Re: Going Back to Iphone 5
It's true. I don't recall seeing you on any iPhone forums. I certainly don't come here to defend iOS. Neither of us need to defend the OS themselves. They're both fantastic at what they're meant to do. Android is meant to be extremely flexible and powerful and it is. Some people don't want to deal with all that. For them, there's iOS. It's great at what it is. Lots of people like it. Hell I like it. I used it exclusively for a very long time. Now my iPhone 5 is my work phone since we don't support Android devices yet. To each their own. I respect your opinion but at the same time I think the OP genuinely just wanted to give his findings. I don't think he was trying to troll anyone. Most of his gripes were personal preference with really only replacing the launcher and gallery apps being things fixable by Android. Like you said, we don't know what kind of car he has so who knows what's wrong there. As for preferring the iPhone camera and device size, he could certainly buy a smaller Android device like the First but it's kind of a no-frills phone he may not be interested in. I actually prefer the iPhone camera to the One but I'm going to do some work with it and improve my ability to use it. I spoke with a diehard iPhone user who just bought a One and she is amazed by the One's camera. She's a great photographer so I'm 100% sure it's a great camera and the fault is mine. The OP is probably better off with an iPhone because it works for him and that's all that matters. I just don't think ragging on him accomplishes anything. I think everyone was right to explain what he could do to fix his issues because maybe that will help someone else who comes here doing research. Sadly there are WAY too many users on both sides who are misinformed about the other. The guy who was saying the iPhone has a full HD screen comes to mind. He did realize he was wrong eventually and admitted it but lots of people won't admit when they're wrong and are just here to troll. Those are the people who deserve to be called out and I'm sure we can rely on you to point them out for us.
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Well, I wasn't specifically referring to the OP with my comment. You may notice that I was referring to a comment that they were surprised he posted the original comment. I stand by my statement that it didn't surprise me, that I have seen many similar comments, some much worse. Regarding the op and others in a similar vein, they would be much better off coming to the forum and asking about issues (as many other iPhone converts do), rather than giving up then coming to the forum to announce his displeasure. If several of the issue he listed weren't easily solvable then there would have been silence. Since he listed things easily solvable as his reasons, he gets criticized. By the way, his complaint about size wasn't about the phone itself but about the size in an otterbox, I believe, which again, there are many smaller cases.
But you are right. iOS is good for what it is. If I was going to recommend a smart phone to my grandpa, it would be an iPhone. I can't tell him go download this launcher and disable this or activate that. He needs it to work in a simple way. I think you will see my comments that state he made the right choice to go back to it, based upon what his complaints were. Not that the complaints were valid, but that if he couldn't deal with those issues, he was better off with iOS.
Regarding the camera, I think your friend is a good example, those with more photographic experience and knowledge seem to appreciate the One's camera more than casual users. That sort of speaks for itself as to the capabilities of the camera, but I do recognize that people that don't know photography have heard the hype about the camera, and think that it is going to make all their photos look good, when no camera can do that. One guy criticized another's photo for not being sharp enough for a $600 phone, nevermind that the guy who took the shot thought it was good enough to post as an example of how good the camera is. That tells me that the results were good, to him, as compared to other phone cameras.
Regarding the guy and the HD iPhone, he is all over this board with similar stuff about iPhone. Tiring, really.
of course I was agreeing with you silly!
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