01-12-2013, 11:09 AM | #16 |
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I couldn't care less if a device I own is considered cool. I buy what meets my needs and assume that others do the same.
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01-12-2013, 11:20 AM | #17 |
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LOL. You do not have teenage kids and, obviously, were never a teen yourself.
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01-12-2013, 11:28 AM | #18 |
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The iOS interface is terribly stale. Which would be OK if it weren't so inflexible. They gave users virtually no way to customize it except for a new wallpaper.
I jailbroke my Touch solely to get widgets easily accessible from the home screen to easily toggle wi-fi on and off. But once it was jailbroken, I customized the interface with icons, wallpaper, and custom screen and docking layouts to just how I like it. I can't go back now to the stock interface. Whenever I see it, it looks so drab and even a bit ugly compared to how I now have my Touch looking. I'm guessing a lot of kids are finding the same thing out -- and that Android has so much more flexibility for customizing the user interface. If one of their friends has a cool-looking layout on their Android phone and they can't even change the look of their iPhone, they may want to switch. --Pat Last edited by PatNY; 01-12-2013 at 11:59 AM. |
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01-12-2013, 12:34 PM | #20 |
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^ This. It's been 5 years since introduction, and it has not changed, all you have is a grid of icons, with the option to create folders. Compare Android where it was in 2009 and where it is now, and it's night and day.
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01-12-2013, 12:39 PM | #21 | |
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01-12-2013, 12:49 PM | #22 | |
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01-12-2013, 02:37 PM | #23 | |
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01-12-2013, 02:49 PM | #24 |
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I'm sure you are right. I suspect too that Amazon saw that magnetic keyboard and said, "Let's do that!" I expect amazing things from the major players. I have not been this excited about computers for twenty years.
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01-12-2013, 03:17 PM | #25 |
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Well yes it is hard to ever see it in that light when my parents and aunt and uncle have iPhones.
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01-12-2013, 03:27 PM | #26 |
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Apple has been the king of the hill for a while now, so people trying to push them down is to be expected. It's quite interesting when people start to make "observations" (such as this one), but are really just expressing what they would like to see. It's just as curious as when "analysts" claim that the iPhone is dead, yet every year iOS dominates the records for mobile browsing, mobile shopping, mobile photo-taking, etc. Apple would quite simply not be doing so well if it was no longer "cool". Being a young adult myself, I still have to interact with teenagers often and it's simple : 50% of them have iPhones, 40% want one but can't afford it, and the remaining 10% will say that Android is better because it's more popular.
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01-12-2013, 04:03 PM | #27 | |
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"In fact, a YouGov poll found that a fifth of Apple users admitted that their bank account is always overdrawn, and generally, iPhone users were more likely to have a lesser paying job than Android or Blackberry owners." check under: dude, you're barista from samsung commercial :-) http://news.payplan.com/why-iphone-5...t-infographic/ Last edited by Tacty; 01-12-2013 at 04:14 PM. |
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01-12-2013, 05:00 PM | #29 | |
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01-12-2013, 05:02 PM | #30 | |
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