Why Android is better than iPhone.

I called a Bell store a few days ago and they had plenty of iphone4s in stock.

What lines?? Lol

At most you have to wait about a week or two after launch to get a new Apple phone without waiting in lines or for preorders. Considering the buzz and insane first day sales numbers, I'd say that's pretty impressive and a thumbs up for apple supply chains.

Ice cream sandwich? Lol great, more convoluted crap from google. Personally I think wp7.5 is poised to make some big moves. It already looks way better than android and seems on the heels of iOS. They're doing everything right so far.
 
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there's something new coming out all the time... at least the apple products don't suck when you purchase them... with android there's so many scaled back models so they can sell the phone for cheap to some sucker that doesn't know the difference between the models.
 
I called a Bell store a few days ago and they had plenty of iphone4s in stock.

What lines?? Lol

At most you have to wait about a week or two after launch to get a new Apple phone without waiting in lines or for preorders. Considering the buzz and insane first day sales numbers, I'd say that's pretty impressive and a thumbs up for apple supply chains.

Ice cream sandwich? Lol great, more convoluted crap from google. Personally I think wp7.5 is poised to make some big moves. It already looks way better than android and seems on the heels of iOS. They're doing everything right so far.
Again, the sales numbers are hugely inflated. I do not think it's impressive at all.

The only thing WindowsPhone has going for it is .Net. Development for WP is just so easy because VisualStudio is one of the best developer tools (XCode is OK, but nowhere near as good) and so many people already do .Net development it's very easy to transition to WP. The actual GUI is unique, but not for everyone. I know a few people that love it, but not really my cup of tea. At least Microsoft is doing better then RIM.
 
Not quite, but yes.

oh, and you can disable that while passcode is enabled. I don't know why they set the default to 'on', very Facebook-Policy like.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20122632-83/bad-siri-shell-let-anyone-use-a-locked-iphone-4s/

I think the idea of set to on is that it gives it ultimate usability. Not needing to type in a passcode to use voice commands makes life much simpler and virtually hands free as you only need to hold the home button to get siri up.

Its not a glitch or hole, its just a feature for maximum usability. At least the option is there to use it as you need it.

I personally would leave it on.
 
I think the idea of set to on is that it gives it ultimate usability. Not needing to type in a passcode to use voice commands makes life much simpler and virtually hands free as you only need to hold the home button to get siri up.

Its not a glitch or hole, its just a feature for maximum usability. At least the option is there to use it as you need it.

I personally would leave it on.

I think the big issue is that they didn't seem to alert users of this function, or the switch to turn it off, so nobody knew their info was at risk. With millions of 4S out there already, some may never find out and could have their private info compromised.
 
[h=1]Google Mobile Boss Andy Rubin on Apple, Microsoft and Tablets[/h]At AllThingsD, we like to eat our dessert first.
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That’s why we’re kicking off AsiaD with a little Ice Cream Sandwich. Google mobile chief Andy Rubin is taking the stage with Walt Mossberg to talk about the future of Android, just hours after unwrapping the latest version here in Hong Kong.
Rubin is just one of the many mobile-focused speakers here at the show, which will also include talks with Windows Phone head Andy Lees, along with executives from Samsung and HTC. Rubin is due to start speaking just after 6 pm local time. (That’s 3 am for you West Coast types, and 6 am on the East Coast.)
5:50 pm: Folks are just getting their seats, so feel free to do the same.
5:58 pm: Two-minute warning. And you have no time-outs left.
6:02 pm: Don’t worry folks. Still here. Just finishing up my bubble tea as the guests get seated. You probably have a couple minutes to grab a beverage yourselves, if you want.
6:08 pm: Um, still waiting.
What to do.
“Siri: Do you know a joke?”
“Two iPhones walk into a bar … I forget the rest.”
6:11 pm: Welcoming remarks are starting.
6:13 pm: The chief secretary of Hong Kong is on stage, and there is a very loud lion dance making its way through the tables in the convention hall.
6:17 pm: Lions still dancing. There will be ice cream. I promise.
6:19 pm: Walt Mossberg takes the stage.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever followed that kind of act,” Mossberg said.
6:19 pm: Apple’s Phil Schiller won’t be appearing at the conference, Mossberg notes, as he needs to be at the Steve Jobs memorial at Apple’s campus on Wednesday.
6:22 pm: And now, Andy Rubin …
6:26 pm: Mossberg: You had a big event here in Hong Kong as well today.
Rubin: With our partner Samsung, we launched the Galaxy Nexus, which is our next-generation lead device with Android 4.0 — Ice Cream Sandwich.
6:27 pm: Rubin is explaining what makes a “Nexus” phone, as opposed to any old Android phone. Basically, Google gets deeply involved in the design, working with the hardware maker and the chipmakers.
Rubin notes there are over a million lines of code in Android.
“You don’t want to build it generically and then throw it over the fence.”
“I look it as a reference design,” Rubin said of the lead device.
6:29 pm: Rubin explaining how Ice Cream Sandwich reunifies the tablet and phone versions of Android.
Android 4.0 will support both phones and tablets.
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There’s a notion of fragments, introduced in Honeycomb, that lets apps run in different configurations for screen sizes.
Walt noted that Rubin said a year ago that Android was still for geeks, and maybe their spouses. Honeycomb was a little better about surfacing the hidden technology, Walt said. How does Ice Cream Sandwich stack up?
Rubin said the company has always been trying to improve the user interface.
“We want it to be intuitive,” Rubin said, saying Android devices should be an extension of people’s daily lives, and the company aims to keep getting closer to that goal.
“Ice Cream Sandwich is the best we’ve ever done,” Rubin said.
6:34 pm: Rubin is now showing off the just-introduced Galaxy Nexus, which bears both the Samsung and Google logos. It’s got a Texas Instruments processor and a sensor to tell how high off the ground it is, among other hardware features.
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One of the features is the ability to unlock the phone using facial recognition (a demo that didn’t go so hot).
6:37 pm:
“We’re going to try it again here,” Rubin said. “Let’s see if this works.”
And it does.
“Hi, Andy,” the phone said.
Rubin notes the technology came from a recent acquisition.
6:38 pm: Now Walt is giving it a try.
“Sorry, don’t recognize you,” the phone tells Walt.
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The Android phone is actually using the graphics chip on the phone rather than the main processor to do the facial recognition, Rubin notes.
Now Rubin is showing the phone doing some real-time effects on the camera, distorting Walt’s face in various ways.
“This will all reflect on the review,” Walt said.
The effects are similar to those found in desktop software for a while now.
6:42 pm: Let’s talk about competition.
Who’s your main competition?
Rubin doesn’t really answer directly.
“Maybe you need the translator,” Walt quipped.
“I guess my competitors would be anybody who is in the platform business. Apple builds an operating system. Microsoft builds an operating system.”
What’s your sense about RIM?
“I think they’re very smart. They’re Canadian.”
Rubin said he went there once and they were completely vertical, building their own antennas and even building whole phones in Canada. “There’s a lot to be said about that approach,” he said, noting it eliminates a lot of dependencies.
“The problem with it is it limits agility,” he said.
I think it is real easy to retool. They acquired QNX so they have some future they can seize.
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6:46 pm: Are you, as a competitor of Apple, thinking they will lose a step with the death of Steve Jobs?, Walt asked.
“I don’t think anything like that,” Rubin said. “I used to work at Apple,” he said, noting it was his first big job.
Rubin noted that Apple still has the same ingredients that have made it a success, though it will miss Steve’s leadership. “Now it is time for some of the other guys to step up.”
6:48 pm: Asked about Windows Phone, Rubin noted that Microsoft did what smart companies do when they are late or behind in a market, which is to innovate on a different axis.
“I think that’s what Microsoft did with their Metro UI,” he said. “I think it is a bold move.”
That said, “from my taste and my perspective, it could be very dangerous for Microsoft,” he said. He suggested that Windows Phone leaves less room for creativity and for software and hardware makers to express themselves.
“If you want to take over the screen, you should be able to take over the screen,” Rubin said.
Rubin said it is kind of like what happened on the PC, which left hardware makers creating something of a commodity.
6:52 pm: “How come Android tablets have completely flopped in the marketplace?”
“I wouldn’t say completely flopped,” Rubin said.
Rubin said there are a little more than six million Android tablets out there running Google’s services, not counting other tablets (such as Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color)
“Six million is pretty healthy, but it is not 30 million,” he said. “Obviously, we need to get there.”
6:55 pm: Walt: When are you going to sell music?
“Today, it’s not there,” he said.
6:56 pm: “I feel we are close,” Rubin said of being able to offer some sort of music acquisition service — sales or subscription. “It will have a little twist … it won’t be just selling 99-cent songs.”
But others have gone in during the time that Google was unable to reach a deal with Hollywood and the record companies, Walt noted, point out that device makers such as Samsung now sell content on their own. “Obviously, people went in and they filled the gap,” Rubin said.
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6:59 pm: Walt asked about tablets such as the Kindle Fire and Grid 10 that use Android under the hood, but do their own thing and hide Android from the user.
How do you feel about that? Is it good for Google?
Rubin: “I create an open operating system and somebody uses it. Am I okay with that?”
On Kindle Fire: “I think it is fine for Google. It is Android. It adheres to the APIs of Android.”
“I don’t view this as some kind of walled garden.” Rubin noted that Google can even create programs for Amazon tablets.
“Maybe this is going to solve the tablet problem,” he said.
7:03 pm: Walt is trying to get Andy Rubin to confirm that Galaxy Nexus will launch on Verizon first. Rubin doesn’t bite.
As for when Ice Cream Sandwich will show up on other Android devices, Rubin said it will be a matter of weeks after the Samsung device.
7:04 pm: Why should other Android makers not worry about Google buying Motorola?
Rubin: Part of it is clearly about patents. I’m focused on delighting a lot of consumers, but there are other folks focused on putting me out of business.
As for the hardware business, Rubin reiterated that a Google-owned Motorola would operate “at arm’s length” from the Android unit.
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7:07 pm: On to Q&A.
First question is on how Google will protect app developers and others from patent issues.
Rubin: “In general, if we achieve patent peace where people aren’t suing each other for competitive advantage … that’s my goal.”
Rubin notes that there are mechanisms to license the patents for GSM and for MP3 and that would be a nice model to see for smartphones.
“It would be beautiful, in my view, if there was one clearinghouse to get all these rights,” he said.
7:11 pm: On Android Market
“It’s getting a lot better,” Rubin said, noting that the site finally uses Google’s actual search technology to find more relevant apps. “It’s going to get better exponentially very soon.”
Rubin acknowledged it hasn’t always been as good as it should have been.
“I recognize that we were a little behind.”
7:13 pm: Rubin on HTML5:
It’s not yet an alternative to building separate apps for different mobile operating systems.
“That would be the holy grail,” Rubin said, but it’s probably a way off.
7:17 pm: One of the pain points of Honeycomb has been the lack of tablet apps. When are we going to see ICS coming to tablets?
Rubin said he doesn’t think there should be apps specific for a tablet, necessarily. With Ice Cream Sandwich, Rubin said, all apps will run great on tablets.
Going forward, I think it would be wrong to make that distinction.
7:23 pm: Last question. Going to the digital home, what about televisions? How can we possibly see a single app working on phones, TVs and tablets?
Google TV is a product that exists, and it’s Android. The 2.0 version of Google TV is Honeycomb-based. There are differences, he said. TV is relatively passive. But Android can tie all of those together.
7:25 pm: And that’s a wrap for the keynote. I’ll have more later from Andy Rubin.

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Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft."
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google's Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.

"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want." The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.


The book says that, while some Apple board members were happy that Hewlett-Packard gave up trying to compete with Apple's iPad, Jobs did not think it was cause for celebration.

"Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they thought they had left it in good hands," Jobs told Isaacson. "But now it's being dismembered and destroyed."

"I hope I've left a stronger legacy so that will never happen at Apple," he added.






http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobs-questioned-authority-all-apf-1873950574.html?x=0
 
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Steve Jobs’ harsh comments on Bill Gates. Steve said:
“He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”

Bill said regarding Steve:
“He really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing instinct for what works.”

Steve said:
“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”
 
Strike 1. They hold a conference to introduce BBX platform, but still don't show any QNX powered phones.

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If they keep up their "overpromise underdeliver" concept, then let the RIM deathwatch begin.


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Strike 1. They hold a conference to introduce BBX platform, but still don't show any QNX powered phones.

If they keep up their "overpromise underdeliver" concept, then let the RIM deathwatch begin.
I think the announcement was targetted more towards appeasing the shareholders than the public, and on that front they delivered.
 
I think the big issue is that they didn't seem to alert users of this function, or the switch to turn it off, so nobody knew their info was at risk. With millions of 4S out there already, some may never find out and could have their private info compromised.

The phone does not come locked with a passcode, no phone does as far as I am aware. Do they warn you that your info is at risk if you do not lock it? When you go to add a passcode lock, the siri lock option is right there, not hidden in some general setting. This is being made out to be a bigger deal then it is.

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If your adding a passcode to your iPhone, you cant miss this. Anyone who leaves Siri unlocked and has a problem only has themselves to blame.

Now the security flaw with the iPad 2 is a different story, as thats a glitch in the software, not a security feature you can easily turn on.
 
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