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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
On the user's (not developer's) side, Amazon is far more aggressive than Apple about proprietary content. Perhaps I lead a sheltered life, but I've yet to hear of anyone's music library being wiped by Apple.
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Maybe not directly responsible, but Apple's laxidasical approach to security has proven far more damaging:
http://www.ibtimes.com/did-apple-all...ut-data-738888
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianki...apples-icloud/
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Amazon's interface is far more limiting than Apple's and involves an UI overlay atop Android which I find awful. If you're not interested purely in buying content from Amazon, you're far better off rooting. For people who intend only to use a tablet without rooting, Amazon strikes me as the more controlling of the two.
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While Amazon certainly encourages you to use its ecosystem, it is not required and there are many choices. I can get Apps from 1Mobile, SlideMe, Freeware Lovers, AndroidPit, and GetJar just to name a few. Apple products are far more restrictive than Amazon.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Earlier on, someone said they were interested purely in functionality and not the user experience. And while I do give full credit to the user experience, there are also limitations posed by software and its hardware implementation. In the past, Android's UI was far too jerky to be relied upon for timing-accurate uses. Jellybean appears to address that issue, but I'd still want to make sure before depending on it for casual music or film editing.
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All OS lag, including iOS. While Android's lag was more prevalent in the past, this has and will become less noticeable as the OS evolves and more powerful hardware continues to become cheaper and available.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
To buy what people on MR tell you to without discovering which device you yourself prefer is truly to be the sheep which others on this thread claim Apple users to be.
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This is how everyone should shop, but you know that a lot of people simply just have to have the latest thing. This goes for both Apple and Android owners.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
I would be succumbing to internet peer pressure if I refused to buy the one tablet with the only viable music library because its specs, pricing, marketing and social politics seemed objectionable to certain MR members.
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I wouldn't buy clothing from a company using sweat shop labor any more than I would buy another product made in one either. This goes for Samsung, Apple, or any other company that does business with companies that exploit severely overworked and underpaid workers while they make more off the sale of just ONE item than they pay a worker for an entire month with almost no time off and perpetual overtime:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technol...ildren-080912/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57...one-factories/