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So i bought an iPhone... I had a bionic that drove me absolutely insane. That phone had so many issues i still wonder why i never smashed it into a million tiny pieces. If it couldnt find a 4G signal instead of just switching to 3G it would search for a 4G signal and destroy my battery life. Where i work we get no 4g at all and i finally hit my breaking point with it when my pregnant wife had to go to the hospital and i never got the call because my phone decided to go from 100% to dead in 3 hours trying to find 4g.
I have been with android since very early on when i bought the Hero, not when it was a cheap free phone when it was the ONLY android phone sprint had and i have noticed a terrible trend from android over the years. So just to clarify i will break down my phone histroy since then so maybe some of you will get the idea.
Hero - Excellent phone for the time, android was a bit immature at the time but it was a solid phone.
Moment - Garbage support from samsung, slow updates EOL less than a year after release...
Optimus S - Good phone, no support, no updates
Epic 4G - Garbage support, slow updates, premature EOL
Droid 2 - Touchscreen issues, slow to get updates
Droid X - literally the best android phone i ever owned
G2X - Not a bad phone, slow to get updates, randomly rebooted every once in a while and had a really weak headphone jack.
Sensation - Bluetooth streaming was garbage thanks to the stupidity of HTC and their bluetooth drivers, slow to get updates, some performance issues with sense
Bionic - Random rebooting, would sometimes just completely drop signal until i rebooted, if it couldnt find 4g would search until dead within a couple hours, occasionally would have no sound from the speaker at all so i couldnt hear the person on the other line until i rebooted.
When i called Verizon i was told the bionic was "The best android phone available" and that "almost everyone here has one and has no issues at all" and that "VZW and motorola are aware of no issues with the phone at all" funny last week Verizon issued an apology and promised fixes but whatever. I was told that if i sent it in i could get an "equivalent phone" which i was told would be a droid charge (WTF) i asked about the galaxy nexus and was told since it released later than the bionic its not equivalent so no.
So honestly im sick of the shit from android and googles fuck it attitude about it. Carriers sitting on updates for ages. Carriers being able to put whatever garbage apps on the phone you cant remove without rooting. Manufacturers offering little to no support or updates and adding buggy crap UIs on top of things. Manufacturers announcing EOL on phones that are not even a year old when phones are supposed to have 2 year life cycles (Looking at you samsung). Or when manufacturers release a flagship phone then immediately release another and forget about the old one like they did with the bionic.
When google bought motorola i thought they would actually make some changes, take control of the updates, fix these stupid issues.
So when i decided i had had enough of the bionic and went to look at new phones i had to ask myself what i wanted. Not buying a samsung ever again so the GS3 was out, screw motorola and those issues, LG phones are pretty underwhelming and VZW for whatever reason avoids HTC like the plague so that left what?
I have already tried every other OS out there. WP7, blazing fast, No expandable memory + phones with shit for storage never made sense to me and no selection and missing a ton of apps on top of it. Blackberry? LOL... WebOS rocked just had shitty hardware and poorly built phones.
So i arrived at the iPhone... I found a good deal and got one thinking if i hate it i will suck it up and trade it on CL for a GS3. But what i found is a phone that just works right... I plug it into my trucks stereo and dont have to screw with it, i play my music. No fighting with shitty bluetooth drivers or multiple music apps fighting over priority. When i leave work i have 3/4 battery life left.
But the biggest discovery was the quality of apps and games... The first thing i did was hunt down the same apps i had on android or equivalents. The iphone versions where either identical or better. The games on the other hand where almost all better. They run better, many look better and the iphone exclusive games i have found are top notch compared to android. I had always been of the assumption that they where the same but then i stopped and thought about it. You make a game for the iPhone you make it for ONE phone with one chipset and one screen size etc. when making a game for android its all over the fucking place so the dev has to try and hit them all with one single game. Nvidia tried to change this with tegra but i think at this point we all know tegra is overrated.
So yeah... My long winded rant of what led an Apple hater to an iPhone. Who knows maybe the honeymoon phase will end and i will hate it and trade it but so far it just works when i need it to unlike so many android phones i have had.
I have been with android since very early on when i bought the Hero, not when it was a cheap free phone when it was the ONLY android phone sprint had and i have noticed a terrible trend from android over the years. So just to clarify i will break down my phone histroy since then so maybe some of you will get the idea.
Hero - Excellent phone for the time, android was a bit immature at the time but it was a solid phone.
Moment - Garbage support from samsung, slow updates EOL less than a year after release...
Optimus S - Good phone, no support, no updates
Epic 4G - Garbage support, slow updates, premature EOL
Droid 2 - Touchscreen issues, slow to get updates
Droid X - literally the best android phone i ever owned
G2X - Not a bad phone, slow to get updates, randomly rebooted every once in a while and had a really weak headphone jack.
Sensation - Bluetooth streaming was garbage thanks to the stupidity of HTC and their bluetooth drivers, slow to get updates, some performance issues with sense
Bionic - Random rebooting, would sometimes just completely drop signal until i rebooted, if it couldnt find 4g would search until dead within a couple hours, occasionally would have no sound from the speaker at all so i couldnt hear the person on the other line until i rebooted.
When i called Verizon i was told the bionic was "The best android phone available" and that "almost everyone here has one and has no issues at all" and that "VZW and motorola are aware of no issues with the phone at all" funny last week Verizon issued an apology and promised fixes but whatever. I was told that if i sent it in i could get an "equivalent phone" which i was told would be a droid charge (WTF) i asked about the galaxy nexus and was told since it released later than the bionic its not equivalent so no.
So honestly im sick of the shit from android and googles fuck it attitude about it. Carriers sitting on updates for ages. Carriers being able to put whatever garbage apps on the phone you cant remove without rooting. Manufacturers offering little to no support or updates and adding buggy crap UIs on top of things. Manufacturers announcing EOL on phones that are not even a year old when phones are supposed to have 2 year life cycles (Looking at you samsung). Or when manufacturers release a flagship phone then immediately release another and forget about the old one like they did with the bionic.
When google bought motorola i thought they would actually make some changes, take control of the updates, fix these stupid issues.
So when i decided i had had enough of the bionic and went to look at new phones i had to ask myself what i wanted. Not buying a samsung ever again so the GS3 was out, screw motorola and those issues, LG phones are pretty underwhelming and VZW for whatever reason avoids HTC like the plague so that left what?
I have already tried every other OS out there. WP7, blazing fast, No expandable memory + phones with shit for storage never made sense to me and no selection and missing a ton of apps on top of it. Blackberry? LOL... WebOS rocked just had shitty hardware and poorly built phones.
So i arrived at the iPhone... I found a good deal and got one thinking if i hate it i will suck it up and trade it on CL for a GS3. But what i found is a phone that just works right... I plug it into my trucks stereo and dont have to screw with it, i play my music. No fighting with shitty bluetooth drivers or multiple music apps fighting over priority. When i leave work i have 3/4 battery life left.
But the biggest discovery was the quality of apps and games... The first thing i did was hunt down the same apps i had on android or equivalents. The iphone versions where either identical or better. The games on the other hand where almost all better. They run better, many look better and the iphone exclusive games i have found are top notch compared to android. I had always been of the assumption that they where the same but then i stopped and thought about it. You make a game for the iPhone you make it for ONE phone with one chipset and one screen size etc. when making a game for android its all over the fucking place so the dev has to try and hit them all with one single game. Nvidia tried to change this with tegra but i think at this point we all know tegra is overrated.
So yeah... My long winded rant of what led an Apple hater to an iPhone. Who knows maybe the honeymoon phase will end and i will hate it and trade it but so far it just works when i need it to unlike so many android phones i have had.