“Like I usually do when new gadgets hit the tool kit, I have been using only the iPhone 4S for the past few days. I still have my Nexus S 4G Android phone running the current version of Gingerbread, but it remained on the charger while I carried the new iPhone everywhere,” James Kendrick reports for ZDNet.
“Last night I decided it was time to pick up the Nexus and get reacquainted with the phone that has served me well,” Kendrick reports. “It didn’t take me long to realize that after using the smooth, polished iPhone 4S that Android just feels wrong.”
MacDailyNews Take: Dude’s been drinking ripple for years now. Why is he surprised that it tastes like toilet water after sampling a few glasses of the world’s finest wine?
“This realization hit me hard, as I found that as I used the Nexus, a phone I absolutely love, the user experience was jangling my nerves,” Kendrick reports. “The inconsistencies in the interface between apps and the occasional lag doing simple things like scrolling in windows just screamed at me. I hadn’t really noticed it before, but after using the iPhone these things jump out at me.”
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds familiar. See: Windows to Mac switchers.
Kendrick reports, “In just a few days with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 I had come to expect operation to be fluid and consistent system-wide. That’s just not the case with Android, and every little interruption in smooth operation now accumulates into a feeling of frustration as I use the phone… The lack of fluid operation in Android may be due to the OS, or perhaps it is hardware related. It might be due to better apps on the iPhone, or tighter control by Apple over them. I really don’t care as a user, I want the best user experience I can get. The good one delivered by the iPhone 4S makes it clear to me how wanting the Android experience actually is. It just feels wrong.”
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MacDailyNews Take: If you’ve stumbled here via Google, don’t settle for cheap imitations, Android settlers. You only live once and life is short. Get an Apple iPhone and see what’s it’s like to use the real thing.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “User” for the heads up.]
Ive a palm pre, htc hero, htc evo, and Samsung galaxy s before I arrived at my now 3GS. I didn’t realize what I was missing until I turned to the light. All the “great” extra features caught me. I’ll never turn back.
Is not it amazing that there are no news sites/bloggers who consistently make declamation of love to watches by Rolix, and shoes by Abibas — instead of original Rolex and Adidas?
Then how come there are so many fans of imitation in technology sector?
Actually, that’s a good analogy.
Last year, if I would have picked up a fake Rolex, I wouldn’t have known the difference.
I happen to have the real thing on my wrist now, and if I look at a fake one for just a second, I can tell right away it isn’t the real thing.
You can’t know how bad something is until you’ve tried the real thing it’s trying to replicate.
What a coincidence, I can do the same thing with a fake Timex. Only I can do it a heck of a lot cheaper.
Rolex – the ultimate ego trip. Heavy as all get-out also. Soooo 70s.
Another one bites the dust.
Apple flavored dust… I can sniff a few lines of that any time!
😀 I just asked siri to deliver a shipment of apple dust… XP
What was the answer you got?
Whatever the reason Android sucks, each Android customer will have to figure out for themselves by trail-and-error.
That’s expensive frustration.
trail-and-error?
Is that getting lost and stumbling around until you find your way?
Why do humans make mistakes?
If it’s good stay the course then again make a change once you realize your mistake. Only human 🙂
Go AAPL today as iSay record revenue = $107 Billion!!!
2012 = $555
2015 = $828 🙂
English is a euphemizing language. We have layers of euphemisms, because English euphemism decay into crudeness. For example, we used to have “burials,” but that got euphemized as “funerals,” but “funerals” became too direct, so we have “celebrations of life” paradoxically when there is a death.
“Toilet” is what a woman did while sitting at a vanity in front of a mirror, putting on make up and adjusting her hair. Later the word “toilet” became a euphemism for performing certain functions in the restroom, then it became a crude term. The original meaning of “toilet” survives in the phrase “toilet water” which refers to the perfume one puts on during that process.
WTF?
A lot of Siri-less people are going to switch to iPhone.
And thus become siri-ous.
+1 🙂
@MDN
And whazzz rwong wit rippl?
At least the writer got it. I’ve tried to explain to others with android flavored phones, and the incredible doe like look I get from them. There are a lot of people who can not perceive these differences. They are use to simply hitting something harder to get the square peg into the round hole, they are immune to anything that works so effortlessly and smoothly.
These guys are in such denial for so long…at least he finally pointed out just one of the benefits of an Apple product. That is products that ships near perfect with attention to detail and operation. From OS to hardware. Android and cloners? Just slapped together POS to make it look like an Apple product.
My daughter’s Android phone came loaded with some operator apps that sent out information in the middle of the night and cost me a fortune in data charges (this is Spain). Apple would never allow that on their iPhone.
The difference between iOS and Android is like the difference between making love to a beautiful woman and tossing off to the ladies’ underwear section of the Sears catalog. Or so I hear…
> It might be due to better apps on the iPhone, or tighter control by Apple over them. I really don’t care as a user, I want the best user experience I can get.
Why was he using an Android phone in the first place?
Aside from the performance, Android “just feels wrong” to me because it is a counterfeit version of iOS. A cheap copy, just like those fake Louis Vuitton bags you see the mall people carrying around. Except they don’t brag about how their fakes are better than the genuine article.
I don’t know, my wife had the 64g iphone 4, I have the GSII… after playing with both and being a iphone owner for 3 years now, I love the GSII, the screen is amazing, battery life is AMAZING! OS is fast and fluid with no crash… I think maybe once you try a high quality android phone, you guys might sing a different tune, or at least stop sounding like narrow minded folks.. just saying
(let the flaming begin!)
Your wife does not have a 64GB iPhone 4 because there is no such thing (32GB was the max). So stop making up fake stories, troll…! 🙂 (flaming enough for you)
How strange. I had the exact opposite experience, found ios to be insulting…. It was like AOL for phones.
Ah, reduced to trying to insult Apple by referencing AOL. Sad.
BTW, if you like Android, you have Steve Jobs to thank – without the iPhone, Android wouldn’t exist. Or maybe it would, but it would look like a counterfeit BlackBerry.
Wake up Android people !!!!!!!
Fortunately , you have !!!!!!!
I think the additional comment-asides by the author were really unnecessary. Also, I think that this whole iOS vs Android debate is a blown over the top. I have an Android now because I lost my iPhone 4 – and I love it just as much if not more.
Why do I love Android more? Well for one thing, I’ve had iPhones since 2008. Yes, the iPhone 4 is ahead of its time, but I sort of got bored of iOS and wanted something different.
I’m a hacker and a tweaker at heart, so Android is a perfect fit for people like me. I love being able to change the homescreen, love being able to change the keyboard, and I absolutely love that I can do whatever I want with the phone. I will of course say that the quality of the apps on the App Store is slightly better than apps on the Android Market — but I suspect that is because a lot of the Android apps are free (highest percentage of free apps). And there are some real gems, like LauncherPro, SwiftKeyX, and others, that really improve your Android experience.
While Android, until now, can have no hope of being as effortless, as smooth, and as consistent as iOS, there has been a definite improvement in the quality of applications, and the lag issues that plagued phones before is virtually non-existent. I’m amazed almost every day by what my rooted phone can do. Stuff I never even thought possible with a handset. But again, Android is meant for people like me, people who love to tweak and hack and experiment with different ROMs.
I really enjoy the Apple experience, and the iPhone 4 + iTunes on my MacBook Pro is really great, but I’m not much of a music guy and I never really see videos on my phone (save for some youtube), so iTunes was sort of unnecessary.
The TL;DR version is that you guys need to give Android a little bit of credit. It has some of its own smart features. It is obvious that Android wouldn’t be as good without the iPhone and of course, the amazing Steve Jobs. But equally, I think Android is a worthy competitor. Just as Windows 7 is JUST ABOUT a competitor to our beloved OS X.