Sure, some of the features have been on Android for years, but there are many that Android doesn't have built in yet. Why all the hate?

Hate? Really? You guys really have to be kidding.

Ok, maybe hate is a little too strong.  I am just tired of the Apple vs the world war.  Constructive criticism is fine.   I personally was hoping that Swype on iOS would work well since I loved using Swype on Android (until it no longer worked).  It too bad if it doesn't.  

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by shellylh

On the other side, the store seems very Google Play at the moment. Some encouraging Swype which doesn't work well. Others Swift which doesn't work well.

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by blessingx

Sure, some of the features have been on Android for years, but there are many that Android doesn't have built in yet. Why all the hate?

No hate. I just think it's funny that the guy doing the video was wowed by viewing a list of apps and having it tell him how much battery they were chewing. That's been around for ages on other platforms.

And because it's fun to wind Jacob up. I'd have laid good $ that'd he'd be the first to reply and claim that apple did it better. Apple clearly innovates very well but it cheapens them in general when they claim innovation for stuff that is just old news. It's about damn time they figured out a predictive text bar, my goddamn flip phone had that.

Ok, maybe hate is a little too strong.  I am just tired of the Apple vs the world war.  Constructive criticism is fine.   I personally was hoping that Swype on iOS would work well since I loved using Swype on Android.  It too bad if it doesn't.  

 

Phones have become the modern religion, for whatever reason.

 

Phones and their Os's are just tools. Pick the best tool for the job.

 

Some tools are imperfect.

 

However marketing / branding would like to have us self identify by our purchases. 

 

Which leads to polarization. with no room for nuance.

 

"You're either with us, or against us"

 

and absolutism and rejection of facts (and history)

 

"We have always been at war with Eurasia".

 

So then its just a matter of taste, and preference.

 

And we can agree to disagree, can't we.

 

I miss my StarTac.

I miss my StarTac.

I still have one if you want to go back in time.

It's all about the nokia 515

 

Way way too moderne

I still have one if you want to go back in time.

 

I can't believe you still have one.  It was my first cell phone, on horrendous Sprint network.

Use Spring in Cincinnati, and you can at least recapture the horrendous Spring network part.

New keyboard?

Anyone know how to bring back the microphone to dictate instead of typing stuff? It seems to have been replaced by the stupid emoticon button that I couldn't care less for.

Anyone know how to bring back the microphone to dictate instead of typing stuff? It seems to have been replaced by the stupid emoticon button that I couldn't care less for.

 

The microphone button is still there on mine.

 

 

Use Spring in Cincinnati, and you can at least recapture the horrendous Spring network part.

 

No thank you.  One good thing about the horrendous Sprint network was that it gave me an excuse to miss non-critical work calls.

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by Salt Peanuts

Anyone know how to bring back the microphone to dictate instead of typing stuff? It seems to have been replaced by the stupid emoticon button that I couldn't care less for.

The microphone button is still there on mine.

Fragmentation?

**BRENT**

My Palm was fine until it wasn't.

My Palm was fine until it wasn't.

You met girls?

You met girls?

Mary and Rosie Palmer?

Mary and Rosie Palmer?

and the three other sisters..

You know, I can moderate youse.

Moderation is for monks.

 

Got my leather case. It's nice. Might try the Regent Street store next week on the off-chance of scoring a phone to put in it.

My iPhone 6 came broken... half the backlight is out. 

 

I was told that I can pay them $30 to cross ship a device to fix the problem... or pay them $7 for them to send me a refurb in a week or two. 

That's bullshit.

What the fuck. Can you escalate?

W T F!!!

It is a brand new device. Why refrb as replacement?

Also how can they have refrb already?

WTF all around

.....

try the walk into the store and punch a manager method.