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Jealous of iPhone Users...

So I just recently got my Fascinate, since I refuse to switch to AT&T... And the app market is great and all, but it seems a bit lacking.
All my friends with iPhones are playing **** like Katamari, Wordle, Robo Rush, FASTAR... And all the productivity apps seem to be so damn polished on the iPhone. I feel like I'm kinda missing out.
What can I do with my phone, or what apps can I get, to fill that void?
(Alternatively, we could just make this a "must-have Android apps" thread)

just depend on what you are looking for. there are some great apps that are out there you just have to look, look, and look some more. if you are new to android i suggest first downloading launcher pro, then homeswitcher to switch to launcher pro as its much faster. explore the endless customization options and apps and widgets and once you figure it out your friends will be on a iPhone forums saying "kinda jealous of android" trust me i *was* a ong time iOS lover and would NEVER EVER go back. **** Jeve Stobs and his gay ass black turtle neck. LOL JK.

Just get an iPod touch... No need for an iPhone man.

As an exiphone user I agree... but you also have to look at the fact that the iPhone has been around and more widly used the the Droid. Give it a bit more time and I bet the makert place will have a bigger selection. Droid is opensource which means a lot more room to make more custom content. IMO
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andershizzle said:
Just get an iPod touch... No need for an iPhone man.
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+1 if you use it strictly for games you won't drain your phone battery. I didn't realize until yesterday how much ios sucks compared to android. To me ios is too plain and kinda old looking if that makes sense?

andershizzle said:
Just get an iPod touch... No need for an iPhone man.
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I agree. I'm on AT&T w/ the HTC Aria. Had an iphone 3g, sold it and got an android. Never looking back at iphone. I do have ipod touch which I wifi tether to my aria just for games and podcasts. But its being used less and less since android is getting better and better!

try appbrain. it helps to sort the trash from the clusterf*ck android market

hashbrown said:
I agree. I'm on AT&T w/ the HTC Aria. Had an iphone 3g, sold it and got an android. Never looking back at iphone. I do have ipod touch which I wifi tether to my aria just for games and podcasts. But its being used less and less since android is getting better and better!
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Another Gir! Sweet!
And x2 on the appbrain comment. Now you can sort by popularity, rating, etc. It is everything the market should be.
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The boyfriend came home with an ipod touch tonight... :(

So..
My boyfriend came home with an ipod touch. He is going on and on about all of the amazing vintage video recording and other apps that are iphone exclusive....
He is as tech savvy as I... yet now has changed his opinion on the superior operating system (Me: that's great, but you have to admit, android is much better. Him: no, I don't...) !!! GAH!!!
GRUMP GRUMP GRUMP!
What's a girl to do?
;P

Idk but i like em both equally.

Show him something he can't do, like live wallpapers, different launchers, ... You know what Android can do.
This post changes everything. Again.

Theres is only one thing that u as a female andoid user have to do! No more loving for him until he blends that ipod
No seriously, for me as i use a DHD dolby mobile and srs are great features but i dont know if the ipod also has those features, if not thats a big advantage for me...

burn it into a fire!!
ask him something that the ipod can and the android cant.
he will see there is nothing like that,

Dump his ass.lol.jks
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Time to upgrade the bf to a newer model. Sakai4eva is a lovely bloke and you'll never hear him praising an idevice.

Snap his [delete line?]black ops disc[/delete line] *insert whatever here* till he changes his mind
btw whats the code for that strikethrough/ delete/ whatever line on a typical forum?

Yeah... what a ****.
Show him rooting. Custom themes, full control over software and hardware. Make. Him. Your. *****.

Dump him. Date me

I like ipod for my music and 64gb is nice the apps and touch screen were just a bonus
This post is brought to u by my pet giraffe who ran away and FOUND!!! Just have to rade another pet to get him back

My girlfriend got screwed over Apple and I helped her transition to Android and my MP3 player of choice, a Cowon J3. She loves her Captivate and J3 as much as I do.
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I know everything that Android can do (obviously, I'm on XDA!) but I just prefer iOS for unknown reasons. It's just it does everything I want my phone to do, nice and simply. Also I just like the jailbreaking ability tbh. But I still love Android and everything about it.
The thing about themes, iOS is 1millionX better for theming whoever said show him themes on a rooted phone. It's all in a simple app store too instead of having to make sure a theme is compatible with your ROM etc.
If it's only an iPod Touch, then let him be. Just laugh at him for not having an iPhone.
But seriously - just show him rooting and like OC'ing your phone and just like fun little things that'll make him get an Android phone. Idk.

get pregnant. that'll show him.

You can always microwave that ipod

Leave him crapple products are lame!
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Tell him he cant get root with an ipod (hopefully thats not just an aussie term haha)
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"Play on it" 'accidently' drop it down the toilet then get him a Glaxy Player or something a

I had an iPhone before I bought the Inspire. Now I just use it to play music and Tiny Wings. Android>iPhone though

There is only one option....leave him for someone who loves Android as much as you. It's obvious that you guys can't be together as you don't have this in common...it's a must! He's gone to the dark side and MUST be slain!
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Bored of Android

I have a EVO but Android is boring me I have ADD and I like change. Any new phones coming that are powerful but not Android or wm or a bb. I'm on sprint now I would get a iPhone for the change but doesn't look like ones coming any time soon
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I hate to break it to you, but Android is probably the most diverse smartphone OS you're gonna find. The iPhone is locked down tight, and WM7 doesn't seem nearly as much fun to play with (in my opinion). Have you rooted your Evo? If so, maybe you should try different types of ROMs? The Sense 3.0/2.1 ROMs are very nice, and Cyanogenmod is a slick (yet drastic) change from Sense ROMs.
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Sypris said:
I hate to break it to you, but Android is probably the most diverse smartphone OS you're gonna find. The iPhone is locked down tight, and WM7 doesn't seem nearly as much fun to play with (in my opinion). Have you rooted your Evo? If so, maybe you should try different types of ROMs? The Sense 3.0/2.1 ROMs are very nice, and Cyanogenmod is a slick (yet drastic) change from Sense ROMs.
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Exactly. If android bores you than your not gonna last more than a day or two with WP7 or iOS. Also, the only hardware anywhere near as powerful as what you have is going to come on one of those 3 platforms. Root your phone, theme your phone, do anything you want, but android is surely your best bet at staying entertained.

I have rooted my phone with everything and I just can't find something that satisfies me anymore.
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touchjon said:
I have a EVO but Android is boring me I have ADD and I like change. Any new phones coming that are powerful but not Android or wm or a bb. I'm on sprint now I would get a iPhone for the change but doesn't look like ones coming any time soon
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The iPhone is not as fun then an android. You will be bored of it in couple months. Trust me I had a iPhone the only thing I liked about it are those games. And yes I even jailbreak it too.
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buy an windows mobile 6 device and have fun with theming and changing everything also you are not so mainstream with wm 6, this means more girls 4 you (maybe)

It sounds like maybe you should find a hobby.... I for one like to fish : )

Or maybe you just are bored period....I would suggest taking your phone apart to the last bit of it and then trying to put it back blindfolded.....fixed me up when I was bored with mine

you should study how to make apps for your phone.
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culua said:
The iPhone is not as fun then an android. You will be bored of it in couple months. Trust me I had a iPhone the only thing I liked about it are those games. And yes I even jailbreak it too.
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Totally agree. I played around with my brother's iPhone and it is not exciting at all. Apple does have good games and better tested apps but the phone itself is boring. I jailbroke my iPod Touch 4 cause I wanted something similar to the android experience.

eao1991 said:
Totally agree. I played around with my brother's iPhone and it is not exciting at all. Apple does have good games and better tested apps but the phone itself is boring. I jailbroke my iPod Touch 4 cause I wanted something similar to the android experience.
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Even with a jailbroken ipod touch, still i prefer androids stuff better, i jailbroke my ipod touch 4g 64gb, for certain reasons.. but android is still better and more like a computer to me then apple.
Plus never have a hardware keyboard on An Apple IOS Product
And also android apps are growing rapidly almost all the good games are on IOS and android including:
1. Plants Vs. Zombies
2. All The Awesome Gameloft Games
3.EA GAmes
I got an ipod touch cause it was time to get a new ipod and i wanted the extra bonus of games and whatnot and i use it for music that i dont stream on my phone

davidrules7778 said:
Even with a jailbroken ipod touch, still i prefer androids stuff better, i jailbroke my ipod touch 4g 64gb, for certain reasons.. but android is still better and more like a computer to me then apple.
Plus never have a hardware keyboard on An Apple IOS Product
And also android apps are growing rapidly almost all the good games are on IOS and android including:
1. Plants Vs. Zombies
2. All The Awesome Gameloft Games
3.EA GAmes
I got an ipod touch cause it was time to get a new ipod and i wanted the extra bonus of games and whatnot and i use it for music that i dont stream on my phone
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The only one that iPhones have that Android doesn't is Tiny Wings. I love that game.

RinZo said:
The only one that iPhones have that Android doesn't is Tiny Wings. I love that game.
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ur also forgetting
Cut The Rope
And yes tiny wings is fun but i almost beat it im on the last level

Yup, that's the only good thing that I see on iphones. The good games that they have, but that 1 reason isn't enough for me to change to iOS because there's a lot of reasons that android is better than IOS.
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iynfynity said:
Yup, that's the only good thing that I see on iphones. The good games that they have, but that 1 reason isn't enough for me to change to iOS because there's a lot of reasons that android is better than IOS.
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That is why u get an ipod touch for the games and me i like storing all my music as it holds 64gb of it Where as i would have to get a big sd card and ya...

davidrules7778 said:
That is why u get an ipod touch for the games and me i like storing all my music as it holds 64gb of it Where as i would have to get a big sd card and ya...
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So true man. The iPod Touch is so useful in that sense and you're right from before, a jailbroken ipod touch is no where as cool as a rooted android but it does help just a bit

im not bored i just started to love it

commit suicide...if you are bored with android bro

Keewll story
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davidrules7778 said:
ur also forgetting
Cut The Rope
And yes tiny wings is fun but i almost beat it im on the last level
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What, this Cut The Rope?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zeptolab.ctr.paid&hl=en

Envious Iphone users thread

http://forum.iphone-developers.com/general-iphone/5071-do-you-ever-feel-embarrassed.html
Just want to share guys and see how this thread would go

Lol. I just made the switch today from the HTC one x. So far I love everything about this phone.
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Lol that guy in post 3 is a joke. Another brainwashed Apple fan boy. The only thing he is correct about is that the iPhone is easier to see in the sun. IPhone 5 is only getting a bigger screen because they are losing market share, same goes for turn by turn navigation.
By getting it right I assume he means "waits for someone else to innovate, then copies them and claims to be innovative"
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jsntrenkler said:
Lol. I just made the switch today from the HTC one x. So far I love everything about this phone.
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Lol that guy in post 3 is a joke. Another brainwashed Apple fan boy. The only thing he is correct about is that the iPhone is easier to see in the sun. IPhone 5 is only getting a bigger screen because they are losing market share, same goes for turn by turn navigation.
By getting it right I assume he means "waits for someone else to innovate, then copies them and claims to be innovative"
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it's just crazy thinking how these apple fan boys brag about their phone compared to android but deep inside they're envious.

Ok ok I don't think 3 post is from Apple washed brained. He is just 'trying' to explain the benefits of the iphone over android, but he fails with every word he said. The apple ecosistem is nearly perfect but if you are not into iphone doesn't worth it so much... They bring you a seamless experience more than features...
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that thread was amazing! I want to see more iPhone user saying they want to switch and are envious lol thank you for that
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Love apple fanboys having their little rages if anything bad is said about iPhone, or their messiah Steve Jobs (who, I'm sure some apple fanboys believe will rise from the dead.)

Not shocking one bit. Most of my coworkers have iphone and whenever they're at my desk, they always play with my phone for minutes on ends and would forget why they're there for. I, on the other hand, could care less about a toy phone that predates 2008.

Got my first "smartphone" in 2010. I had the option of SGS1 vs iPhone 3GS and I went with the iPhone 3GS. Probably one of the worst decision of my life, if not THE worst decision. Told my sister to get the SGS1 when her contract expires in a months time and swapped phones right away.
I'd say that for first time users who are not computer savvy at all (and to some extent a bit lazy) will like the iPhone, everything is there for you and iTunes is pretty much a one stop shop for anything/everything. No tinkering required at all except a few email setup/account syncs. Basically, a boring phone. The only thing you can really "develop" is an app.
Android on the other hand is a pandora's box. The amount of open source developing, customisation, tweaks, themes, roms is just amazing. You can pretty much mix and match different options from ROMS/Themes and have your phone the way you want it.
Unless the next few versions of iPhone have 3D Holographic tech, strippers/lap dance included, unlimited free drinks at any bar in the world, a batmobile and 10% of its shares, it will be inferior to the Android any day.

Muhahahaha
It's funny how you introduced yourself there in the thread. Lol.
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i feel so much better right now, thank you
[email protected] fapple guys;-)

Post #5
So someone's waiting for the iphone 5. More 'advance tech' like expandable memory, bigger-than-3.5 inch screen and removable battery. Lol
And oh, i almost forgot, even funnier Siri.
“Wait for iphone 5,,, the solution for your problem....... Bigger screen, advance tech and nice features..........“

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So someone's waiting for the iphone 5. More 'advance tech' like expandable memory, bigger-than-3.5 inch screen and removable battery. Lol
And oh, i almost forgot, even funnier Siri.
“Wait for iphone 5,,, the solution for your problem....... Bigger screen, advance tech and nice features..........“
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You don't mean advanced tech, like the super advanced SD card so you?
My sister's partner had an iPhone, with a pin, he passed away and no one knows the pin, the only way to make it usable is a factory reset, which will wipe all data, as we all know, including pics, music etc.
Or even the even more advanced tech like a fail safe if you forget your pin, similar to how android allows you to sign into your google account if your pin is entered incorrectly.

They will get a minor hardware upgrade. Bigger screen maybe, just maybe, a quad core processor and definitely a new version of ios. Too bad ios will still stuck, you will still have to enslave yourself to the iTunes store, you still won't be able to pull the battery and insert a fresh spare when it's flat, and you'll have to wait until after android owns you again before you have to pay thru the nose again for another minor hardware update.
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Ordered my 32GB S3 from Sprint today so should be getting it by Friday at the latest. I've been dying to have it in my hands after being around so many friends who own an iPhone and being able to flaunt it in their faces. However, with the iPhone 5 just around the corner, I'm a little worried that I won't be able to make them as envious as us Android users have been able to do for quite some time now. We've had bigger screens, turn-by-turn GPS, more powerful phones, etc. but as Samsung's new CEO said the future of smartphones will be primarily about the software on it and it's a lot easier to show off a bigger, beautiful screen to an iSheep than to try and explain to them software advantages.

lol at this thread... nice to be in some educated company for a change instead of putting up with apple fanboy drivel. Isheep LMFAO

Skyburnn said:
Unless the next few versions of iPhone have 3D Holographic tech, strippers/lap dance included, unlimited free drinks at any bar in the world, a batmobile and 10% of its shares, it will be inferior to the Android any day.
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For this, I have thanked you. Funniest quote of the day.
I laugh at Apple fanboys tbh. The amount of things I can do with Android without altering it is endless; while with altering the possibilities are endless. As for their iPhone; they need to Jailbreak it to even change slight things.
Apple goes for innovation, and new ideas.. But these "new ideas" are not new, and is always at least one year old by the time they release their phone.

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For this, I have thanked you. Funniest quote of the day.
I laugh at Apple fanboys tbh. The amount of things I can do with Android without altering it is endless; while with altering the possibilities are endless. As for their iPhone; they need to Jailbreak it to even change slight things.
Apple goes for innovation, and new ideas.. But these "new ideas" are not new, and is always at least one year old by the time they release their phone.
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Plus, we have all seen the ios 6 video. The features suck. There is no new ones. Nothing interesting. I used to be a bit brainwashed by apple when I did a bit of development for my touch, but I don't think I'll even buy one of those now. Even all my friends who think apple is the best are seeing my beast sgs and saying "damn why don't I have one of those?"
The tables are turning, sorry apple, were gonna win >. PS: you lose!
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In this thread: fanboys complaining about fanboys.
Hilarious stuff. Please continue.

Dtguilds said:
In this thread: fanboys complaining about fanboys.
Hilarious stuff. Please continue.
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This.

I was just having a little look on an iForum

Not trolling or otherwise causing trouble, I'm not even regged on it.
It appears that quite a lot of iPeople were wishing that they had a gesture typing keyboard.
But the apple ecosystem, with its far superior apps has the answer!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swype-input-method-swipe-to/id529025189?mt=8
Look at the reviews for it lol,
Sample review:
Fail
*****
by timothymh
Do not buy. Or, as this app would say, "di nut but."
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Quality apps man, think I might switch to Apple now.
You actually need to type into an app like notepad on a Windows PC, then copy and paste your gesture typed text into where you wanted it.
I wonder why there isn't a decent swype keyboard on iOS? I suppose apple themselves are maybe too scared to implement it into their OS because they won't want people to think they are copying android. Mind you - notifications anyone....
Wonder why there isn't a 3rd party one though...?
Edit: just noticed the thread was from Nov lol, but there's a new one. Watch the video and get a laugh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZArlrNFys5g&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Who cares really. This has nothing to do with android and or the nexus 7.
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jetbruceli said:
Who cares really. This has nothing to do with android and or the nexus 7.
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Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't post when I've been drinking vodka lol
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knuckles1978 said:
Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't post when I've been drinking vodka lol
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Firstly: I love vodka.
Second: This makes me love my gs3 and nexus7/hate crapple even more!
(My keyboard auto-corrected "crapple" with cripple. It's like it knows..)
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Apple is for non techy types that just wanna go buy their phone and use it. Done. Stable, simple.....and boring.
But to each their own.
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kj2112 said:
Apple is for non techy types that just wanna go buy their phone and use it. Done. Stable, simple.....and boring.
But to each their own.
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Correction. Flip phones are for the non techy. Apple is for people who think their techy.
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iOS doesn't allow 3rd party keyboards. Also, they will only allow web browsers that use a certain type of rendering, or something like that... Apple is running themselves into a ditch by locking our new ideas like that.
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BlackFire27 said:
Correction. Flip phones are for the non techy. Apple is for people who think their techy.
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Lol
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Apple will probably incorporate a gesture keyboard into a future iOS revision, call it "the best gesture keyboard invented ever" and then sue Google/Samsung/Swype for violating Apple patents.

phishfi said:
iOS doesn't allow 3rd party keyboards. Also, they will only allow web browsers that use a certain type of rendering, or something like that... Apple is running themselves into a ditch by locking our new ideas like that.
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Good, and Good riddance to them aswell !
They haven't had anything innovative since, well pretty much the first iPad/iPhone series.
And the phone itself hasn't changed at all since the 4.
SDA_Lord said:
Apple will probably incorporate a gesture keyboard into a future iOS revision, call it "the best gesture keyboard invented ever" and then sue Google/Samsung/Swype for violating Apple patents.
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And this is exactly what they will do. EXACTLY.

Wilks3y said:
Good, and Good riddance to them aswell !
They haven't had anything innovative since, well pretty much the first iPad/iPhone series.
And the phone itself hasn't changed at all since the 4.
And this is exactly what they will do. EXACTLY.
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Apple has always been the same. Their computers were the same...a couple variants...minor changes from year to year. And no one else can use their os. Well...hardly anyone uses their PC's as a result. They managed to make one good phone...and year after year make very slight changes. Ipad now too.
But thanks to the phones and ipads they make money. Cause the tech unsavvy go with the flow.
But they gotta be the least innovative company on earth. Slowly people are seeing this and slowly apple will die off...unless they make serious changes to their ideals.
Rim is becoming, or became, similar.
Android as things are today will take over the mobile world in time.
Again.....unless apple and even rim change their tunes.
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................Apple suck
:victory::victory::victory::victory:

Completely agree, with your two word post People say 'apple just works'.
The fact is, now android can be simple, and 'just works' if thats what you want it to do, but the possibilities are there to do whatever the hell you like to your device, as they should be when you've just paid a large amount of money for it.
You can leave it standard and simple (does anyone?), or mod it to within an inch of its life. I do understand though that there is a market for technically unsavvy fashionistas who think that the latest iDevice elevates them somehow into a superior being. Sad really. My experience. My opinion. Based on people I know personally. Not all of the iPhone owners I know, some are just ignorant lol
All locked down is just boring, jailbreaking your iPhone makes it run slower lol, and you still can't do whatever you like with it.
Android is, and has always been the way forward to me. Nothing to do with blind brand loyalty. I didn't mean to make this an Apple hate thread or anything.
Do not even get me started on the way that apple go about conducting their 'business'. It should be criminal.
I once owned an iPod for about a month. Then I was enraged with iTunes. I then bought an iRiver HP120. Man, let me tell you that the sheer sound quality of that thing with good 'phones made hairs stand up on the back of my neck every time I used it. Drag and drop heaven too.
I never bought an Apple device again, and unless they change their ways something silly, never would again. But even then, the way in which they conduct business has put me off for life.
Don't tell me that's fanboyism.