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Re: My Very Own Protocol Droid

#5

Post by lifeisstillgood »

Ok, (s)he lists four reasons why Android beats iPhone, my reactions to the four were:

1. Meh

2. Meh

3. Holy shit, they are going to take over! Hail our new overlords.

4. Meh

The Android is aware of it's environment and consequently can take personalised action, and is allowed to by product makers.

I swear undying loyalty oh masters

Re: My Very Own Protocol Droid

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Post by parfe »

>Twenty years of using Macs conditioned me to think, “well, that’s the Apple way.” It’s such a small price to pay for such a user-friendly device.

Another Stockholm-syndrome patient cured! I recently took over a prototype project targeting the Mac. XCode is garbage. OS X itself actively works against improving your workflow. It's Apple's way or, well Apple's way. iOS is built to keep the user in a padded cell (aka Walled Garden) and OS X is moving in that direction.

Use Cyanogenmod. Be Free. Google Now is amazing by the way. Unfortunately I had to turn my google search history back on, but it was worth it.

Re: My Very Own Protocol Droid

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Post by Tyrannosaurs »

yuvadam wrote: post #3

Makes you wonder if the iPhone 5 isn't the last device Apple ships under that name.

Unlikely for a whole bunch of reasons but primarily that the brand value of "iPhone" is still massive and it doesn't seem to be doing them any harm right now.

Instead I think what's happening is far more powerful and more interesting than that: smartphones (be they iPhone, Android or whatever else) are changing our expectation of what a phone is and what it does.

Saying it's a phone doesn't limit it because people's thoughts on what you can do with a phone are no longer defined by an old landline handset.

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