John
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That's been coming for a while, even the non geeks will get bored of Apple unless they do something innovative for a change.
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A2H GO
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Originally posted by Dave
Nerds want an open os and innovative features from a phone, the majority of people just want to check Facebook, play the latest game and take photos.
Non-geeks get bored too. Especially when after 2 years they get their shiny new upgrade they have to pay over the odd's for another two years and it's exactly the same as the last one.
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LeeM
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Cool.
There's a lot of noise on Twitter at the moment about the closed-ness of iOS and long term Apple users moving to Android. People are getting bored.
Pod2G got #wewantanopeniOS trending in a matter of hours.
Unless iOS 7 is a full refresh and the 5S is massively innovative I can see them loosing a lot more customers to android devices.
[Edited on 04-01-2013 by A2H GO]
i dont understand what trending means, my mates got marklovesitupthearse trending so it cant be that hard
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Dave
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The main thing that will hurt Apple in my opinion is price. When the masses realise that a Nexus 4 type phone does everything they want at a much lower price then Apple are in trouble. Similar to how Samsung and LG have eaten into the TV market at the expense of traditional big names like Sony/Panasonic/Philips.
Looking at current sales figures though that seems a long way off yet.
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A2H GO
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Pod2G's got 2 miliion followers and it got to number 4 in top trends.
He must have a lot of mates.
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A2H GO
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This pretty much sums up what I'm trying to say (and is a good read if you're on the verge of switching):
http://gizmodo.com/5973073/an-iphone-lovers-confession-i-switched-to-the-nexus-4-completely
[Edited on 04-01-2013 by A2H GO]
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Cavey
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Non-nerds want the same thing they're used to, nothing else. If that's apple products they'll want to stay with that. My mate has a touch and wants an iPhone now because he knows how to use apple stuff, I'd imagine most normal people are the same
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Dave
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"I'm not the average smartphone owner"
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LeeM
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quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
quote:
Originally posted by Dave
Nerds want an open os and innovative features from a phone, the majority of people just want to check Facebook, play the latest game and take photos.
Non-geeks get bored too. Especially when after 2 years they get their shiny new upgrade they have to pay over the odd's for another two years and it's exactly the same as the last one.
And how's it any different to someone upgrading from one android device to another?
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A2H GO
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Both Android and the hardware that runs it has improved, innovated and moved on dramatically over the last two years.
iPhone is still the same old iPhone.
[Edited on 04-01-2013 by A2H GO]
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Sam
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I quite like iOS and the logic behind things in it (plus I've learnt quite a bit of Objective C now for writing my own apps  ).
I don't think I could ever move back to Android. It would be like SetH trying to convince himself that he likes skinny birds more than fat birds.
[Edited on 04-01-2013 by Sam]
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A2H GO
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Fair play on learning Obj-C 
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LeeM
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quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Both Android and the hardware that runs it has improved, innovated and moved on dramatically over the last two years.
iPhone is still the same old iPhone.
[Edited on 04-01-2013 by A2H GO]
iPhone 4 and 5 are the same?
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A2H GO
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Pretty much, the minor differences not worth an £800-900 contract. I regretted it within 2 weeks (and there was no one more excited than the biggest Apple fanboy on CS )
[Edited on 04-01-2013 by A2H GO]
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mwg
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fuck off mwg
Do you want to make something of it
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Steve
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Yes please
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
Pretty much, the minor differences not worth an £800-900 contract. I regretted it within 2 weeks (and there was no one more excited than the biggest Apple fanboy on CS )
You clearly banged your head at some point
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Whittie
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The ios upgrade will have to be epic.
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Balling
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Can't see it happening. Apple have never really been big on change for the sake of change.
They'll continue to tweak iOS slowly, one feature at a time.
Using my old 1. gen iPhone on iOS3 is like a step back in time. Unbelievable how many things have changed since then and how much better the phone/OS has gotten.
iOS isn't likely to get more open or customisable. Looking at OS X it's actually going in the opposite direction.
It's pretty evident that Apple have a clear cut target audience, which is the vast majority consisting of average users.
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Whittie
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Customers are dropping 1 by 1 though, people are even buying nokias again
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Balling
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I don't think they are, tbh. There's still a lot of new adopters. Amongst family members I still see and increase in iPhone users. This is people who don't care about the latest spec. They'll keep their phone until it breaks and then buy a new phone as similar to the one they had before as possible.
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Whittie
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Mine no longer charges 
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fazza
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I regret getting an iphone 5. I had a Blackberry 9780 for 3 years before getting this and I miss not having to charge it every night or it being flat just after tea time
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A2H GO
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Not had much luck with that have you Alex.
I'm the owner of a white one now, decided against black this time, the scratches would annoy me no end.
[Edited on 20-02-2013 by A2H GO]
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Whittie
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I've asked apple to send me a replacement, so will see what happens. Mine is scratched to hell, glass by camera has a mark and other side has a chip out of it. I've only dropped the phone once from memory, and that was how the chip happened, no idea how its got so scratched, its ridiculous.
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