“Apple released its Move to iOS app yesterday in the Google Play store, and Android users lost no time in lashing out at the Cupertino giant for daring to encourage people to leave the Android platform,” Jim Lynch reports for CIO.
“Many scathing comments were posted by angry Android users, and the app was quickly voted down to 1.8 stars,” Lynch reports. “As I write this post there are 3,306 one star ratings at the low end, and 827 five star ratings at the high end, with a smattering of other votes in between.”
Here’s a sample:
If Apple was a country it would be North Korea. Looks like Apple wants to attack our freedom and control everything we do on our phone and also charge us a bomb for it in this process. Thank you very much for trying this cheap tactic but I am very satisfied where I am and what phone I am using. Now you can go ahead sulk and try this on iSheeps which I am sure will definitely surrender to you. Peace. — Akshat Singh
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The plural form of iSheep is iSheep, Mr. Google Marketing Regurgitator.
As we wrote way back on January 29, 2007:
A tar paper shack in the desert seems “good enough” to someone who’s never been inside an actual house… Why settle? Do you really think that little of yourself? Aren’t you worth more than “good enough” (that in reality isn’t even “good enough”)?
What are you worried about? If your POS iPhone knockoff is so great nobody will download and use Apple’s app, right, Mr. Confident?
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I don’t know which is worse: Samsung’s slavish copying or that there are tens of millions of dullards and/or morally-crippled consumers who would buy such obvious knockoffs. What kind of person rewards thieves, especially such obvious ones? What kind of person hands over their money to make sure that crime pays? What’s wrong with you people, exactly?
It makes me sad that there are outfits like Samsung Electronics on the planet, as I was with Microsoft before them. People who work for Samsung Electronics should be ashamed. It makes me even sadder to see people supporting blatant criminals, whether it be blindly or, worse, knowingly. To those people I say: Get some morals, will you, or how about at least acquiring a modicum of taste?
What you’re doing is supporting criminal activity. It’s like you’re buying knockoff Coach handbags, but you’re paying pretty much the Coach price! Not too smart, eh? Oh, sure, you might have “saved” a bit upfront on your fake iPhone (maybe you got one of those Buy One Get One or More Free deals), but you’re paying the same data rates – after a couple years, you’ve pretty much paid the same anyway! So, in the end, you’re saving little or nothing while:
a) depriving the company who basically inspired your inferior, fragmented product;
b) depriving yourself of the real deal and the real experience, and;
c) rewarding the criminal, encouraging them to steal even more.Not a lot of sense being made in any aspect of your toting around that Android phone, is there? Oh, right it’s “open.” Smirk. And, yes, every one of us with the real thing knows that you’re carrying around a half-assed fake, you tasteless wonder.
Didn’t you people have parents? If so, what did they teach you, if anything? Sheesh. – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, August 6, 2012
SEE ALSO:
Apple’s new Android app helps people upgrade to a real iPhone – September 17, 2015
Apple’s ‘Move to iOS’ app released for Android on Google Play – September 16, 2015
Apple iPhone sees highest switching rate from Android ever recorded – August 10, 2015
Nomura ups Apple to ‘Buy’ on strong iPhone growth, increasing Android switchers – July 31, 2015
Significant Android to iPhone switching weakens market for Samsung Galaxy S6 – March 24, 2015
Analyst: Android switchers fueling iPhone growth; Android users even more interested in Apple Watch than iOS users – March 23, 2015
Over 85% of new iPhone sales are switchers, mostly from Android – January 30, 2015
*shrug* They’re Android users.
I agree. No need getting angry.
A number of people I know use android phones. Usually the cheap “smart” phone for 35-45$ at walmart. They buy those cause the drop them, lose them, break them, get them wet,,, and its the cheapest phone they can get to watch Netflixs on .
These and NOT tech savvy people. They get by and text and call their friends.
As I have said many times, and Android device is a phone which also posts selfies to facebook (and can apparently also stream Netflix videos… who knew?), whereas an iPhone is a mini-computer that also makes phone calls.
If that:s all they need, more power to them. 🙂
It smells like an orcastrated reaction by google and alike!
Dont use it if you dont want it… Whats the big fuss?
For those who may choose to migrate its a good thing. …
Typical googlesque lowlife behavior …
PS..
Its got lowlife scum Eric Mole Schidth written all over it !
About 25% of the ratings for the Android app were five stars… that bodes well for the switcher numbers in Apple’s next quarterly report.
I guess they’re scared that their buddies will suddenly decide to switch to iOS now that there’s an app for that.
Apple put a tool out that people can use if they so choose. That’s it. As for your freedom on Android, have at it. I’ll keep my malware-free iPhone and malware-free App Store downloads, thank you very much.
Final note: I lost my 5S shortly before the new iPhones were released, so I decided to get a temporary phone just to make calls and text until I could get my new iPhone 6S.
My God, I never knew it could be so bad! People actually deal with this POS OS?!? Sure, I know I didn’t buy a high-end Android phone (it’s a ZTE which I have named my crapPhone), but the OS can’t be that much better on a Samsung or LG or whatever. I had to buy a used iPad mini just so I could stop the withdrawal shakes and return to some semblance of organization, real screen response, and an ability to type the letter I actually aimed carefully for.
A dumb fsck is a dumb fsck is a lame duck or a droid
It is very funny for me to see those victims of this new Stockholm syndrome.
If you go to “Wired” online magazine you see a lot of those comments every time Wired publishes something about Apple (good or bad).
If Apple was North Korea then google is Joseph Mendeleev (not even a country) doing experiments with people.
That comment on the pretend App Store from Google shows how sad and lonely those people are. I feel sad for them.
Nice post, but I believe you meant to write the name Josef Mengele.
Sorry, I meant “Joseph Mengele” (the nazi WW II Doctor)
considering that the spell checker on iOS more often than not proposes an alternative word that is more inaccurate than any mis-spell that I type, just saying. I wish I had time to write down all the examples, dozens per week.
I condemn all spell checkers, in the end they cause more mis-spells than people do, so…….. I won’t fault you for Mendeleev
Thanks, I agree with you.
I disagree. Spell-checkers catch my mistakes when I fumble my typing slightly, or on those words where my poor brain remains permanently confused about the correct spelling — but recognizes what is correct when it sees it.
Of course, one must have enough education to distinguish between the choices.
An example of the periodic errors made by Auto-Correction. Table this feature by going to Settings.General.Keyboard and flipping the appropriate toggle.
More like the Greeks leaving a pretty horse outside the gates of Troy.
Samsung has the same thing , maybe even Google or is it Alphabet. Or, The Artist Formally Known as Prince – whatever they call themselves these days.
This app should be of great help to those Androids who are looking to become human.
Smacks of insecurity and desperation to me. If there was a “Move to Android” app in the iOS app store, would we get all angry and butthurt? No, we’d laugh our asses off for a bit and ignore it.
——RM
A post oozing of anger, aggression and frustration (not getting laid??) ending with “peace”? Hilarious…
Really – Is Apple forcing you to download the app? If you want to switch they are just making it easy. Wow the nerve of some people.
Really? Isn’t there a new hashtag cause for keyboard lemmings this week? Someone let them know.
Fun times…
#updategate
Problems updating to iOS 9. While most fandroid’s are running 4 year old software.
I must have missed the part where Apple forces Android users to switch to an iPhone. I mean, this couldn’t possibly be about a certain segment of the population refusing to accept that people should have the right to do what they want (as long as nobody is hurt)?
Freedom of choice!
The soon to be swept away android militia has been mobilized to the besieged walls. Armed with nothing but catcalls they know deep down inside that the end is near.
If google was a country it would be Nazi Germany.
Such hate and vitriol.
Denial… it ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Totally irrational, you can picture the foam coming out of his mouth and the wide eyed look of insanity as they typed.
Why be so crude to people that don’t care and don’t need apple products they don’t have to be called names. What are you eight years old?
Sounds like a bunch of whiny little butthurt bitches 😉
Funny. Apple isn’t North Korea. It’s the U.S. There are rules (supposedly) that you have to follow if you want to live here. <— Don't turn this into a political battle. 😛
Android, on the other hand, is ISIS. Anything goes, but expect malware (beheadings) to run rampant, based on what you decide to do.
Wait for Apple Music to hits the Play Store…They are going thermal overload on that as well!
I see the cult of Google is alive- The pot calling the kettle black.
You guys are funny.
Do you think a “Switch to Android” app in the app store (assuming Apple approved it) would fare any better? It’s just platform wars.
Some “war.” Reminds me of USA vs. Grenada (the US invasion date of October 25 is now a national holiday in Grenada, called Thanksgiving Day). Someday former Android settlers will refer to September 16th as “Thanksgiving Day.”
The latest news from the front:
Apple iPhone sees highest switching rate from Android ever recorded.
The difference is iOS users would offer up a competent giggle at the obvious fail and uselessness of the app. Not go irrationally defensive.
They’re getting defensive for a reason.
Let’s just say “it’s happening”…
I tried to download Move to iOS and give it a 5-star rating even though I’ve never used Android and never will. However my Flash blocker or my tracking cookie blocker or my ad blocker must have considered the GPlay Store itself as malware. I couldn’t download or rate. Not worth the trouble to try to find what I needed to unblock.
There’s tons of malware on there.
Have you heard of “ransomware”? It’s the latest android craze. Freaking HILARIOUS!!
Tis is indeed a revelation into the psyche of the average Android sufferer… twas not very long ago when Google uploaded the app for using Android Wear with the iPhone, but there was no irrational outrage this attempt to sway Apple Watch users to Android Wear suffers…. Gee! guess it really is a matter of class.
Think about it.
The average iPhone user is simply more financially and emotionally sophisticated. They think about things in a more logical way and are more concerned with how products work than how much they cost.
The typical ‘android’ drone is a PC user. He spends his time shooting nazis/robots/zombies/aliens and pirating software, and he has a massive inferiority complex.
Can you imagine being subjected to M$ crapware day in and day out? Add in the clumsy subpar ugliness that is ‘android’ and you’ve got a recipe for some very unstable people.
We already know that 99% of the world’s internet trolls are PC/’android’ drones. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that these people troll their own ‘app store’.
It’s actually sad in some ways.
I just can’t wait.
I’m gonna give a week or two for the excitement to wind down after the iPhone arrives in stores and then I’m going to finally get off my stupid Abandon-droid phone.
Seems you’re new to iPhone. The hype doesn’t die down until January and even after that there’s a huge spike after in China.
You better hurry because next year there will be TONS of android malware circulating. Heard of the new one? “Ransomware”? Scary sh**.