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Yawn. This is such meaningless drivel. User reviews? Really? Not even the sane user reviewing both so you have some form of control? Reviewers of anything are
by cletus 16y ago
Yawn. This is such meaningless drivel. User reviews? Really? Not even the sane user reviewing both so you have some form of control?
Reviewers of anything are outliers. Generally the motivations for users to review are one or more of:
1. To complain about something. Unhappy people are more likely to make noise.
2. To justify their choice. Such reviews are very often skewed as the user is compensating for insecurity or pushing a philosophy.
3. Because they like the sound of their own voices (metaphorically speakimg); and/or
4. Because they're really happy.
Most users of a product (happy or unhappy) write no reviews. So we're talking about a vocal minority.
What's more people have a bug up their ass about the iPhone in particular. Consumer Reports for example seems to have abandoned all pretense of objectivity when it comes to the iPhone 4:
1. Despite giving the iPhone 4 their highest phone rating ever they somehow couldn't recommend it; and
2. They called the Verizon iPhone "middle-aged tech" (iirc) when nothing else has an equivalent or better screen and other specs are at best a wash.
Most iPhone users love their phones. In my experience an awful lot of Android users aren't buying an Android phone; they're not buying an iPhone either because of carrier (predominantly a US issue) or they have some objection based on the iPhone being popular or some guff about walled gardens.
Seriously 99% of this iPhone vs Android stuff is just noise and typically just link bait.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThe actual reviews all seem very reasonable, and their algorithms seem to extract sensible meaning from the noise: http://www.reevoo.com/p/samsung-galaxy-s http://www.reevoo.com/p/samsung-galaxy-s http://www.reevoo.com/p/apple-iphone-4-16gb http://www.reevoo.com/p/apple-iphone-4-16gb Basically, the Galaxy is slightly behind on all subsections, except battery which is its weakest point and biggest differential compared with the iPhone, and the value for money, which is much better for the Galaxy (it's about a third less to buy). Note again, this is UK focused, where the graduations of handset price (including buying the handset separately) seem to be better reflected in your monthly bill. As far as I can tell in the US there's no advantage to not taking the best phone they offer since you're paying the same monthly rate anyway which will dwarf the handset price.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoJust noticed my current phone (the cheapest Android available, but also a diamond in the rough that has practically gone viral in the UK on the strength of word of mouth) also equals the iPhone 4 overall due to high "value for money" http://www.reevoo.com/p/orange-san-francisco http://www.reevoo.com/p/orange-san-francisco
- bane 16y agoApparently you've never shopped on amazon or new egg where you can find a plethora of nuanced user reviews on most products. If you just skip the 1 and 5 star reviews and read the rest, you can usually get a comprehensive picture of a product.