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in short: "I suggest you avoid the article at all costs. It is one of the most idiotic things I have ever read on the Internet, and I have read every single article by Dan Lyons!"
in short: "I suggest you avoid the article at all costs. It is one of the most idiotic things I have ever read on the Internet, and I have read every single article by Dan Lyons!"
This article may be pro-samsung in a way in which most pro-apple articles are anti-samsung, but it would be unfair for us to faun over one of them but exclude the other one, it just leads to fanboyism - if we are going to have biased articles, we may as well be unbiased about the directions of the bias. (that was a mouth full!)
In short, it's the kind of tripe he claim's the CNN article is, and it's absolutely unsubstantiated fanboy drivel.
The way the author casually condescends the digitized stylus and larger size -- features that drove 15,000,000 sales in under a year -- reminds me of Apple itself, who likely also writes off this entire market segment.
Honestly, when you get this kind of a vulgar response to your article, you know you're hitting on a nerve.
And I agree with the original article: Apple's software has been playing catchup for multiple versions, isn't introducing novel features and is barely keeping up with the competition.
I agree because I recently ditched iOS for Android for this very reason!
but seriously, it's all very silly. I see it all as good fun, like cheering for your team at the footy - of course the other team sucks!
Playing catchup with what? Please enlighten me, what innovative great features have other platforms introduced since -let's say- iOS 4, that Apple has been forced to 'catch up' with in iOS 5 and 6?
The only thing I can think of is Apple Maps, which desperately needs to catch up with Google Maps. But considering you can still use Google Maps on iOS I don't really think we can write off iOS because Apple Maps is weak.
But this article was shit. If you like a stylus fine. But that is not innovation. I have 50 Treo styluses to sell you.
Stop calling things "not innovation" just because it doesn't impress you. No one put out a stylus like this, in a device like this, with software like this. The old Palm's don't compare.
Microsoft's platform is most likely Windows 8 but what's about 'Android'? There are many different GUIs for Android devices after all …
How about setting up the device without having to tether it to a "real" computer? Android came out, day one, as a self-contained, empowered computer. iOS came out as a device that was expected to have an umbilical to a computer.
How about multitasking? Apple's flavor of multitasking (the freeze-drying of processes, etc) was a virtual mirror of Android's.
I would say notification center, but the notification center in iOS is absolutely atrocious (it is almost entirely a spam vehicle for games to post solicitations). It is years behind Android there.
The widely heralded iCloud offers functionality (device backup, etc) in Android years earlier. Voice commands...in Android years earlier. Apple is brilliant at marketing every difference, but they most certainly were behind.
My iPad (3rd generation) is a glorious web appliance (Safari on iOS remains by far the best mobile browser), however iOS itself feels incredibly stale in comparison to my GS III or my wife's Nexus 4.
Most of Apple's "innovations" in iOS weren't terribly innovative by that standard either, from what I recall.