Just How Bad Is the Iphone?

[joggerjayne]

So everybody talking about ...

(okay, The Guardian and a few friends are talking about)

... how much better the Galaxy is than the iPhone.

I have an iPhone (much to the amusement of my Galaxy owning pals), but never really use it ... and a Blackberry, ditto ... but I've not used a Galaxy. For the record, the phone I carry around day to day is a crappy old Nokia, which is small and light, and I love it.

But it sounds like the Galaxy is waaay more advanced, bigger and better memory, chips, stuff like that, better Apps, superior screen, better price ... well, basically better in every way.

There was that demonstration outside Apple, wasn't there, with people waving placards saying "WAKE UP" because the Galaxy has left the iPhone for dead, struggling and floundering in a wallowy ocean of bloatware.

So there are only two benefits of an iPhone ...

(1) It's got the trendy logo (which benefits teenagers)

(2) it's built by underpaid Chinese slaves and sold at a laughably inflated mark up (which benefits Apple skockholders).

So come on ... how bad is the iPhone, and how much better is the Galaxy?

[joggerjayne]

"Samsung use the same factory in China as Apple"

Some people might feel that that undermined part of their argument.

Not me, of course.

[woofgang]

yes hotching is a word
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hotch

[joggerjayne]

Hotching is an excellent word, and I will make a point of using it for a few days.

[hc4361]

JJ, so does Microsoft, Acer, HP, Intel, Nintendo (they make the Wii).....

It's hard to find an electronics company that doesn't use Foxconn

[woofgang]

when you get bored with it, move on to "morrissing about"

[joggerjayne]

hc ... So does Microsoft, etc ...

Some people might feel that that undermined part of their argument.

Not me, of course.

=0)

A triumph of confidence over rationality.

Is "rationality" a word?

[joggerjayne]

"morrissing about" ??

That sounds way too much like those men with bells on their trousers!

[woofgang]

same root.

[Zacs-Master]

(Zacs thinks JJ has been at the wine again)

[tinkerbell23]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my iphone wouldnt have another
Phone xxx

[joggerjayne]

Zacs ... not at all.

Not been drinking tonight.

Got a bit ratted yesterday, so I've had a night off, LOL

[joggerjayne]

Woof ...

If it shares a common root with Morris Dancing, then I think I'll give it a miss.

[VHG]

>>>>Samsung use the same factory in China as Apple

Funnily enough Samsung make a lot of the components that go in the iPhone.

The great thing about the Samsung galaxy S2 is apart from it being just as good as an iPhone you can get a contract for about half the monthly price.

[KitKaat]

I have an Iphone and my step mum has a Galaxy s 2, I find the galaxy s 2 to be alot bulkier, the user interface is nowhere as smooth or user friendly. As for the apps well I think theyre pretty much the same on both!