I am over Apple

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Dr Who

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HI All

After being with Apple and their I'family for well over 3 years I am over it. It just seems they ensure that all devices start running like cart horses over time, and then change the connectors just for fun.

Now I am sitting with a Old PC which struggles to load itunes at times while its been my media server for ages, speakers which all have the old connector and a iphone which is in perfect condition except for that fact that the hamster inside the machine ( Turning the wheel ) may have died.

Are all these issues present on android/samsung devices?

They way I see it is either I get
  1. New iphone
  2. New connector
  3. New charger
  4. New PC
  5. New Drifta
or Just a bloody Samsung which has a USB, no required connection method to the PC and hopefully will not have all its apps designed for the latest and greatest phone.

What is everyone's thoughts?
 
Dr Who said:
After being with Apple and their I'family for well over 3 years I am over it.
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3 years is like a 100 with the rate technology moves forward. I don't think it's realistic to expect any smart phone manufacturer to produce a phone that performs on day 1095 like it did on day 1...

Time to upgrade!
 
sorry correction, phone is iphone4 had a 3 before that. So its only 2 years old last month.
 
Dr Who said:
HI All

After being with Apple and their I'family for well over 3 years I am over it. It just seems they ensure that all devices start running like cart horses over time, and then change the connectors just for fun.

Now I am sitting with a Old PC which struggles to load itunes at times while its been my media server for ages, speakers which all have the old connector and a iphone which is in perfect condition except for that fact that the hamster inside the machine ( Turning the wheel ) may have died.

Are all these issues present on android/samsung devices?

They way I see it is either I get
  1. New iphone
  2. New connector
  3. New charger
  4. New PC
  5. New Drifta
or Just a bloody Samsung which has a USB, no required connection method to the PC and hopefully will not have all its apps designed for the latest and greatest phone.

What is everyone's thoughts?
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Um, any three year old phone is going to struggle - hell, my 9 month old Xperia T (Android) is starting to take strain.

My two year old HTC is well nigh unusable (Android)

My three year old phone (don't even remember what make it is anymore) is now a 'secret agent' phone for my 10 year old

I think your expectations are unrealistic.
 
strange thread this, esp when you say you have the iphone 4 which you have for 2 years. its bound to get sluggish, because the apps itself these days require hardware that is more up to date. that said, my HTC Desire HD still runs quite well after Rooting and getting a Custom Rom on it.
 
Updating to the latest and greatest iOS version is a trap.
The latest iPhone might have an amazing CPU, but after 2 years when you load iOS9 it will be slower than a nokia 3210.

Don't do it!
 
Wirelesswarrior said:
iOS 7 is perfect on a 4S.
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AfricanTech said:
4 or 4S?

Have a few okes around here also complaining that since updating it to IOS7 it's very slow

That said, we warned them not to update to IOS7....
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Correct, works fine on 4s but not 4...

Apple should really still be signing off on iPhone 4's running 6.1.3. iOS 7.0.3 is a bridge too far...
 
AfricanTech said:
Um, any three year old phone is going to struggle - hell, my 9 month old Xperia T (Android) is starting to take strain.

My two year old HTC is well nigh unusable (Android)

My three year old phone (don't even remember what make it is anymore) is now a 'secret agent' phone for my 10 year old

I think your expectations are unrealistic.
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My S2 is two years old and runs like the day I bought it. My wife uses it now. My S4 is still awesome :)
 
sand_man said:
Correct, works fine on 4s but not 4...

Apple should really still be signing off on iPhone 4's running 6.1.3. iOS 7.0.3 is a bridge too far...
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I wouldn't say that, but it does seem to be quite variable though.

For instance it runs ok on my iPhone 4. Not great but not bad at all. I do notice more memory constraints with apps though.

Dr Who said:
After being with Apple and their I'family for well over 3 years I am over it. It just seems they ensure that all devices start running like cart horses over time, and then change the connectors just for fun.
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Old devices don't run new software as well as new devices, that is no shock. At least Apple still support their old devices.

As for the connector - one change is 13 years is hardly "just for fun".
 
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ghoti said:
My S2 is two years old and runs like the day I bought it. My wife uses it now. My S4 is still awesome :)
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Ja, but which firmware version you got on there?

4.1.2? 4.2.2? No chance of getting 4.3.... 4.2.2 is the wall for the S2.

And I think that's the point. 6.1.3 runs brilliantly on a 4S. I haven't personally tried 7.0.3 so I'm not going to comment but it seems to run well as well.

On the 4 7.0.3 might be the wall...
 
sand_man said:
Ja, but which firmware version you got on there?

4.1.2? 4.2.2? No chance of getting 4.3.... 4.2.2 is the wall for the S2.

And I think that's the point. 6.1.3 runs brilliantly on a 4S. I haven't personally tried 7.0.3 so I'm not going to comment but it seems to run well as well.

On the 4 7.0.3 might be the wall...
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Precisely.

Also depends on whether you've loaded additional apps, etc.

If you're running the phone stock with mebbe only a couple of essential apps like whatsapp, it will be fine - but if you try upgrading to the latest OS or new apps, any 3 year old smartphone will suffer.

I agree with point made earlier re: the iPhone 4 and IOS7 - Apple should not have signed it for that device and should in fact give iPhone 4 users the option to rollback to version 6.
 
Have a three year old HTC Desire HD running the latest Android JellyBean 4.3 with all the latest apps. Performance is still great compared to others. Although 'old' it still works like a charm. Cannot say the same for the iPhones in the household i.e. 3GS and 4

EDIT: See they released a KitKat ROM for the Desire, will be testing that later. Not bad fora 3 year old phone with only 512Mb memory.
 
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My S2 is still running like the day I bought it.

Android 4.3 JellyBean (ParanoidAndroid ROM)
 
You find with android, the shelf life of a device is also somewhat limited.

I have an HTC Desire from a couple of year ago. I can now only run a handful of apps on this device because all the internal or stock google apps have increased massively in size. Means this phone is now basically useless.

The connectors etc havent changed though - and to hook it up to the pc is as simple as it was back then.
 
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