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> Pick the phone/platform that suits you better. It's nice to have a good idea of what suits you before picking. This post is helpful in that regard.
by tankbot 13y ago
> Pick the phone/platform that suits you better.
It's nice to have a good idea of what suits you before picking. This post is helpful in that regard.
- ebbv 13y agoI don't feel like it does. It's just pure advertising. It's not an unbiased review. It's also no substitute for someone trying out the platforms for themselves and making their own decision (which is what I'd advocate.)
- scottmp10 13y agoI found this quite useful since he mentioned useful apps I hadn't heard of and some OS features I wasn't aware of. And I really doubt that many iPhone users are aware of many of these things.
- dannyr 13y agoWhy is it biased? What makes a review unbiased to you? Paul spent weeks evaluating the platform which not many people are able to do so they resort to other people's experiences. This is why Yelp, The Verge, Engadget are popular. Not everybody can try things out because of the risk that it might be a waste of time.
- ebbv 13y agoDo I really have to explain why something titled "X is better" is biased? I thought the HN crowd was a bit smarter than that. I understand why review sites are useful. I'm not advocating they disappear, but I do not think personal blog posts which are highly biased are useful. Especially in 2013 when these platforms have been around for years and years now.
- untog 13y agoI don't understand what your concept of "bias" is. A review on a review site is a person taking the device out for a test run, and seeing how it works. This personal blog post is a guy taking a device out for a test run, and seeing how it works. It would be biased if he worked for Google, or if, at any point, he expressed a disproportionate favour for Android without backing it up. But he didn't. Why is it biased?