10 Reason why Android is better than iOS vice versa.

[Bryn]

Odd man, have had my iPhone 7 for about 5 months and haven't had any of those issues. Only issue I have is occasionally the Camera App doesn't work.

That's a problem having non-direct support I suppose. In an Apple Store you could create a fuss and demand a replacement if necessary, because it is definitely not normal.

I haven't had a single crash, and just asked my daughter who is using an iPhone 7 and she hasn't had any issues either.



I do have MX Player (and even downloaded the MX codec some say fixes the issue), it seems if the audio is in DTS format it just won't play and the phone freezes. It's an android only issue though, doesn't happen on the iPhone, iPad or in Windows with the same file.

I ended up downloading an MP4 version as a resolution in the end, last time I tried.

Though why a common file format doesn't just play without being fracked around with is the real question...

The reality is SA has to deal with Core though, which is a very big reason to never buy a Mac. I don't think I know a single person who hasn't experienced total misery dealing with them and not been shafted hard to get a Mac fixed or replaced. The customer service in iStores (and Incredibles) is diabolical too.

My step-dad despises his iPhone 7 (battery life is a joke & he doesn't even have social media). He hated his previous iPhone SE too and it was passed from family member to family member until it returned and was relegated to being a spare phone, because no one wanted it after trying it out. He has declared that he's never buying an iPhone again. He also hates the Apple TV because the touch pad is horrible to use & because Apple TV has the worst BBC iPlayer app of any box he's owned. He somewhat likes his iPad though. As the person who has to help out family members with tech issues, nothing will get me to switch to Mac or iOS.

 

[AlphaJohn]

The reality is SA has to deal with Core though, which is a very big reason to never buy a Mac. I don't think I know a single person who hasn't experienced total misery dealing with them and not been shafted hard to get a Mac fixed or replaced. The customer service in iStores (and Incredibles) is diabolical too.[/qoute]

Reminded me of this rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVAmnV65_zw

Edit: Also there is this:
[video=youtube;sfrYOWlKJ_g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrYOWlKJ_g[/video]

 

[Aquiva]

The reality is SA has to deal with Core though, which is a very big reason to never buy a Mac. I don't think I know a single person who hasn't experienced total misery dealing with them and not been shafted hard to get a Mac fixed or replaced. The customer service in iStores (and Incredibles) is diabolical too.

My step-dad despises his iPhone 7 (battery life is a joke & he doesn't even have social media). He hated his previous iPhone SE too and it was passed from family member to family member until it returned and was relegated to being a spare phone, because no one wanted it after trying it out. He has declared that he's never buying an iPhone again. He also hates the Apple TV because the touch pad is horrible to use & because Apple TV has the worst BBC iPlayer app of any box he's owned. He somewhat likes his iPad though. As the person who has to help out family members with tech issues, nothing will get me to switch to Mac or iOS.

I completely agree with you there regarding Core Group! Although I myself have converted over the years to everything Apple! I'm on my 3rd iPhone, 2nd Macbook Pro and 2nd iPad, I even have the Apple Watch and Apple TV. I love all of it! I work in the IT industry and daily see how Apple products are better than Windows. Even out Mobile Management Suites (Intune and MobileIron) work better with iOS than with Android! Apple's biggest problem is Itunes, but there are ways around it and It doesn't bother me that much. The rest of the tech is as they say, you get what you pay for.

 

[Bryn]

I completely agree with you there regarding Core Group! Although I myself have converted over the years to everything Apple! I'm on my 3rd iPhone, 2nd Macbook Pro and 2nd iPad, I even have the Apple Watch and Apple TV. I love all of it! I work in the IT industry and daily see how Apple products are better than Windows. Even out Mobile Management Suites (Intune and MobileIron) work better with iOS than with Android! Apple's biggest problem is Itunes, but there are ways around it and It doesn't bother me that much. The rest of the tech is as they say, you get what you pay for.

You're punting your personal preferences as fact here, when they're clearly just opinion. I'm also in IT and couldn't disagree more with you, especially with regards to getting what you pay for with Apple products. I use them fairly frequently through my peers and I'm not only not tempted to buy them, I am strongly dissuaded from doing so.

Any software will work better on Apple OS's if it was primarily built for them, with Windows and/or Android versions nor receiving the attention they deserve. From my experience, and in line with the study I posted previously in this thread, I find Android to be more stable than iOS in general.

 

[DA-LION-619]

You're punting your personal preferences as fact here, when they're clearly just opinion. I'm also in IT and couldn't disagree more with you, especially with regards to getting what you pay for with Apple products. I use them fairly frequently through my peers and I'm not only not tempted to buy them, I am strongly dissuaded from doing so.

Any software will work better on Apple OS's if it was primarily built for them, with Windows and/or Android versions nor receiving the attention they deserve. From my experience, and in line with the study I posted previously in this thread, I find Android to be more stable than iOS in general.

Didn't sound like he was presenting it as a fact.

 

[AlphaJohn]

....... I find Android to be more stable than iOS in general.

Erm http://www.cultofmac.com/443335/skyrocketing-failure-rate-means-ios-is-less-stable-than-android/

 

[Dave]

Erm http://www.cultofmac.com/443335/skyrocketing-failure-rate-means-ios-is-less-stable-than-android/

Their figures make no sense.

During the second quarter, that figure rose to 58 percent. Crashing apps, unstable Wi-Fi, and other performance issues were to blame.

In its Q2 2016 State of Mobile Device Performance and Health report, BTG reveals that the iPhone 6 is the most unstable Apple smartphone with a failure rate of 29 percent, followed fairly closely by the iPhone 6s at 23 percent.

Strangely, the iPhone 6s Plus, which has almost exactly the same internals as its smaller sibling — save for a larger display and battery — had a failure rate of just 14 percent.

So they're claiming an average of 58%, yet the highest individual rate was 29%?

What was that saying about statistics again?

 

[AlphaJohn]

So they're claiming an average of 58%, yet the highest individual rate was 29%?

What was that saying about statistics again?

58% = Apps + devices aka everything
29% = Device alone excluding apps and what not.

During the second quarter, that figure rose to 58 percent. Crashing apps, unstable Wi-Fi, and other performance issues were to blame.

In its Q2 2016 State of Mobile Device Performance and Health report, BTG reveals that the iPhone 6 is the most unstable Apple smartphone with a failure rate of 29 percent, followed fairly closely by the iPhone 6s at 23 percent.

Strangely, the iPhone 6s Plus, which has almost exactly the same internals as its smaller sibling — save for a larger display and battery — had a failure rate of just 14 percent.

 

[Aquiva]

Any software will work better on Apple OS's if it was primarily built for them/QUOTE]

And hence my point why it is more stable. The same reason why Apple could get away with smaller batteries and CPU's, the OS/software utilizes it better.

 

[Dave]

58% = Apps + devices aka everything
29% = Device alone excluding apps and what not.

Still makes no sense, as it's only apps, wifi, performance issues that can be unstable.

If you had a phone without any apps, what would be unstable or crash?

 

[Bryn]

Didn't sound like he was presenting it as a fact.

Except it did.

...and daily see how Apple products are better than Windows.

The rest of the tech is as they say, you get what you pay for.

And hence my point why it is more stable. The same reason why Apple could get away with smaller batteries and CPU's, the OS/software utilizes it better.

Apple doesn't get away with it though. The iPhone 7 has atrocious battery life, as did the 6 and 6s. Only the Plus models have good battery life, and it's because they have bigger batteries.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Still makes no sense, as it's only apps, wifi, performance issues that can be unstable.

If you had a phone without any apps, what would be unstable or crash?

Seriously?

So by your reckoning if I have a faulty Harddrive /Motherboard or such that cause my Excel to crash I have to attribute the problem to Excel?

 

[Dave]

The iPhone 7 has atrocious battery life, as did the 6 and 6s. Only the Plus models have good battery life, and it's because they have bigger batteries.

Did you forget to say "in my opinion" in that statement?

In my personal experience, the 7 has very good battery life, as did the 6s.

I'm finding I need to charge the Galaxy S7 more often than the 6s that the sim was in previously. The 6s would always make the full day, the S7 sometimes needs an early evening top up to make the end of the day (my end of the day is around midnight).

The 6s Plus absolutely kills the S7 even though it has a slightly smaller battery (2915mAH vs 3000mAH).

 

[Bryn]

Did you forget to say "in my opinion" in that statement?

In my personal experience, the 7 has very good battery life, as did the 6s.

I'm finding I need to charge the Galaxy S7 more often than the 6s that the sim was in previously. The 6s would always make the full day, the S7 sometimes needs an early evening top up to make the end of the day (my end of the day is around midnight).

The 6s Plus absolutely kills the S7 even though it has a slightly smaller battery (2915mAH vs 3000mAH).

I didn't forget to say it was my opinion. I've had an iPhone 6 and 7 in the family and both had terrible battery life. Almost never made it through a day. And every review on the net mentions that the non-Plus models can't go the distance. It's very well known.

I know the Plus models have good battery life. Hence excluding them from my statement.

 

[Dave]

Seriously?

So by your reckoning if I have a faulty Harddrive /Motherboard or such that cause my Excel to crash I have to attribute the problem to Excel?

Which has got nothing to do with the 58% failure rate claimed by the Blancco report.

Here's a more detailed article on the report:

Fifty-eight percent of iOS-based devices suffered from "performance failures" like apps crashing or components shutting down during the second quarter, up from 25% in the first quarter, according to a study by mobile technology service provider Blancco Technology Group (BTG).

For instance, on iOS devices, the most common "performance failure"—about two-thirds of the total—was an app that crashed and forced users to reopen it. The company also found that 11% Apple device owners experienced problems with Wi-Fi connectivity.

In its study, BTG revealed that iOS troubles were likely due to Apple's iOS 9.3.1 update in March followed by its 9.3.2 update in May. They both caused problems with "battery drain, random crashes," and other unidentified problems, the company said.

Indeed, not long after the iOS 9.3.1 update earlier this year, customers complained that it caused bugs and glitches that could render their devices useless. Although Apple fixed the issue in iOS 9.3.2, the update included other bugs, leading to yet more problems. Apple's latest iOS version is 9.3.5, which, at least right now, is believed to be more stable than those before it this year because it has fixes for bugs those operating systems had.

Third-party apps proved to be the biggest soft spots on iOS. BTG reported that photo-and-video-sharing app Snapchat was the most-likely app to crash on iOS followed by Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram, Facebook (FB, +0.92%) itself, and Facebook's mobile-messaging service Messenger.

http://fortune.com/2016/08/25/apple-ios-failure-rate/

 

[Dave]

I didn't forget to say it was my opinion. I've had an iPhone 6 and 7 in the family and both had terrible battery life. Almost never made it through a day. And every review on the net mentions that the non-Plus models can't go the distance.

It's very well known.

Is it?

As someone in the phone industry, it's certainly not well known to me or anyone I know. For the battery size in the 6 and 6s, battery life is quite impressive.

I know the Plus models have good battery life. Hence excluding them from my statement.

And yet it has a smaller battery than a lot of other phones...

 

[Johnsoej]

Apple's battery life is amazing, however the software is just so rigid and not as versatile as the Samsung's. Where one would normally send.audio files from your music player via WhatsApp for a friend to listen to, on the Samsung this is very easy to do. On the Apple device this might not be so easy. That's just one simple example. That with Apple. There are many pro's. And.don't get me wrong I love Apple. It's just it's flexibility in performing some meaningless tasks like sharing your music via a platform other than what is governed by Apple will not be possible. Due to software limitations and non-flexibility.

 

[Bryn]

Is it?

As someone in the phone industry, it's certainly not well known to me or anyone I know. For the battery size in the 6 and 6s, battery life is quite impressive.



And yet it has a smaller battery than a lot of other phones...

Guess you should check out more reviews then. There's no way my experiences with non-Plus iPhones have all been outliers, and that pretty much every mainstream reviewer was incorrect to criticise them too in that respect. The battery life is just unacceptable on them. Having to charge twice a day is a deal breaker imo.

For the battery size, the battery life is impressive. Who cares? That isn't even a statement worth making. Apple should put bigger batteries in their phones rather than making them so thin the camera doesn't fit.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Which has got nothing to do with the 58% failure rate claimed by the Blancco report.

Here's a more detailed article on the report:

http://fortune.com/2016/08/25/apple-ios-failure-rate/

Ok so replace Motherboard with OS.....

So by your reckoning if I have a faulty OS or such that cause my Excel to crash I have to attribute the problem to Excel?

 

[Dave]

Guess you should check out more reviews then. There's no way my experiences with non-Plus iPhones have all been outliers, and that pretty much every mainstream reviewer was incorrect to criticise them too in that respect. The battery life is just unacceptable on them. Having to charge twice a day is a deal breaker imo.

That's absolute BS, how long have you actually used a 6, 6S or 7 for?

I don't know anyone who charges a 6 or 6s twice in a day. There are probably 7 or 8 users of 6 and 6s's at work, and at least the same number of 7 users and none have complaints about batteries needing multiple charges through the day.

For the battery size, the battery life is impressive. Who cares? That isn't even a statement worth making. Apple should put bigger batteries in their phones rather than making them so thin the camera doesn't fit.

Your irrational bias is showing now, my Galaxy S7 also has a bump on the back around the camera. I don't see the issue with it...