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/\ Android apps: 3.5 million iOS apps: 2.2 million pop fly to McGillicutty posted:Everytime I show someone a photo from my pixel, they freak out about how good it is. That's good enough. That's (IMO) the biggest difference between a $200 android phone, and the +$800 flagship phones. The differences between my wife's Moto G4+, my LG Q6, and my friend's Galaxy S9 are pretty much what you would expect if you overlaid a photo quality graph and a phone price graph (they basically line up). My phone's photos are twice as nice as hers, while my friend's S9 is 2 times better than mine. Apparently the Pixel 3 is that much better than the S9. Other than that, I can't think of any real differences between the various cheap/expensive Android phones, as they all run the same apps the same way. That $1500 S10 isn't going to give you any real advantage when swiping on Tinder, and it's not like that 3GB G4 is going to be bogging down because of app updates any time soon. Blistex fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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OMFG FURRY posted:can we get a coke vs pepsi thread next? Coke > Pepsi (they both suck, Coke less so) Tap water > Bottled (assuming you live in a first world country) \/ Back when I had Prime I ordered and returned 8 different Android boxes before I found one that didn't suck. Then again I was going for the $50-75 bracket. Blistex fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Feb 21, 2019 |
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Favorite thing about Android phones is that you can do silly poo poo like this without any special software or fiddling around with settings. Just plug and play.
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Feb 24, 2019 03:52
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EvilJoven posted:Any phone you can't get for 0$ with a plan is a scam. My wife had to block our provider's number because she would keep getting her hopes up, then sit down, do the maths and see that by the end of the contract you've paid 20-40% more than if you just outright bought the phone. The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL (in Canada) are $250 dollars off right now, until March 25th or something. (if you buy direct from google)
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Counterpoint: Cell phone contracts are a scam. In most cases you spend less money by buying the phone outright and going with a no-contract plan. Today even the big carriers offer a no-contract options that are good and they are always have a cheaper monthly rate than contract plans. I outright bought my last two phones (off eBay and from the Rogers store) so that I could keep my current plan. The lady checking my account told me to hold onto it no matter what, and any promotions that might come my way might have a disclaimer that my current plan will be cancelled. She says that Rogers is pretty good at not forcing their customers to give up grandfathered plans, but their promotions are designed to try and weed them out gradually. $29 a month for unlimited long distance calling in Canada, unlimited texting, call display, voicemail, and 250MB of data per month. I'm currently a Shaw internet customer, so I can have 10 devices connected to Shaw Open (their wifi that covers 80% of Calgary and outlying cities). The only time I really ever use my data is when I need to search an address that my offline navigation software can't find, which is pretty rare. numberoneposter posted:I'm $65 cdn and that's with a $35 corporate discount for 4 gb. Canada sucks for cell phones. Marketplace consistently ranks Canada in the bottom 10 worldwide for Cell and Internet plan prices. SilvergunSuperman posted:ITunes is maybe the worst software I ever had to use, struggling to think of something worse. Back in the day I got a free Gen 1 Shuffle for test driving a vehicle and 5 minutes of using iTunes made me search for a free alternative that allowed me to drag and drop songs on to it. I don't know how they managed to make such a bloated and unintuitive program.
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Feb 25, 2019 08:10
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Bananaquiter posted:All my iPhone friends have smashed up screens, but I guess that's part of the aesthetic. What's that about? Every one of my students with an iPhone has a screen that looks like it was used to stop a truck, while their Android using counterparts don't have nearly that level of attrition. I've been told that iPhones are actually more durable than most other phones, so are Apple users just massively clumsy?
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Feb 25, 2019 08:19
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Pitdragon posted:did he get cremated? if not i think it'd be funny if someone exhumed his corpse and paraded it around on a stick or something But him in a big raw veggie/fruit salad.
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Feb 28, 2019 04:45
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Klyith posted:squeeze his remains through a Juicero juice press It's really too bad there weren't people who specialized in cancer treatments to tell him what he should have done.
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I really don't care what devices people use, but when you have people who don't have a clue dictating what everyone else has to use, it sucks. My current school board is slowly starting to figure out that just because you're in education, doesn't mean that you have to have 100% Apple products. They've finally stopped buying iPads which are beyond useless past the lower elementary levels, and I guess a bean-counter also figured out that spending 2-3x more for Apple devices over Chromebooks and Windows products isn't good for the budget when device attrition is as high as it is in a school setting. My previous school was 100% MS devices, and nearly all classes were taught on OneNote, Forms, etc. and coordinating and communications over outlook, skype, teams and other parts of the MS suite. The kids who went to that school (coming from other ones) would initially push back and insist on using their Macbooks, but their second year they'd usually pick up something from the surface line or a Windows laptop. My current board is starting to move away from the hot mess that is the Google suite, and we've finally gotten outlook logins. If they didn't drop a massive amount of money on their aging macbooks, we could have had a 1:1 device ratio for students and I wouldn't have to waste paper printing poo poo. I had some people from head office last year come into our school and they dropped by my classroom unannounced. I had a wireless HDMI dongle plugged into the projector, and was making a collaborative real-time note with my students on OneNote, while walking around the room and writing on my surface Pro, while students were passing around a Bluetooth keyboard that was connected to it and making the note with me. The big-wigs were asking what kind of iPad I had, and I showed them that it was a Windows device. They were shocked and said (paraphrasing) "you can do that without an iPad?"
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piratescurvy posted:I'm an apple cult fan boy etc when it comes to desktops/laptops. Mac is more stable and considerably faster run applications like Adobe's suite. I was under the impression that this hasn't been true for well over a decade. Confirm/Deny?
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tango alpha delta posted:Ahahahahahahahahaha. Wipes tears from eyes. Ahahahahahahahahaha. This was my understanding. Back in the late 90's Macs were better and faster than comparable Windows machines, but the hardware available to PC users has far outpaced what Apple is offering, and the +10% bonus you might get from the Apple OS is completely negated by the fact that a windows PC at 1/2 to 3/4 the price of a Mac is faster in every single way.
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This guy is a really wasteful rear end in a top hat.
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Moridin920 posted:I look down and whisper "No." First they came for the Hentai DVD rips, and I said nothing, for I didn't watch Hentai. Then they came the 32GB Rar files of 340p Russian Incest porn. . .
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Just use Opera Don't know if  but Opera is basically just a Chrome skin now.
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COMRADES posted:I just kinda legit don't know what people are using your phones for that requires better than say the x4's processor. As you say, it's personal preference really. I'm working my way through all of the old Sierra point and click adventures. Just finished King's Quest, and am starting Dagger of Amon Ra.
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COMRADES posted:You just reminded me about Torin's Passage and I'ma play that drat game now ty You're welcome.  So is there anything you can run on an Android/iPhone that even comes close to using 1/2 the specs that the new hardware has? Like are there really CPU intensive games that you can stream to your TV at like 4k? Or is some manner of crypto-mining app all there is?
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QuarkJets posted:I don't think anyone is saying that faster cpus are bad but rather that it'd be stupid to buy the most expensive desktop possible if you're just browsing the internet and playing YouTube videos Had to google that, and holy  at the price.
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