iPhone vs Android

[Anduril]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

it won't backup things like your homescreen layout or app data (does the iphone do app data? i'd be surprised if it does), but things like wifi passwords and stock browser settings are carried over

Anything else other than wifi access points and stock browser settings?



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[HotHotHeat]

Just a note that I found amusing today.

In Chinook Centre, below the escalators near the Starbucks at the North end, there is now a large Samsung kiosk that is promoting the SIII. They have demo phones, large billboards, and about 10 staff working. In the ~10 minutes I stood above them, not a single person stopped in, so the staff were restless, pacing around, etc.

At one point several of the employees had their personal phones out, texting or whatever.

Each one had an iPhone.

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[MrMastodonFarm]

You're creepy.

[HotHotHeat]

Aren't we all?

[QuadCityImages]

Originally Posted by edslunch

Downtown Calgary in iOS 6 maps. I thought 3D wasn't coming to Canada

From the iPhone thread... I moved my response over here, which is... walcome to 2009, Apple.

[Old Yeller]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

Just a note that I found amusing today.

In Chinook Centre, below the escalators near the Starbucks at the North end, there is now a large Samsung kiosk that is promoting the SIII. They have demo phones, large billboards, and about 10 staff working. In the ~10 minutes I stood above them, not a single person stopped in, so the staff were restless, pacing around, etc.

At one point several of the employees had their personal phones out, texting or whatever.

Each one had an iPhone.
...

There you have it folks, a disturbingly creepy and purely anecdotal evidence on why the iPhone5 is better than anything Samsung.

Jesus...

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Old Yeller

There you have it folks, a disturbingly creepy and purely anecdotal evidence on why the iPhone5 is better than anything Samsung.

Jesus...

Maybe people were in the actual stores buying a s3. 10 million phones a month is pretty impressive.

[Old Yeller]

I honestly don't care if you like iPhone or Android better, I don't really get the "mine is better" because as long as you're happy with your technology, who really gives a ####?

But to stand there creepily watching Samsung employees and focusing on their phone types and presenting that in a serious fashion actually made me face palm.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

Just a note that I found amusing today.

In Chinook Centre, below the escalators near the Starbucks at the North end, there is now a large Samsung kiosk that is promoting the SIII. They have demo phones, large billboards, and about 10 staff working. In the ~10 minutes I stood above them, not a single person stopped in, so the staff were restless, pacing around, etc.

At one point several of the employees had their personal phones out, texting or whatever.

Each one had an iPhone.

...

So a random group of young people who got hired to do a short term minimum wage job mostly have IPhones......shocking.

[oilyfan]

Originally Posted by QuadCityImages

From the iPhone thread... I moved my response over here, which is... walcome to 2009, Apple.

What do you mean here, 3D mapping has been around on mobile devices since 2009?

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Maybe people were in the actual stores buying a s3. 10 million phones a month is pretty impressive.

Eh? I thought the S3 finally cleared 20 million after 100 days (as of last week) - their sales back ended for some reason?

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Eh? I thought the S3 finally cleared 20 million after 100 days (as of last week) - their sales back ended for some reason?

hmmm i guess they expect 30 million by the end of the year. I thought i read somewhere they sold 10 million last month. my bad!

[Azure]

Samsung's new TV ad for the Galaxy S III — which takes shots at Apple fanboys waiting for the iPhone 5 — is the fastest-growing viral video (see below) in tech, with more than 120,492 shares in social media in the past 24 hours, according to Unruly Media.

http://www.businessinsider.com/samsu...#ixzz271uR0pfi

[chemgear]

^ I think they got through the initial 10 million in about a month and a half after it was released.

[Azure]

lol.

"In the UK many town names are wrong, with some missing; roads are all the same colour; satellite image resolution is not as good as it was previously," user Shilts9 wrote on Apple's support forum.

"Awful in Australia, too," wrote Shane Keher. "Apple's version is bad on so many levels it's hard to imagine a workable version for at least a year or two."

Users have reported satellite images showing various locations, particularly in rainy Scotland, obscured by cloud -- while a search for Manchester United Football Club directs users to Sale United Football Club, for footballers aged five and above.

Sears Tower in Chicago has reportedly shrunk, Helsinki railway station was listed as a park, and a British furniture museum placed in a river.

In Ireland, justice minister Alan Shatter has written to Apple asking for an urgent correction to an error placing an airport at a farm named Airfield in his Dublin constituency.
A separate Google Maps app is not currently available for sale from Apple, although Google's system can still be used via the iPhone's web browser.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...c05228dcd3.201

But we can innovate!

[Azure]

Epic Apple Maps failures. Hilarious how a multi-billion dollar company can't get this right.

Spoiler!

[Tinordi]

In other news, New Software Ships with Bugs

[Senator Clay Davis]

Never did understand why Apple was so quick to get rid of GoogleMaps (unless of course it went the other way, though I doubt it) when going with a new OS. GoogleMaps is a proven, well liked commodity. AppleMaps (if thats what its called) was bound to have issues upon startup. No doubt they'll be worked out eventually, but needless bad publicity here it seems.

[FlameOn]

Mom and pops/regular users who buy this hoping to get decent maps mine be in for a surprise


So, without Google maps, Apple doesn't have access to a lot of the tagged places as well as all the street view data Google's spent more than half a decade collecting. Seems like it shows too.


http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/20/33...ggy-complaints

[silentsim]

According to this
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/20/...-app-to-apple/
A maps app has been submitted. Who knows.

Would be good news. Google maps is awesome. The nice thing about an independent app is it will receive updates unlike the untouched iOS one prior to iOS 6 (feature enhancement)