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What percentage of people sitting on upgrades are now debating just switching to Android?

• achompas 14y ago
  Right here. No map directions, hardware failures (home button is dead after two years), and Android catching up in UI responsiveness and app availability means I'm looking at the upcoming Nexus phones more than this.
  • clarky07 14y ago
    And here I have several friends with Android phones that are considering switching to the iPhone because of hardware failures and unresponsive UI's. (One of them has a broken keyboard and a broken GPS). I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. FWIW, there are map directions in iOS 6.
    • achompas 14y ago
      Interesting. Are any of them using Nexus devices? Also, I've heard repeatedly that iOS 6, and its new built-in Maps, lacks transit directions. Has that changed?
      • clarky07 14y ago
        they are using droids i think. i don't know about transit, but the parent just said "map directions" which i was guessing meant turn by turn. i was thinking there are third party apps with transit directions but i could be wrong about that.
• vvhn 14y ago
  i'm guessing the same number after iPhone 4S ?
• jes5199 14y ago
  I had to switch away from Android to iPhone because although there's a lot about Android I prefer, I need my basic apps to run without fucking crashing. I'm talking about sending sms being impossible because the stock SMS app crashes. Being unable to use Maps because typing in the blank caused it to crash. And the thing is, I suspect that there are good Android phones that don't have these problems, but several of my friends have phones from several different vendors that are nearly unusable. It's like a minefield - I want to buy my girlfriend a replacement for her mostly-broken Android phone, but I have no idea how to evaluate whether a given model will be a broken piece of shit. At least iPhone is a known quality - I miss having a decent Maps app, but at least it isn't broken.
  • herval 14y ago
    The most recent builds (coupled with decent hardware, of course) have less and less of these problems. The only lingering problems I see are the lack of good apps (there ARE good apps appearing on Android, but the good/bad ratio is still pretty bad) and the always bad battery life (no matter how low end or high end the device is)...
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• jes5199 14y ago
  I had to switch away from Android to iPhone because although there's a lot about Android I prefer, I need my basic apps to run without fucking crashing. I'm talking about sending sms being impossible because the stock SMS app crashes. Being unable to use Maps because typing in the blank caused it to crash. And the thing is, I suspect that there are good Android phones that don't have these problems, but several of my friends have phones from several different vendors that are nearly unusable. It's like a minefield - I want to buy my girlfriend a replacement for her mostly-broken Android phone, but I have no idea how to evaluate whether a given model will be a broken piece of shit. At least iPhone is a known quality - I miss having a decent Maps app, but at least it isn't broken.