Steve Jobs 1 year today tribute on Apple

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spoffle said:
No one actually said that. You compared a cheap arse low end Android phone to an expensive recent iPhone then said "this is how I see Android".
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No one said anything of the sort, again. You compared a cheap phone to an expensive iPhone.
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To be fair this is both an advantage and disadvantage of android. Because it is so widely available it can be installed on cheap low powered hardware which will negatively impact the user experience. Apple don't have that problem because they control the hardware as well as the software.

You are right that there is little the iPhone can do that an Android phone can't do, but the advantage that the iPhone has is that it can do it generally right out of the box whilst Android phones tend to need a little bit of fiddling. (Again an advantage and a disadvantage in that android phones do not tie you in to any one particular store, sync software or cloud service but therefore need more setting up).
 
RDM said:
To be fair this is both an advantage and disadvantage of android. Because it is so widely available it can be installed on cheap low powered hardware which will negatively impact the user experience. Apple don't have that problem because they control the hardware as well as the software.
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Whist that is true, I'd argue that it's not particularly relevant in this discussion. It makes no sense to compare a high end phone with a bottom end phone, yet people who love iPhones do that regularly to make their "points".

As soon as they compare like for like their examples don't work at all.

You are right that there is little the iPhone can do that an Android phone can't do, but the advantage that the iPhone has is that it can do it generally right out of the box whilst Android phones tend to need a little bit of fiddling. (Again an advantage and a disadvantage in that android phones do not tie you in to any one particular store, sync software or cloud service but therefore need more setting up).
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This isn't really true either. Android phones as a general rule don't need fiddling to work out of the box. I've had 2 iPhones and 2 Android phones. Both work as expected out of the box without fiddling about.

The difference is if you want to fiddle about, you can with Android, on iOS you'd have to jailbreak. It took me the same amount of time to set up my iPhones as it did my Android phones.

I would actually argue that iPhones aren't as simple to use either. They're very basic, but that's not simple. One of my biggest issues with iOS is the amount of inconsistency with it. I had to go back to my iPhone for a week last week, and it was just plain awkward using it.

There's no consistency when it comes to "going back" in applications. The back button is never in a set place, different apps have them in different places whereas my Android phone (well all of them) have a back button that's always in the same place.
 
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