iridebikes
Banned
fanboy
Why Android is better than iPhone.
- Thread starter MotoStark
- Start date
Physical keyboard is far superior "for me"
Im typing this at the Apple store.
$999 for a Mac book with 13" screen, 2.4 core duo, 2g mem and 250g harddrive.
I just bought my dad a Sony Vaio, with 15.5inch screen, intel i3 chip, 4g mem, and 400g harddrive, hdmi out, for $649.
I'll stick with the Sony, thanks.
.
If you want a physical keyboard, why would you compare an ipad with a laptop? That's like comparing a motorcycle with a car. "That Ducati is way overpriced! I could buy a Chevy Aveo with the same money. I prefer four wheels anyway."
I've got an MBP 13". I even paid more than that for it. It outperforms the more highly-specced Lenovo that it replaces, and also the newer Dell laptop I bought for my office. Specs aren't everything.
wonderings
Well-known member
Thats the key point here. I will gladly pay more for a computer to run OS X, and not some hackintosh. You can compare specs all you want, but at the end of the day it comes down to the OS your using, at least for me it does. OS X for me is worth a premium over Windows XP/Vista/7.
Poser
Well-known member
hooray
All-flash storage.
“Wow, that was fast.” With MacBook Air, you’ll find yourself saying that a lot. Because flash storage is two times faster than a conventional hard drive,2 everything you do is more responsive — browsing a large photo library, launching applications, opening files, and waking MacBook Air from sleep, for instance. And flash storage doesn’t have any moving parts. Which means it’s more reliable, and it’s also quiet. Lightning fast, durable, silent — fitting qualities for an ultracompact notebook like MacBook Air.
All-flash storage.
“Wow, that was fast.” With MacBook Air, you’ll find yourself saying that a lot. Because flash storage is two times faster than a conventional hard drive,2 everything you do is more responsive — browsing a large photo library, launching applications, opening files, and waking MacBook Air from sleep, for instance. And flash storage doesn’t have any moving parts. Which means it’s more reliable, and it’s also quiet. Lightning fast, durable, silent — fitting qualities for an ultracompact notebook like MacBook Air.
Not really, his comments on his latest post are fair and as long as people are open minded about the products they purchase I will respect their opinion, I have only called poser and iridebikes fanboys..for obvious reasons, and it's not an insult as they are very proud apple product users.Careful, someone might start calling you an Apple fanboi.
The funny thing is that I have called them both out to show me something...anything the Iphone can do bettter than an outdated 2 year old phone like the pre OS and they can't, how sad it is to have such a devotion for a product and not realize for the price they pay they are not getting the best
Last edited:
Find customers?
I would pay a premium too, but to spec out an equivalent macbook to what we paid for the Sony would be about double the price.
That's ridiculous in my eyes.
I've done the Apple thing and the PC thing. Win7 is just fine. There is no no no way the Apple is worth double.
But I guess you have to be an Appleholic to "get it".
.
No, you just have to have different preferences. Believe it or not, people like different things.
Poser
Well-known member
Man Punches Teen for Refusing to Turn Off iPhone on Flight
Russell Miller, a 68-year-old Treasure Valley man, punched a 15-year-old teenager after he refused to turn off his iPhone.
Witnesses say the teen was on his iPhone playing games and listening to music. When the intercom announced that all electronics be turned off, the teen ignored the request. As a result, Russell Miller got angry and punched the 15 year old. The pilots radioed air traffic control and cops were sent to the gate to arrest Russell Miller.
He punched him so hard there was a mark on the teen's arm," Lipple said. "That gave us probable cause to believe the reports from the other passengers."
Miller was charged with one count of misdemeanor battery and booked into the Ada County jail.
Russell Miller, a 68-year-old Treasure Valley man, punched a 15-year-old teenager after he refused to turn off his iPhone.
Witnesses say the teen was on his iPhone playing games and listening to music. When the intercom announced that all electronics be turned off, the teen ignored the request. As a result, Russell Miller got angry and punched the 15 year old. The pilots radioed air traffic control and cops were sent to the gate to arrest Russell Miller.
He punched him so hard there was a mark on the teen's arm," Lipple said. "That gave us probable cause to believe the reports from the other passengers."
Miller was charged with one count of misdemeanor battery and booked into the Ada County jail.
Poser
Well-known member
.
The funny thing is that I have called them both out to show me something...anything the Iphone can do bettter than an outdated 2 year old phone like the pre OS and they can't, how sad it is to have such a devotion for a product and not realize for the price they pay they are not getting the best
read the whole thread again, maybe you will learn a thing or two.
wonderings
Well-known member
Win7 is an alright OS, but for how I work its just not good enough. I have Windows 7 Ultimate running via bootcamp and VMware Fusion on my i5 MacBook Pro. Again, its a nice OS, but OS X gets the job done, efficiently and makes me incredibly productive, out of the box, no add ons, no downloading of different apps from different makers to achieve the same results. Its again subjective, for some Windows 7 is the bees knees and it fits their work environment perfectly and they couldn't imagine working with anything else. You cannot compare or even stipulate that OS X is not worth the price tag, it obviously is to many people, one of who is me. For some people they say the price tag is not worth it for a BMW bike. I love my GS, best bike I have ridden. Its worth it to me, but some would say get a V-Strom or the new Yamaha Super Tenere. Both good bikes, somewhat comparable. My preference is the GS, though I am always willing to get other bikes a try, I am not locked into any brand loyalty.
wonderings
Well-known member
What does this have to do with Android vs iPhone? I am not getting why you basically copy and pasting info on unrelated Apple products here. I don't see the relevance.
That's what happens when drinking Kool Aid makes you completely lose your objectivity and you find religion cubed
Poser
Well-known member
first. this thread is not about android vs iphone, or even better, its about whatever(were you not reading)
second. how is it not related to apple? Apple Macbook Air - Flash Storage = fast FAST, i didn't know it could go that fast!
do i need to give a log about the many things that is not related, i don't want to. but let's add the newest one, WebOs, go quote that.
Poser
Well-known member
Poser
Well-known member
That's what happens when drinking Kool Aid makes you completely lose your objectivity and you find religion cubed
are you smarter than a fifth grader?
Poser
Well-known member
Trojan can take over Android phones
A new and very sophisticated Trojan is hitting Android devices in China and endangering users worldwide.
Dubbed 'Geinimi', it can harvest large amounts of personal data on a user’s phone and send it to remote servers, says Lookout Mobile Security, describing it as 'the most sophisticated Android malware we’ve seen to date'.
It's also the first Android malware in the wild to display botnet-like capabilities, handing over control of the phone to a remote server.
Geinimi is turning up in repackaged versions of legitimate applications, mainly games, from third-party Chinese Android app markets. These include Monkey Jump 2, Sex Positions, President vs. Aliens, City Defense and Baseball Superstars 2010. Lookout says it hasn't seen any applications compromised by Geinimi in the official Google Android Market.
When a host application containing Geinimi is launched on a user’s phone, the Trojan runs in the background and collects user information including location coordinates and unique identifiers for the device (IMEI) and SIM card (IMSI).
At five minute intervals, Geinimi attempts to connect to a remote server using one of ten embedded domain names and transmit collected device information to the remote server.
"Geinimi’s author(s) have raised the sophistication bar significantly over and above previously observed Android malware by employing techniques to obfuscate its activities. In addition to using an off-the-shelf bytecode obfuscator, significant chunks of command-and-control data are encrypted," says Lookout.
"While the techniques were easily identified and failed to thwart analysis, they did substantially increase the level of effort required to analyze the malware."
A new and very sophisticated Trojan is hitting Android devices in China and endangering users worldwide.
Dubbed 'Geinimi', it can harvest large amounts of personal data on a user’s phone and send it to remote servers, says Lookout Mobile Security, describing it as 'the most sophisticated Android malware we’ve seen to date'.
It's also the first Android malware in the wild to display botnet-like capabilities, handing over control of the phone to a remote server.
Geinimi is turning up in repackaged versions of legitimate applications, mainly games, from third-party Chinese Android app markets. These include Monkey Jump 2, Sex Positions, President vs. Aliens, City Defense and Baseball Superstars 2010. Lookout says it hasn't seen any applications compromised by Geinimi in the official Google Android Market.
When a host application containing Geinimi is launched on a user’s phone, the Trojan runs in the background and collects user information including location coordinates and unique identifiers for the device (IMEI) and SIM card (IMSI).
At five minute intervals, Geinimi attempts to connect to a remote server using one of ten embedded domain names and transmit collected device information to the remote server.
"Geinimi’s author(s) have raised the sophistication bar significantly over and above previously observed Android malware by employing techniques to obfuscate its activities. In addition to using an off-the-shelf bytecode obfuscator, significant chunks of command-and-control data are encrypted," says Lookout.
"While the techniques were easily identified and failed to thwart analysis, they did substantially increase the level of effort required to analyze the malware."
Poser
Well-known member
Android up to 200,000 apps already?
It seems just yesterday we were talking about Google's mobile operating system boasting about reaching 100,000 apps on the Android Market. Now, according to a new report, there are already more than 200,000.
It comes from AndroidLib.com, which keeps detailed statistics about all things Android. In addition to saying there are now 200,000 Android apps available, the site says that a total of 2.5 billion apps have been downloaded.
It was just a few months ago that people were talking about how poor of a selection the Android Market had. Because of the fragmentation issue, big-name publishers were intimidated by it, leaving it open mainly to small and unknown developers. So even though there were 100,000 apps announced a few months ago, very few of them even stood out at all.
That's beginning to change in a huge way. Now there are big-name games like Angry Birds on the Android Market, social gaming giant Zynga is focusing on it, and Epic Games has just released a very powerful development tool for the platform.
It's still behind the iTunes App Store, which carries more than 300,000 apps. But that's the same milestone we were talking about when Android hit 100,000 apps. So the Android Market is growing at a much faster pace.
And it's even more impressive when you consider that the iPhone had a couple years head start before Android was released.
In 2010, Android overtook Apple's operating system as the most popular mobile platform but the iPhone still took the top stories in terms of apps. 2011 may turn the tables as developers start to really look at Android as a serious venture with millions of people willing to spend money.
It seems just yesterday we were talking about Google's mobile operating system boasting about reaching 100,000 apps on the Android Market. Now, according to a new report, there are already more than 200,000.
It comes from AndroidLib.com, which keeps detailed statistics about all things Android. In addition to saying there are now 200,000 Android apps available, the site says that a total of 2.5 billion apps have been downloaded.
It was just a few months ago that people were talking about how poor of a selection the Android Market had. Because of the fragmentation issue, big-name publishers were intimidated by it, leaving it open mainly to small and unknown developers. So even though there were 100,000 apps announced a few months ago, very few of them even stood out at all.
That's beginning to change in a huge way. Now there are big-name games like Angry Birds on the Android Market, social gaming giant Zynga is focusing on it, and Epic Games has just released a very powerful development tool for the platform.
It's still behind the iTunes App Store, which carries more than 300,000 apps. But that's the same milestone we were talking about when Android hit 100,000 apps. So the Android Market is growing at a much faster pace.
And it's even more impressive when you consider that the iPhone had a couple years head start before Android was released.
In 2010, Android overtook Apple's operating system as the most popular mobile platform but the iPhone still took the top stories in terms of apps. 2011 may turn the tables as developers start to really look at Android as a serious venture with millions of people willing to spend money.
iridebikes
Banned
When androidlib claimed 100,000 apps they were wrong. Google corrected their figure to 70,000.
Now androidlib claims 200,000.... if I had to guess, I'd say there's no more than 150k in the marketplace. That's still good, but half of what Apple has.
Any word on how many apps you can install on a blackberry? 20 or 25? LOL!!!!
Now androidlib claims 200,000.... if I had to guess, I'd say there's no more than 150k in the marketplace. That's still good, but half of what Apple has.
Any word on how many apps you can install on a blackberry? 20 or 25? LOL!!!!
