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Re: [iPhone] iPhone 5 - Most anticipated and expensive junk

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i thought this junk thread was dead.

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Uhm... So how does Apple get away with it?

Exclusivity and integration mainly with a topping of rabid fan base...the type of topping that completely covers up everything underneath. The cost of that integration is control. In order to have things run smoothly (maps aside) the manufacturer needs vertical control of the platform and Apple has that. We see what happens to the platform when there isn't that control such as Cydia which "works" but is a convoluted mess of horrid integration, poor OS support (like lack of multitasking which I need in order to paste passwords) and no uniformity in how apps function or their quality.

Android is the middle ground between quality of the user experience and control. Android gives users much more customization options (such as choosing your launcher and themes) but I have found the cost is in stability and uniformity of function. My Android devices generally aren't as stable, the apps don't have the same QC and the user experience more "jumbled" in that apps don't function predictably (you have to learn how each one works).

For me it's exclusivity and integration with the services I use most (eg iTunes Match) and I have a hard on for build quality. I'm one of those that appreciates the detail in engineering like a fine hand assembled wristwatch. Digital watches may have more features and do more stuff but there is something about a mechanical watch that is way cool.

As a daily user of both Android and iOS, I use a car analogy.

Android is a 1LE Camaro or Mustang GT500...STUPID fast, huge power, uber capable, maybe not the same build quality but damn who cares, it's STUPID fast and does what driver NEEDS it to do. And if 600HP isn't enough, you can put even more crazy power to it should you want to put in that effort and you would have factory support in doing it.

iOS is an M3...more about user experience than big horsepower, more about the connection to that experience than customization. The M3 (while is can be customized) is generally the way people want it from the dealership and aside from tint aren't really likely to mess with it too much nor do they have to desire to. It's more refined, smoother, smoother on power, better 'connected', unlike any other experience (I've had lots of sedans but nothing gives me the joy I get from my 535i and I've driven a CTS-V...talk about stupid power!).

You can immediately see the difference I'm trying to describe. Each car services a different need of user experience and not always it is about the lap time but HOW the car goes around the track, HOW it behaves.

As much as I respect the 1LE Camaro or CTS-V I prefer an M3 or M5. And you will find no shortage of people saying choosing an M5 over a CTS-V is stupid and vice versa.

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iPhone 5 has arrived

reply to skeechan
What's exclusive to an iPhone besides some games? I run the same apps as my iOS using friends. I know they paid a lot more for their phone, but that's not usually what exclusivity is about.

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Of course it's the fastest. I can boot Windows 95 in 5 secs with the latest processor. That does not mean I have the fastest PC. iOS is outdated. All Apple is trying to do is add more CPU power to keep up with the rest. iPhone 3GS will run iOS 6 too. Don't you get it. There is nothing new.
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reply to Majestik
gTrolls...to keyboards, to keyboards!

No offense skeechan, but people are you are exactly what I'm talking about. How exactly are you a google troll if you correctly identify that ios has a bunch of icons that move left and right while android uses 3d elements, widgets, just a couple things that add extra cpu usage, gpu usage, and ram usage?

You really want to say that an operating system that uses very little memory, cpu, and gpu usage doesn't have a benchmarking advantage? Even if you don't add anything android is already using more by default.

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reply to Metatron2008
Because no one in ALL THINGS MAC gives two squirts of piss about Android or discussing Android. That is what the Android forum is for.

You want to shill for Google, by all means, but that is the appropriate place for it.

You don't see ATM users trolling the Android forum doing nothing but slamming Android do you? I could fire off 10 threads a day in the Android forum, piss in everyone's Cherri-Os about the problems with Android or the endless ways I think it sucks wang but that is the difference between iOS users here and Android users here. I go to the Android forums for HELP with Android and am respectful of people's choices there whether I would make the same ones or not. I don't piss on their parade like you endlessly do here.

SOME Android users think it is their mission to shill for Google anywhere and everywhere. And yeah, Apple users will shill for Apple, but they do it in the Apple fanboy isheep circlejerk that is ATM...not trolling TAF pointing out how your S3 is a plastic shitbox.

So give the gTrolling a rest, it's getting old. Don't like iOS, iPhones, or logos, or Apple marketing, or anything else Cupertino does, awesome...but no one here gives a shit.

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iPhone5 beats all comers in browser & system & graphics benchmarks:
»www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410034,00.asp
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