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Btw... did you get the iPhone attack in that comment? Running out of space... another common Apple issue!! :) Muhha I am good.. fek it, it is weekend.

I did - kind of ignored it. Sorry! :lol: I love my iPhone. Have never really had any issue with it, other than it running for about 2 years and then dying, and honestly, all phones do that. I've had LG, Motorola, and several others and the only one that never died on me after 2 years was the Nokia 3310. You could practically run over it with a truck and it would still work.
 
I did - kind of ignored it. Sorry! :lol: I love my iPhone. Have never really had any issue with it, other than it running for about 2 years and then dying, and honestly, all phones do that. I've had LG, Motorola, and several others and the only one that never died on me after 2 years was the Nokia 3310. You could practically run over it with a truck and it would still work.

My Samsung S5 is still going strong :)
 
My Samsung S5 is still going strong :)

I had a Samsung - not sure which model but it was only a few years ago. Had a lot of trouble with it. I got it in between the 5s and 6s because I thought I wanted a change. Turns out I did not. I ended up going back because of the problems I had with the Samsung.

But it wasn't the S5 - I know that for sure. And phones are a lot like cars or anything else you get. You are always going to have people who have phones that suck. My husband has had to change his 6s and 7s both because they had problems. They exchanged the phone for a different phone (same model) and he has had no problems at all.
 
I had a Samsung - not sure which model but it was only a few years ago. Had a lot of trouble with it. I got it in between the 5s and 6s because I thought I wanted a change. Turns out I did not. I ended up going back because of the problems I had with the Samsung.

But it wasn't the S5 - I know that for sure. And phones are a lot like cars or anything else you get. You are always going to have people who have phones that suck. My husband has had to change his 6s and 7s both because they had problems. They exchanged the phone for a different phone (same model) and he has had no problems at all.

Samsung has a lot of phones and until like 2 years ago, the cheap ones were like all cheap Android phones.. cheap. That has changed A LOT the last 2 years. For example, the Samsung J5 is a couple of hundred bucks and is a damn good phone for the price. Hell ZTE and other chinese manufactures make very good cheap Android phones with tons of features.

As for iPhones breaking.. happens all the time, but the myth is still that iPhones are perfect.. sadly not true.
 
And can be tricked with a picture.

It has an infrared depth map so apparently it can't.

Doesn't mean it's a good idea though. I'll still be sticking with a trusty alphanumeric passcode.
 
You want to know why?

Go down the street and ask the first 100 people you come to if they know what "rooting your phone" means and watch their faces.

You are not the norm. You are not the typical consumer. You are not everyone. The notion of a phone being good because you can root it and spend time customizing and tweaking every little part of it or expand what it can do is only an appealing and interesting concept for people who would desire to do such things, and the reality is that is not everyone. This isn't some kind of new argument either; it's just a rehashing of history. The same kind of argument was occurring back in the late 90's, early 2000's, with PDA's. PocketPC's could do so much more, customize so much more, allow for so much more than Palm devices; and yet Palm dominated at the time. As a gadget freak techie kid, I couldn't understand it. Why couldn't these heathens, whom I was clearly so much better than that it made sense for me to call them derogatory names because it made me look SOOOOO smart, clearly see that because my device could be tweaked and hacked to do more than it was infinitely superior!

The answer was because I was an ignorant, self absorbed, elistist ass (i.e. a teenager) who couldn't understand that Joe Dad or John CEO or Jill Smallbusiness didn't necessarily WANT to spend hours digging around techie PDA forums as if it was a form of entertainment. They didn't want to have to understand to some degree the innerworkings of their device to get the most out of what it could do. They didn't want to spend long bits of time tweaking their PDA until it was just the way they wanted...for a day, before more tweaking occur. They didn't care if it couldn't do A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. They cared if they could open it up and easily understand it. They cared if they could start it up and figure it out easily. They cared if it worked similarly to the palm pilot they had before. They cared that it could do X, Y, and Z well because that's what they needed.

"OMG! you fools! you sheeple! don't you realize you could do SOOOOOO much more"

Yes, some of them do. No, others don't; because they have little to no need or use to do such so have never even given it much of a thought to go looking. Three years ago only about a quarter of Android users even DID root their phones (many of them doing so just to remove bloatware like "touchwiz"), and it had been trending down. Rooting isn't the norm, and there's a significant amount of "sheeple" out there that are missing out on that experience just as much while holding onto an android phone as holding onto an iPhone one. What you're talking about isn't actually an android vs apple thing; it's just a techie vs non-techie one.

Bingo. I spend my days writing code - or these days managing people who write code - and have no desire to screw with my phone. I want to turn it on and have it do the stuff I need it to do. And if it gives 80% of what I need that's good enough. The other 20% ain't worth the effort.
 
I switched to the Galaxy S8 plus from the iphone. I did it for one reason, Waze integration with android auto.

There is also this "ok google, play **** on spotify".

You can't do that with apple.



The apple is a more polished experience, but I see little difference in usability other than above mentioned. I am an ultimate "techie" and have no desire to root my phone.
 
I love my iPhone 7 Plus and will be buying the iPhone X. I enjoy it working seamlessly with my iPad Pro, my Apple Watch, my MacBook Pro, my Apple TVs, and my Airport Extreme Time Capsule. I never have to make it work with them, it just does.
 
So did anyone get one of these today?

They said it sold out in 10 minutes. I bought mine 6 minutes in so we'll see if I get a launch day ship date.
 
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