Qualcomm Claims Android Always Beats the iPhone to New Features

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On the eve of Apple’s iPhone 8 event, Qualcomm published a blog post reminding everyone of all the “firsts” that Android beat Cupertino to: these include wireless charging, dual-camera systems, OLED smartphone screens, edge-to-edge displays, and more. However, some claim to have found a “hilarious number of mistakes,” which include the HTC One M7 having dual cameras (it has only one) and the 2013 LG G Flex having the first OLED display (the original Galaxy S released in 2010 shipped with AMOLED).

Android devices do beat Apple to a lot of things, and a good portion of the time that’s for a good reason, and others not so much (looking at you Motorola, was there any need to ditch the headphone jack first?). Regardless, Qualcomm decided to take a shot at Apple as it published a list of features expected to make their way to the iPhone (or already are), that showed up on Android first, specifically on Qualcomm powered devices. Unfortunately, Qualcomm is either recalling events incorrectly or isn’t very good at Googling things, because there are some hilarious mistakes on this list.
 
Typo on the HTC M7 maybe, since the M8 did have dual cameras.
 
Qualcomm as a company is pretty shitty in charging on cellular patents/technologies, and that company is sitting on a high horse.
I am glad that Huawei and Samsung do their own take on ARM.

Having said that, Android is the better breeding ground for new features than Apple.
 
Android OEM's rush out features before there fully baked in an attempt to differentiate.

Apple sits on new features until they have them "perfect" and cost effective.

Take your pick. Both have ups and downs.
 
Cali3350 said:
Android OEM's rush out features before there fully baked in an attempt to differentiate.

Apple sits on new features until they have them "perfect" and cost effective.

Take your pick. Both have ups and downs.
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Thank you for that roaring fucking laugh you provided me :)
 
Cali3350 said:
Android OEM's rush out features before there fully baked in an attempt to differentiate.

Apple sits on new features until they have them "perfect" and cost effective.

Take your pick. Both have ups and downs.
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No. Not always perfect.
Apple's implementation of Apple Watch has only gotten polished now with LTE by its 3rd generation.
Apple's Pencil for iPad Pro has a haphazard charging solution which sticks its rear to the back of the lightning port, which is seriously hazardous.
Apple's iPhone 4 had antenna design issues, iPhone6 had the bandgate and the touch disease, 4S had coloration issues
Mobileme never stuck, nor did Apple Map
Apple worsening the #donglelife through that lightning to 3.5mm adapter on iPhone7


We can do this list for every Android manufacturer as well.
 
Uvaman2 said:
Ok. ??
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Actually it just came up again last night when I was mentioning that they added LTE to the Apple Watch. Reimu's "pretty shitty" and "high horse" remarks are a good start. He talked about the indocrination they put you through when you go to one of their seminars to learn to use their components.

He also has a friend who is an RF engineer at Apple - from what he says, it's a wonder these phones work at all, but I've never had any signal issues with mine, even the 4S with the "it's a question of where you grip it" problem. Yes, my signal levels dropped, but it never caused a dropped call, or inability to make a call. Guess I have decent coverage around here.

As for Apple Maps - I use my phone for navigation all the time. It's never steered me wrong, which is more than I can say about any number of other mapping services. That too may have something to do with where you live - the area I've driven using Apple Maps covers basically NYC west to Buffalo and that swatch south to DC. It's never tried to send me down some dirt road, or the wrong way down a one-way street, or anything of the sort.
 
Reimu said:
No. Not always perfect.
Apple's implementation of Apple Watch has only gotten polished now with LTE by its 3rd generation.
Apple's Pencil for iPad Pro has a haphazard charging solution which sticks its rear to the back of the lightning port, which is seriously hazardous.
Apple's iPhone 4 had antenna design issues, iPhone6 had the bandgate and the touch disease, 4S had coloration issues
Mobileme never stuck, nor did Apple Map
Apple worsening the #donglelife through that lightning to 3.5mm adapter on iPhone7


We can do this list for every Android manufacturer as well.
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Haphazard charging FTW!

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Unless those features are continued security updates.

My iPhone 5 from 2012 just went Apple EOL.
 
Reimu said:
No. Not always perfect.
Apple's implementation of Apple Watch has only gotten polished now with LTE by its 3rd generation.
Apple's Pencil for iPad Pro has a haphazard charging solution which sticks its rear to the back of the lightning port, which is seriously hazardous.
Apple's iPhone 4 had antenna design issues, iPhone6 had the bandgate and the touch disease, 4S had coloration issues
Mobileme never stuck, nor did Apple Map
Apple worsening the #donglelife through that lightning to 3.5mm adapter on iPhone7


We can do this list for every Android manufacturer as well.
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Those points are all fair. I was thinking more a fundamental issue with technology (like a face scanner that can be broken with a flat picture), not "design decisions" (ie just weirdly designed things). Your points are certainly valid.
 
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