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Or buy an iPhone 4S. No worries. No hassles. Seriously.
by beatle 15y ago
Or buy an iPhone 4S. No worries. No hassles. Seriously.
- shinratdr 15y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted. This is exactly what you should do. Rewarding the current system Google has by removing bloatware from a damn phone (a crazy concept to begin with) and spending extra to get a phone that updates in a timely fashion is horrible. I guarantee you, your mom could not care less about whatever qualms you may have with Apple. She would much prefer the phone that can run everything you expect it to run, gets timely updates and doesn't come full of bloatware. Giving her an Android device when you know it's not right for the job is like giving her a Bible when she asks for a specific cheesy book. Whatever the reasons you don't like the book, you're just pushing your preferences on her over what you know she would prefer.
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- stanleydrew 15y agoMy mom has been an Android user for almost three years now. She doesn't want to switch. She wants a new phone and she wants it to be mostly like her old one, i.e. the unadulterated Nexus One. She comes to me for recommendations. I want to recommend her the Galaxy Nexus, but I don't see how I can. The iPhone is not an option. Hence my frustration.
- shinratdr 15y agoShe picked Android three years ago of her own volition without you pushing it on her, yet she owns a Nexus One, a phone almost exclusively purchased by geeks? I somehow doubt that. > she comes to me for recommendations Then you know exactly who to blame for your current predicament.
- ypcx 15y agoThe fact that if I buy a 64 GB iPhone, then I have to dedicate half of my 128 GB Macbook Pro's SSD just to keep a duplicate of the media on the iPhone (iTunes Library) that I only use on the phone - is a total deal-breaker for me as far as iPhone goes. Another absolute deal-breaker is that I don't have a credit card - for online stuff I use debit cards from Payoneer and Moneybookers - and these are not accepted by the iTunes shop, and I won't bother with gift certificates. So Android it is. I also love the fact that as a C and Java coder, I can easily change every single thing in the system, should I really want to (OK except the baseband and few other things). All things considered, I think Google is doing extremely good.
- beatle 15y agoI can easily change every single thing in the system, should I really want to Ok why don't you start removing Verizon's bloatware on this Nexus phone.
- shinratdr 15y agoI love this. We all know he doesn't actually want to change the filesystem, won't do so, and frankly can't. However, Google's marketing and public line insists that he can, so he can, and this erroneous belief actually helps shape his purchasing decision. This is a good lesson to keep in mind when encountering programmer-types that are arrogant enough to insist they are never swayed by marketing. Truth is, very little marketing targets them. When it does, it works just as effectively as it does with everyone else.
- jrockway 15y agoI've compiled AOSP from source and use that on my phone. In that case, I have the ability to change everything. The only barrier to this (since there are lots of good downloadable variants of this technique, like CyanogenMod) is being able to flash a new firmware on your phone. In many cases, this is explicitly supported (the Nexus One was a good example), and in the other cases, it's very easy to bypass the carrier's attempt at locking you out of your phone. As long as people keep paying the lowest bidder to write critical software in C, you'll be able to install whatever you want on your phone :)
- jrockway 15y agoThe iPhone 4S doesn't run Android software very well.