There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:I don't get the cult of Mac. "I have a phone I was thrilled with and paid $600 for a year ago, but now there is a newer, shinier one that weight 18g less!!! OMG!!! I MUST GO RIGHT NOW and drop ANOTHER $600 for this new device!!! My old phone is CRAP and I HATE IT!! It must die in a fire!!!"
WTF?
Steve
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:I should qualify this with the fact that I am a cell phone luddite..
Gregg Bolinger wrote:However, I do want to upgrade.
Martin Vajsar wrote:
Gregg Bolinger wrote:However, I do want to upgrade.
I'm the exact opposite. I usually abhor the upgrade, since I'll have to find out how to sync contacts with the new software, unlearn a few habits from the previous model and while the new model usually has a few new interesting perks, nearly every upgrade I did brought some unpleasant surprise.
Bear Bibeault wrote:I never had to learn how to import contacts the first time -- it just did it automatically from my (then) iTools account.
Steve
Spot false dilemmas now, ask me how!
(If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
fred rosenberger wrote:I should qualify this with the fact that I am a cell phone luddite. I have one only because I have a child. At my last contract renewal, I went backwards...I used to have a blackberry, now I have the most basic, simplest phone I could get. It gets/makes calls, I can text with it...that's about all I need on a phone.
And to be honest, I could quite easily do without the texting.
Regards,
Anayonkar Shivalkar (SCJP, SCWCD, OCMJD, OCEEJBD)
Martin Vajsar wrote:every phonemaker I've bought a phone from went bust (Siemens, Sony-Ericsson). Nokia is on the verge now. Perhaps the spell could be broken if I went for Apple.
Pat Farrell wrote:I find it interesting how unexciting this latest iPhone is. Sure, its a bit nicer, prettier, etc. But there is nothing here new and exciting.
Steve
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
Steve Luke wrote: but it is probably asking a little much to expect something new and exciting every year.
Bear Bibeault wrote:NFC is about the only concrete thing I've heard, but Apple is going in a different direction with mobile payments.
Bear Bibeault wrote:
What more did you expect, Pat?
What's your wish list?
Devesh H Rao wrote:
I am disappointed because i think Apple is taking it easy. The competition like WinOS and Android have had dynamic/live home screens be in in form of widgets or tiles.
Apple when it came out with icons was a path breaker, it showed the way but IMHO they have been left behind on that front. iPhones screens are static. They do not do much apart from collate a set of icons.
I do not want to go inside an app to check time, weather, rss updates, news ... yes they have notifications but that is not the same as active content of the screens which is customizable to my needs. Maybe it is a viewpoint but yes Apple was expected to do better. Leave killer features aside, leave the future support.
Apple is expected to plug its gaps, get what its competition does better into iOS as well. Its a deal breaker for me.
Gregg Bolinger wrote:...Why? Because over time, Android gets slow and the animations become less than smooth and it is more annoying that not having them at all. I fully expect for you or someone to say "that doesn't happen to me" but what matters is what happens to me....
Steve
Steve Luke wrote:
Gregg Bolinger wrote:...Why? Because over time, Android gets slow and the animations become less than smooth and it is more annoying that not having them at all. I fully expect for you or someone to say "that doesn't happen to me" but what matters is what happens to me....
Yeah, that happens to me too. The Live features and streaming stuff slow things down and kill battery life, so I turn much of that off. But Widgets are more than that. The power widget was a must for a long time* - turn GPS, WiFi, Data, Airplane Mode, Screen Brightness on and off at the touch of a button. You can't do that on Apple, those functions are deep inside menus. It is painful. Other widgets are just as useful without being memory or power hogs: contact launchers for email, phone, texts, hidden panels to get quick access to more icons without going through screens, there are a lot of them. Those are the real benefit to having Widgets over purely static and pre-defined UI. Many of them are easy to live without, but when you have them it makes life so much easier.
*less necessary now that those functions have been added to the notification center