"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in iOS 6"

Post by technoslut » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:46 PM UTC

omonra wrote: post #78

doron wrote: post #53

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This segmentation for two kinds of Android users is exactly the problem. If you are an IOS user, whether a poweruser or not, you will get the latest upgrade and a range of new features by default. This delights users, they don't have to care about the issue to be satisfied with the device. Perhaps I am lazy, perhaps I am somewhere in between those two archetypes you mention. I want to hold the device i buy before i b…

There are no power-IOS-users :)

Post by CrazedGeek » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

ashishgandhi wrote: post #117

argarg wrote: post #96

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Long time android owner and Galaxy Nexus owner here: I... Love... This... Phone... It takes beautiful pictures at an amazing speed, I get absolutely 0 crashes using multiple different applications, battery ALWAYS lasts at least the whole day no matter how hard I use it, and I love every single features ICS has to offer. I am in no way jealous of anything my iPhone friends can do with their phone and I will gladly buy…

You mean the scrolling is smooth for you? Edit: Key steps in writing that comparison table: 1. Whatever iOS 6 has and ICS does not, list it to be on ICS via third party. 2. Don't do third party additions on the iOS 6 column as if there are no third party apps on that platform. Might as well say, "Android is open-source and since the phones are Turing machines Android does everything ever possible by a computer throug…

Post by eevilspock » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

alecco wrote: post #79

abruzzi wrote: post #44

This is the old bullet-list fallacy. Quality is simply a measure of the bullet list of features, and no attempt is made to what is behind the items on the bullet list. Remember when the first iPhone was announced? The bullet list after it was announced had touchscreen at the top of the list, so every manufacturer thought that all they had to do was add a touch screen to their existing platform, and hordes of just lik…

> Remember when the first iPhone was announced? The bullet list after > it was announced had touchscreen at the top of the list No, the LG Prada was ripped off by the iPhone. Don't let apple fanboys rewrite tech history. Same with the iPod. Sure, it was a more polished product, but they were not the first with the feature set. Apple rarely is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)#iPhone_controv...

Post by eco » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:55 PM UTC

shadesandcolour wrote: post #113

cageface wrote: post #63

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there is no requirement for new devices to install the newest version. No, but only the really low-end Android phones are coming out with 2.x anymore and that number is going to dwindle quickly over the next year. And ICS is not as crucial as some people make it out to be since 2.x is a decent platform already and a lot of features have been backported.

Only the really low-end Android phones and the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Note and the Motorola Droid 4 and others.. So yeah, only the low-end phones.

Post by eco » Tue, Jun 12, 2012, 4:56 PM UTC

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It's hard to compare getting ICS on legacy phones to getting iOS 6 on your iPhone 4S. Of course, first gen Android devices aren't going to be able to run ICS, but neither will first gen iOS devices. iOS 6 is not going to be on the original iPad, the original iPhone or the iPhone 3G.

I bought a Galaxy SII last October - about a week or so before the Galaxy Nexus was released - and here I am without an ICS. T-Mobile JUST announced support for it, saying it would be here within a week. The only update I have received was a patch update, with minor UI changes. Even depending upon CyanogenMod has failed me. T-Mobile loves getting non-standard devices and then not releasing drivers that could help boo…