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Android spanking iOS in world's BIGGEST mobile market
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04-11-2012, 03:48 PM | #2 |
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Frankly, the only reason why the iPhone (and smartphones in general) have major marketshare in the US is because people don't have to pay full price for the device. If people had to pay full price for it (iPhone 4 8GB: $549; iPhone 4S 16GB: $649, 32GB: $749, 64GB: $849), there'd be a lot less people using the iPhone.
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04-11-2012, 04:52 PM | #3 |
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As low as $50 on sale. I paid $70 for mine, and use it like an iPod. It's quite sufficient for audiobooks, simple games, FBreader in the doctor's office. (It also paid for itself, since I use it to run an app for a site to which I belong, making a buck a day.) I never use it as a phone, since I'm not the phone type.
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I see cheap Android phones all the time, and will often do a quick Google search to see how well they hold up and if they have better specs/performance than my old phone to see if it's worth "upgrading" for a bigger screen or something. |
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04-11-2012, 08:30 PM | #5 |
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What? No mention of Microsoft's feeble attempt at a phone OS? ;-) It's nice to see the situation reversed in the phone space as compared to the desktop. Now if only MS can be unseated from their desktop monopoly, the sweetness would be complete.
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04-11-2012, 08:54 PM | #6 |
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Android has really matured over the past months, it's heads and shoulders above the competition.
Those who think that iOS is easier to use and "just works", should watch this video. |
04-11-2012, 09:16 PM | #7 | |
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04-11-2012, 11:34 PM | #8 |
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I think it will take 2 years more for Android to really reach its true potential as Google is slowly removing stuff from android that hinders or takes time for OEM to modify. One of the major reason that majority of the people are still using gingerbread. And still manufacturers are releasing new devices with gingerbread.
In 2 years I expect Android to reach a point where it can be updated over the air without breaking the skins and mods put in by OEM over it. |
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So I'm watching part 2. Ummm, I can do quite a bit of what's he's saying. Lol. He is not even close to being honest or really doesn't know how iPhone works. Seriously, I'll give him plenty of pluses the android category, but c'mon.
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He said more than once that he had an iPhone for three weeks. He was also showing an iPad 3 -- if that was his first iPad he may have had a combined experience of less than a month on iOS, which isn't much.
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