware. Ubuntu has Open Office built in. And no damned paper clip!

I've used the old Macs in school, and see nothing special. This was at the time when Apple was touting how crash proof the Mac was. I could and did crash it and I wasn't the only one. Unix users were complaining. Windows, Apple and Ubuntu can be PITAS anyway. There is no perfect OS as there is no perfect phone OS.

I'm pretty well advertising proof. I have to read, doublecheck and ask questions and study the answers before I buy anything. It has to fit the way I will use it. I just bought the Galaxy S 4g for the screen and processor speed. I'm with TM and will probably stay after the merger and I really don't give a damn if I can only run on 2G. I want self contained apps like the Audubon Bird Guide, my star charts in PDF, and they don't need a data connection. I use my own wifi. I refuse to follow everyone else. I'll buy an unlocked European phone that only does 2G on TM. I've had 2. In other words, I want my old Sony Clie with a phone attached.

The latest and greatest isn't always the best.

Plus I have switched a computer to Ubuntu and don't see that now.

If someone likes a product, fine, but don't push it on me. Some stuff I simply don't care about. I have no problem with Apple fans, but it's not my way of doing things.
 
sssteve72 said:
There has not been a paperclip since like what...1998. You gotta quit living in the past...
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IF they would provide functionality worth upgrading for, then the majority of people would upgrade.

However, 90+% of the people using office, only use the functionality that was already there in the original version. Nothing about how they use office has changed in over a decade.
 
sssteve72 said:
There has not been a paperclip since like what...1998. You gotta quit living in the past...
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No, we had the damn thing in Office 2000 in 2003.
I always thought MS was pissed because Microsoft BOB never sold, so they shoved it down our throats in another way.

I'm still using WP 9 on XP, and Open Office on Ubuntu, so I don't see the stupid thing anyway.

If it works don't mess with it. I just need basic office stuff as I use more of Adobe products.
You reach a point where upgrading isn't worth it. I learned Photoshop at version 3 and 4 - I still do things that way. Haven't mastered half the new tools yet. So why update/upgrade? We still have an OEM copy of Office 97 at home.

I'd be totally pissed if a cute little android popped up on the phone with a stupid smirk asking how it can help.
 
zuben el genub said:
No, we had the damn thing in Office 2000 in 2003.
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Well if it was on 2003 it wasn't a default. I just switched over to 2007 about 9 months ago from 2003 and I never had a paperclip. 2000 may have had the paperclip. My statement was sorta posed as I wasn't sure but it was in the neighborhood of 1998...

Anyway MS office is awesome.:cool: I use it everyday and I have not had any problems with it in the past 10 years.
 
I must admit the iphone looks like a great piece of kit and will be my next purchase, as long as the phone looks and I can do things on there they I want I am, my desire does all the above but I do feel like a chanfe, maybe after I will return to android, all this arguing is just from fanboys of either os/phone or people jumping on the bandwagon because its cool to support the in phone/os.
 
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