mtbnut

I'm an iPhone 6S+ owner, running the latest OS, of course. 

My wife's work just got her a new Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. 

In summary: Ok Google running on her phone makes Siri look like a big piece of shit, pure and simple. 

With Siri, you have to confirm to its many idiosyncrasies; it's vice-versa with Ok Google. No matter what I threw at it, it conformed to me, my diction, speech patterns, ebonics, corner store owner, you name it, the thing just worked. 

Oh yea, that: "It just works." 

My next door neighbor has some Netgear stuff that outperforms the latest AE by miles. I can see his 5GHz network from 100 miles away, but I have to be within 2.3 inches of my AE to see my 5Ghz network. Let me re-emphasize that he's my next door neighbor, so interference from microwaves or cordless phones can be factored out, so please take that into consideration before defending the AE's putrid performance. But, hey, my router's industrial design is much better than his.

So the "They're exporting jobs to China!" party line is now moot? 

Tweaks? At this point, iTunes needs dynamite: blow it up and start over. What a terrible application. It's a bloated POS that has no place in the Appleverse. 

It looks like the IDE's I see our IT department using (Eclipse, Visual Basic, and so on). I keep it open on my desktop so co-workers think I'm doing something amazing; instead, I'm trying to find my copy of Front 242, which takes about 3 minutes. 

I'll take GPS functionality way before cellular connectivity, so that I don't have to lug along an iPhone to capture Strava run/bike data.