iPhone appeal slipping

BeVonk! said:
Those here telling me they have no need for USB drives any more and can't see any need for 'em are talking rubbish to defend Apple's limitations. And then CD's are dragged in as an example on the same level as USB drives? C'mon people. Very few have cheap access to the cloud and Wi-Fi everywhere.
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SA isnt Apple's target market - tbr I doubt any third world country is - but most of apple's target countries do have cheap access to the cloud and wifi access. Almost everywhere I went in the UK (restaurants, malls, hotels, etc) advertised free wifi.

I do still use USB drives but no where nearly as much as I used to. The majority of the people I need to get files to on a regular basis are moving towards dropbox and it makes my life so much easier. Take printing large amounts of photos - I used to copy them to my thumb drive, drive to the shop, hand them over, wait, wait, wait, and then get my prints. These days I dropbox them and they're being printed while I'm driving to collect.
 
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Look at Apple's spending curve this last quarter it's going through the roof. They are gearing up for something very big.
 
BeVonk! said:
Those here telling me they have no need for USB drives any more and can't see any need for 'em are talking rubbish to defend Apple's limitations. And then CD's are dragged in as an example on the same level as USB drives? C'mon people. Very few have cheap access to the cloud and Wi-Fi everywhere.
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STILL waiting for practical "normal every day" examples for people that are not part of the nerd-herd (love that, thanks Bwana :)). I have a couple of USB memory sticks lying around, can honestly not remember when last I used them.

I'll admit that maybe the "Apple limitation" forced me to think about how to functionally and effectively use the cloud. Which I do now. I say viva progress! :D
 
undesign said:
What do you need to transfer that you need a USB drive for? (genuine question)
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I was referring to the Dropbox reference. Not necessarily usb drives. Its still nice to just plug my phone into my PC, and drag and drop, thats all, just drag and drop.Any file format. Don't have to run anything special.

And I'm using my Nokia usb cable for it at work, samsung cable at home, and my dads bb cable at his place...

But your obvious trying to find a reason for it but from a apple perspective, which is clouding your few of what is possible, lots of people need to be able to do this for work related things.

Go look at the connectivity demo of the S3 on youtube, where they plug all manner of peripherals into a USB hub connected to the phone.
 
R13... said:
The S3 is nice but I would not call the 4/4s dated next to it. The S3 is nothing special and the one drawback with it is the artificial colours of its display (whatever it is). And the one model I played with at the Samsung demo in Eastgate (they are on quite a campaign) kept freezing when the guys tried to demo voice commands. A siri like feature of Android I assume.

It is definitely an improved on the total plastic look and feel of the S2. I know it is still plastic but it doesn't look that way on this model.
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Personally I feel the iPhone looks dated when I look at it after using the S3 for a day. Not sure about the freezing, haven't really had any issues. Not sure what you mean about the artificial colors? The backplate for me is the only real disappointing build part of the phone. All in all I think the iPhone killer that everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived :D
 
Grimspoon said:
Personally I feel the iPhone looks dated when I look at it after using the S3 for a day. Not sure about the freezing, haven't really had any issues. Not sure what you mean about the artificial colors? The backplate for me is the only real disappointing build part of the phone. All in all I think the iPhone killer that everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived :D
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If the new iPhone doesn't compare favourably that's one thing, but the current iPhone is a geriatric - where's the fun in killing that? :)
 
R13... said:
The S3 is nice but I would not call the 4/4s dated next to it. The S3 is nothing special and the one drawback with it is the artificial colours of its display (whatever it is). And the one model I played with at the Samsung demo in Eastgate (they are on quite a campaign) kept freezing when the guys tried to demo voice commands. A siri like feature of Android I assume.

It is definitely an improved on the total plastic look and feel of the S2. I know it is still plastic but it doesn't look that way on this model.
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bwana said:
If the new iPhone doesn't compare favourably that's one thing, but the current iPhone is a geriatric - where's the fun in killing that? :)
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Hahaha! True true :p
 
BeVonk! said:
Those here telling me they have no need for USB drives any more and can't see any need for 'em are talking rubbish to defend Apple's limitations. And then CD's are dragged in as an example on the same level as USB drives? C'mon people. Very few have cheap access to the cloud and Wi-Fi everywhere.
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I haven't used a USB drive in over 4 years...
While I'm not claiming that nobody uses USB drives, I do suspect those that do are few and far between. Like people that use CD's
 
BeVonk! said:
Those here telling me they have no need for USB drives any more and can't see any need for 'em are talking rubbish to defend Apple's limitations. And then CD's are dragged in as an example on the same level as USB drives? C'mon people. Very few have cheap access to the cloud and Wi-Fi everywhere.
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You're right. Almost everyone I know, uses USB drives.
 
JStrike said:
Ok, fair enough, but then you can't claim you *need* a USB drive...
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Well my radio has a USB port. I need a USB flash drive to listen to my music on my car radio. I can plug my USb flash drive into my laptop and drag & drop music from my laptop or from my S3 through my laptop if I feel like it.

See why I *need* a flash drive now?
 
Crowley said:
Well my radio has a USB port. I need a USB flash drive to listen to my music on my car radio. I can plug my USb flash drive into my laptop and drag & drop music from my laptop or from my S3 through my laptop if I feel like it.

See why I *need* a flash drive now?
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Alternatively,

1) you always have phone with you
2) put music on phone
3) connect phone to car audio with 3.5mm aux cable
4) discard extra complication of usb drive

As a bonus,

5) play counts and ratings updated to central music data base when you sync again
 
As per my photo I can connect three USB devices plus normal and micro SD cards. That expands the flash memory directly available to my device by as much the size of the memory is I can buy. Immediately available. No internet connection required. Plenty of movies for kids on long trips. All the music I own right there. Books, magazines ... all of 'em. I can go on holiday/trips with tons of stuff. No laptop required. 64GB iPad? I have way way more available. But the iFans will convince all the cloud is where they store their tons of stuff and they will have internet everywhere. I can just see that iCloud struggle with that GPRS connection that comes and goes. Nee wat mense ... Some things just works better.
 
Or... you could just take your laptop and 500gb drive and your 1tb external along just in case you ran out of stuff on that. But I can see the logic in your solution, in a ghetto-mod sort of way.
 
Dolby said:
Everything requires shortcuts or workarounds ... and new owners start hearing words repeated very often ...
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Jail breaking sounds better than all the rooting you have to do on android. And then some of the roms result in some of your device functions going unsupported.
 
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