I still can’t believe the 6/6+ only has 1gb of ram and a 1080 screen. It’s funny when they’re so behind tech wise they can just inch forward.
Saki, In my opinion…the tech wars are over. Its about the whole user experience, and Apple is winning at that as it controls all facets of the integration from hardware to software. The only thing Android makers can do to differentiate themselves is to hype up specs, as they are almost indistinguishable from each other when lined up and turned on.
I cannot remember the last time I even looked or compared specifications on a tech device that were not logical things, like battery life or feature comparisons. Pixel density, ram, meh.
Also, remember that Apple was the first company to require revenue sharing on the users contract. Before Apple entered the hardware business, handset designs were controlled by the carrier and companies were dictated with how they were to be built. Apple flipped that whole thing on its head, designed the phone the way they wanted it, and then had the balls to require points on every contract the carrier signs.
^ that was actually very cool.
Before my first Blackberry, I had a Motorola Razor through Verizon. They wanted to nickel and dime you through “enhancements” that were actually built in (and disabled) functionality.
Haha, the Razr was the first phone I bought when I got back from Iraq. What enhancements were you referring to? I don’t remember any enhancements other than the crappy web interface they had on it.
Custom ringtones and the web interface were locked unless you went through the Verizon in-phone application.
I don’t think anyone hyped up android specs. I looked at the specs of my phone when I bought it. THen I looked at the ‘specs’ page on apple.ca when looking up the price, and found it weird they omitted the RAM spec. That’s because it’s shit. Have you had a phone with 1GB of ram and the huge capabilities of the iphone 6/6+? No you haven’t. Because you’re an apple user. I have…as of 2 years ago. Now my phone has 3GB. On the iphone 6, 1GB won’t keep that thing happy for long. People will complain. Then they will buy a 7 to ‘solve it’. People running ios8 on a 5S are complaining all over the internet. Why? Not strong enough.
As for the ‘integration’, I really don’t see it. I have apple computers and ipods, tablets, and I don’t give a fuck about the ‘integration’. I search something on my chrome browser on my phone, and then when I sign in to my work computer, the search history is there on my chrome browser at work. Big deal. Integration…wow! My google calender on my computer is automatically linked to my calender on my android phone. Again…wow! Big deal. I have all my shit automatically backed up and I literally do nothing. It’s all done. This is what’s funny…apple people think that only their iPhone can ‘integrate the system’ (then they struggle to tell me what integration really is).
All of that ‘integration’ talk is generally people making excuses to buy more apple stuff. As I said I have all the apple shit. The integration is not a big deal. Just as the integration of my google stuff isn’t.
As I said earlier, this was the first Apple computer I bought. This was the ‘hot new thing’.
^^ off topic, but did you play Oregon Trail on that?
There is no such thing as off topic on AR!
I love how all of my Apple stuff integrates…haha
In reality almost every device has the same features, but they refer to it as a different name depending on the operating system or manufacturer of the device.
I went all Apple, because using different windows or droid based devices is hardly ever seemless. Even the commpatibility of two windows computers with differnt operating systems can be a pain for file sharing and other applications. I hated my last computer with Windows 7.
I own an iMac, Macbook Pro, iPad, AppleTV, 2 iPhones, and an Airport Extreme router. Sure I don’t utilize every single aspect of this setup on a daily basis, but when I do it’s seemless and works great. I’ve already said it once, I’ll never go back to windows based products.
Ah, ya…the Custom Ringtones. I spent good money to download certain ringtones, such a stupid move on my part, haha.
nahh
That was this Mac, I remember our computer labs were full of Macs
Haha, with the one B floppy drive up that would whiiiiir for days…was the one Saki posted a Mac II?
yes, mac ii
we got ours around 1983. That one is from 1977 I believe.
explain this ‘seemless integration’ to me. What do you actually do.
iMessage (soon to be SMS)
Under iCould Drive (similar to google and one drive )
Pages - word document continuity
Numbers - excel document continuity
Keynote - PP continuity
Apple TV access via MBAir/Pro, IPad, iPhone (alternative to Roku or whatever)
This is why I’m more excited for OS X Yosemite; ya the PC world has this tech but it’s virtually idiot-proof on the Mac side.
I have the audio from this clip as my ringtone on my phone. Tim Cook didn’t manage to charge me anything.
Audi RS4 with JHM exhaust flyby: http://youtu.be/EU14U1ys2OM
Regarding the 1GB of ram - I briefly skimmed this article yesterday, which allegedly shows Apple still outperforming the rivals in terms of performance.
Again, though, I didn’t read it in full - so maybe I overlooked something:
http://bgr.com/2014/09/22/iphone-6-vs-android-performance-tests/
it’s hard to take that test seriously…and this is a great example of how people get poor information and run with it. How many other people are seeing that article and touting it today…without the facts?
- they say ‘Apple CRUSHED it’s rivals’ as the title. Sounds pretty unbiased lol.
- they are testing clean iPhones vs. Samsung phones laden with provider bloatware (T-Mobile, Verizon etc)
- they avoided intense processing tests knowing the iPhone would lose. The one they did…the iPhones were dead last.
- they don’t even have the Samsung Note 4 in the test, the true rival to the 6+.
- they only tested the one year old Samsung Note 3 in one test…this one. It RAPED the iphones.
Has the Note 4 been released yet?
Oh and I knew if there were defects in that test, you’d be the one to point them out! 
My ipad mini won’t connect to my G-S5 via bluetooth :’(