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Originally Posted by DNSB
When I read a rant like that, it makes me happy that I'm still using an iPhone. Settings tend to stay in the same place, I don't have to do a Google search to find out how to disable private/random MAC address settings*, most of the Apple applications are now easily removable, etc.
And yes, random MAC addresses are important to me since our corporate WiFi uses the MAC address to associate a device with a user during the registration process. Addresses with the multicast or universal/local bit set are not accepted as valid MAC addresses for registration. I.e. if the first octet of the MAC address is not xxxxxx00, it's bit bucketed. Every <expletives deleted> Android device seems to place that setting in a different spot.
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Based on my experience with this smartphone, I've thought of giving an iPhone a try. Viewing YouTube videos, it seems the main negatives about the iPhone are: (1) the cost, (2) having to use iTunes on your computer to put items on/off your phone, and (3) the locked-down nature of iOS. I view my smartphone as a separate device, rather than as an extension of my computer, and I don't want to be mandated to have to use specific software to connect my phone to my computer. I only want to have to plug in my phone using a cable, and then use drag-and-drop to add/remove items from my phone.
While it seems that I'm contradicting myself by seeing the locked-down nature of iOS as a negative, in some ways it is actually freeing. As a related example, when writing on my word processor I used to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how things should look. What I found freeing is to limit myself (I'll just use Times New Roman 12 Point for the main text, Calibri 18 Point for headings, and a blank line between each paragraph...done). In the same way, I've made things easier for myself by just putting the apps I will actually use (13 total) on one screen (the only screen I have) and hide everything else.
In some ways, Android reminds me of the ribbon in Microsoft Word (MS Word) where related settings are scattered all over the place. It's the reason I'm still using OpenOffice.org. I didn't care for MS Word but had to use it at work but that was before the Ribbon, but for me the Ribbon makes it so hard to use that at times I think I'd rather just use Notepad and write basic HTML instead.