(Disclaimer, I've owned a iPhone 3GS in the past, and this isn't my first android phone)
(but I do agree with you in that battery life in most of the android phones is terrible)
I've also used this tool a few times to figure out why my phone was running hot (even though I wasn't using it). For instance, last night, my Facebook app was in a bad state and was chewing up 20% CPU in the background. I killed it and everything was back to normal.
The tool isn't the easiest to use, but it might help.
With my Galaxy Note, the battery life improved, considerably after 5 or 6 charge cycles.
Sorry that you feel that way. Really, I do.
This is a recurring problem that undermines any ability to discuss these platforms without noisy conversations.
Your observations are not meaningful or unique or valuable, nor are your subjective comments (e.g. build quality) interesting. Let everyone who feels some compelling need to inject these useless mini-reviews in every discussion know this.
I would argue that it isn't true at all: People who are accustomed to one thing (whether it is taste in wine or acclimatization to an interface) tend to go into another thing from the basis that the things that are new are unimportant, and the things that are different are wrong. See: Every Facebook interface change. Actually simply see almost any interface change ever.
Coming from an iPhone is not an enlightened position, and it only holds relative merit in discussions with other people perhaps moving from an iPhone. To the general population it is meaningless.
However what I was speaking specifically to is the odd belief among the iPhone community that they have been exposed to what is right, and their subjective opinions are henceforth objective instead of just personal opinion.
Let me give you a perfect example -- the design of the Galaxy S III. It was openly mocked among the iPhone community as being a device designed by lawyers: It is unlike the iPhone, therefore it is a wrong design that must have been compromised to differ as much as possible. I'm not really terribly sensitive to designs of devices, so I had no personal opinion, but I have noticed that I keep hearing everyday normal people calling the Galaxy S III sexy. Isn't that bizarre? It was objectively called an ugly device by the people in the know, or so it seemed, only actual consumers think otherwise.
What's bizarre is that your "perfect example" is but another personal anecdote, the very thing you've spent the whole thread raging against.
I don't think many such anecdotes are fictitious like huggyface does--I think people just enjoy sharing their experiences--but I do think they are intensely irrelevant except en masse, and forums like these are not the place for that.
(2) There are plenty of professional reviews that made the same points he made.
(3) Many professional reviewers also grade on a curve because it favors their business model.
"Personal ... summaries are not useful "
Is accusing random people's anecdotes of being "fictitious" and "agenda driven" useful and constructive behavior in your opinion?
And? It says nothing relative to my indisputable point that the noisy ruckus of anecdotes simply pollute every Android discussion.
There are plenty of professional reviews that made the same points he made.
Assuming that were true, then why post it? What is the point? "Hey everyone, guy who used an iPhone here: Let me tell you how it is..."
Is accusing random people's anecdotes of being "fictitious" and "agenda driven" useful and constructive behavior in your opinion?
Considering that my post was a discouragement of unconstructive posts, yes, for the purposes of this discussion it is absolutely useful.
It would be nice if more people on HN back up their claims with facts and sources. Instead, people bring up anecdotal evidence and leave it at that.
---- Far less intuitive
This is kind of hand-wavy. Can you expand on this and say what you don't like about it? ----
Opinions are great, but they leave a lot to be desired, I think, unless you have a feel for the person.
If I know that you are very critical about particular UI elements and that you like iOS for specific features that are missing on Android, then great! I'll trust you with your opinion. But I don't know you, so fleshing out this anecdotal story into something more factual would be much better for me.
But compared to the iPhone, it's far less intuitive, it's build quality is crap, and I can't make it though a day on a charge
Ignoring hilariously subjective statements on intuitive interfaces or build quality (that fuzzy measure that has nothing to do with actual suitability to task or hardiness, but instead ends up being a reflection of what people have been told build quality is. If you make a hammer out of glass, is that superb built quality?), I'll focus on something more empirical -- battery life. I happen to have a GS III, and coincidentally I forgot to plug it in last night (it isn't the first time I've done this). I am currently on hour 29 off the charger, with medium to heavy use, with the battery at 33%. So what now? Do we wage a battle of anecdotes? Should we? Is that a productive use of HN?
The single objective measure you referred to is battery life, to which professionals have actual repeatable, regimented tests. You don't. Your statement on it is irrelevant.