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Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake'
mrspoonsi (2955715) writes "Apple CEO Tim Cook during his keynote said that around 130 million customers have purchased their first Apple device in the last twelve months. He states, 'Many of these customers were switchers from Android,' he said. 'They had bought an Android phone by mistake, and then had sought a better experience and a better life.' He added that almost half of those who have purchased an iPhone in China since December have switched from Android. However, it is worth noting that iPhones were not actually available in China until December, when pre-orders began, so it is unclear how much of the device's popularity there is simply down to the novelty factor, rather than a burning desire to flee from Android."
It the best mistake of my life ! :o)
They were Android users, and sought something better. Everyone talking about iPhone. They love the shiny... but in a few months' time, many of them will switch back.
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Well, fortunately iOS 8 adds a bunch of things that Android has had forever, so that will help the problem!
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Everything Tim Cook says in his official capacity reflects what Apple thinks.
That means that if it later comes out HE MADE THE WHOLE THING UP
BASED ENTIRELY ON HIS OPINION and that there are no statistics to
back it up, if the stock goes down, shareholders will sue.
How could he have statistics? Simple. Apple is in a unique position to
have every iPhone purchaser fill out a survey. But... they don't. So
there is no such data. That means any "conclusion" is purely anecdotal
(as in "My buddy said so and my other buddy agreed, yeah Android was
a mistake.") That's not statistically significant, and it's irresponsible for
a CEO of a public company to say so.
Still, whatever helps him sleep at night.
E
These ARE the droids we're looking for ;)
There are lots of people switching from Windows to Mac, not a lot are switching from the Mac to the Windows. Do you have some? Sure you have! But not the majority. Windows, Android, Nokia and all others just messed things up pretty bad for the end consumer. It's an almost bankrupt company Apple that had to kick their balls to go user friendly and 'just make things work' a focus again.
Apple deserves all the money on their accounts that they have.
I constantly have people refer to my Moto X as an iPhone and tell me that it's natural for me to use an iPhone since I work on a lot of Macs. I don't think the Slashdot crowd are the type to get duped, but I can recount tons of people who went in for iPhones and were sold on Galaxy S3 by Verizon sales critters. I don't think really either is going to make for a better life more than the next. You can play Angry Birds while you poop with either equally effectively.
I hear James Randi's foundation has a million dollar prize for people who can demonstrate their telepathic prowess. Surely being able to read the minds of 130 million people would qualify?
Coca- Cola says consumers have drank Pepsi by mistake in the past.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I won't knock either. I've used both. Cook's statement is just plain incorrect.
You don't purchase something and replace it because you bought it buy mistake. You get the replacement if you need a new phone or feel the upgrade is worth it. Maybe a few of those people walked in wanting an iPhone and walked out with an Android phone (with no interference from sales staff). That would be the only time anyone bought it "by mistake."
as it flies over the poster's head.
"Apple CEO Tim Cook during his keynote said that around 130 million customers have purchased their first Apple device in the last twelve months states, "Many of these customers were switchers from Android," he said.
Perhaps this means:
Apple CEO Tim Cook, during his keynote, said that around 130 million customers have purchased their first Apple device in the last twelve months. 'Many of these customers were switchers from Android,' he said.
I am not a crackpot.
I've listened in as a salesman told a woman that the Samsung was essentially an iPhone" to a woman who came in asking about it. He wasn't pleased when I chimed in that the two weren't quite the same. (I can guess which pays the bigger commission...)
I'm certain he could argue that the woman was using "iPhone" to mean "Smartphone" and he was pointing out that the two Smartphone OSes both have roughly the same feature set. But I'd bet that Tim Cook would feel that but for my intervention, she would have bought an Android "by mistake".
"... and a better life"
Yeah, exactly. Thanks Apple for making lives around the world better.
One look at the price and there is no way you mistake them..
Apple... meh..
iPhone's been available in china a long time.
Just not on the 'verizon' version of the carrier.
Do we need a new apple story every day, just to troll?
Because using an iPhone after being used to Android makes me want to chuck it against the wall.
...and here I thought that the play store was selling iphones and ipads and not nexii....
Post Snowden, I have zero interest in using a smartphone with all my personal data integrated into one device; I use a nice simple candy bar phone instead.
I have a small Android tablet which I use for music and web browsing - and it remains switched off when not in use.
In other words, I practice the Battlestar Galactica approach to security and keep my devices separate. :-)
Apple CEO Tim Cook during his keynote said that around 130 million customers have purchased their first Apple device in the last twelve months states, "Many of these customers were switchers from Android,"
So, tell me, Tim, are you bad at math, or duplicitous? It is also true that many first time users of Android, nowadays, are switchers from iPhone. How can I know that without having any figures at hand? Simple: Said slightly differently: Many people who buy a smartphone today are on their second or later smartphone, and there are only two major smartphone OSs. If it is their first smartphone with OS A, it must be either their first smartphone, or they had a Windows phone (not many of those out there), or they switched from OS B. Simple math means many who use OS A for the first time switched from OS B.
So, Tim, are you saying neither you nor anyone who went over your speech could figure that math out, or are you saying you expect your audience won't catch it, and you'd try to put one over on them? Are you bad at math, or are you a used car salesman?
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That they have, hands down, the best marketing people in the biz at their disposal. Only apple could repackage a stale turd, sell it as a "better life experience," while denigrating the competition. It's genius if you can pick up on it. There's, obviously, plenty of dumbshits who can't.
I don't see amazon app store or sideloading on apple. Also Apple Iphone starts at $650 unlocked.
Alibaba lied when they sold me my ePhone!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I was a devoted Android user for the longest time. The problem with the Android ecosystem is lousy devices and poor end-to-end integration from the device through to the OS and UI. I bought the first Motorola Droid. It was great. With each successive revision, quality went downhill. When I had the chance to work on the iPhone at work, I realized what a higher quality product the iPhone was. It was a tough decision for me because I love the openness of the Android ecosystem. On the other hand, the iPhone is a better designed, rock-solid product, running on a more stable operating system. I was sold. As a developer, I hate Apple's overarching control and authoritarianism over its ecosystem. As a user, I love it because apps generally are prevented from going crazy and taking over my battery usage. And don't tell me about the fact that I can root my Android phone and solve it myself. I've done that. It's not as effective.
Listen people like what they like, and thats fine. Regardless the idea that Android users are buying these devices on accident is absurd at best. I accidentally bought a Note 3 for $300?? So now not only are Apple users unable to make their own decisions(see app store farce), but now they can't even buy the correct device? Not sure I'd like that type of customer. I've also noticed that most Apple users, at least the ones in my family tend to blame the issues with their handsets on other devices...
Really... This phone or that phone will give you "a better life"?!? You need to get a life before you can have a better one.
I just switched myself, but it was to a Galaxy S5 from an Iphone 4S. I couldn't be happier. How rad is it to download a zip file, unzip it, and view the contents, all from a phone? Until Apple can do this, and the many other things they won't allow, they can eat a bag of dicks.
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You can play Angry Birds while you poop with either equally effectively.
Silly. I thought you knew that everybody poops, and if they don't they're an Android and should be destroyed.
I took the gel case off my Motorola Defy and IT DOESN'T HAVE AN APPLE LOGO ON THE BACK!! what do I do!? what do I do!?
I did switch to an iPhone after two Android phones. I also have a serious case of Samsung hatred after that Android experience. ;)
Note that I make a living as an Android developer
I wonder how many wanted an iPhone but ended up buying an Android because it's cheaper?
I've noticed that a lot of people want X (often for specific reasons) but decide to buy Y because it's cheaper, even thought it doesn't meet their criteria like X does and then are disappointed because it doesn't do what they want.
Maybe I'm just bad with my money, but it seems like there's a lot of people out there for whom the "deal" is at least as important as the functionality/thing they are buying, yet often they make the "deal" the priority and end up with an unsatisfying purchase that seems to cost them more money than just spending what they needed to get the right thing the first time.
I think there's some kind of expression about the unhappiness with poor quality lingering long after the joy of a good deal.
When I bought a TV I bought the cheapest TV I could with a big screen. I know that for most consumers, this is what they are looking at for a phone. Anyone can go down to the corner kiosk and get a phone for $100 and $50 a month, much cheaper than Apple.
What is interesting is that Apple is extraordinarily expensive but still has almost 20% of global market share. Samsung which tends to have more expensive phones, makes up the other 30%+. So half the market is samsung and Apple, not IOS on Android.
So a lot of world consumers are spending real money on phones. It will be whichever has the current novelty factor that they will buy. If you do not buy MS, there is no lockin.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
Salesmen don't know jack. They're just in it for the money.
There are plenty of reasons I'd take an Android over an iPhone. In fact, I'll probably buy an Android for my next phone. Androids can be cheaper (salesmen will push the most expensive of course). Files can be moved to and from Android devices freely without the need for an application like iTunes (which won't even allow mp3s to be moved off of them -- I needed to use a File Manager App and VLC to accomplish that). SoundAbout can be used to pipe audio to different devices (HDMI, headphones, etc.). Most come with microSD slots to expand storage. Torrents and emulators run on Android no problem.
Really, I don't understand why people are so cell phone obsessed. Cell phones are tools. They either do what you want them to, or they don't. Someone game me the iPhone I have now. It's good enough for making calls and listening to music, but I wouldn't call it the greatest thing ever made.
This was CLEARLY made as a joke. Jesus christ, people.
Really? I don't know what to say about that..
But it could have been reworded without the trademark infringement: "An iPhone is a smartphone, and a Galaxy is a smartphone. They both do pretty much the same things: talk, text, web, email, calendar, Facebook, games... It's like the difference between Coke and Pepsi. They're both fizzy drinks, just a little different."
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Just what did anyone expect him to say? That Apple is losing marketshare to Android?
He said it with a chuckle, tongue-in-cheek and the audience took it that way. Sheesh.
also became Apple CEO by mistake, explains Tim Cook privately, don't quote me on this though.
its not because our product is stagnant and overpriced, its because you're too stupid and didnt buy it. but dont worry, we told you about being stupid so now you can switch.
Good people go to bed earlier.
there are only two major smartphone OSs. [...] Windows phone (not many of those out there)
Where are you drawing the line for "major" and "not many of those"? According to three-week-old data by Canalys and ABI Research, Windows Phone trails iOS by about the same ratio by which iOS trails Android. But otherwise, I see your point that there are enough people whose previous smartphone run Android that switchers from Android would make up a large portion of iPhone and Lumia buyers.
Come on, don't be stupid just because it's the CEO of Apple and you're an anti-Apple fanboy.
The pronunciation made it very clear that it was meant as a joke and not to be taken literally.
If you're a Manager and you have an Android, the other Managers will laugh and you, or at least not take you seriously.
Q: Where'd you hear that crap?
A: A well-respected management consultant, who otherwise knew what he was doing.
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Which ones are "contrived"?
In case you didn't watch, they're missing some important punctuation there. It was tongue in cheek... targeted at the very Apple-friendly audience. Chill
Of course there's sideloading on an iPhone. You just have to buy a Mac and a $99 per year developer license.
Apple and Google are now clearly rivals. Just like Samsung and Apple are rivals. So every chance they get they will take a poke at the opposition. Frankly, I think it's good to see a little fire in Tim Cook's belly. If Apple expects to continue to do well in the smartphone arena they are going to have to fight for it. It's a zero sum game - people will either buy an iPhone or something else, but rarely both of them. And once people get used to a particular way of doing things it's hard to get them to change.
So the battle lines are pretty clearly drawn. On the Android side you have the ability to customize your phone to a great degree and generally have more choices. On the Apple side you have less choice but, arguably, better vertical integration and "flow". Android phones come in all price ranges. Apple, not so much but the build quality is excellent across the line. One thing that is beginning to worry me is mobile malware which seems to be almost entirely an Android problem.
I've had both and currently have an Android phone. But if Apple introduces an iPhone with a larger screen I might switch back. My wife has a 5S and she loves it but to me it feels like a toy compared to my LG G2. The fact that I'm using a MacBook Pro makes for a compelling case to switch back to the iPhone. Sure, the G2 works fine but it's not nearly as slick as the all Apple solution. I'll be watching closely this week to see what new hardware comes out.
It began with a burning desire to flee from Android and ended with a burning sensation after iPhone purchase.
The iPhone has been available in China for a couple of years. It only became available on China's largest carrier in December.
...were it still available, I could have done a quick "fuckapple" tag and been done with it.
"Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law
I'm with a woman who does sales for VZW, she's explained to me that they actively push Android phones much more than iPhones because Verizon typically makes more on the Android phones. They don't actively discourage iPhone sales, but they run more promotions for Android and there are more Android related bonuses (or just additional quotas) for the sales people. It's partly because there are new Android phones out all the time and they run specials for a lot of new phones, but even during the months when new iPhones launch there are no incentives for sales people to sell iPhones while there are incentives for them to sell Android. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this, if VZW makes more on other phones it makes sense for them to push them more, but it's part of the reason people who aren't really committed to one or the other will walk out with an Android phone. I wouldn't say they bought Android phones by mistake, though. We use both around here, if I'm being honest the iOS products run more smoothly but the Android products allow far more freedom, so I tend to think they each have an audience that suits them.
And this conclusion has been peer reviewed. With Cyanogenmod, you even get a line-item veto (privacy guard).
> so I won't be caught dead with a mac or iphone or ipad.
Pretty much anything that runs on Linux will run equally well on a Mac. OSX isn't locked down like iOS is.
...patable with what I expect a pocket computer to do. An un-jailbroken iOS device is nothing but a locked down toy.
If you took it literarily, you have serious issue. The statement is obvious humorous sarcasm intended to entertain Mac Developers. It is also obvious that would irritate Android fanatics.
As technical person working in technology, I have many technical friends that use iPhone or Android and sticking to it. Those are two different platforms with totally different ecosystem and philosophy behind them. Both have advantage and disadvantages. There is absolutely no reason to trash each others over differences.
The argument becomes pathetic like convincing die hard SUV owner that your new roadster is a better car.
apple could have the best devices in the world, but there company would still be shady. i mean what will they patent next? where the power button can be located on a smartphone. i will never trust a company that frequently sues the competition several times a year to stay ahead. shows you their pathetic way of thinking.
Jesus, it was a fucking joke. They also featured some google services during the keynote, as well as bing.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
It's probably also why Apple is pushing Bing! as the default (although Google and Yahoo will still be available for search engines just as Bing! is already an option. It's also probably why Apple simply didn't write off it's investment in Apple Maps and is continuing to work on it's own Maps program. (although until it gets Transit options, I'll still be using Google Maps, thank you very much)
Apple doesn't offer a product in the garbage range.
If you go into a store today you can probably still find devices for sale running android 2.x. Expensive high end devices too, but if you buy a cheap droid you're in for a bad time. In the same way you can buy 7 and 8 year old blackberries too. I wouldn't recommend most of the really cheap droid products to anyone.
It was clearly a joke. Everyone laughed.
It doesn't matter what people are saying about you, as long as they're talking to you.
Tim Cook isn't stupid. He said it, and you're all talking about it. Apple wins.
If you actually WATCH Tim Cook say this it's clear he's being funny. There's a big pause between "bought an Android phone" and then "by mistake", which got a big laugh from an Apple Developer Conference audience.
Of course Cook thinks the iPhone is superior, it's his product and ecosystem after all. He makes some jokes at the expense of Windows and Android both. But he wasn't doing a scientific analysis of purchasing habits, he was making a joke in front of a friendly audience.
The actually exist?
I know people use windows but there are microsoft fanbois since Windows 8 came out???
My wife has an iPhone. I have an Android. I love the iPhone, but I love my Android even more.
Sorry, Apple.
Pratchett explains this rather well:
"The Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice runs thus:
At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars.
Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet.
Without any special rancour, Vimes stretched this theory to explain why Sybil Ramkin lived twice as comfortably as he did by spending about half as much every month. "
"Deals" often aren't.
Not a sentence!
Copious auto-correct errors are a deal breaker. I'm a science writer. You can't have my physical keyboard...not even from my cold dead fingers. Extra points: my Droids are sturdy damn things. (plus, the little Android dude is supercute)
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
I went from an iPhone 4 to a Nexus 5 to an iPhone 5s.
Sorry but forcing me to use Google hangouts (which I replaced with hello), having a dialer that 'predicted' who I wanted to call instead of just showing me my contacts, having to worry about app permissions and so many things I just didn't have the time or patience to care about. I -still- don't care about NFC. I just want my smartphone to do what it does well. I haven't even jailbroken my phone (or felt like I needed to do so). It was a sub-par experience and an inexcusable one at that.
This is coming from someone who uses Debian as his main OS (disclaimer: I'm posting this from W7 at work) so I guess that's where I get my power-user fix.
Really have we sunk this low?
love is just extroverted narcissism
It's just "cooler" with a certain group to own an iPhone over Android, and if all your "friends" use iPhones it makes sense to choose that device for a multitude of reasons, including compatibility with their "friends" devices. I hear people refer to Android as "Too Windowy" and the hype over attack and infection rates is a great scare tactic to drive customers to another platform. The average person isn't concerned with handling their own security, instead they want someone to do that for them so they don't have to worry. I have a acquaintance that installs tons of apps on his Nexus 7, all free too, then he complains about issues that arise and odd quirks. Using the exact same tablet I have 0 issues, but I got over that "install everything" phase and only put specific apps that there is a need for. One last note, Apple's iOS8 and its 4000+ new API's some of which allow apps to talk to each other smells to me like a gigantic security nightmare, especially after their rather obvious SSL "bug".
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Or you know, if you actually watched the keynote, you'd see that the "by mistake" and "sought a better life" lines were jokes.
I played with iphone and ipad. I hated it, could move the images from it, need itunes for every fucking video/music upload. And iphone is soo small... I now have a cheap samsung galaxy tab 3 (10 inch) + galaxy grand neo (duo sim), and I couldn't be more happy...
And then I accidentally rooted it.
And then I accidentally installed CyanogenMod on it.
Will no company save me from this vicious cycle of accidentally doing things to my phone?
You can have flexability, or you can have reliability. You can't have both.
I used to have an iPhone, but not being able to do what I wanted with it pissed me off.
So I switched to Android. Only to find out that while yes, I have fantastic control over the device, I can't rely on it for even the most basic functions. Battery life is a write-off as soon as I do anything more than basic functions that even a dumb-phone can accomplish. And the build in tools are so crap that you *have* to get external stuff in order to use the phone properly (Android *still* doesn't do native carddav/caldav? Seriously?)
So I've gone back to iOS. No, I can't do everything I could do with Android. The build in keyboard is idiotic. Why Apple won't let you do bluetooth file transfers, is beyond my comprehension. The list goes on. But I don't have to worry about it suddenly not doing stuff that was working just fine the day before. I don't have to worry about my brand new device suddenly only getting 4 hours of battery life.
It boils down to what you're willing to put up with. I have too many other things to do in my life, and I am not willing to detour those things in order to do performance profiling on my mobile device just to find out why it suddenly decided to go haywire. I'm perfectly happy to do less things, as long as it does those things well.
Indeed. I think that Microsoft is probably Apple's "friendliest" rival. Bing is actually a pretty good search engine so maybe this will be a good fit. I also like the fact that DuckDuckGo will now be available on the iPhone. It's a nod towards internet privacy and a subtle dig at Google, me thinks.
Apple simply must do a better job with the Maps program and, as you point out, not having a Transit option is a glaring weakness. I'm pretty sure that Apple will shore that up. Google Navigation is one of the few must have apps for me but more and more I just don't trust Google with any of my information. I'd be happy to dump it for Apple Maps but it's got to be good. I expect that it will be much improved after the embarrassing initial rollout.
In the last few months, all three of my children have ditched their small screen, walled garden iPhones for Android phones. They did not do this by mistake. They did it intentionally. They are happy with Android.
Tim Cook is delusional (or, more likely, blowing smoke)
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Cooking a new distortion field....
Should I just stay off /. for the next three months while every single quote from WWDC gets posted for the benefit of pageviews and ad impressions?
One of the items I discuss, besides our impending burial by an avalanche called WWIII and the technology misused to fight it, is our misuse of technology in general, which i will call rampant consumerism.
Nothing Apple produces makes a better life for anyone.
Neither the factory workers who make the product, or the countires where the resources seem to always attract a terrorist to make industrial goods/central bank...and therefore require a invasion a drone invasion of some kind.
Including all of the lawlessness drone shootings require.
I disagree with Cook's statement this is some sort of better life.
It is not.
It continues NOT to be in fact for just about everyone here reading this.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
A corporate CEO of course thinks all buyers of a competitor's product are buying that product by mistake.
In other news Steve Ballmer things customers who are buying a Mac are buying it by mistake.
I needed to buy my family a new Camry, our old one was getting too old. The vtech just wasn't kicking in anymore. We love our new Camry, especially the Ford Sync thing that lets us sync up our iPhone and play music from the playstore.
I won't knock either. I've used both. Cook's statement is just plain incorrect."
Someone pointed out the Cook's statement was just a joke at an Apple audience.
But yep, we're nerds. We like technology.
I currently have an iPhone 5S on Verizon for work, but I still just upgraded my personal T-Mobile device to a Nexus 5 (a new one from Craigslist at a good discount from someone who bought it by mistake, so I'm getting a kick out of this thread). So I'm in a good position to comment. So maybe I will.
They're about the same weight, even though the Nexus is quite a bit larger. The aluminum case on the iPhone is nice but very slippery so it already has a bunch of nasty gouges in the corners and edges. I haven't dropped the Nexus yet (it's only been a week) but the rubber backing is more secure. Yes, I should get protective covers for both of them, but lazy.
The iPhone's camera is noticeably nicer... the Nexus sometimes has trouble focusing on my intended subject.
I don't care for the stocks that Apple puts on the notification swipedown, and there's no way to remove it.
I usually get quite lost in Apple UI elements, since I've been using Android longer I get frustrated when I can't figure out which UI element to use to bring up the menu or to simply go "back / escape"... it's always a different one hidden in a corner or worse yet a swipe in some random direction.
Ironically, Google Chrome on iOS is a bit easier to use than on Android. To switch tabs, since you can still swipe left/right from the edge. On Android they had changed it a few months ago so you had to swipe down a bit to show the address bar, and then swipe left/right on the address bar, which annoys me... almost enough to consider going back to Dolphin browser maybe. And Chrome, on iOS also has some kind of accelerator that takes you back to the top of the page if you swipe down repeatedly aggressively enough, whereas Chrome on Android just makes you swipe and swipe. OTOH, trying to scroll up/down in a page on iOS often accidentally brings down the notification menu or the "bottom" iOS menu instead, which annoys me more. More reasons to go back to Dolphin browser I suppose, where I could just bind pgup/pgdn to the volume rocker.
Tim Cook is clearly trying to get across that he feels that these people bought these phones and then realised the error of their ways, not that they walked into stores, put money down, and only realised when they got home that they had Android phones instead of iPhones.
The distinction in this case is subtle because 'by mistake' usually does mean 'by accident', or 'unintentionally'. He's TRYING to be subtle here because he's almost certainly trying to make an allusion to their court cases and how Samsung made phones that really did look like iPhones for a while.
> low information phone buyers
If they, as Apple's marketing research proved, refuse to pay attention when spending thousands (initial phone cost plus monthly bills for the term of the contract), what else do you expect from their kind? They are the hoi polloi, the Android owners.
When everyone has an Android phone, it's quite likely that a lot of new iPhone users had an Android phone. That's because Android is taking over the market, not because a large percentage of Android phone owners are unhappy.
Apparently no one here actually watched the keynote. He was clearly joking about people buying Androids by mistake.
I work at AirWatch and work on every mobile device and platform that exists. They each have their merits and drawbacks. Trying to turn it into some holy war is absurd and pointless. My two main devices are an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 7 tablet. I love them both for different reasons. As a developer both platforms have merit and both have annoying limitations. Everything Tim Cook said is technically true but none if it means that a Nexus 5 isn't an awesome phone.
- Vincit qui patitur.
Bought Android by mistake? I would hardly say that is true, I'v used an iPhone and I couldn't give it up fast enough, it was by far the worst phone I've ever used.
You are going to hash out what was clearly meant as a joke? I truly find myself embarrassed to be associated, however distantly, with you people.
Because a Cyanogenmod user was able to monitor this application, it was discovered that Swype was requesting location data several thousand times per day.
The vendor responded with a reasonable explanation.
In any case, if you run an Apple device, you will never know if your vendor begins doing such things, either for innocuous reasons, or otherwise.
p.s. You can now buy phones loaded with Cyanogenmod as the native OS.
I bought an HTC ONE M8 and after 30 days wish I had not bought this crap riddled thing and bought a Nexus or google play edition instead.
Android phones from carriers and manufacturers are utter crap because of all the useless garbage they shovel into it. HTC Sense and Blink Feed is complete garbage.
A pure Android phone is 800X better than anything you can buy out there. Why Google allows HTC and AT&T to utterly molest the OS with their crap I'll never understand.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
If your quality of life is determined by which cell phone you have, well...
Employee Of the Month - Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - September 1997
It seems that no one here watched the keynote, but if you did, you would have heard the delivery.
"They had bought an Android phone... by mistake"
It was the classic joke delivery of say something, pause a little and then "clarify" what you meant with a quip. He doesn't think that people actually bought a phone as an accident. The joke is they bought an Android phone and (we know, and they later figured out) that was a "mistake" because Apple has a better product.
It's like a Corvette fan saying that his buddy bought a Mustang by mistake, but now he knows how great Corvettes are and sold his Mustang.
Oh, and since Apple makes "lifestyle" products rather than just a computer or a phone, of course they are designed to "give you a better life". That's the marketing concept of a "lifestyle brand". Also, not as literal as so many of you want to make it.
"sought a better experience and a better life"
You have got to be FUCKING KIDDING ME. Limitations! DRM! Hacking! Locking! Soldered batteries! Walled garden bullshit! Remote deleting apps! The price! Carrier limitations! iCloud running like crap! iTunes running like crap! Theft! AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH my head just exploded. Someone should have came up from the audience and slapped that idiot.
The 1% at the top who are technically literate enough to make the most it truly want to believe the system works but for everyone is a mess. It's no wonder of all brands Android generally ranks worst in customer satisfaction which says a lot when win phone people are happier having a phone with no apps than those in the android ghetto.
Or jailbreak it.
Android is facing a new (or is in a continuation of a) lawsuit over Java patent violations.
Manufacturers have to pay Microsoft fees for violating their patents" and earns more from Android than Windows phones.
For most users on most handsets there isn't a supported upgrade path to newer versions of Android. They have to deal with bugs and security issues with their old version.
Depending on the study, between 85 and 99% of all mobile malware is targeted to Android. (Although most of that is outside of Google's own store)
I tell my friends, "buy one if you want to...but everything else is safer". iOS, Windows, Blackberry, Symbian (the least safe and least supported of these), Tizen, etc.
*** I do not have an iPhone or an Android phone. I have a "semi smart" feature phone. ***
Procrastination; I'll think of a sig tomorrow.
Upgraded to a 3G-S. didn't bother to jailbreak. Didn't miss it. Have run iOS primarily ever since.
Dabbled with Android on a HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S3. Noticed that many apps do not scale to the screen properly. Encountered folder bug on HTC One (created a folder in the launcher I could not delete until updating firmware). Noticed bug in alarm clock - didn't wake me up. Noticed scrolling was less smooth than my 3-4 year old iPhone from 2008. Constantly annoyed with the UI and crappy email program.
Didn't find anything to hold me to the platform and the UI was annoying. Handset quality was not as good - the S3 feels like a plastic child's toy, and the buttons on the bottom of the HTC one are awkward to use with one hand.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
...is an idiot feeding staunch apple advocates the drivel they want to hear.
For different folks...
Choice is always good. In the world of notebooks and desktops that's why there's linux, OSX and a few other OS's available.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
If they didn't want an Android, it seems kind of strange that they were still dumb enough to go out and buy one. What's Mr. Cook saying about iPhone users exactly?
sought a better experience and a better life.
Better experience? I get nothing but frustration from my wife's iDevices. I haven't used Android, so I can't compare, but Android would have to be pretty bad if Apple is a better experience. (I have an old flip phone. Makes calls. It's off most of the time.)
A better life? Get rid of your damned phones.
Yep, I got an iPhone 5 when it was offered to me for no-charge with a 2 year contract. Been using it for 6 months now & in my opinion, it's the biggest POS out there. Will never have another iCrap device again & getting this thing was a mistake. I was duped
For example, It features a note pad app that deletes my notes at random intervals, usually in less time than it takes to follow up on said memo. In the settings app, everything is removed and/or locked down and/or obfuscated to the point that nothing is usable for the average intelligent human being, this coming from a Linux/KDE user that is accustomed to and expects to having access to system settings.
This thing is truly a Golden Turd. Mr Cook's take on the smart phone scene reminds me of Doris the Bowler hat & being pwned by an iPhone is like being assimilated to the Borg.
I know full well Android isn't perfect, but even a dumb phone is better than this damn thing.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
Surprised so many on here are in denial about android being a fundamental nightmare when it comes to privacy with its "all or nothing" approach. Seriously, it's a platform which should be boycotted until it gets *at least* parity with iOS's "allow per permission, per app" approach.
So let me get this straight. Your claim is that when someone says there's no external storage, that's bullshit, because you don't know what they want external storage for? Isn't that like saying the Earth's moon is bullshit because you aren't an astronaut? You can see no insanity in your response at all?
I believe I shall back away now, very slowly, while maintaining eye contact.
For the record, I have no cell phone, neither smart nor dumb, not Apple or Android. I have no dogs in this fight but both sides seem almost equally insane to me (with very slightly higher sanity on the Android side, because at least their technofetish is reasonably cheap).
Is it an anti-Apple article, a pro-Android article, a pro-Apple article? Or a little bit of all three?
Either way, why does an offhand joke by an Apple exec during an Apple event warrant its own /. article?
Why not make an article about the "is the rope multithreaded" joke, too?
For me, having watched the keynote, it was quite clear that it was meant as a light-hearted joke - why anybody would get riled-up about it is beyond me.
Also, I doubt that Apple would be able to achieve and exceed their sales and profit growth targets with only fanbois buying - the number of those is pretty limited and can be counted by counting the number of people who line-up when a new i-device is on sale for the first day.
So, there must be a quite significant number of switchers. And for some, it was indeed a "mistake" to buy an Android phone in the first place.
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
Looks like the Reality Distortion Field has rubbed off on Mr. Cook. It's become a game with me to tease my fiance about the things my cheap-ass Nexus can do that her 64GB iPad can't.
There is a war going on for your mind.
You can't go wrong with rounded corners.
sjobs' RDF is alive and well.
Never heard anyone say this "in the wild", neither did I ever come across a single person that got confused by Wii and WiiU.
This looks like something marketing and spin doctors would come up with.
They switched from the only other company basically....I know I know windows phone and some blackberries still floating around... Thats like Comcast saying most of our customers were TimeWarner subscribers that chose the wrong cable provider and wanted to switch to the next best thing.
I can't believe (yes I can...) how many of you are taking Cook's obvious wink-wink, nudge-nudge jab at Android seriously. Clearly, none of you have watched the relevant part(s) of the keynote, or suspect that maybe, just maybe, the submitter has misrepresented Cook's statement. What's especially funny is that Cook leveled a number of _actual_ criticisms against Android, but no one here is talking about those.
The submitter knew you guys would take the bait -- hook, line, sinker, and pole.
Android is a mistake
A friend was visiting Asia and in one "market", on a parking garage's underground lower level, a "vendor" was offering iPads. The box looked just like a real iPad box. Inside the tablet looked just like a real iPad. However when powered up it was an Android tablet. I saw his photos, the box and tablet were good counterfeits.
:-)
Perhaps this is occurring with phones too and Cook's jobs is perhaps true for some people. They accidentally bought Android due to counterfeiting.
One does wonder if Mr Cook is loosing it slightly. He must be under some pressure from shareholders, with market share rapidly slipping, to come out with such ridiculous nonsense.
One word:
Swype
... Cook's jobs ...
Cook's joke.
:-)
What would Freud say about that typo?
That comment was an offhanded joke, reporting it like this is ridiculous. I guess unless the point was to have a flame war...
Apple is proud you can switch to them from Android, are they proud that their product iMessage destroys the experience the other way around? AND that it is impossible for Apple to fix their own bug? Or is that a "feature"?
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
While 1'300 million customers bought iPhones by mistake thinking they would look cool just to notice later that everybody and their neighbors already had one.
This was clearly a tongue in cheek remark. He put a bit of mild ribbing in to get a laugh out of the audience. Calling it "berating" is a complete mischaracterisation. See for yourself, it's 45 minutes into the keynote video.
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
I'd like to see both give an option of "grant the app this permission once right now, then automatically turn it back off."
I have an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 7. On the Nexus, I've aborted installation of many an app because it asked for an unreasonable list of permissions at install time. Screw that.
The iPhone is better, but the above feature would vastly improve a typical use case for me, which is posting photos to Facebook. I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg with complete access to my photos or location every time I open the damn app, but I'm fine with giving that information for specific photos/locations I have selected to post publicly. Currently, the flow is:
- Open Settings
- Privacy
- Location Services
- Turn on FB
- Back
- Photos
- Turn on FB
- Go to FB app
- Select and post photo with location
- Go back to Settings
- Privacy
- Location Services
- Turn off FB
- Back
- Photos
- Turn off FB
What a pain! And occasionally I forget to go back and turn off permissions, only to discover a few days later that Zuckerberg has been tracking my every move and uploading all my photos (my default assumption). Far better would be an OS-provided photo selection widget which only grants the app access to the specific photo(s) selected, and no others. And similarly an OS-provided dialog to allow the app to access my location right now and not again.
This can't be hard to implement, but nobody cares!
You wouldn't run Linux on Mac hardware, of course. If you like Linux, but Linux isn't appropriate / available in a particular situation, OSX is well worth looking at. Examples would be if you need to run specific software that is available for Windows and Mac but not Linux, or if your large organization supports Windows and Mac but not Linux. That would include any of the Adobe tools, AutoCAD, etc. Most of the time, probably 99.9% of the time, Linux has software that does what you need. However, if you actually have to run Adobe Flash CS6, Mac will run that along with whatever free software you're accustomed to from Linux.
In my case, the agency I work for provides employees with Windows or Mac desktops. Linux isn't an option. Since I much prefer Linux but it wasn't an available choice, I chose Mac and I have no regrets. I pop open a bash shell and work just exactly as I do on Linux.
After friends, coworkers, and sales people convinced her, my sister got a nice iPhone a year or so ago after having a crappy android phone for a couple of years. After one week she was so fed up with it. This was probably iOS 5 days. I'm sure things are better now but back then it had a hard time setting up her contacts and calendar to sync with Google. That and the lack of third-party keyboards caused her to give up on it and she exchanged it for a halfway decent Android phone which she quite likes. To this day she wonders why people can stand iPhones. To each his or her own.
All this isn't to say that Android doesn't suck; rather it sucks in different ways that work better for some people. To me battery life on Android is still pretty crappy after all these years.
Dear Tim,
Many Android owners bought that platform deliberately. I don't see a resurgence in iPhone sales either so maybe their accidental discovery was more like a Penicillin kind of accident than say, a 'had a bad burrito' kind of accident. Or maybe they switched to Windows Phone after Android (haha... yeah I know, doesn't look like it).
L8r.
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
That's true for about 80% of the "iPhones" you see on the subways in Shanghai. Take a peek on the screen - and it's running some version of Android. The case definitely looks like an iPhone, the dimensions and materials sure are iPhone-clones, even the home button is there - but it's running Android.
The businessmen I know that have real iPhones (bought in the US or Hong Kong, usually - China Unicom was too expensive) use them simply for showing pictures. It's amazing that when their phone rings, they take out a DIFFERENT phone (nearly always Samsung at that) and answer the call - and send the text. Their iPhones seem to be restricted to picture-album use and status symbols - not actual, real-life-use smartphones.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
China has become a *very* status-concious country. If the "in" thing was an Android, and then became an iPhone, you will see a lot of wealthy Chinese switch just as a status thing.
The comment was said in jest. He was obviously joking and it got a big laugh with the crowd. This story was either posted as flame-bait intentionally taking the quote out of context, or by someone who didn't watch the keynote. Separately, Apple didn't actually plan on calling it OS X 10.10 Weed.
I regret buying this Samsung Galaxy S5. I hate it. Nothing is done properly and it actually works poorly with my GNU/Linux desktop. I had an iPhone 4 and I should have upgraded to an iPhone 5; it was the same price.
If you actually watched the keynote you would know that Tim didn't imply that the selection of Android wasn't intentional by his use of the word "mistake"
It was simply a light-hearted jab implying they made a mistake, or in other words chose poorly.
Calm down everyone.
That's what we call Auburn graduates and fans here in Alabama, and we call Auburn University a "Cow College".
Basically, Tim Cook is full of shit.
I bought a better phone than he sells and he knows it.
Well if we're using deceptive stats like that then ok.... the other half of purchasers of an iphone will be selling it on ebay to some poor chump that doesn't know any better and getting themselves a real piece of hardware. Something they can actually accomplish daily functions on without all kinds of proprietary nonsense stopping them from even the simplest of tasks. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of security problems the Iphones have had. There will always be those 2 kinds of people...one who is oblivious to technological fundamentals and buys a phone because they think it's "pretty" or they actually know what they're buying and choose to buy the superior piece of hardware...Same thing applies to home game consoles.
Some people also buy the cheaper product when they realise what a rip-off the alternative is.
A bought a $50 android phone by mistake
I really wanted to buy a $500 Iphone
>" 'They had bought an Android phone by mistake, and then had sought a better experience and a better life.' "
No, what they PROBABLY did was buy a piece of s***, low-end, low-cost Android phone and hated the experience. And that should surprise nobody.
Had they bought a Nexus 5, a Samsung Galaxy S4/5, an HTC One, an LG G2/3, etc, those same people would likely not be dumping it for an iphone.
You can jailbreak your phone and modify the functionality of iOS, too.
You do realize that by jail-breaking a smartphone you are committing a felony under current (as of January 2013) "interpretations" of the DMCA's anti-circumvention sections right? First time offenders may be fined up to $500,000, imprisoned for five years, or both. For repeat offenders, the maximum penalty increases to a fine of $1,000,000, imprisonment for up to ten years, or both.
www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-most-ridiculous-law-of-2013-so-far-it-is-now-a-crime-to-unlock-your-smartphone/272552/
sayencrowolf.net/2013/01/wanna-jailbreak-your-phone-well-get-busy-as-of-tomorrow-its-a-felony/
www.thetorontopost.net/2013/01/you-have-1-week-left-to-jailbreak-your.html
Etc. etc. etc.
Or in this case RTFPDF...
I knew it was a joke. I also knew there'd be back-lash from the Anti-Apple, Pro-Android, and Pro-Microsoft crowds.
People will be assholes, especially when you give them easy ammo like that.
Something something fucking your mother because all Freud ever thought about was cocaine and fucking his mother.
When Samsung rolled out the Galaxy S III in the spring of 2012, that phone once and for all showed Android phones could be _better_ than the iPhone of the day. 4.8" display, 2 GB RAM (on most models), replaceable battery and Micro SD card memory expansion was something iPhone users wished they had.
Today, the Google (LG) Nexus 5 and the Motorola Moto X shows just how good "plain" Android can be now. Apple is just finally catching up with the rumored larger screen iPhone models due this fall.
Buying an Android phone is always a mistake.
Unregulated app installation is a matter of FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS! A consistent UI experience is ESSENTIAL FOR DEMOCRACY! Samsung is evil! Apple is evil! Google is evil! Google is the hero! Apple is the hero! Google is the underdog! Apple is a monopoly! Google is a monopoly! Samsung is a monopoly! (In apps / search / South Korea) ONE OF THEM IS EVIL AND SHOULD BE DESTROYED! The other(s) should be GLORIFIED!
P.s. has anyone seen my schizophrenia meds?
I've seen this as well first hand in Thailand, Vietnam and China with iPhones a few years ago.
Excellent quality counterfeit boxes, and what passes as an iPhone 4. The main external give-away was the full size SIM slot. The OS itself was a skinned version of 1.6, that looked pretty accurate until you drilled down about 3 levels.
Pretty impressive effort overall.
Perhaps "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" :>
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
I don't mean to offend you with this question, but I have to ask, are you a complete and utter dumbass?
You "struggled" with Android on a Nexus 4? What exactly did you "struggle" with?
And yet somehow you manage okay with iOS on an iPhone 4?
Seriously, there are exceedingly minor differences when it comes to the hardware. So that shouldn't be what caused you problems.
When it comes to software, iOS is pretty much just a subset of Android. You can do the same things with both, but Android generally gives you far more freedom, if you choose to use it. For example, do you want to install your own web browser with its own custom rendering engine? Android lets you do that.
Do you have a problem with freedom, in general? Is it something that you consider to be a "misfeature"? Because that's the only thing I can possibly think of that would have caused you problems in this case. It's the main difference between Android and iOS these days; Android gives you freedom, iOS doesn't.
Their iPhones seem to be restricted to picture-album use and status symbols - not actual, real-life-use smartphones.
Or perhaps the iPhone is their personal phone, and the Samsung is their business phone, and you just see them use it for calls and texts because they receive more calls/texts for work them they do from friends/family. Since you claim to know these businessmen perhaps you could actually ask them, however I assume you haven't from the way you worded your comment.
Or maybe intentionally?
Say what you will, but the iPhone is overpriced considering it's hardware and software, with a very solid brand. And because of that, people see it more as a status symbol, making it one of the reasons they buy it or it's cheap clones.
Personally, I'm not impressed. I teach at a college, a lots of students using them, and one of the funniest bits I saw, was that they all had their own data cables with them.
Oh, yes, I use Android on an HTC, but I mainly care about taking pictures, listening music, occasional chat and a few sudoku-like games, so I don't care either way.
Finally someone gets it. :P
I know Apple are arrogant, but even they wouldn't be THAT bad, it's pretty funny that people are taking this little joke so seriously
is crapple.
I will never ever buy an Apple product.
...LIES! (Rhymes with Apple pies)
I'm an Android/Windows guy. My wife and kids have iPhones (they don't tinker). I bought my wife a 10' cord so she can use the device while charging in bed. Simple enough, right? The f'in cable won't charge the phone because it is "unauthorized." Give me a f'in break. What a joke. It is a cable with the Lightning connection. Apple can suck it!
The only headline that will garner more clicks than an Apple .vs. the Galaxy story is one on global warming/cooling/climate change er disruption whatever.
Murphy was an optimist
Guess Apple thinks Android has chad...
Last time I used Google Maps, it wanted me to sign in. I went back to Apple's app, even though it doesn't work as well. My personal paranoia, YMMV.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Clumsy me,
Not only have I made this mistake no less than 5 times (2 phones, 3 tablets), I see no way of avoiding making this mistake a 6th time when I need a new phone.
Aren't I just /feckless/?
...I have to laugh at people who think that either Android or iOS is better than the other. Or even different. If you don't compare the two in a double-blind test, any perceived differences are nothing but confirmation error.
Whenever I've gone to a store looking for a phone, I make it a point to avoid the iSection because I don't want to get any on me.
Last time (less than 3 weeks ago, as it happens) a $CARRIER employee asked "Why not get an iPhone?" when I was clearly looking at Androids, I told him I couldn't take him seriously and waited for another employee who would sell me what I wanted.
So no, I don't believe it was a mistake for a large percentage of people - the customers were probably (in their minds) "graduating" to the top-of-the-line flagship carrier device after having had a feature phone, a low-end smartphone (probably Android) and then a higher end smartphone (probably a better Android) every 2-ish years for the last few contract terms... the kind of people with not a great deal of money to spend so they kind of have to prove to themselves that yes, they can handle having a $700 smartphone (but who still buy the el-cheapo sub-$500 laptops at Wal-Mart and load them up with more malware than I can shake a USB-stick at).
Were they **really** satisfied? Well, chances are the marketing survey was taken while the phone was new, so, in comparison to their old phone, yes, it's going to score 4 or 5 stars. Ask the same people half-way in to their contracts and the results are probably not nearly as pleasing.
Founder & COO, Hayai India (hayai.in) / USA (hayaibroadband.com)
Otherwise, all those buying an iPhone are MAKING a mistake!!!
My karma is bad. Don't get too close!!!
Of course it would have nothing to do with T-Mobile starting to carry the iPhone last year, as well as offering their payoff plan to reduce upfront costs on the new, expensive tech. Nah.
I realise that I'm likely to get shot down here... I had an Android phone for nearly five years before jumping ship to the iPhone 5s in November, and I have to say, I absolutely love it. With the rise of Android tablets, my need for a customisable phone diminished. I just wanted something that worked well and was reliable, and I have to say, ti's a wonderful piece of kit. Five years ago, I was a massive Apple sceptic, and saw Google as the paragon of virtue. It is arguably the other way around nowadays. Google cannot be trusted with any of your data anymore, since they make money by selling and exploiting it. On the other hand, Apple are expensive for a reason, and don't need to use such underhand tactics.
Last time I used Google Maps, it wanted me to sign in. I went back to Apple's app, even though it doesn't work as well. My personal paranoia, YMMV.
Google maps wants you to sign in so that you can access your personal lists of bookmarks and places. It's a very useful feature for quickly plotting travel times and routes to frequent places you want to go. I make heavy use of it for public transit. Your personal paranoia is barring your own access to a handy utility. Are they using this data to keep track of your shopping preferences, probably. Do I give a flipping damm? No.
And this is the 666th comment on the thread, just to drive that point home.
Maybe one thing that Steve Jobs gave to Tim Cook is a bit of the old Reality Distortion Field Elixer, from which he's serving himself something like Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blasters.
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Good lord, he's joking. Watch the presentation, there was a lot of goofiness like that in it, and the line got a laugh as I recall.
He is living in his own "little" Apple world.....
This is pretty obvious flamebait by slashdot. If you watch the keynote it was obviously intended as a joke.
Bassackwards...smartphones for smart people, iphones for trendy people. In reality those who have experienced both flee to Android from iphone. It isn't even close. Android ha\s 73% of world market sales for 2013, how can Apple hope to claim superiority when the consumer has clearly spoken???
I have one of each. The mistake was the iPhone. Compared to my Android I hate it and rarely use it. Siri has never worked for me. All it ever says is "Sorry I can't help you with that." My iPhone bricks itself occasionally because it never will update its software. I use it for my work email and nothing more. It won't even call my voicemail unless I dial my own number. My Android is used for about 5 other email accounts including Google and Yahoo!, and accepts the voice command "call my voicemail" and does it without an argument. Perhaps I should stop cussing at Siri and maybe she will be more helpful. Frankly her tone of voice pisses me off.
And some of us never went back. There's a bottle of Pepsi Max sitting beside my chair right now.
I love my iPhone, but sorry, dude. I loved my Android phones even more. It was just that I got a deal I couldn't pass up on a used iPhone that I bought from eBay, at the same time I was changing back to Verizon as a cell phone customer. I didn't make a mistake owning an Android, and I can tell you that after being an iPhone user for a year, I don't ever check the app store for anything, unless it's a specific app I hear or read about and decide to download. With the Android, I would spend at least 10-15 minutes every day scanning the app store to see what new programs were available. I was always impressed with what I found. Even when the apps didn't quite work right, and this is going back at least seven years, they were still impressive, mainly because most of these apps were being created by individuals in their garage or their mother's basement, and the level of creativity and inventiveness was astounding.
With the iPhone, what you have is a closed app world, which is both good and bad. The cost of becoming an app developer for the iPhone as well as the screening process for each app, keeps out the riff raff and the scammers creating malware, but it also keeps out the genius who is living in his mother's basement and cranking out unbelievably impressive apps. The dude who lives in his mother's basement probably doesn't have the financial, social or tech industry connections to get hooked up properly with Apple as a developer. So he stays with the Android platform, where crazy goofy apps are still wanted and encouraged.
LOLOLOLOL
I think I'm the only one here that understood all of that. Awesome.
You win the internetz for today, sir.
Not only that. Those would-be Coca-Cola customers are ripping mad about it. Who knew that a cup saying Pepsi would contain... Pepsi??
Laywers are planning class-action lawsuits, politicians are conducting hearings, and Fox has a Live--Breaking News special report!
Anyone think of the percentage of iPhone adopters that switch to Android? Those numbers are conspicuously absent. I doubt they did any follow-up for iPhone "consumer corrections" to see how many later dropped iPhone and went back.
And they say Microsoft "drinks the kool-ade" on their own products. Seems like both camps have a strange brew now. However in this respect, Apple has some serious catching up to do.
If the rumors are true, then we'll get to see who can make the better "geez I feel like I'm going to break this thing it's so thin" device for 2015.
Still waiting for the bluetooth, bio-powered, wetware interface cartilage implant accessory. (stereo, please)
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Must be - gmhowell actually posted more than a 1 line fart reply with 5 single syllable words in it for once vs. his usual "See Dick and Jane Run".