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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
For a long time, the iPhones were notorious for dropped calls due to the service provider (ATT). Recently, they attempted to foist buggy navigation software on the users. When people stand on line to buy a phone that does not function well, that's what I call sick love. Never try to argue with an Apple fan boy or fan girl. Chacun à son poût. (Sic)
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I'm not an Apple Fanboy. But my first Android phone experience was a horrible one. I had Android 2.3 on the phone, and I could never get the phone to unlock when a call would come in. It sometimes took me 20 times pulling down the lock bar to unlock the phone, and it was very unresponsive when the phone was ringing. After a few weeks of missed calls, I bought an iPhone. It unlocks instantly, every time.
In 2006, I grew tired of reloading my Windows computer every 7-12 months to fix things that shouldn't have gone wrong in the first place. I used to work in IT, held a few certifications, and the day came where I just wanted a computer to work instead of having to work to make it do what it was supposed to. Bought my first iMac. Loved everything about it, and I haven't gone back to a Windows environment.
I write this now using an antique Powerbook G4, which oddly still works just fine running an outdated OS. It would have set me back $3300 new, but was only $150 on eBay. How many Windows laptops from 2005 are still even minimally functional?
On the other hand, I have an original iPad that is very long in the tooth. Apple broke the OS in IOS 5.2 and then dumped support for the original iPad with IOS 6.0. There's a memory leak in 5.2 that hasn't been fixed, and it causes any memory-intensive application to crash frequently (this includes Safari.) Frustrating, to say the least. That's why my second tablet was a Nexus 7, which I love most of the time.
What Apple excels at is making a high-quality product that functions the way it should. Where they fail is in locking users into proprietary formats or standards (for instance, the long-term lack of a 4G phone, the long-term lock into AT&T or the fact that you can't read a book from the iBookstore on a Mac.) I think most people who hate Apple do so because of their proprietary nature and their high cost. I think most people who love Apple do so because of their user-friendliness and quality offerings. In my case, I believe you get what you pay for, and now that there are Android products that are the equal of Apple's for similar prices, you can get a quality experience from either environment, but this was not always the case.
Going forward, I think Apple needs to do more to improve their hardware. The iPhone 5 doesn't make me want to replace my iPhone 4, but the Galaxy S4 does. The OSs are now close enough that I don't really care one way or the other.