I think if anyone can turn things around it's Nokia. I really look forward to buying another Nokia. My Samsung is well built, but still not as good quality as my E71.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
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I think if anyone can turn things around it's Nokia. I really look forward to buying another Nokia. My Samsung is well built, but still not as good quality as my E71.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
I really liked my N73 - probably one of the best phones I've owned vs the technology available at the time. Worked great with maps etc.
My N96 was good too, if a little plasticky.
The disappointment for me was the N97, now I think there were some hardware aspects which were faulty which will colour my views, but I'd bought it hoping that it would give me an iPhone like experience but with the familiarity of Nokia. But it just failed, it was dog slow, the screen didn't respond properly and was full of bugs. Websites which take under a second to load with my iPhone took over 5 minutes with the N97, if they loaded at all. And little annoyances like having to pay for a .pdf viewer whereas one is included on the iPhone.
It was a difficult decision to ditch Nokia in favour of Apple, I wasn't, and still aren't a particular fan of the company and the way it does business, but after using my iPhone 4 I was completely amazed at the difference, and I shouldn't have been!
If I'm not mistaken, donKey Jote is working with Windows, just as I am. Unless I misread his post, he doesn't have a Mac. His complaint was about iTunes specifically, not Apple or Mac software in general. This is the first time I've worked with iTunes. And while I don't find it to be the most user friendly software I've ever used, I have worked with software that is MUCH more difficult to master than iTunes. Spend an afternoon on AutoCAD, MasterCAM or TeleChart and see how intuitive you think those monsters are. I'm still trying to figure out how to import some TeleChart 2000 files into TeleChart 2011. But that's a software issue, not an OS issue. I just accept that some software has a steeper learning curve than others. If I don't like it, I have to search out other solutions, applications or platforms. I just had to reboot a Windows machine WHILE I was working on something! That is an example of an OS issue that I plan on getting away from as soon as possible. In the future, I'll only use Windows when I have to (as a secondary OS on the Mac). A hundred times bitten... twice shy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
As far as iTunes is concerned, personally, I'd prefer a simple copy and paste approach. I don't care for the Genius feature (and I shut it off), as that apparently allows outsiders to see inside "your world". That's the very reason that I do not have a Facebook account or log-in to most Google services.
Had I not bought the iPod Touch, the one device that's coming out that I might have considered is the Samsung Galaxy Player (iPod Touch clone). I have no idea how Android FroYo(?) works, but I hear the U/I isn't bad and it will apparently have access to the Android app store (although I read that Google didn't want it to at first). The only problem with it is... I don't think it's going to be available outside of South Korea for quite some time. But it got pretty good reviews at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas recently. If competitively priced, that's the one device that could potentially challenge the iPod Touch.
Yes, but who made that software? Apple! Apple who are the supposed masters of everything! People have been critical of iTunes for as long as I can remember, I got my iPod for Christmas 2004 and people were complaining about it then!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
I think you're slightly paranoid regarding Facebook or Google. Don't want people to know certain information? Then just don't put it on the internet.
My profile on Facebook has my name as Daniel vn and it has my date of birth and that's it. Not much people can do with a name that is obviously incomplete and a date of birth :) My date of birth is only visible to my "friends" on facebook anyway so the most information 99.99999999% of people who look at my profile will see is Daniel vn and a picture of a new Lancia Stratos. I do laugh at people whose profiles are public for all to see and contain a mountain of information though :laugh:
Possibly I am. But I am able to use the services I need without (willingly) giving Google, or any of the others, ANY personal data. That doesn't mean that they can't and won't "data mine", but there's nothing I can really do about that. My girl got a surprise when she learned that her FaceBook pics had locations embedded. I told her she better not ever cheat on me or lie about where she's been, because from her posted photos I can track her like a hound tracks a rabbit! :eek:Quote:
If someone truly believes that Apple is incapable of making wonky software then they are simply unrealistic in their expectations. People have been complaining about Windows since 3.0 - and how long ago has that been? About 20 years? But people still bought it. Once other market players begin producing software/hardware platforms that consumers would rather have (instead of iOS/iTunes), then either Apple will modify iTunes or they will lose share. That's the wonderful thing about the free market: consumers have choices. And IMO, the more choices the better. Just as Apple's iOS made the competition work harder, Android is now making Apple work harder. If there had been a stronger competitor to Windows years ago, I feel that the OS market would be much more advanced than it is now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I thought that Windows NT was pretty good (was very stable compared to 95 and 98). And I was OK with XP Pro. I (luckily) skipped ME, but Microsoft lost me forever with Vista, and Win7 just isn't enough to get me back. And since I'd have to "learn" Win7 anyway, my choice is to migrate to Mac OS X and use XP Pro as a secondary. Now that Apple's Mac line has Intel processors, I'm no longer restricted to just one OS on a computer. Heck, maybe I'll get real jiggy and learn Linux and use it too. The MacBook Pro line offers me all those options. :)
[quote:1xw8dkw0]I think you're slightly paranoid regarding Facebook or Google. Don't want people to know certain information? Then just don't put it on the internet.
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My profile on Facebook has my name as Daniel vn and it has my date of birth and that's it. Not much people can do with a name that is obviously incomplete and a date of birth :) My date of birth is only visible to my "friends" on facebook anyway so the most information 99.99999999% of people who look at my profile will see is Daniel vn and a picture of a new Lancia Stratos. I do laugh at people whose profiles are public for all to see and contain a mountain of information though :laugh:
I guess I've just never caught the social networking bug. Posting on message boards is about as close as I want to get to social networking. I probably will join LinkedIn this year though. I can see a real (economic) benefit to being on there.
My phone does that too. Slightly annoying but you can strip location data off fairly easy :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
My point about Apple is that they're so caught up in the hype that they and others build up for them that they're unable to see things objectively. At their product launches the cultists cheer on as Steve trots something out which has already been done years ago but which is presented as groundbreaking or when he presents a product which is merely a rehash of one of their current products but with x feature added which other products from other manufacturers have been doing for years, but for some reason the Apple product is "magical" and the other products ordinary :mark:
Then there's their dishonest side like the slander campaign against Vista. Vista wasn't perfect I'll admit, but Apple latched onto the early critisms of Vista and consumer confidence in what was a much better OS than XP went straight down the toilet. Admittedly it could have been better but it was nowhere near as bad as it was painted. Then there's the iPhone 4 antenna issues which were talked about for weeks and weeks on the net with no official line from Apple other than Steve saying "You're holding it wrong" and then there was the press conference -> http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/l...ss-conference/ which was a complete cop out. First they began the conference with this rather lame song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKIcaejkpD4 which includes the rather silly line "in terms of daily useage I've yet to drop a call so this whole damn thing is stupid". That was pretty pathetic really when there were plenty of people reporting dropped calls and youtube footage made by clever people with signal testing equipment which showed the signal dropping out. Fair enough the issue only seemed to affect a smallish group of people but to respond in the way they did (saying "we're not perfect and phones are not perfect") was petty and silly. They went on to say how other phones have the same problem (they don't!!!!!) and then when challenged in the Q&A part of the press conference offered an answer which wasn't really satisfactory....
I don't expect everything to be fault free but it's nice when a manufacturer takes responsibility and even better when a manufacturer comes out and admits that there's a fault with their product like Intel have done with the Cougar Point chipset for their new Sandy Bridge processors. They've not come out and offered a bandaid fix which is what the offer of a bumper or 3rd party case was with the iPhone 4, they've come out and said "Oh crap! There's a problem with our product, this is what's wrong, here are the technical details, here's what to do in the meantime to avoid the fault affecting you and here's when you can expect your product to be replaced". It's that sort of corporate honesty that makes me respect companies like Intel and makes me consider buying their products again.
Inexplicably Apple seem to be able to act in ways which should really alienate their users but a good proportion of their users keep coming back for more.
I don't think Intel had any choice but to admit there was a problem. As far as I know, there is still a debate about what the problem was concerning the iPhone 4. And Jobs/Apple DID take heat for that press conference and the way he responded. Most recognize that it was a rare PR stumble for the company. But the bottom line is, people were given the opportunity to return their phones and get their money back or get a free bumper. As far as I know, the basic design was not changed and the phone is still selling in record numbers. In fact, I read yesterday that the Verizon version doesn't experience the issue in the way that it was experienced on AT&T. But anyway, I don't know what the problem was. I only know that people had the option to get their money back if they wanted to. Most did not do that. In fact, the retention rate for iPhones is higher than for any other brand, the last I read.
One thing I think you have to remember is, Apple is not just a successful technology company. It is also a successful marketing company. And successfully managing PR is part of that. So yes, Apple does (actively) cultivate a certain image. Is BMW really "the ultimate driving machine"? Really? ;) I think I posted it here a year or so ago. But Apple was one of the top ranked consumer brands in the world - and I'm sure it still is. So yeah, in addition to wanting (mostly) well engineered products, people are also willing to pay a premium for certain brands. That's also true of Rolex, Porsche and Gucci (other premium brands that ranked high in the piece that I linked).
Worth a repost, IMO. This one is hella fun!
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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
While sitting in the parking lot yesterday, I used this app several times. And I've found myself often using it while watching TV, and a snippet of a song plays during a scene and I don't know what it is. It's great! Now I know the name of the theme song to Luther. And the app also pulled up YouTube links for various versions and remixes of that song (Paradise Circus by Massive Attack). :up:
Anyone download the Windows 7 update and got an unstable phone in return? It's now been withdrawn.
You would think they would get that stuff sorted. Phone firmware being updated and then bricking them goes back a decade or more.