“About a month and a half ago, I walked into an AT&T Store, handed over my iPhone 4S, and asked to be switched from my unlimited iPhone data plan to a new LTE data plan,” Andy Ihnatko writes for TechHive.
“I wouldn’t have given up unlimited data unless I could swap it for something I wanted even more than the ability to stream Netflix 24/7… something that hadn’t existed during my previous five years as an iPhone owner,” Ihnatko writes. “A great Android phone.”
Ihnatko writes, “In this three-part epic, I’m going to walk you my decision. It’s the story of why Android 4.1 and the S3 got me to switch. No way is it an argument about why anybody else should drop their iPhones and switch to a flagship Android phone. This isn’t the story about how Apple has lost its way and no longer innovates. It hasn’t and it still does. This is merely the story of one dude who got a new phone. Nonetheless, my tale presents a picture of the strengths of modern Android.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Andy’s lack of patriotism and morality aside (really, Andy, rewarding blatant thieves?), this sort of thing should be a wakeup call to Apple that iOS 7 and future iOS hardware should be not just a step, but a leap forward.
(Congrats on joining the Hee Haw demographic, Andy.)
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Sarah” and “psydocdennis” for the heads up.]
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I don’t find his features relate to the way I use a smart phone. I would rather keep my unlimited plan and the reliability of iPhone that “works.”
I asked an iPhone repair guy if he works on Android. He said all the time. So I asked which he thinks is better. He laughed as if it weren’t obvious? iPhone is so much better quality, he said.
Hmm he has made a third article as well, featuring Nokia Lumia 920, he says he will try it out for 30 days and then give his impression but already he claims he might use it instead of iPhone 5.
You know..this sounds to me like somebody is just exited about a new TOY and when he gets bored after a few days he will go back to the better iPhone…that’s all there is to it, just ignore this guy.
Having said that I do think Apple needs to ante up their game because the competitors are not light years away anymore like they where in 2007.
Steady, there. They may catch up. But is there any evidence that they can surpass Apple in innovation? No. There is no such evidence.
Also remember that the same reasoning was applied to Apple in 2001, 2007, and 2010. In each case Apple rose above the mundane competition.
Apple’s baked-in culture of innovation and its perpetual startup mentality have flummoxed competitors year after year, and exposed their shallowness as mere followers and copycats. That consumers buy ersatz products proves only that buyers seek a bargain, hardly headline news.
If I were granted three wishes, they would be for world peace, a proof of the Riemann hypothesis, and a universal acknowledgement that Apple is not required to be all things to all people.
Hmm, I thought it was some other guy testing the Lumia 920 while ago, not Andy. The Win7 tiles just don’t have enough information for me. I have the first page of iPhone screen full of folders with each corner carrying a red number bubbles, that’s how my day starts. The pull down Notification Center works perfectly too.
iOS is now over 5 years old, I’m sure Apple will tweak the interface, but I hope they won’t lose all the cool features.
And a smaller iPhone is needed for Asia, and a bigger too that the locals could use as iPad Nano. You see, Samsung Galaxy S3 for a typical Chinese hand is the same size as iPad mini is for me.
Seems ever since Andy was not invited to an Apple event a few years back he has shown a steady decline in his views towards Apple. He did not even attend Macworld/iWorld this year, wonder when he will become a Google fanboy like Leo Laporte.
Yesterday a friend said he’d never bought a smartphone before and was ready for his first one. Asked if it’ll be Apple or Android. He said Android. Apple fanboys need to realise that the grass roots level buzz right now is for Android. That’s hard for MDN readers particularly to appreciate. In the past months, as I listen to my NON-TECH friends talk about phones – you know, the ones who have no clue about tech – most of the chatter is about Android.
Those same “NON-TECH” friends all probably have windows computer also because “everyone” else has one not because it is better.
Well that’s an interesting take from MDN.
Andy and Leo have been promoting Google for quite some time. It would be very interesting to find out how much Leo Laporte’s show is getting from Google to promote and praise their products. While we are at it, how much is Scoble receiving from Google? In the last few months he has spent a lot in time boasting about his one on one talks with Google and what a great company they are.
Is Apple so dumb that it does not see how Google has been going after the Tech pundits and offering incentives to
promote the company. While at the same time getting them attack Apple and it’s future. Wake up Apple! , you are dealing with a devious adversary.
“Andy Ihnatko: Why I switched from iPhone to Android”
Because someone paid me tons of money,that’s why
Exactly right.
It’s part of Shitscum’s FUD marketing plan, just like deliberately buying large amount of shares in Sharp. That way they get Apple’s display business too.
Never ever trust a Korean company – they dont accept that they are wrong regardless how obvious it is to everyone and are so devious.
Samsung is the new Apple. Apple under Cook is fast coming another average nice company. The market is not wrong. It has much less bias than apple users or fanboys like myself. I lived in denial watching my shares go down. Under Tim, Apple is cooked!
Shamedung is NO WAY the ‘new Apple’ as you put it.
Lete’s look at the facts – Apple invented the iPhone, the FIRST TOUCH SCREEN PHONE – Shitdung didn’t.
Apple invented the iPad, the FIRST TOUCH SCREEN TABLET PC – Shuzsprung didn’t.
Without Apple Scamspunk would be selling phones with buttons and now tablet pcs.
So what amazing things are Shutscum doing?… answer NOTHING.
I give him a month max, then he will realise how crap Android is.
I used a relatives Android phone for a while and I couldn’t get back to iphone fast enough. The OS is so clunky its like a detuned engine in a car whereas iOS is a performance OS.
I personally don’t want a larger phone, I remember the early mobile phones that were literally the size of a house brick and I don’t want that.
I have my ipad for large screen mobile functions – a phone is a phone not a laptop!
Inako embraced Apple when Steve Jobs was alive, and Steve is gone and he turns on Apple.
People like that stab you in the back. He’s a two faced hit whore who’s sold his soul.
Bottom Line – Mentally he’s never ever got over Steve Job’s death and needs to be sectioned or have a lobotomy.
WTF! if he had to switch to Samsung, why not the Note II? The GS3 is something of a joke here in South Korea, can be had for $0 + a contract. Or better yet, why not wait for the HTC One, which at least is metal and glass, not just tacky plastic?
Looks to me like the man had sold out, plain and simple. Maybe college for a kid? Pathetic.
I get sick of supposed Apple fans saying the next iPhone needs to be a big leap. The original iPhone WAS the big leap that completely changed the phone/computing landscape. It is the device that got not only competitors but also carriers scrambling. The form factor is set. All they can do is make it smaller or larger. The iPad is basically a larger iPhone (without the phone part.) What do you want them to do…add a mouse??? Round doesn’t work. They will continue to change the design but you can only do so much with a rectangular phone with a touch screen. What Apple has and will continue to do is make incremental improvements to the original breakthrough product. Software will probably see more change than form factor will.
How many of these phablets are actually being sold? Is there anything more ridiculous looking than someone holding one of those up to their ear?
And in related news, Miguel de Icaza explains why he switched from Linux to Mac: http://www.infoworld.com/t/linux/gnome-co-founder-explains-why-he-dumped-linux-mac-213994
You win some, you lose some.
Apple is going to lose more user to android and blackberry…..,
Funny how everyone is resorting to ad hominem attacks instead of addressing the points he made in his article.
I recently bought a discounted toshiba excite 7.7″ on a whim: Build quality is roughly on par with the iPad mini, it’s AMOLED screen blows the other device away, and it has a micro SD slot and provides access to the file system. The tegra 3 and Jelly Bean isn’t bad at all.
The only qualms I have about this tablet is for the move that Toshiba used out of Apple’s playbook: a clunky, expensive, proprietary charging cable (far worse than lighting). Worse yet, I’m unsure if Toshiba will support the device past Jelly Bean, which is the bane of Android as far I’m concerned. But I have no plans to give this device up, even if Apple releases a iPad mini retina before the end of the year. If nothing else, it will serve as a digital briefcase and e-reader for me to take all of my digital books, manuals and client files without access to the cloud.
I’ve also got no plans to jettison my iPad 3 since it’s still working and there’s some iOS apps I heavily rely on. But once it dies or no longer serves its purpose, I may do what was once unthinkable: take a serious look at full sized Android tablets and apps. Same thing when my iPhone 5 contract expires in 22 months; let’s say Apple had better be making a phablet by then.
In switching to a Samsung from an iPhone, Andy gave up the entire Apple ecosystem for… faster data speeds? My iPhone 5 has LTE, but I hardly use it due to it’s power draining nature. But using this as justification for breaking the integration between iTunes, iPhoto, Maps, automatic podcasts, iCloud, effortless syncing… I don’t get it. He’s usually a sensible guy but to throw out all that utility just to get LTE he could have on a new iPhone doesn’t make sense.
Unless… payola.
This is sad. Really sad. Andy common? A GoSung S3? It’s just a big screen on a big plastic slab with someone else’s chip inside and not even the OS they made themselves…
Looking forward to iPhone 5S or iPhone 6. But don’t count on a bigger screen. It’s not really needed. We have enough ridiculous people walking around with colossal big plastic slabs up their face. Looks like a fuken circus lol. No I don’t think we need a gigantic iPhone from Apple.
You guys are complete and utter morons. Apple should be ashamed that you fucking numbskulls buy their product.
Ashamed! Nonsense! They rely on the stupidity of these people, This is why they are sooooooo minted. They sucked them all in with a few funky adverts and BAM! hooked for life, these apple worshipers won’t even look at another product, If they did they would surely recognise the superior experience you get with a decent android device. Don’t get me wrong, sure, they pioneered the new smartphone revolution and much props for that, however they have fallen way behind now. I currently rock the HTC ONE X which blows my sons iphone 5 out of the water in my opinion (Yes, my son is an apple fanboi i’m afraid. I have tried to school him but he has appleitess, young foolish and impressionable, i wish I had gotten to him earlier, i’m sure when he grows up a bit and wants to do more than play angry birds and impress his friends with the latest ‘I’ device I will win over and all will be forgiven). I did dabble in to the world of apple, just to test the water, and man was I disappointed, sufficed to say my brand new looking, virtually unused Iphone 3GS sits in my spares cupboard next to my ZTE san fransisco (£99) which is well used (was purchased a week after the 3GS to replace and my word, even this cheap as chips little phone was soooooo much better than the 3GS). The END….
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