I am going to go ahead and guess you have little experience actually using android, let alone a galaxy s5. there are some really nice things one can do with android and on the samsung s5. And let's face it- neither of us know much about how great Tizen can be, as i doubt you touched the watch that had the software. A watch is not a good identifier of how the software would be on a phone. The best thing Samsung could do it to distance itself from android.
How great was iOS on the iPod shuffle? How well did that sell? Let's not pretend that Apple has never had a flop. Great company? No doubts, innovative and pushing hard for the future, i love every Apple product i have ever bought. But you cannot presume to know about Tizen and Samsung's choices regarding the software because no one bought the watch it was on- nearly no one bought the iOS laden iPod shuffle with a screen, and so Apple changed it back.
There are probably more power users on android than there is iOS, because android lets you roll up your sleeves and do some extra.
And microsoft is not even in the same league when it comes to the smartphone sphere, they should not have been brought up in the first place. The performance on the S5 is better than any other android crap i have ever messed around with.
Sounds easy on paper, but I think Tizen would be a disaster. Samsung customers are like Microsoft customers. They didn't care about performance to begin with, which is why they chose Samsung (or Microsoft) in the first place. Once they learned how to use their shitty software, the worst thing you can do to them is make them learn new shitty software. Look at Microsoft XP customers. MS can't get them to upgrade over a decade later. Every new MS OS release is followed by years of bitching. While quality shares part of the blame, a big part of it is the customers. Think about it, if the Samdung customers were smart enough or wealthy enough to select good software, they wouldn't be using Samdung or MS in the first place. The galaxy S owners over the age of 50 are the one exception. They need the bigger screen to avoid using reading glasses.
Also, Samsung just tried Tizen on some of its watches and it didn't go well. They are now going to release watches for Android. If Samsung experiments with Tizen on the Galaxy S phones, I think it will be very short lived.
My friends who switched to Samsung phones did so for one main reason - the larger display. All while bemoaning the loss of familiarity with iOS and how Android just "works weird" and how some parts of the UI lacks consistency (like why the search bar can randomly be at the top or bottom of the screen depending on the app used). You may think they are griping for the sake of complaining, but people do notice and appreciate this sort of thing. Not art majors, but average consumers like you and me. Other than this - they use them just like they use iPhones. Whatever benefits and advantages Android promises to bring to the party - they are not tapping on any of them.
I think it will be interesting to see how many people "defect" back to iOS once Apple rolls out their larger iPhones later this year.
I have actually tried several android phones after having every single iPhone ever made.
Here is the list of phones I have tried outside Apple:
samesung S3, S4, S5, Note 2, Note 3.
Motorola X, LG G2, LG G Pro and a Windows Phone Nokia 1520 (with 8.1 update)
Android phones seem cool at first. It's different, has widgets and more customization options right out of the box.
There are a few things from the Android OS that I wish Apple would do. Things like:
Letting me arrange my apps however haphazardly I want, stop with the stupid Auto arrange.
Give me a KILL ALL button instead of hitting red minus' or swiping up Web OS style on each and every app, one.... at.... a.... time....
Use the M7 in the same way the Moto X does and have always listening (optional for those that don't want it) so that I can just talk to my phone and it does what I ask. The moto X was my all time favorite android device for this reason (and being near pure android)
and last, add a real camera....
I love my iPhone 5S but after having the Nokia 1520 and the Zeiss 20MP camera and Nokia camera software, I have seen the light and the iPhone camera is pure junk compared to the Nokia camera quality. The iPhone camera is PURELY and outdoor sunlight only camera, true tone flash does nothing to help this fact.
Now, about Samesung: their phones are pure garbage. The S4 was a laggy piece of junk with garbage, buggy, half baked software that made iphone 4 with iOS 7 look smooth as silk. The Note 2/3 were pretty cool to a degree. The S-pen software actually worked like it should 98% of the time. All the phones feel cheap as hell in the hand. The plastic feels flimsy like it would break in half if dropped.
Touchwiz is the most bloated garbage ever created. 16GB Samesung phones have half or less of the advertised storage left after all the bloatware, anti virus, and carrier junkware.
Touchwiz make the native OS (android) feel as tho the two are in a fight to see who can control the phone. Samesung strips part of android out of the OS and heavily modifies it so that even when everything samsung is disabled, you can't get the google/android part back.
People are getting wise to samesung phones. It only takes one to make people see that samesung devices might boast a big screen, but in the end, that is All they have going for them.
I for one can not wait for the 5.5" iPhone. The screen size is what led me to trying other phones and operating systems ( with a touch of curiosity ) but in the end, I am back on iPhone 5S because the OS is more refined, more polished and does Everything better.
Another reason I wanted to try android is because I don't have some allegiance to a company that doesn't give a rats ass about me. Nor have I decided to hate a particular company for NO REASON AT ALL.
I think that is what frustrates me most when reading forum comments. People have chosen to hate other companies for some dumbass dreamed up reason and have never once tried that companies product. I hate Touchwiz. I think samesung devices feel cheap and a little pathetic, but I don't hate samesung on a "personal" level as if they hurt me in some way.
When I buy a new TV, it could very well end up being a samsung TV unless I can find a TV that offers the same picture Quality. As far as I can tell, LG televisions and Visio televisions can not match the samesung picture quality. I will buy a different companies TV if I can find something as good.
At least when I am in forums telling someone that samesung phones suck, I can say that with absolute confidence that I know what I am talking about and not just spouting garbage that I have no clue about.
I think it will be interesting to see how many people "defect" back to iOS once Apple rolls out their larger iPhones later this year.
Why, does it really matter what phone people use. I know it's interesting to debate the merits of using an iPhone over a Android phone here but seriously do you actually care. Those UI inconsistencies in Android you mentioned are from third party skins, when using a pure Nexus or Google Play device the UI is very consistent, the new L build is even more so.
<p>I have actually tried several android phones after having every single iPhone ever made..... At least when I am in forums telling someone that samesung phones suck, I can say that with absolute confidence that I know what I am talking about and not just spouting garbage that I have no clue about. </p>
That makes you very different from a majority of the posters on this forum
I'd like to hear from the analysts now. I really do!
>>> Selling the phablet at a loss in order to gain marketshare (and eat your own tablet sales). <<<
Say again?
Huh? Who sells their Phablets at a loss, certainly not Samsung. Just because other companies don't have Apple's extremely large margins, almost 70% for the iPhone 5s doesn't mean that there producing products at a lost. Pretty random thing to say.
Why, does it really matter what phone people use. I know it's interesting to debate the merits of using an iPhone over a Android phone here but seriously do you actually care. Those UI inconsistencies in Android you mentioned are from third party skins, when using a pure Nexus or Google Play device the UI is very consistent, the new L build is even more so.
I don't really, but I am always on the lookout for more "ammo" to defend myself against Android-using trolls who continue spewing the same falsehoods day in and day out on forums such as Cnet. Like how they love to boast that their Android phones have quad-core processors, while Anandtech has long debunked that "myth" and shown how Apple's A7 processor consistently delivers better performance despite having just 2 slower cores.
I don't go around looking for fights, but if you want to pick one with me, I am not going down without a struggle. :P
Good to see you're starting to like iOS, let's hope v8 does it for you. Except for a file manager; that I don't see them doing. Their integrated ecosystem, with all files residing in their respective apps and the way the configured iCloud...I just don't see it coming. In fact, I even presume they might disable the Finder on the Mac one day.
Out of all the non-iPhone phones I think your Nokia 1020 with WP8 is the best out there. I haven't even tried it, only read reviews, spec list and such.
LTE-A Good to see you getting 150Mb/s (I presume you're on Sunrise), my pathetic telco just doubled their "4G" from 25/5 to 50/25 (down/up, in Mb/s). And it's not country-wide, contrary to their advertisement.
1GB RAM may seem cheap, but I think they always try to optimise their apps so they can cope with the lowest HW requirements. Still, since my iPad often needs to reload a tab in Safari I too think 1GB isn't enough.
DLNA. I don't like it: it's slow on my Samsung TV+DVD. Doesn't matter since I don't use DVD anymore, and only use the TV to see what my Mac Mini and AppleTV are playing (so only use 3 functions on that TV: power, volume and input selector). But I digress; don't you experience slowness in switching device input on DLNA? The interface on my TV is also excruciating, mind-boggling and infuriating...whatever, not for me.
"Samsung was forced to spend "somewhat aggressively" on marketing in order to clear backed-up inventory of mid-tier and low-end devices as it feels the squeeze from commodity Android vendors. "
Geez AI, I wanted to reply to Relic here, but got this crap, as usual:
Not really easy to edit out on the topics I want to respond to. You really need to get rid of Huddler. Subito!
Oh, haha, no it's that I use Microsoft's online Word app to type up my posts because I don't trust my iPad, that bloody Safari is always refreshing when the memory get's low. At least when I use the online Word app it saves any and all progress. I'll run the text through a HTML stripper next time before posting.
Good to see you're starting to like iOS, let's hope v8 does it for you. Except for a file manager; that I don't see them doing. Their integrated ecosystem, with all files residing in their respective apps and the way the configured iCloud...I just don't see it coming. In fact, I even presume they might disable the Finder on the Mac one day.
It's defiantly getting there, took 7 years but I guess good things come to those who wait. Still never had an iPhone though and really don't think I ever will, well, never say never right, who knows Apple just might come out with something that's an absolute must have. Love my iPad though, love the apps that I use on it so it's only fitting that I should finally like the OS that runs it as well. Oh man, the second Apple disables the Finder in OSX is the day I wipe my MacBook and install Solaris on it. Big reason why I always had such a problem with iOS, it's so locked down, as a programmer and Unix guru for many years, knowing that their is a powerful BSD system lurking beneath but was intentionally hidden from us drives me absolutely bat shitt crazy. It's like iOS has been babied proof with child locks, I sometimes actually feel myself getting dumber when using it. Version 8 is looking good though.
Out of all the non-iPhone phones I think your Nokia 1020 with WP8 is the best out there. I haven't even tried it, only read reviews, spec list and such.
I know I talk a lot about how I'm a Nokia fan and all of that but the Nokia 1020 is just such a neat phone. Especially now with the release of Windows 8.1, Microsoft even released a file-manager app for it, so I'm in heaven, yaaayyy. Even though I do have a Nexus 5, I don't really use it for anything important just app development and hacking, I currently have Ubuntu Touch and Android "L" running on a dual boot. For the first time in a long time I am completely satisfied with my phone, usually after 6 months of owning a phone I have the itch to buy a new one. When it is time I think my next Nokia will be the 1525, I want to try a bigger one (that's what she said), especially with a much a larger screen size and they don't get any larger then the 1525, especially the black one (oh she didn't).
LTE-A Good to see you getting 150Mb/s (I presume you're on Sunrise), my pathetic telco just doubled their "4G" from 25/5 to 50/25 (down/up, in Mb/s). And it's not country-wide, contrary to their advertisement.
I have SwissyComm but the kids have Sunrise. They have really great deals for the children. I am so blessed to have great internet in this country.
1GB RAM may seem cheap, but I think they always try to optimise their apps so they can cope with the lowest HW requirements. Still, since my iPad often needs to reload a tab in Safari I too think 1GB isn't enough.
I hate when I'm in a forum and had just written a huge post, then switch to another app real quick only to come back to a refreshed Safari and no more post, aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!.
The iPad defiantly needs more memory, if Apple still has 1GB in the next version of the iPad I will defiantly pass, it's time guys, really.
DLNA. I don't like it: it's slow on my Samsung TV+DVD. Doesn't matter since I don't use DVD anymore, and only use the TV to see what my Mac Mini and AppleTV are playing (so only use 3 functions on that TV: power, volume and input selector). But I digress; don't you experience slowness in switching device input on DLNA? The interface on my TV is also excruciating, mind-boggling and infuriating...whatever, not for me.
Strange, DLNA works really well on all of my TV's except one, but that's a cheesy, crappy Samsung Monitor that has built in TV functionality, we bought it when we rented an RV to travel around Spain, junk, it's in our sons room because he's our least favorite. No just kidding, he's like me, collects all of the old tech around the house and stuffs it into one area for mad scientisty things.
I am going to go ahead and guess you have little experience actually using android, let alone a galaxy s5. there are some really nice things one can do with android and on the samsung s5. And let's face it- neither of us know much about how great Tizen can be, as i doubt you touched the watch that had the software. A watch is not a good identifier of how the software would be on a phone. The best thing Samsung could do it to distance itself from android.
How great was iOS on the iPod shuffle? How well did that sell? Let's not pretend that Apple has never had a flop. Great company? No doubts, innovative and pushing hard for the future, i love every Apple product i have ever bought. But you cannot presume to know about Tizen and Samsung's choices regarding the software because no one bought the watch it was on- nearly no one bought the iOS laden iPod shuffle with a screen, and so Apple changed it back.
There are probably more power users on android than there is iOS, because android lets you roll up your sleeves and do some extra.
And microsoft is not even in the same league when it comes to the smartphone sphere, they should not have been brought up in the first place. The performance on the S5 is better than any other android crap i have ever messed around with.
Have a colleague that bought a note 3 six months ago. He is an android fanatic- loves them and is very knowledgeable about them. He didn't like samsung and their business practices, but still picked the note over the lg g2 (at the time), because the chip was better and an extra gig ram. He also says he thinks samsung makes the best hardware but absolutely terrible software. He rooted his note 3 and took all of samsung's bloat ware off his phone and got a full gig in space! He also showed me how many useless and spam apps samsung puts on there stock- holy crap- it was probably 40+.
Not to mention he wasn't supposed to be able to root it, because they put their e-chip in it. Of course, their software has a loophole (of course) that you can get by it. What a crack team on the software group there at Samsung!
Samsung sucks. Even if they made the best phone in the world, the fact anyone would buy a phone from that scummy company makes them an equally scummy person. Needless to say, my colleague regrets his decision and says it's the last samsung phone he'll likely buy. He's leaning towards a g3 right now.
Lastly- you want an iOS alternative? Use Microsoft. Their OS is much better than android and is a significant rival to iOS. I'm very impressed with them. Touchwiz? Android? Tizien?. Hah!!!!
I don't really, but I am always on the lookout for more "ammo" to defend myself against Android-using trolls who continue spewing the same falsehoods day in and day out on forums such as Cnet. Like how they love to boast that their Android phones have quad-core processors, while Anandtech has long debunked that "myth" and shown how Apple's A7 processor consistently delivers better performance despite having just 2 slower cores.
I don't go around looking for fights, but if you want to pick one with me, I am not going down without a struggle. :P
I weigh less then 35 kilos, if my dog didn't sit on me I would float away. You win!
Have a colleague that bought a note 3 six months ago. He is an android fanatic- loves them and is very knowledgeable about them. He didn't like samsung and their business practices, but still picked the note over the lg g2 (at the time), because the chip was better and an extra gig ram. He also says he thinks samsung makes the best hardware but absolutely terrible software. He rooted his note 3 and took all of samsung's bloat ware off his phone and got a full gig in space! He also showed me how many useless and spam apps samsung puts on there stock- holy crap- it was probably 40+.
Not to mention he wasn't supposed to be able to root it, because they put their e-chip in it. Of course, their software has a loophole (of course) that you can get by it. What a crack team on the software group there at Samsung!
Samsung sucks. Even if they made the best phone in the world, the fact anyone would buy a phone from that scummy company makes them an equally scummy person. Needless to say, my colleague regrets his decision and says it's the last samsung phone he'll likely buy. He's leaning towards a g3 right now.
Lastly- you want an iOS alternative? Use Microsoft. Their OS is much better than android and is a significant rival to iOS. I'm very impressed with them. Touchwiz? Android? Tizien?. Hah!!!!
I was trying to find and article I read a while back from someone who seemed to be a very capable engineer describing how the (original) iPhone display would fail (the capacitive elements would degraded quickly over short use, or something like that) over time and that Apple would have a massive recall on their hands. Not knowing that Apple's engineers has figured out the problems he had not... oh well.
And yet, people still try to predict the future...
wow that suckbusters ariticle is such irony....! embarrassment wow, the author had good intentions, and on a blog that dealt with a subject that is important!... but WOW did he completely undermine any credibility he had in "software design"! ... i guess that is why that blog ended in 2009..
Online Word? Ok, but, still, this sort of stuff happens on other peoples posts as well. Something to do with the user prefs on this site; I use BBCode but when replying to someone who posted using the RT Editor things go peer-shaped. Anyhoo, my point still stands on needing to get rid of Huddler.
As for iOS/OSX and baby-proofing, I get why they do this, but think they indeed should also understand the amount of programmers using their products, preferring Unix of anything else. Ok to have the ~/Library hidden, but they should've are it more obvious how to enable it. Even Solipsism didn't know about the setting, but in his defence they added it later on, not when they hid it from view (Cmd-J on home folder)
Should they ever have the nerve to hide the Finder, there are alternatives, with Xfile probably the best of the bunch:
As for Safari refreshing on AI; Huddler did add a 'Save Draft' after all the Safari crashing we had earlier this year. If your Tab has been refreshed simply hit the quote button again and you'll get back all the text you already typed/spelled out to Siri dictated
But an extra gig of RAM won't hurt, obviously.
Enjoy your fast internet, the kids and their collection, and your 'quicker than mine DLNA'
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Sounds easy on paper, but I think Tizen would be a disaster. Samsung customers are like Microsoft customers. They didn't care about performance to begin with, which is why they chose Samsung (or Microsoft) in the first place. Once they learned how to use their shitty software, the worst thing you can do to them is make them learn new shitty software. Look at Microsoft XP customers. MS can't get them to upgrade over a decade later. Every new MS OS release is followed by years of bitching. While quality shares part of the blame, a big part of it is the customers. Think about it, if the Samdung customers were smart enough or wealthy enough to select good software, they wouldn't be using Samdung or MS in the first place. The galaxy S owners over the age of 50 are the one exception. They need the bigger screen to avoid using reading glasses.
Also, Samsung just tried Tizen on some of its watches and it didn't go well. They are now going to release watches for Android. If Samsung experiments with Tizen on the Galaxy S phones, I think it will be very short lived.
My friends who switched to Samsung phones did so for one main reason - the larger display. All while bemoaning the loss of familiarity with iOS and how Android just "works weird" and how some parts of the UI lacks consistency (like why the search bar can randomly be at the top or bottom of the screen depending on the app used). You may think they are griping for the sake of complaining, but people do notice and appreciate this sort of thing. Not art majors, but average consumers like you and me. Other than this - they use them just like they use iPhones. Whatever benefits and advantages Android promises to bring to the party - they are not tapping on any of them.
I think it will be interesting to see how many people "defect" back to iOS once Apple rolls out their larger iPhones later this year.
I have actually tried several android phones after having every single iPhone ever made.
Here is the list of phones I have tried outside Apple:
samesung S3, S4, S5, Note 2, Note 3.
Motorola X, LG G2, LG G Pro and a Windows Phone Nokia 1520 (with 8.1 update)
Android phones seem cool at first. It's different, has widgets and more customization options right out of the box.
There are a few things from the Android OS that I wish Apple would do. Things like:
Letting me arrange my apps however haphazardly I want, stop with the stupid Auto arrange.
Give me a KILL ALL button instead of hitting red minus' or swiping up Web OS style on each and every app, one.... at.... a.... time....
Use the M7 in the same way the Moto X does and have always listening (optional for those that don't want it) so that I can just talk to my phone and it does what I ask. The moto X was my all time favorite android device for this reason (and being near pure android)
and last, add a real camera....
I love my iPhone 5S but after having the Nokia 1520 and the Zeiss 20MP camera and Nokia camera software, I have seen the light and the iPhone camera is pure junk compared to the Nokia camera quality. The iPhone camera is PURELY and outdoor sunlight only camera, true tone flash does nothing to help this fact.
Now, about Samesung: their phones are pure garbage. The S4 was a laggy piece of junk with garbage, buggy, half baked software that made iphone 4 with iOS 7 look smooth as silk. The Note 2/3 were pretty cool to a degree. The S-pen software actually worked like it should 98% of the time. All the phones feel cheap as hell in the hand. The plastic feels flimsy like it would break in half if dropped.
Touchwiz is the most bloated garbage ever created. 16GB Samesung phones have half or less of the advertised storage left after all the bloatware, anti virus, and carrier junkware.
Touchwiz make the native OS (android) feel as tho the two are in a fight to see who can control the phone. Samesung strips part of android out of the OS and heavily modifies it so that even when everything samsung is disabled, you can't get the google/android part back.
People are getting wise to samesung phones. It only takes one to make people see that samesung devices might boast a big screen, but in the end, that is All they have going for them.
I for one can not wait for the 5.5" iPhone. The screen size is what led me to trying other phones and operating systems ( with a touch of curiosity ) but in the end, I am back on iPhone 5S because the OS is more refined, more polished and does Everything better.
Another reason I wanted to try android is because I don't have some allegiance to a company that doesn't give a rats ass about me. Nor have I decided to hate a particular company for NO REASON AT ALL.
I think that is what frustrates me most when reading forum comments. People have chosen to hate other companies for some dumbass dreamed up reason and have never once tried that companies product. I hate Touchwiz. I think samesung devices feel cheap and a little pathetic, but I don't hate samesung on a "personal" level as if they hurt me in some way.
When I buy a new TV, it could very well end up being a samsung TV unless I can find a TV that offers the same picture Quality. As far as I can tell, LG televisions and Visio televisions can not match the samesung picture quality. I will buy a different companies TV if I can find something as good.
At least when I am in forums telling someone that samesung phones suck, I can say that with absolute confidence that I know what I am talking about and not just spouting garbage that I have no clue about.
I'd like to hear from the analysts now. I really do!
>>> Selling the phablet at a loss in order to gain marketshare (and eat your own tablet sales). <<<
Say again?
I am looking forward how Continuity is going to shape apple's products in the near Future.
I think it will be interesting to see how many people "defect" back to iOS once Apple rolls out their larger iPhones later this year.
Why, does it really matter what phone people use. I know it's interesting to debate the merits of using an iPhone over a Android phone here but seriously do you actually care. Those UI inconsistencies in Android you mentioned are from third party skins, when using a pure Nexus or Google Play device the UI is very consistent, the new L build is even more so.
I'd like to hear from the analysts now. I really do!
>>> Selling the phablet at a loss in order to gain marketshare (and eat your own tablet sales). <<<
Say again?
Huh? Who sells their Phablets at a loss, certainly not Samsung. Just because other companies don't have Apple's extremely large margins, almost 70% for the iPhone 5s doesn't mean that there producing products at a lost. Pretty random thing to say.
Why, does it really matter what phone people use. I know it's interesting to debate the merits of using an iPhone over a Android phone here but seriously do you actually care. Those UI inconsistencies in Android you mentioned are from third party skins, when using a pure Nexus or Google Play device the UI is very consistent, the new L build is even more so.
I don't really, but I am always on the lookout for more "ammo" to defend myself against Android-using trolls who continue spewing the same falsehoods day in and day out on forums such as Cnet. Like how they love to boast that their Android phones have quad-core processors, while Anandtech has long debunked that "myth" and shown how Apple's A7 processor consistently delivers better performance despite having just 2 slower cores.
I don't go around looking for fights, but if you want to pick one with me, I am not going down without a struggle. :P
Not really easy to edit out on the topics I want to respond to. You really need to get rid of Huddler. Subito!
Good to see you're starting to like iOS, let's hope v8 does it for you. Except for a file manager; that I don't see them doing. Their integrated ecosystem, with all files residing in their respective apps and the way the configured iCloud...I just don't see it coming. In fact, I even presume they might disable the Finder on the Mac one day.
Out of all the non-iPhone phones I think your Nokia 1020 with WP8 is the best out there. I haven't even tried it, only read reviews, spec list and such.
LTE-A Good to see you getting 150Mb/s (I presume you're on Sunrise), my pathetic telco just doubled their "4G" from 25/5 to 50/25 (down/up, in Mb/s). And it's not country-wide, contrary to their advertisement.
1GB RAM may seem cheap, but I think they always try to optimise their apps so they can cope with the lowest HW requirements. Still, since my iPad often needs to reload a tab in Safari I too think 1GB isn't enough.
DLNA. I don't like it: it's slow on my Samsung TV+DVD. Doesn't matter since I don't use DVD anymore, and only use the TV to see what my Mac Mini and AppleTV are playing (so only use 3 functions on that TV: power, volume and input selector). But I digress; don't you experience slowness in switching device input on DLNA? The interface on my TV is also excruciating, mind-boggling and infuriating...whatever, not for me.
No boycott necessary... Just compare and decide based on real-world use.
"Samsung was forced to spend "somewhat aggressively" on marketing in order to clear backed-up inventory of mid-tier and low-end devices as it feels the squeeze from commodity Android vendors. "
Have they considered other strategies to improve sales, like, you know, fixing their software? Surely they must know that few people use their "value added" features (http://www.sammobile.com/2014/04/23/a-majority-of-galaxy-s-users-do-not-like-samsungs-exclusive-apps/).
Geez AI, I wanted to reply to Relic here, but got this crap, as usual:
Not really easy to edit out on the topics I want to respond to. You really need to get rid of Huddler. Subito!
Oh, haha, no it's that I use Microsoft's online Word app to type up my posts because I don't trust my iPad, that bloody Safari is always refreshing when the memory get's low. At least when I use the online Word app it saves any and all progress. I'll run the text through a HTML stripper next time before posting.
It's defiantly getting there, took 7 years but I guess good things come to those who wait. Still never had an iPhone though and really don't think I ever will, well, never say never right, who knows Apple just might come out with something that's an absolute must have. Love my iPad though, love the apps that I use on it so it's only fitting that I should finally like the OS that runs it as well. Oh man, the second Apple disables the Finder in OSX is the day I wipe my MacBook and install Solaris on it. Big reason why I always had such a problem with iOS, it's so locked down, as a programmer and Unix guru for many years, knowing that their is a powerful BSD system lurking beneath but was intentionally hidden from us drives me absolutely bat shitt crazy. It's like iOS has been babied proof with child locks, I sometimes actually feel myself getting dumber when using it. Version 8 is looking good though.
I know I talk a lot about how I'm a Nokia fan and all of that but the Nokia 1020 is just such a neat phone. Especially now with the release of Windows 8.1, Microsoft even released a file-manager app for it, so I'm in heaven, yaaayyy. Even though I do have a Nexus 5, I don't really use it for anything important just app development and hacking, I currently have Ubuntu Touch and Android "L" running on a dual boot. For the first time in a long time I am completely satisfied with my phone, usually after 6 months of owning a phone I have the itch to buy a new one. When it is time I think my next Nokia will be the 1525, I want to try a bigger one (that's what she said), especially with a much a larger screen size and they don't get any larger then the 1525, especially the black one (oh she didn't).
I have SwissyComm but the kids have Sunrise. They have really great deals for the children. I am so blessed to have great internet in this country.
I hate when I'm in a forum and had just written a huge post, then switch to another app real quick only to come back to a refreshed Safari and no more post, aaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!.
The iPad defiantly needs more memory, if Apple still has 1GB in the next version of the iPad I will defiantly pass, it's time guys, really.
Strange, DLNA works really well on all of my TV's except one, but that's a cheesy, crappy Samsung Monitor that has built in TV functionality, we bought it when we rented an RV to travel around Spain, junk, it's in our sons room because he's our least favorite. No just kidding, he's like me, collects all of the old tech around the house and stuffs it into one area for mad scientisty things.
Have a colleague that bought a note 3 six months ago. He is an android fanatic- loves them and is very knowledgeable about them. He didn't like samsung and their business practices, but still picked the note over the lg g2 (at the time), because the chip was better and an extra gig ram. He also says he thinks samsung makes the best hardware but absolutely terrible software. He rooted his note 3 and took all of samsung's bloat ware off his phone and got a full gig in space! He also showed me how many useless and spam apps samsung puts on there stock- holy crap- it was probably 40+.
Not to mention he wasn't supposed to be able to root it, because they put their e-chip in it. Of course, their software has a loophole (of course) that you can get by it. What a crack team on the software group there at Samsung!
Samsung sucks. Even if they made the best phone in the world, the fact anyone would buy a phone from that scummy company makes them an equally scummy person. Needless to say, my colleague regrets his decision and says it's the last samsung phone he'll likely buy. He's leaning towards a g3 right now.
Lastly- you want an iOS alternative? Use Microsoft. Their OS is much better than android and is a significant rival to iOS. I'm very impressed with them. Touchwiz? Android? Tizien?. Hah!!!!
I don't really, but I am always on the lookout for more "ammo" to defend myself against Android-using trolls who continue spewing the same falsehoods day in and day out on forums such as Cnet. Like how they love to boast that their Android phones have quad-core processors, while Anandtech has long debunked that "myth" and shown how Apple's A7 processor consistently delivers better performance despite having just 2 slower cores.
I don't go around looking for fights, but if you want to pick one with me, I am not going down without a struggle. :P
I weigh less then 35 kilos, if my dog didn't sit on me I would float away. You win!
Have a colleague that bought a note 3 six months ago. He is an android fanatic- loves them and is very knowledgeable about them. He didn't like samsung and their business practices, but still picked the note over the lg g2 (at the time), because the chip was better and an extra gig ram. He also says he thinks samsung makes the best hardware but absolutely terrible software. He rooted his note 3 and took all of samsung's bloat ware off his phone and got a full gig in space! He also showed me how many useless and spam apps samsung puts on there stock- holy crap- it was probably 40+.
Not to mention he wasn't supposed to be able to root it, because they put their e-chip in it. Of course, their software has a loophole (of course) that you can get by it. What a crack team on the software group there at Samsung!
Samsung sucks. Even if they made the best phone in the world, the fact anyone would buy a phone from that scummy company makes them an equally scummy person. Needless to say, my colleague regrets his decision and says it's the last samsung phone he'll likely buy. He's leaning towards a g3 right now.
Lastly- you want an iOS alternative? Use Microsoft. Their OS is much better than android and is a significant rival to iOS. I'm very impressed with them. Touchwiz? Android? Tizien?. Hah!!!!
Yeppers!
No boycott necessary... Just compare and decide based on real-world use.
Yep, that's how I decide between mescaline and acid.
wow that suckbusters ariticle is such irony....! embarrassment wow, the author had good intentions, and on a blog that dealt with a subject that is important!... but WOW did he completely undermine any credibility he had in "software design"! ... i guess that is why that blog ended in 2009..
Online Word? Ok, but, still, this sort of stuff happens on other peoples posts as well. Something to do with the user prefs on this site; I use BBCode but when replying to someone who posted using the RT Editor things go peer-shaped. Anyhoo, my point still stands on needing to get rid of Huddler.
As for iOS/OSX and baby-proofing, I get why they do this, but think they indeed should also understand the amount of programmers using their products, preferring Unix of anything else. Ok to have the ~/Library hidden, but they should've are it more obvious how to enable it. Even Solipsism didn't know about the setting, but in his defence they added it later on, not when they hid it from view (Cmd-J on home folder)
Should they ever have the nerve to hide the Finder, there are alternatives, with Xfile probably the best of the bunch:
As for Safari refreshing on AI; Huddler did add a 'Save Draft' after all the Safari crashing we had earlier this year. If your Tab has been refreshed simply hit the quote button again and you'll get back all the text you already typed/
spelled out to SiridictatedBut an extra gig of RAM won't hurt, obviously.
Enjoy your fast internet, the kids and their collection, and your 'quicker than mine DLNA'
LOL@"that's what she said"
Cheers