Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:It's just weird. Apple, with the iPod, finally "got right" a lot of what was wrong with the fragmented and Engrish market of MP3 players and made it accessible and easy to use. They then continued on with the iPhone and iPad - they didn't coin just a catchphrase, but literally proved that their stuff Just Works. Probably the truest post ever written in this forum. Until google has a brick and motor presence and releases devices from them first party, Android will never be able to match the quality and customer experience that iOS has.
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E2M2 posted:Seriouslly, I thought there were rule changes to police the blatant trolling coming in from YOSPOS. I'm not trolling, one of Android's faults is that the customer has no real comfortable place to go for support, other than returning an item back to the store they brought it from, possibly paying restocking fees. There really should be an Android store but not like anything from that concept place that was going around a few months ago.
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Actually now that I think of it a google store would just make everyone on XDA mad because obviously hacked devices wouldn't be supported anyway.
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Jan 28, 2012 22:27
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Appreciating excellent customer service from the most popular and well regarded manufacturer of consumer electronics is naive because they do it for marketing?
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Jan 28, 2012 22:44
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El Duke posted:this analogy doesn't work. People don't buy old POS cars to fix them up so they have a fully working POS car in the end. They buy cars to restore them to former glory. Same with bikes. People don't waste their time loving with stuff that was poo poo in the first place. They repair quality to bring it back to quality. Actually if you think about it, Android rooting is more akin to gluing gears to a car/bike to make it steampunk. vvv Why would you need a colour, non eink display to read a book? To see the cover? got dat wmd fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jan 29, 2012 |
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Craptacular! posted:I guess I'd point the Apple supporters here to this article on MacStories that points out that the iOS stock system, specifically the launcher, is far from perfect. All that's saying is someone's opinion on how the home screen started as one thing and is now another. Nitpicking about what pictures the icons have? I mean, come on. It's not commenting on its usability, stability or anything else, it's about the theoretical concept of "badges on a table." got dat wmd fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 29, 2012 |
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Shorter Than Some posted:If someone is advised that fixing up a nook can make it into a mediocre tablet how is that bad advice? If they don't have the time they won't do it, and frankly a lot of you are overestimating how much time it takes to put the latest cyanogen mod on a Noook. I'm not advocating this for people who can afford iPad's or primes or whatever. People who can't afford iPads or Primes probably also don't have a tablet already or are new to tablets, so recommending to hack an ebook reader into tablet is a dual concern. For one you won't be able to get support for it since it voids the warranty, so someone who buys an ebook reader and hacks it into a tablet because they could only afford it and screws up the process is now out of luck with a defective device they could barely afford (I say barely because not being able to afford ~$300 for a used device versus a $99 ebook reader is student/poverty ratio of income for toys most likely). So in that case, it's rather poor advice.
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Jan 29, 2012 18:18
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The little thing for the iPhone that comes with a fisheye and macro lens is pretty great, though. It just snaps on the side. Things like that don't really seem to exist for Androids because they all seem to mostly center-mount the camera. Manufacturers should take a hint and position the camera in a corner so there could be little accessories like that.
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Jan 30, 2012 23:28
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Also to clarify some other wrong information, styluses are mostly designed for art related programs on the iPad, not as a means of direct input functionality.
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Feb 16, 2012 23:49
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WebOS is really good, it's just a shame HP didn't know what to do with it.
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Feb 21, 2012 01:24
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I've never seen anyone with an Android tablet in the wild, let alone at a party. I'm like that with booze though.
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Feb 21, 2012 05:14
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How? You plug devices in and they show up in the sidebar and tick to sync over Wifi if you want it. Hell, my 70 year old dad can manage.
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Feb 21, 2012 19:20
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Some software coming out will probably take more advantage of the higher resolution display or the more RAM or any of the other new features. It's futureproofing in these cases. The same could be said of tablets that will be receiving Ice Cream Sandwich and tablets that won't have Ice Cream Sandwich but are less expensive.
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It's probably worth keeping or getting the new iPad if only for the sunk cost of your purchased iOS apps.
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Can someone seriously explain the idea of buying cheap tablets with known issues and faults for the purpose of "tinkering?" I seriously don't understand it. I mean people put Linux on computers to tinker with because it's fun For them to explore a technical focused operating system, but in the end if you get bored you can always go back to osx or Windows. With Android tablets, they're designed to be a self contained environment that does one thing - act as a tablet operating system for browsing, buying applications, etc. There's really no need to add any extra technical expertise to the experience. There's also no need to have it designed for a specific purpose because there are computers designed to do specific things like act as a server or media center for a price well under what a tablet designed as an interactive environment can offer. In essence a tablet is a toy, not a computer. Trying to make it something it's not doesn't seem worth it. The idea of people buying low quality, often broken from the manufacturer tablets for purposes of experimentation seems so counter productive that I can't wrap my head around it. I mean you don't buy Walmart brand TVs to turn them into oscilloscopes.
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Apr 27, 2012 20:25
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Be sure to teach mom how to root and use the search function before asking questions.
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Apr 27, 2012 22:35
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Please don't buy a used device from Craigslist for your mother. Android or not that's a really scummy half-assed thing to do. She's your mother!
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I've never seen an Android tablet in Boston in the wild, never seen a portable video game being played either, thankfully.
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