Is anyone surprised?
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Twitter posts are yelling: DO NOT UPDATE. People are saying that they are getting poor or no service. The culprit?
The update to iOS 8.0.1.
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IOS sucked since they went to IOS :-P
/me is android user
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IOS sucked since they went to IOS :-P
/me is android user
/me also
Which is why the topic is titled "Is anyone surprised?" I find these kind of articles amusing.
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I'm surprised you reference MSN as a news source.
Gotta start somewhere. They usually give a good lead on stories, and their tech articles tend to be unbiased.
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I had an HTC Desire HD until about a year ago, meanwhile my wife had an iPhone 4.
My wife's phone was easier to use, more responsive, generally just better. we both agreed on this, although I preferred my phone because I did not like the stringent lock-in of IOS and the inability to configure stuff like the keyboard (which is fucking awful, we can all agree, and IOS 8 is way overdue in changing it)
Now I have a Samsung Galaxy S3, and both me and my wife agree it is better, the UI has been significantly improved since my old handset, it's more responsive, has a clearer screen and so forth. where IPhone has improved in only small increments (if at all) Android has come on leaps and bounds, and overtaken IPhone in many of the most important areas.
Now if only Android tablets ran hearthstone.
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Now I have a Samsung ... the UI has been significantly improved
I agree with you but ... try a stock Android Phone if you like a decent UI. Samsung's apps are Fuggly with no exceptions.
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I liked my old HTC calendar and notes better (as examples) I agree, but I am saddled with this for now as I want to keep my warranty intact.
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My Samsung GS3 is far better than any Apple product that I've used.
The new iPhone is just a bit behind my HTC Evo 4G that I bought over 4 years ago.
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Anyone else been hearing reports of #bendgate and #bendghazi?1
1iPhone Plus 6 bends easily, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus can bend in pockets
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Anyone else been hearing reports of #bendgate and #bendghazi?1
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The version on my Samsung Galaxy S5 is much better than when I had my S3. I do prefer a lot of it to the stock Android on my Nexus 5 & 7.
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So now Apple is saying that these phones wouldn't bend under "normal" use.
So basically, they're blaming the users, in full Atwood-ian style.
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The antenna also won't lose signal if you hold it correctly.
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It's your fault for being right handed.
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So now Apple is saying that these phones wouldn't bend under "normal" use.
So basically, they're blaming the users, in full Atwood-ian style.
Reality Distortion Field in full operation. Apple were doing this long before Atwood was a thing.
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I don't know if it's a real problem or just exaggeration, but the twitter replies by other companies are hilarious.
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It's your fault for being right handed.
Yeah, you can't expect the company to account for those kind of bizarre edges cases.
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So now Apple is saying that these phones wouldn't bend under "normal" use.
So basically, they're blaming the users, in full Atwood-ian style.
iPhone bends while in your pocket?
You're just carrying it wrong!
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Obligatory Foxtrot comic:
http://www.foxtrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ft140921iwear-fixed.png
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I don't like the way people's tongues stick out in panels 2 and 5.
Downvoted.
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Gotta say, I like the Nokia one from the article:
https://twitter.com/NokiaHomebase/status/515108380365836289
Filed Under: Even though it's German!
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Apple went to shit when Steve Jobs died. TouchWiz has always been terrible.
AOSP master race.
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It's your fault for being right handed.
This is rape culture thinking.
http://www.theoptimisticdivorcees.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/shame-on-you.jpeg
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This news made the front of the mainstream commuter newspaper yesterday. Apple cannot control The Beast.
Edit: Discourse didn't show any replies until after I posted. :@
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I don't think that way when you click the UI ends up completely broken.
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Romulans again?
No, reality distortion field is all Apple. The way they rabidly defend Apple products as perfect and any suggestion of brokenness is the user doing it wrong.
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That, and any feature that anyone else has isn't important/is a gimmick until Apple implements it, and even then there's something wrong with the competition's implementation (even when Apple's implementation is severely lacking).
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Like Apple Maps? Utter rubbish.
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While I'm an Android user, because I can't stand the kindergarten environment that Apple gives you, there are some areas where iOS is miles ahead of Android. Try music, for example. There's essentially nothing on Android, whereas on iOS you find apps from major manufacturers like Korg.
Also, my Galaxy S3 is now veeeery slow, I could do a factory reset, but I don't want to lose my stuff, and I can't do a backup because Samsung Kies is an utter piece of rubbish. So... there's still some improvements that they could make.
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Its longevity is simply amazing.
The other day my wife's iphone got locked up because of something the baby did on it, and she couldn't get it unlocked. I told her, "reboot the thing"... she says, "you can't if you can't unlock it." So I told her, "surely there is a way to restart the phone without having to be able to unlock it, otherwise any time anything freezes you'd just be stuck with an unusable phone until the battery died and that would just be completely fucking stupid, no way have there been 6 iterations of iphone without that ability since you can't pull out the battery either to reboot immediately." She insisted that there was no way to do it, and I was driving, so I couldn't help her. So I forgot about it.
Later, I remembered the quandry and decided to look it up. Sure enough, you can't motherfucking reboot an iphone if it gets locked up [edit: Turns out I didn't google hard enough, see more in next few posts]. You just have to wait til the battery drains so it will turn off. I guess that's why they make sure the iPhone doesn't have a battery that lasts more than 1 day.
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I can't believe thats true.
Does holding the lock button + home button really not work?
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Sure enough, you can't motherfucking reboot an iphone if it gets locked up.
Hold both buttons until it restarts.
EDIT: Hanzoโd
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
ah hah.
so that means my google-fu failed because apple asshats call it "resetting" instead.
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You should reset your device as a last resort and only if you can't restart it.
Except in this case, resetting IS restarting.Since, "reset" in every other phone (and in fact most contexts I can think of) generally means something a lot different than "restart", usually involving lost data!
I can't believe thats true.
That was exactly what I said when she told me that.Anyway, it appears it is not true! Thanks for the tip, next time it happens to her I will win the day!
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Uh, no?
Remember the times when computers had a small button near the power button that initiated a hardware-based restart?
That button was called the "reset button".
Apple probably named it after that.
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well you've got me there.
i'm thinking of "reset your password"
or "factory reset"
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Also considering the definition of the word "reset":
to move (something) back to an original place or position
I would still be fearful of doing something called a "reset" without assurance that there is no data loss (other than apps that happen to be running while you are powering down) involved.
So really, they named those old computer "reset" buttons incorrectly too.
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Try Windows Phone. It's really, really good. Unless you want 50,000 fart apps, it only has 500 of those.
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That button was called the "reset button".
Pretty sure Apple never called it the "reset button" on their actual computers, back when they had one.
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Some area where iOS is miles ahead of Android. Try music, for example.
You don't like Play? Or the Amazon music service? Or services like iHeartRadio?
can't do a backup because Samsung Kies is an utter piece of rubbish.
You're right, there isn't a base backup solution. Yet. I expect that will be fixed at some point.
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You don't like Play? Or the Amazon music service? Or services like iHeartRadio?
*cough* I think mentioning Korg implies creating music *cough*.
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Interrupt is the one I was thinking of, I didn't realize some models had both reset and interrupt. Which is kind of redundant.
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Interrupt is the one I was thinking of, I didn't realize some models had both reset and interrupt. Which is kind of redundant.
Huh? According to the page, "interrupt" breaks you into a debugger or something.
