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Maybe you shoold carry a spare battery?..... Oh wait ....
Nope they're going to co-exist, iOS will continue to be easy to use and the more simple/casual friendly experience. You want to fiddle more/customise every aspect of your phone you go Android, jailbreaking helps in that area though.
Android is catching up in that regard, they haven't sorted out the 'update lottery' yet but I think they will iron that out soon as Google have expressed concern over fragmentation. There's two things Apple and iOS do better than Android; guaranteed updates for your phone and music playback. Although the latter isn't really a concern anymore
No single Android phone is going to outsell an iPhone though, as said Android has a lot of choice with handsets, no one phone is called an Android, unlike the iPhone where you only really have a choice of one or two handsets. I don't count the 3G as that is a terrible excuse for a phone these days. It's horrendously slow...
I don't really understand the second line of your post, as a switcher Android does everything my iPhone did, it did admittedly lack a few games but aside from that it's mostly the same experience, there's not one thing it lacks in comparison, I don't have to worry about updates as I have a Nexus.
So yeah, I do feel you're being a bit dramatic with that statement. Stock Android is a fantastic OS...however, it's ******* idiotic that you have to worry if you're getting stock Android or some carrier modified version that's slow and bundled with hard to remove crap. I will give you that. The sooner Google force stock Android on carriers the better, they really should.
and as for share they already have it; http://www.pcworld.com/article/229388/no_stopping_android_juggernaut_says_comscore.html
Of course like I say, it doesn't mean much as there's many more Android handsets at varying price brackets.
God this has become another Android post. I want more MacBook Air news.
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Bahaha. Barely lasts 12 hours for me.
With fairly light usage my boss gets 2 days with it.
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Bahaha. Barely lasts 12 hours for me.
I really don't understand this. Moderate use I easily squeeze two days out of my iPhone, it's on its last legs by the end and three days would just never happen, but two is pretty easy.
If you sit playing Angry Birds all day and listen to loads of music, watch videos, use the wifi all the time, of course you won't get much, but that's true of all the smart phones...
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What you want from a phone != what I, or the next person wants from their phone. This is the point.
Besides, it IS missing something, and that is MobileMe and iTunes.
As for the market share, that is not the case around here!
Non-smartphone >>>> iPhone >> Android > BB > > Everything else.
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Bahaha. Barely lasts 12 hours for me.
Sounds like you've got a faulty battery.
I'm not so sure, SAMOLED+ is great on the Galaxy S II but it isn't really 'better' than the Retina display on the whole. The Retina's colour reproduction is much more realistic and it is most certainly sharper.
I didn't say what I want from a phone is all that matters.
MobileMe? Really? That service is rubbish, I used to pay for it..god knows why, Google do all the syncing stuff for free. I started using that on my iPhone and it worked identically. As for iTunes...I guess if you're heavily invested in it that can be an issue, but I thought they dropped the DRM? So you can now use iTunes music on any device...hmm yeah I fail to see why iTunes and MobileMe are considered something it lacks.
I was personally so happy to be rid of iTunes. The syncing is so archaic in that you are stuck to the same iTunes library ID, so if I reformat my PC I have to format my phone too as it won't let me sync from the phone to PC, only PC to phone. Idiotic decisions. I've never tried it on my Mac so I'm not sure if that works the same way.
iCloud will be MobileMe's saving grace, that's if they decide to tack it onto that.
Lol you can't seriously be judging market share based on your area...that is ridiculous.
Yeah that is true, although from everything I've read and with my short time with the iPhone 4 you can't really notice the difference in sharpness unless you're very, very close. At normal viewing distance I've not really missed the sharpness, which is there with Retina but I would sooner have the bonuses of battery life than a screen that appears sharper if I shove my face against the phone.
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There's things about MobileMe that are fantastic, but calendar/contact sync certainly isn't one of them. The theory is lovely but it's got a lot of problems. Main one being that it doesn't work.
iTunes is very good and like it or not it can only be classed as a huge plus point for Apple, Android has nothing that can offer the kind of thing that iTunes does. As for the software itself, I've never had an issue with it, it works well enough 
Google need to get a rival to iTunes going (they are half way there with this Chrome stuff, they just need to expand on it), and finally remove all the garbage apps from the Android Market and up the quality standard.
Market share wise, Android wipes the floor with the iPhone purely because it is available on dirt cheap handsets, there is nothing surprising about that.
Google need to get a rival to iTunes going (they are half way there with this Chrome stuff, they just need to expand on it), and finally remove all the garbage apps from the Android Market and up the quality standard.
Market share wise, Android wipes the floor with the iPhone purely because it is available on dirt cheap handsets, there is nothing surprising about that.
I actually used to like iTunes, well it was always a bit sluggish on Windows but I stuck with it until I got a decent headphones and sound card, that's when I started listening to flac more which iTunes doesn't support. So I only used it for iTunes syncing, it worked fine if you was on the same installation but I hated that if I had to format I then had to format my phone too.
I could understand if they at least let you transfer songs to the iPhone on different computers, but no, if you use a computer with a different iTunes library ID it completely locks transferring to and from the phone, for apps, music and video...it's so irritating and means you can't quickly pop it in a laptop or another PC in the house to put something on it.
I like iTunes on Mac a lot more, I don't need flac on that and it seems to run a lot smoother...even though my PC is a far higher spec machine than this MacBook.
I could understand if they at least let you transfer songs to the iPhone on different computers, but no, if you use a computer with a different iTunes library ID it completely locks transferring to and from the phone, for apps, music and video...it's so irritating and means you can't quickly pop it in a laptop or another PC in the house to put something on it.
I like iTunes on Mac a lot more, I don't need flac on that and it seems to run a lot smoother...even though my PC is a far higher spec machine than this MacBook.
Did you not backup the iTunes folder?
After a Windows format copy it back and authorise your computer for the iTunes account and you're fine.
It's been flawless for over a year for me. I do get annoyed at having to pay for it though. Hopefully the basic Calendar, Contacts and Mail will go free after Monday.
One thing I've noticed with my MobileMe mail is the complete lack of spam. Never have I received even one. It's glorious.
When I Googled if that would work I read that you had to mess around in the registry to make sure you had the exact same library ID, as copying the folder alone wouldn't work.
Would have saved me a few phone wipes.
Chances are I'd have wiped the phone anyway. When I wipe one device and start over I prefer to do everything else as well.
Chances are I'd have wiped the phone anyway. When I wipe one device and start over I prefer to do everything else as well.
I used to be low on hard drive space so I had to have everything converted to MP3 just for my phone, then I used to have to copy everything off my phone using some third party program then put it all back on again. It was annoying.
Good old Total Commander though, it got the job done!
iTunes is an odd one: it was the main reason behind me NOT wanting to get an iPhone in that I didn't want to have to organise my music by metadata (I was happy doing it by folder name).
I got the iphone 4 and took the plunge organising my music. Now Itunes is one of the main reasons why I got rid of the Iphone 4. Every time I wanted to transfer music, videos or updates across to the phone it would turn out to be a 1 hours job as Itunes ALWAYS broke. I would fix it, and then it would break again.
This process killed it for me (this is in Win 7 btw). Luckily Itunes seems excellent at transferring music to USB drives, so I will be using it to transfer stuff to my new phone because I like its excellent organisational features!
Another Iphone bugbear was Flash- these phones will be dual core monsters soon. They broadly have 1 day of battery life. Flash should be available now. It has turned away from user experience into petty gripes between Adobe and Apple. There is no point saying HTML 5 will be the future; I live in the present. I get sent links to flash video sites and for the next 18 months I want it available. When flash is literally non existent, then apple can stop supporting it.
I got the iphone 4 and took the plunge organising my music. Now Itunes is one of the main reasons why I got rid of the Iphone 4. Every time I wanted to transfer music, videos or updates across to the phone it would turn out to be a 1 hours job as Itunes ALWAYS broke. I would fix it, and then it would break again.
This process killed it for me (this is in Win 7 btw). Luckily Itunes seems excellent at transferring music to USB drives, so I will be using it to transfer stuff to my new phone because I like its excellent organisational features!
Another Iphone bugbear was Flash- these phones will be dual core monsters soon. They broadly have 1 day of battery life. Flash should be available now. It has turned away from user experience into petty gripes between Adobe and Apple. There is no point saying HTML 5 will be the future; I live in the present. I get sent links to flash video sites and for the next 18 months I want it available. When flash is literally non existent, then apple can stop supporting it.
It's been flawless for over a year for me. I do get annoyed at having to pay for it though. Hopefully the basic Calendar, Contacts and Mail will go free after Monday.
And what will happen to the money i just gave them for a years subscription??
I fear that if it goes free the quality of service will drop dramatically!!
As said previously, I've had no spam, the aliases are great, syncing is prefect etc...More people on a free service will only have detrimental effects
damn all you free loaders 
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Why is mobileme so good? Doesn't google sync everything for you for free anyway ? Genuine question
I like mobile me as my iPhone, iPad and Mac all sync together nice and easily! with no hassle what so ever. Contacts, Work, Calendar, and mail, its all there and up to date. The find iphone/ipad is a great option (albeit it is now available for all owners of iPhones/iPads).
Like is said with many apple products... they just work! no fiddling whatsoever!
Some will disagree, and to those people it is unfortunate that they haven't got the level of service I have from all my apple products.