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He is complaining that the best feature one should expect from an Android phone would be the seamless integration with Google's services. If even at that it fai

He is complaining that the best feature one should expect from an Android phone would be the seamless integration with Google's services. If even at that it fails to deliver a good experience, what's the point then. And whoever complained he's using an old phone... I'm still using an iPhone 3GS (released 2009) with latest iOS. Why can't he complain about a phone that is almost a year newer?

jack-r-abbit 15y ago
I would be more inclined to take his "I'm outta here... moving to iOS" statement and the "seamless integration with Google's services" argument a little more seriously if the article had outlined even a short history of all Google services repeatedly failing to seamlessly integrate on the phone over a variety of situations. But one coupon, in one app, for one service, one time sounds more like someone just looking for any reason to say "screw Android... I'm getting an iPhone". Yes, he does say "countless other" apps have issues... that really isn't very specific nor does it show a pattern. I've had times when (for no apparent reason... other than maybe the phone trying to multitask too much) an app loads slow... when it worked fine before and after that. I'm not willing to accept that iPhones don't ever have similar hiccups... ever. I'm in a house divided so I get to see first hand the frustrating things that the iPhone and iPad can do. But even that doesn't really matter to me. I hope he finds what he's looking for... whether it is with an iPhone, a Windows phone or even a new Android phone. I wish everyone luck in finding the phone/OS/carrier combo that works best for them. I'm just so glad that there are plenty of those combos for everyone to choose from.
kennydies 15y ago
Because comparing Android to iOS is different. With Apple, they only need to design an operating system for ~10 devices, most of which are essentially the same with minor differences. Apple has the ability to tweak iOS to meet their goals on their hardware where as Google is tasked with designing software for a wide variety of hardware. I'm not saying that Google should be held to lower standards, what I'm saying is, give them a break for not developing an Android version for each phone. While an app experience is bad, it's no reason to ditch an OS. It's like blaming Microsoft because their version of Minesweeper isn't as good as 3rd party ones and ditching Windows for OSX or Linux.
ryandvm 15y ago
Well... if seamless integration with the manufacturer (and only the manufacturer's) product stack is what he's looking for then he's definitely going to be happier with Apple. That's Apple's modus operandi. What we sell you works very, very well; but you have to buy everything from us.

jack-r-abbit 15y ago

I would be more inclined to take his "I'm outta here... moving to iOS" statement and the "seamless integration with Google's services" argument a little more seriously if the article had outlined even a short history of all Google services repeatedly failing to seamlessly integrate on the phone over a variety of situations. But one coupon, in one app, for one service, one time sounds more like someone just looking for any reason to say "screw Android... I'm getting an iPhone". Yes, he does say "countless other" apps have issues... that really isn't very specific nor does it show a pattern. I've had times when (for no apparent reason... other than maybe the phone trying to multitask too much) an app loads slow... when it worked fine before and after that. I'm not willing to accept that iPhones don't ever have similar hiccups... ever. I'm in a house divided so I get to see first hand the frustrating things that the iPhone and iPad can do. But even that doesn't really matter to me. I hope he finds what he's looking for... whether it is with an iPhone, a Windows phone or even a new Android phone. I wish everyone luck in finding the phone/OS/carrier combo that works best for them. I'm just so glad that there are plenty of those combos for everyone to choose from.

kennydies 15y ago

Because comparing Android to iOS is different. With Apple, they only need to design an operating system for ~10 devices, most of which are essentially the same with minor differences. Apple has the ability to tweak iOS to meet their goals on their hardware where as Google is tasked with designing software for a wide variety of hardware. I'm not saying that Google should be held to lower standards, what I'm saying is, give them a break for not developing an Android version for each phone. While an app experience is bad, it's no reason to ditch an OS. It's like blaming Microsoft because their version of Minesweeper isn't as good as 3rd party ones and ditching Windows for OSX or Linux.

ryandvm 15y ago

Well... if seamless integration with the manufacturer (and only the manufacturer's) product stack is what he's looking for then he's definitely going to be happier with Apple. That's Apple's modus operandi. What we sell you works very, very well; but you have to buy everything from us.