Re:Why The New Gmail Sucks
by twistedpair on Monday September 23, 2013 @12:00PM
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My gf's iPhone5 started crapping out at 3 weeks old. My Galaxy S1 hung on just fine until I got the GS4 last month. Anecdotes on individual failures do not data make.
Re:Why The New Gmail Sucks
by the_watcher on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:44AM
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The iPhone is the best mobile option. I am much more attracted to Android than iOS (openness, the app store policies), but it just doesn't work as well as iOS. It's a bit cliche, but iPhone's just work.
Unfortunately the issue is the lack of a quality alternative. My best friend was an iPhone user, then switched to a Samsung Galaxy S2 because he wanted to be able to use is phone as a mass storage device, among other things. Eventually he switched back to the iPhone because the Galaxy was so unreliable. After less than a year, his phone would just silently shut off a couple times throughout the day. And he's far from the only person I know who's had Android reliability problems. My old HTC Incredible would stop responding to input a couple times a week until I yanked the battery.
All that said, I'm sticking with Android because I have a high tolerance for pain. iDevices may no longer be useful, but at least they work.