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Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by redrobot5050 » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 8:01 PM UTC

jarek wrote: post #181

marbletiles wrote: post #166

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app for that, in 4.0, got it (UK), app for that, got it. So again, a huge leap forward? Hardly.

You have wifi-hotspot "tethering" on the iPhone in the UK?

http://rockyourphone.com/index.php/mywi.html

You can have it anywhere.

Also, just because Google said Android can do it, doesn't mean carriers are going to let manufacturers enable that feature on the phone. Odds are, to enable WiFi tethering in production model phones, you will either have to a) Pay more or b) root your phone, sideload an app/firmware.

Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by redrobot5050 » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 8:22 PM UTC

doki_pen wrote: post #23

Ionic_Walrus wrote: post #20

Why do you want to use your phone as a wifi hotspot ? It'll drain the battery. The telco's in the US are the worst of the lot. Android and iPhone are 2 great platforms, Im happy that both are here.

I tether it via usb. It charges as it tethers.

Then why not use the USB connection as the data connection like you can do with an iPhone? Or use Bluetooth?

Re: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android

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Post by redrobot5050 » Mon, Jun 14, 2010, 6:39 PM UTC

studer wrote: post #115

redrobot5050 wrote: post #101

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>This is an enormous responsibility that Apple has never had to deal with -- there's a difference of at least 3 if not 4-5 orders of magnitude in the number of different types of hardware platforms that each company had to deal with. Apple is supporting two gens of hardware. The iPhone OS will support the iPhone 3GS, the latest iPod Touch, the next-gen iPhone (as of now, unreleased) and the iPad. Android has 19+ phon…

> Also, people hate to hear this, but a jailbroken iPhone provides a much better experience and much more competitive than Androids. That's your opinion, not a fact. There's no reason to hate you for your opinions, unless you somehow imply that your opinion is somehow more relevant than my opinion (hint: it's not).

No, it is fact. Let me rephrase: A jailbroken iPhone provides a much better experience (than a regular iPhone) and is much more competitive with Android.

Look at the features Android offers that Apple doesn't...widgets? Jailbreak. Multi-tasking? Jailbreak. Themes? Jailbreak? Customizable lock screen? Jailbreak? Multiple ways of loading apps? Jailbreak.

Do you have to pay for some of those features? Yes. Does the marginal utility of any of those features lead to a truly "must-have" experience for the average consumer? Not in the slightest.