/shrug all I had to do to set up my nexus 4 was log in to my Google account. OK OK I admit I had to log into Facebook as well. Other than that though, it was pretty much good to go. I had a harder time setting up my iphone4 back in the day... Granted I still needed iTunes back then.
It must not work very well without the SIM card you didn't sign up for.
btw the Nexus is slightly different, look here I got another one:-
Schiller sounds like a whining baby complaining about competition instead of offering a legitimate product from his own company. This is telltale signs of insecurity about your own products.
I liked it better when Apple kept quiet and didn't say much about the competition. If you have to point out their flaws, you are paying the ultimate compliment - attention.
Even MG Siegler is describing this as "strange". I'm genuinely looking at my Android phone right now trying to think of the nine accounts I needed to bring my experience up to iOS levels. I have Facebook and Twitter, but you need the same on iOS obviously if those are important to you. Instagram, the same. All my music comes from Google Play. My email is under the account Google Play account. I can get movies from Google Play if I wanted them. I have calendar sync, tasks, and contacts sync under the same account. And then there's Spotify a separate account I need for both iOS and Android.
<span style="line-height:1.231;">What a bizzarre attack line from Schiller.</span>
You seem to only be mentioning the ones that Apple doesn't also have? Doesn't Samsung have their own music? What about an iMessage-like service? How about a Find My Android-like service? What about a Reading List-like service? What about an iCloud Tabs-like service? What about a Reminders*-like service?
Then there is gauging the service quality to make it on par with Apple's service. Is Google's music service as good as Apple's so you don't need a 2nd option to make it equal? Does a Find My Android-like service have the ability to do more than just find the device, but can also lock it, send a sound, message and erase it?
* Gmail has a notes and calendar service but I'm not so sure about it having a proper option for Reminders.
/snip ...switching to an Android device seems silly if we don't know where they switch from (Apple, BB, MS?)
...but we do know, it's in the article.
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Originally Posted by AppleInsider
In a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal, Schiller went over fourth quarter 2012 metrics related to "switchers," or handset users who switched between an iPhone and an Android. Citing Apple research, the executive said that four times as many iPhone users switched away from Android than to a handset running Google's mobile OS.
Guy Kawasaki, Apple evangelist, one of the biggest apple fans uses Android. Recently on an interview he said he owns zero iOS devices. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple uses android device. If these people believe android is superior than iOS, then I do not think Schiller and his "Internal study done by apple" doesn't have much credibility.
I'm with Akleskater. The last thing someone should do is try and tell the world how much better their products are prior to a rivals launch. 9 accounts? PLEASE. Even I he was being rhetorical, it sounded foolish. Complaining about Android means he's giving them attention. I for one love apple products, but incremental improvements like thinner... Slightly bigger screen etc is lame. The competition is leaving Apple behind because apple seems to have forgotten how to innovate. My next phone is the S4
When you boot a Samsung phone (after signing up to some sort of phone plan so it works), you are prompted to sign up a Samsung account, a Google account (asking for a credit card), a dropbox account among others, HTC handsets are the same except it's a HTC account.
You've quoted the 2 extra - a Samsung and DropBox account. I'm curious, if anyone knows what the nine are - or is this exaggeration?
I wouldn't crow about 'having to sign up the dropbox account'. iCloud is so poor for document sharing, even with (or especially with) Apple's iWork suite, that DropBox or similar is pretty mandatory for a lot of iOS users.
Edit: I guess Amazon for eBooks could be another one.
I agree that Apple products are superior, but they are gaining. They are gaining in features and in innovation. Apple under a healthy Steve Jobs was an innovative company, looking to conquer the world. Currently, we hope for a couple new features a year and a speed bump on every Apple product, basically. Something needs to change.
The most beautiful walled garden is still limited to the one experience no matter how wonderful it is. One persons utopia might be another persons prison.
"Schiller also pointed to one of the major shortcomings of the Android platform: fragmentation."
Wow! SJ really put together a band of bad-ass execs! NOT!
Is that their forward moving marketing plan is to point out the deficiencies of competing products curenlyt TAKING market share in mobile, build a new campus for a company spiraling downward?
Why is it that Wall St./smartmoney is handing us "individual" investors and AAPL product lovers our heads on a platter.
Seriously, how can AAPL's stock price go from $700 to $428 while achieving record revenues and profits.
Simple: Wall street realizes that Apple's execs are a group of spineless dweebs who think they are in the same league as SJ, but necer were, and never will be...they can't even figure out how to split shares or raise dividends UNTIL their price plummets 40%....Or thatswhatthey want to initiate a fat buy back.
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Originally Posted by majjo
/shrug all I had to do to set up my nexus 4 was log in to my Google account. OK OK I admit I had to log into Facebook as well. Other than that though, it was pretty much good to go. I had a harder time setting up my iphone4 back in the day... Granted I still needed iTunes back then.
It must not work very well without the SIM card you didn't sign up for.
btw the Nexus is slightly different, look here I got another one:-
Schiller sounds like a whining baby complaining about competition instead of offering a legitimate product from his own company. This is telltale signs of insecurity about your own products.
Hey, isn't there some sort of "launch event" and launch event coverage for this thing? (You know... some guy in a black turtleneck, or something?)
I would really like to see how he fuzz goes down.
If anybody has links, I'd appreciate it. (can't really find anything)
You seem to only be mentioning the ones that Apple doesn't also have? Doesn't Samsung have their own music? What about an iMessage-like service? How about a Find My Android-like service? What about a Reading List-like service? What about an iCloud Tabs-like service? What about a Reminders*-like service?
Then there is gauging the service quality to make it on par with Apple's service. Is Google's music service as good as Apple's so you don't need a 2nd option to make it equal? Does a Find My Android-like service have the ability to do more than just find the device, but can also lock it, send a sound, message and erase it?
* Gmail has a notes and calendar service but I'm not so sure about it having a proper option for Reminders.
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie
/snip ...switching to an Android device seems silly if we don't know where they switch from (Apple, BB, MS?)
...but we do know, it's in the article.
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Originally Posted by AppleInsider
In a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal, Schiller went over fourth quarter 2012 metrics related to "switchers," or handset users who switched between an iPhone and an Android. Citing Apple research, the executive said that four times as many iPhone users switched away from Android than to a handset running Google's mobile OS.
Guy Kawasaki, Apple evangelist, one of the biggest apple fans uses Android. Recently on an interview he said he owns zero iOS devices. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple uses android device. If these people believe android is superior than iOS, then I do not think Schiller and his "Internal study done by apple" doesn't have much credibility.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. I already had a t mobile account so it really didn't apply to me
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Originally Posted by hill60
A kindle is not a phone, what are YOU on about?
When you boot a Samsung phone (after signing up to some sort of phone plan so it works), you are prompted to sign up a Samsung account, a Google account (asking for a credit card), a dropbox account among others, HTC handsets are the same except it's a HTC account.
You've quoted the 2 extra - a Samsung and DropBox account. I'm curious, if anyone knows what the nine are - or is this exaggeration?
I wouldn't crow about 'having to sign up the dropbox account'. iCloud is so poor for document sharing, even with (or especially with) Apple's iWork suite, that DropBox or similar is pretty mandatory for a lot of iOS users.
Edit: I guess Amazon for eBooks could be another one.
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The most beautiful walled garden is still limited to the one experience no matter how wonderful it is. One persons utopia might be another persons prison.
Free your phone!
Wow! SJ really put together a band of bad-ass execs! NOT!
Is that their forward moving marketing plan is to point out the deficiencies of competing products curenlyt TAKING market share in mobile, build a new campus for a company spiraling downward?
Why is it that Wall St./smartmoney is handing us "individual" investors and AAPL product lovers our heads on a platter.
Seriously, how can AAPL's stock price go from $700 to $428 while achieving record revenues and profits.
Simple: Wall street realizes that Apple's execs are a group of spineless dweebs who think they are in the same league as SJ, but necer were, and never will be...they can't even figure out how to split shares or raise dividends UNTIL their price plummets 40%....Or thatswhatthey want to initiate a fat buy back.