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iPhone 4 Is Nice, But It's Not Enough to Slow Android

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Re: iPhone 4 Is Nice, But It's Not Enough to Slow Android

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How knee-deep in a silly Android vs iPhone fanboy war do you have to be to write a long post addressing the supposed presumption that iPhone 4 was going to slow Android down? What sensible person is even constructing thoughts along these lines?

Many kinds of critiques, positive and negative, of both platforms are welcome. But this sort of fanboy service horse race punditry is not.

At this stage, the smartphone market is not a zero sum game. Nobody has to slow anybody down. Stop polarizing this space.

Re: iPhone 4 Is Nice, But It's Not Enough to Slow Android

#8
post #5

I'd rather have speed and battery life than tethering. If "speed and battery life measures are subjective" is all you have to say, that sounds like intentional ignorance.

Fully agree that both sides of the coin are important. However, of the following potential developments:

1) New Android phones become much faster and/or have longer battery lives 2) New iPhones become much more open and less locked-down

I think #1 is much more likely.

Re: iPhone 4 Is Nice, But It's Not Enough to Slow Android

#9
How does this stuff get to the top of list? It's 700+ words that ignores basically anything shown today by Apple and instead says only "AT&T sucks!"

More generally, flamebait articles that paint this as the great Android vs Apple war are maddening. They are pieces of software, not wrestlers. One does not have to fail for the other to succeed.

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