I think it's a smart move by Apple. So when you buy a new Samsung phone and two months later there's a better one available you don't feel slightly cheated?
Phone Upgrade: The Decision
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I think it's a smart move by Apple. So when you buy a new Samsung phone and two months later there's a better one available you don't feel slightly cheated?
lol Apple having its highest rate of android to Apple swithers since they started keeping track is a fact. Do you know what a fact is?
They have been keeping track of this for 3 years. The first article is a year and a half old. Unless the volume of people switching between android and apple increased dramatically it's a safe assumption the first article still holds true.
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I don't get this either. I'm starting to wonder if it is something that was true in the early days of the platforms, and it just gets repeated enough that it somehow remains accepted as fact.
Here is a link from mid-2014 indicating that Android actually offers more apps than Apple. Given that it is easier to get an app into Google Play than the Apple store, I would imagine this is still the case.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-available-in-leading-app-stores/
And I too would love to hear some examples of apps people have to have that are on one platform and not the other. I'm guessing very few of them would be mainstream applications. I have a Samsung phone and an iPad, so I use both, and have never had an issue of app availability on either.
And to the original question of the thread, if I was upgrading today I would probably be getting the S6.
The S6 Edge for us
We are going to get the Galaxy S6 Edge's. We have Sprint service and have had our phones for at least 5-6 years. I see that we can now pre-order the S6 Edge from Sprint for delivery by April 10th.
We are going to get the Galaxy S6 Edge's. We have Sprint service and have had our phones for at least 5-6 years. I see that we can now pre-order the S6 Edge from Sprint for delivery by April 10th.
mmm, so you don't think waiting for the 6 would be worth it? For reference, I think my phone was new in 2011, but definitely wasn't a top of the line type of phone. So anything is an improvement. What do you like about the S5? And did you look at the M8 at all?
It is definitely true early on and gets back to the market penetration. Remember if an application is free it is not the product. You are.
I use one application on our iPad that is not on Android and it is my Electronic Flight Bag application.
I'm not sure where the guy got the idea that Apple has more apps. Pretty much any quality app is going to be on both therefore if you're deciding between android and apple apps isn't something you need to worry about.
Ohhh...710, I have to apologize...seriously, look at my first post in this thread:
My phone is an appliance or tool. I really, really don't care that much, but I find it funny getting the apple disciples all worked up, and that's probably not nice, so I apologize. There's a reason, though, you all take it so seriously and make it so easy. See, there's 2 fanboys where I work.
Fanboy #1: Plays magic the gathering and dungeons and dragons and stuff. Has a trench coat and an indiana jones style hat that he wears year round. His social media profile pic is him in shorts and a t-shirt (but yet, the hat and coat), leaned cool-ly on his car...which is a powder blue Nissan Versa. He started working overtime months in advance and took vacation days to camp out for the newest iWhatever. He had a bag to carry them in.
Fanboy #2: Never hesitates to insert "Get an iPhone" in any conversation remotely close to it being pertinent. I read a couple tech blogs here and there, and saw a headline about bending problems with the new iPhone a while back (not even sure which one). He had pre-ordered and left work early to get it as soon as it came in. The next day, he announced to everyone that he got his new iPhone. Although I didn't read the article, I remembered the headline about bending, so I just quipped, "you haven't bent it yet, have you?" He gets all excited and starts telling me all about how that's overblown, soandso.com did a test and the iPhone held X amount of weight without bending, but the such and such ohone bent at Y (below X).
So I find it funny that I can get fanboys jumblies in a bunch even though I don't even know that much about phones because I don't care that much.
But, to specifically answer your question about a new model coming out...no, it doesn't bother me...likely because I won't even know about it. I do phone research when I need a new one, and I buy the best value for the money at the time...and then I forget about it. Even if I do see a new one that comes out, as long as the one in my pocket works to my satisfaction, I'm not moved in the least. The desire to have the newest/hottest/latest is completely a marketing scheme to separate you from your money. Prior to WWI and WWII, there weren't even model years for cars...it was just a model A or T, not a 1923 model T. They created the model years when the market was saturated and they needed to drive demand for new ones.
Naw, because there are lots of options and I can pick a phone with the features I find important instead of the features someone else tells me are important.
And my biggest complaint with the current nature of phones, the lack of continued support for older versions after a couple years, is the same regardless of of what ecosystem you use. To me, phones have reached a point where there's no real need to upgrade unless your existing phone breaks. The difference between, say, an iphone 5 vs 6, or a Galaxy 4 vs 5, or a Nexus 5 vs a Nexus 6, and so on, is just incremental. There isn't any have-to-have new technology being developed every year.
List some features you're looking for that an iPhone doesn't have. All the features I hear through Samsung marketing are gimmicky. Pretty much so they can say hey look at me! I can do something iPhones can't do it! That whole look away from your screen and the video pauses? Crap.. Being able to click on your screen with a raised finger? Crap. What other ones am I missing?
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I use my incredible with a smashed screen to stream music to my bluetooth speaker in my office. Its making me sad that its getting too old to update apps and some of them are starting to not be usable at all. I just cant part with it, busted screen and all.
If I want a phone with a big battery, I can get one
If I want a phone with a physical keyboard, I can get one
If I want a small screen size because I have tiny, midget hands, I can get one
If I want a phone with a big screen size because I have huge, giant hands, I can get one.
And so on and so forth.
With Apple you get to pick the color, and now they've advanced to having two screen sizes. That's it.
@00Clone - both sides have their fanboys who will exhibit that EXACT same behavior. This arguement about which is better will NEVER be settled. Your coworker story is purely an anedote of personal experience. I've seen the exact same from HTC, Samsung, etc fan boys.
I have the LG G3 and got it for 96 cents and Sam's club in Ames last week. Zero complaints and long battery life!
Show me a chart showing all Android manufacturers and it'll mean a lot more. Samsung is losing ground on all Android manufacturers so it isn't surprising that they'd also be losing to Apple as well. Stop with this Apple vs Samsung. What is really relevant is iOS vs Android since so many manufacturers make Android phones.