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Originally Posted by stonetools
(Shrug)
Everbody's experience is different.
My experience is that the SD card DIDN"t work with my Android smartphone, despite hours of dinking around with it (and swearing at it). There was NO tech support.
I've bought only a few tunes from Apple-a very smooth experience, I might add. Most of my music I had before I bought my iPad. I ripped the CDs into Itunes, plugged in my Ipad , and it synched automagically onto my device. Didn't have to deal with cryptic commands, create Music folders, invent an organizational sytem, or anything. A couple minutes later, I was ready to go. Never had to call Apple tech support, never had to trawl the forums for advice, never had to tinker with the device whatsover except to change wallpapers and do a reset now and again. Malware? Not my problem. Shopping for apps? Great experience-1,000 per cent better than Google Market. Apps-more apps, better apps. (There's an app for just about anything in the App Store-you may have heard  ).
I could goon, but why pile on... |
See, I've never had that problem. I had some MP3s on my SD card that I had in my old phone, and when I popped it in my Android phone, the music player found them without any problems.
That is one of the problems with Android. Too many companies come out with custom versions of stock apps, and custom user interfaces, and many of them suck. Fragmentation also makes it trickier, because what applies to one phone may not on another. I can't just say, "do this" on your phone if it has different stuff loaded on by the maker or carrier.
As far as malware, that really isn't an issue on android. So far, only malware is stuff that you have to be blind or braindead. Basically all that has been out so far, is a few apps in the market that access and do things they really shouldn't. However, it is the fault of the phone owner at that point. All Android apps show their needed permissions when you install them. If you see that an app for reading ebooks needs full read and write access to your contact, ability to monitor phone calls, GPS access, and internet access, shouldn't you find that strange and not install it? Also, you could really do the same sort of thing with the iPhone. Apple's testing and approval is constantly letting stuff slide past that they'd ordinarily reject.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
To be honest, we're not really sure a new ipod touch will be released. 
What Apple might well do is release the iPhone lite for $299. You get an iphone 4 without a contract and 8GB memory . It would stop these Galaxy Players dead in their tracks. |
iPhone 4 does sell unlocked and without contract, but starting at $649