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Thread: Mobile phones & tablets thread
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23rd June 2013, 20:57 #2971
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Originally Posted by Daniel
they must get "but what am I go to do!?!?!?!?!?!" quite a lot. He apologised a few times and I was almost tempted to say "Did I complain? Did I ask for a replacement? No! Shut the **** up and book my phone in and send it off to get repaired!"
Obviously 99% of customers in any given day were perfectly fine, but even now it's the 1% of morons who stick in the memory.Useful F1 Twitter thingy: http://goo.gl/6PO1u
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23rd June 2013, 21:31 #2972
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Originally Posted by Dave BRule 1 of the forum, always accuse anyone who disagrees with you of bias.I would say that though.
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24th June 2013, 14:51 #2973
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Originally Posted by race aficionado
We own both products and I find both a very good value, just for differing reasons. And really all the haters and/or fanbois in the world won't likely change the decision on the next purchase.
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26th June 2013, 19:51 #2974
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Originally Posted by Daniel
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26th June 2013, 20:01 #2975
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Originally Posted by airshifter
What really grinds my gears is folks swearing they don't have allegiances towards one specific brand, but then spend insane amounts of time on the forum defending that very brand. Or in fact get touchy at the slightest mention of their device. Then there are backhanded sarcastic jibes, for no good reason out of the blue, at people who prefer the rival brand or who quote benchmark scores. My reply to Daniel above is not quite in the same vein, but is a similar example. If you don't care either way, don't bother with such threads. If you do care, then stick to it and own up. Decide.
Then there are those with the annoying meathead bully jock mentality, where simply being ignorant about tech details is supposed to be cooler and anybody who knows more than you is branded a geek/nerd/fanboi.
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27th June 2013, 10:55 #2976
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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
All of this you would have realised had you bothered to take 3 or 4 minutes to read what I wrote. Its all there in black and white. Its very disappointing and a waste of my time adding to this if the flow of discussion is dictated by several individuals intent on only one aim. I think all the accusations of iPhone owners taking um bridge here and affecting the thread has been settled in the last few posts as the content is bordering on juvenile IMO.
My interpretation of this thread is to discuss mobile phones and tablets, with the aim to discuss technology, new releases and opinions from our own experiences. The mobile market is not exactly running short of subject matter to discuss in terms of innovation at the moment with many new things coming in. I'm not interested in brand wars or watching others mock choices because they feel its light hearted amusement in their own selfish way. I don't see why myself and airshifter should be bullied off a thread and instructed not to post on it because others want to use it purely to mock Apple and their marketing and patent ethics. Lets share our experiences and discuss what we like and want to see coming to our mobile devices. If it really is a point of no return and we gentlemen really can't have a little respect for each other, then the thread really has run its course. Sad when you consider this topic is something that doesn't come to an end as technology develops by the day. A thread like this can be interesting and useful, for example when Mark asked about a simple to use phone for his mother.
I've tried to suggest this before, but can we try and get this thread onto a flow of a more positive nature and try and put brand prejudices aside? Come on guys and gals there's no point getting frustrated over a mobile device is there?.
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27th June 2013, 12:22 #2977
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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
I know that this thread originally started with the intent of hating Apple products and that some seem intent on making that the threads primary goal, but others actually have input on either and/or both types without bias.
As for this:
Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
Now I could reduce myself to altering peoples screen names, digging at one brand phone, or applying shallow stereotypes to any that oppose my view. But my response to Race's post was to echo his sentiment.... if the end user is happy, why should anyone else get their blood pressure up over it?
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27th June 2013, 14:02 #2978
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Originally Posted by airshifter
Originally Posted by airshifter
Also, nice form to assume that people haven't used both devices. I used an iPhone 4s for a month before I went ahead and bought the Galaxy S3.
Originally Posted by airshifter
Originally Posted by airshifter
This is quite a phenomenon. Person A says they're happy with their device and nobody's opinion is gonna make them change their mind. This person then knowingly gets in a debate about their preferred brand, gets upset at the slightest criticism of Apple, defends it hammers and tongs against benchmark scores until kingdom come, calls anybody who knows what processor is in their device, a "nerd" or a "geek". Then when the topic is no longer discussed, takes sarcastic cheap shots at people they may have argued this with before. And when they have to taste the same medicine, panties start flying about, words like fanboi are thrown around and we are in the same vicious cycle again.
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27th June 2013, 14:32 #2979
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iPhone sales projections are now so low it
Cheap iPhone release date, news and rumours | News | TechRadar
Apple decreasing the iPhone 5's price, and are soon to launch a budget iPhone.
I would consider this a victory for folks around the world who have been wasting their times on online forums, criticizing this aspect of the company over the past year. Very similar to how Microsoft has reacted rather quickly to the criticisms of the Xbox One.
This proves consumer feedback is still ultra important, and if you complain about something long enough, it will eventually change.
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28th June 2013, 05:58 #2980
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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden
As for the rest of the post, not worth the waste of time other than to mention I really don't care what you buy, nor do I care if you want to spend 500 post trying to convince others that they should buy the same. But the fact is that anyone that wants can express an opinion, and that includes people that prefer the Apple products.
I'm short on time... we are going to stop some Android carrying kids in the neighborhood and bully them into buying iPhones. All those nerds and geeks do it sit around running benchmarks and talking tech garbage. We are going to force them into an OS that works!
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