I loled - Why iPhone is better than the HTC One

[cheeta186]

OSX is just so so SOOOO much better then windows. Totally not over priced at all.

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Good God I hope you're joking. OSX has it benefits, but better than Windows? At least windows can run all pc games. Plus you're missing the real silliness here, real men use Linux. Lol

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[Farish]

Who cares if my computer is thicker than 5mm, it's a desktop, not a laptop. My gaming rig is in a mid size tower(not too big and not super heavy either) and will crush that iMac at anything, guaranteed. For the price you pay for that thing you could build something twice as good as long as you want to put a little work into it, and it's pretty much that simple. No matter how you look at it, the products you get from Apple are over prices for what you get. Regardless of how good they may be. The only thing I would say is a good buy for the money is the iPod line, and not even all of those are.

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So lets say I don't care about gaming but I want a high resolution 27 inch monitor ips screen with built in USB 3.0 hubs on a simple card core pc with a mid range graphics card.

So I spend around 700 dollars on the monitor. And then I take all the rest of the parts of the 27 iMac build it myself and I save about 200-300 dollars.

Now I have a desktop and a monitor that takes up more space and weighs more than that iMac.

Also I wasted 2-4 hours of my time at least building it, installing the operating system everything else.

Now lets say I have a problem with the motherboard in 4 months, I have to go RMA the motherboard, remove it, ship it out, wait for it, get it back and reinstall it. Or I could go down to the Apple store and have them fix it in 48 hours.

Not even comparable.

 

[anon5664829]

Good God I hope you're joking. OSX has it benefits, but better than Windows? At least windows can run all pc games. Plus you're missing the real silliness here, real men use Linux. Lol

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Not joking totally serious. I think OSX is so much better then virus ridden Windows. So what about gaming? I use my PS4 for gaming and if I have to play a game I just play mine craft. Not a PC gamer here.

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[Jennifer Stough]

I think the issue at hand here is people stating opinions as fact, or people interpreting opinions as facts. While the article linked is obviously biased, everyone else here is entitled to their opinion. I don't understand why it went from a "lol, what a joke of an article" thread to a "lot, what a joke of an OS thread." That stray in topic alone is the sole reason for people feeling the need to be on defensive. Why have to defend the reason behind liking a certain device or OS? There is nothing wrong with liking something. Its not immoral, illegal, or improper. There is just way too much judgment going on.

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[bluwjub]

And any modern smartphone will accomplish those tasks admirably with no modification. The writer claimed to want to try Android because of all the options, but then found the choices "overwhelming" and stated that he prefers Apple to make all those choices for him. That's what makes him an iSheep. If you just say "I tried it, I feel more comfortable with iOS and prefer those apps/features" then I don't have a problem with that. If you just say "I don't want to learn a new platform" I can understand that. But to say "I want to try Android because of all the customization options" and then say "all the options are too much for me, I need Apple to make all those choices for me" tells me that the initial attempt was disingenuous at best.

AWESOME WAY TO PUT IT

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[Gator352]

You think specs mean everything?
OK well then the 5S crushes the One.

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5s beats the One in specs? Stop this. Your killing me.

 

[Gator352]

Except layed isn't a word. I think you mean laid this is what happens when you pull out the grammar card on someone else.

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LOL! I just got played, laid, and called out!!!

 

[anon5664829]

5s beats the One in specs? Stop this. Your killing me.

AnandTech | The iPhone 5s Review

i"m gonna believe the best of the best reviewers. This shows the S600 and S800 getting crushed.

Then the GPU page: AnandTech | The iPhone 5s Review

So again, how am I killing you? If with facts thats's awesome:thumbsup:
:beer:

 

[anon5664829]

5s beats the One in specs? Stop this. Your killing me.

Seriously, maybe if you weren't so blind we would be getting somewhere with this conversation.
I personally prefer the Ones speakers and Sense 5.0 looks oh so beautiful! but there are certain things about my iPhone I like better.

 

[paulo_mealha]

You can not imagine the times that I had this discussion with friends And I decided the best way possible: I bought a HTC One a month ago and I will buy an IPhone 5S as soon is for sale in my country. Problem solved!

 

[cooler_p]

eeeeeh... lol, a nice joke, garyft!=)

 

[Gator352]

Seriously, maybe if you weren't so blind we would be getting somewhere with this conversation.
I personally prefer the Ones speakers and Sense 5.0 looks oh so beautiful! but there are certain things about my iPhone I like better.

I respect you man. We went through some tough words but neither of us resulted to name calling and/or violence! Like I said though, I like apple products. I do. I just don't like Apple inc. I also respect that you like them and it's all well and good.

 

[anon5664829]

I respect you man. We went through some tough words but neither of us resulted to name calling and/or violence! Like I said though, I like apple products. I do. I just don't like Apple inc. I also respect that you like them and it's all well and good.

Thanks yeah you have no idea how close I was to LOL!

Yeah I understand. I find Samsung's practice's questionable and you find Apples to be.

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[anon(7894520)]

AnandTech | The iPhone 5s Review

i"m gonna believe the best of the best reviewers. This shows the S600 and S800 getting crushed.

Then the GPU page: AnandTech | The iPhone 5s Review

So again, how am I killing you? If with facts thats's awesome:thumbsup:
:beer:

Actually, there are quite a lot of discrepancies in this review.

For starters, the "CPU performance" page only contains JS benchmarks and not a single native application. And iOS and Android use entirely different JS engines, so this is literally a case of comparing apples to oranges.

Native benchmarks don't compare the new apple chip to "old 32 bit v7 chips" - it only compares the new apple chip to the old ones, and also compares the new chip in 32bit and 64 bit mode. Oddly enough, the geekbench at engadget shows tegra 4 actually being faster.

Then, there is the inclusion of hardware implementation in charts that are supposed to show the benefits of 64bit execution mode, but in reality the encryption workloads are handled in a fundamentally different way in the two modes, in software in 32bit mode and implemented in hardware in 64bit mode. This turns the integer performance chart from a mixed bad into one falsely advertising performance gains attributed to 64bit execution and not to the hardware implementations as it should. The FP chart also shows no miracles, wider SIMD units result in almost 2x the score in few tests, nothing much in the rest.

All in all, I'd say this is a very cleverly compiled review, cunningly deceitful to show the new apple chip in a much better light than it is in reality. No surprises, considering this is AT, it would be more unexpected to see an unbiased review.

I guess we will have to wait a bit more until mass availability for unbiased reviews, considering all those "featured" reviews usually come with careful guidelines by the manufacturer that need to be followed to create an unrealistically good presentation of the product. That is the price you have to pay to get the new goodies first - play by the rules of a greedy and exploitative industry. Corporate "honesty"

I don't say the new chip is bad, I just say it is deliberately presented unrealistically good. Krait has expanded the SIMD units to 128 bit as well, so we should see similar performance even without the move to a 64bit ecosystem. Last but not least, 64bit code bloats the memory footprint of applications because of pointers being twice as big, and while those limited memory footprint synthetic benches play well with the single gigabyte of ram on this device, I expect an actual performance demanding real world application will be bottlenecked by the ram capacity. All in all, the decision to go for 64 bit architecture is mostly a PR stunt, surely, 64bit is the future, but in the case of this product, and considering its limited ram capacity, it doesn't really make all that sense, but is something that will no doubt keep up the spirit of apple fanboys, and make up for their declining sales while they bring out the iphone 6, which will close all those deliberately left gaping holes in the 5s

Ultimately the benchmarking problem is being fixed, just not on the time scale that we want it to. I figured we'd be better off by now, and in many ways we are (WebXPRT, Browsermark are both steps in the right direction, we have more native tools under Android now) but part of the problem is there was a long period of uncertainty around what OSes would prevail. Now that question is finally being answered and we're seeing some real investment in benchmarks. Trust me, I tried to do a lot behind the scenes over the past 4 years (some of which Brian and I did recently) but this stuff takes time. I remember going through this in the early days of the PC industry too though, I know how it all ends - it'll just take a little time to get there.

Actually I think 128-bit registers might've been optional on v7.

The only reason encryption results are in that table is because that's how Geekbench groups them. There's no nefarious purpose there (note that it's how we've always reported the Geekbench results, as they are reported in the test themselves).

In my experience with the 5s I haven't noticed any performance regressions compared to the 5/5c. I'm not saying they don't exist and I'll continue to hunt, it's just that they aren't there now. I believe I established the reasoning for why you'd want to do this early, and again we're talking about at most 12 months before they should start the move to 64-bit anyways. Apple tends to like its ISA transitions to be as quick and painless as possible, and moving early to ARMv8 makes a lot of sense in that light. Sure they are benefiting from the marketing benefits of having a feature that no one else does, but what company doesn't do that?

I don't believe the move to 64-bit with Cyclone was driven first and foremost by marketing. Keep in mind that this architecture was designed when a bunch of certain ex-AMDers were over there too...

Take care,
Anand

 

[anon5664829]

Aanand tech is biased? You are killing me!

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[mlyon83]

I'm in the process of saving for next upcoming Macbook Pro, because I really like their laptops and want to use it for video editing and marketing my online business.

However, as far as having an iPhone, I wouldn't even consider it with the new Android devices being put on the market.

The fact is that the newest iPhone 5s/c models are wonderful phones, and if I had to use it without any choice, I would. But let's not get retarded about which phone is factually better:

- Better battery: HTC One
- Better exterior design: HTC One
- Better OS development: Android
- Better functionality: HTC One
- Better processing power: HTC One
- Better RAM: HTC One
- Better price: HTC One
- Better screen/resolution: HTC One (sharper)
- Better sound: HTC One
- Better cute / pretty colors to look at: iPhone 5
- Better dumb-proof / can't be broken, even by a 5-year-old: iPhone 5
- Better support: iPhone 5 (Side note: Who cares about support? It's a phone. Google what you need to know.)
- Better in belief of mass consumers and the public market that its the best phone: iPhone 5

Winner: HTC One

Or we could put it this way....

1st Place: HTC One
2nd Place: iPhone 5 (well, not really, it would probably be the Samsung Galaxy S4 {rooted})
3rd Place: iPhone 5 (that's probably more like it)

So let this not be another horse-beaten post, but a clear reminder that the HTC One is currently top of the mountain, at least in the U.S. (the Butterfly S being #1).

Maybe iPhone is better, but certainly not the 5 model. (Maybe the 6 will be as good, if not better, than the HTC One.)

So for all you Apple fans, enjoy your phone. But don't you dare say its better than the HTC One in terms of performance. It's not true. It can't be true. End of story.

However, if you're still inclined to believe that the iPhone 5 is better, then okay. Nobody can stop you. But I'll also tell you this: Santa Claus isn't real.

Just because you believe he's real will not have him climbing down your chimney on Christmas, to break into your house and rob you of milk and cookies.

Thank you all.

 

[Kilroy13]

Ok its still nothing new, and why do I need my phone to have my fingerprint?

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The nsa would really appreciate it!

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[anon5664829]

I'm in the process of saving for next upcoming Macbook Pro, because I really like their laptops and want to use it for video editing and marketing my online business.

However, as far as having an iPhone, I wouldn't even consider it with the new Android devices being put on the market.

The fact is that the newest iPhone 5s/c models are wonderful phones, and if I had to use it without any choice, I would. But let's not get retarded about which phone is factually better:

- Better battery: HTC One
- Better exterior design: HTC One
- Better OS development: Android
- Better functionality: HTC One
- Better processing power: HTC One
- Better RAM: HTC One
- Better price: HTC One
- Better screen/resolution: HTC One (sharper)
- Better sound: HTC One
- Better cute / pretty colors to look at: iPhone 5
- Better dumb-proof / can't be broken, even by a 5-year-old: iPhone 5
- Better support: iPhone 5 (Side note: Who cares about support? It's a phone. Google what you need to know.)
- Better in belief of mass consumers and the public market that its the best phone: iPhone 5

Winner: HTC One

Or we could put it this way....

1st Place: HTC One
2nd Place: iPhone 5 (well, not really, it would probably be the Samsung Galaxy S4 {rooted})
3rd Place: iPhone 5 (that's probably more like it)

So let this not be another horse-beaten post, but a clear reminder that the HTC One is currently top of the mountain, at least in the U.S. (the Butterfly S being #1).

Maybe iPhone is better, but certainly not the 5 model. (Maybe the 6 will be as good, if not better, than the HTC One.)

So for all you Apple fans, enjoy your phone. But don't you dare say its better than the HTC One in terms of performance. It's not true. It can't be true. End of story.

However, if you're still inclined to believe that the iPhone 5 is better, then okay. Nobody can stop you. But I'll also tell you this: Santa Claus isn't real.

Just because you believe he's real will not have him climbing down your chimney on Christmas, to break into your house and rob you of milk and cookies.

Thank you all.

It can't be true? then Aanand tech must be liars right? anyways all you have said is opinion and opinion. Don't you DARE pass of YOUR opinion as a fact when IT IS NOT.

Thank you all.

 

[Bm96]

In the United States on all 4 major carriers they have been the top selling smartphone. I think they don't need to try.

Aren't they continuously doing worse? That's what I meant. They are stealing features off android because iOS needs to compete to stay alive.

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[anon(7894520)]

Aren't they continuously doing worse? That's what I meant. They are stealing features off android because iOS needs to compete to stay alive.

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lol no.

the iphone 5S + 5C have sold more than 9 million units during the weekend. that's not only a record in iphone sales, but a huge increment from the latest record (the iphone 5).

there isnt a single phone manufacturer right now that comes even close to those figures.