Way 'too' long!!!! How ironic. I like his programme notes the other week. He's actually writing with a southampton accent using "are" where it should be "our". Surely no one else would be writing them would they?
Yes, I've heard that the HTC One is the dog's as well, and I nearly went for one myself, but I couldn't find the deal. Besides, also it would have been a small leap in the dark, whereas I'd borrowed my brother's S2 for a couple of hours to sort the settings for him. Me being the nerd, I learned how to use it quickly, and I was really quite astonished at its speed and capability. The S4 had been out a month by then.
I haven't been into Apple products since I had to use a Mac Proforma for part of my Environment degree. I think I might have mentioned that it was a horrible thing to use, and that most people who were doing their degrees at the time weren't computer literate, so asked me to teach them, and the other people who were computer literate had PCs like me. I think there was one Apple aficionado and he didn't know how to use the software, so he was in the dark like the rest of them. Every Apple product has the same feel. They are form over function, when a tool should always be form following function. And no, I'm not keen on the iPhone. My sister has an iPhone 4 and doesn't really quite know how to use it. I've tried to show her, but being an Apple it doesn't work logically, so she doesn't remember how it goes. As always with Apple, it is smart and cute and does cool things.
SS, as an Apple 'fanboy' and someone who makes a living out of fixing Windows servers and infrastructure all day, I disagree a bit there. My other half is the most IT illiterate person you will ever meet. She shunned all forms of technology until one fateful day, she borrowed my MacBook. She now has a lovely MacBook Air and I am an internet widower. She also borrowed my iPhone once to take pictures and ditched a 15 year 'love in' with Blackberrys to get an iPhone 5! You are right though - Apple products all have the same feel and look - but take it from someone who is on the sharp end of Microsoft servers every day...Apple products 'just work' and are very intuitive nowadays. That said, you do pay an 'Apple Tax' on everything from them, so I can understand why people look for alternatives. I'm not going to start an Apple v Windows debate as Windows isn't necessarily less stable; Microsoft have no control over what hardware Windows is going to sit on, whereas Apple operating systems can only sit on Apple hardware. Same with the iPhone - IOS will only work on a handful of Apple devices, Android is on multiple manufacturer's hardware. However, sometimes this total control does produce very slick and user-friendly devices - though you lose the ability to adapt it yourself as it is so locked down. Personally I think the most stable OS are the UNIX/Linux based ones...Apple OSX is UNIX based - basically a very polished and locked down version of freely available software. Phew, got that off my chest and bored a lot of people! (this should really be in Beefy's/Cotrese's) No 7
No.7, I just copied and pasted your post into Google translate and I still don't understand it. Can you recommend a Collins translator book thingy I could try
This discussion on i-phones and galaxies is way above my head. I think I'll stick to trying to get to the next level in Spanish (Elementary) Es mucho facil, vale?
Weird how in some threads the mere mention of something off topic is met with a 'take it to beefys', yet here ppl spend ages discussing phones. Agree, crap thread.
