This one made me LOL.
Seriously, you shouldn't be downloading stuff from shady places.
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This one made me LOL.
Seriously, you shouldn't be downloading stuff from shady places.
I never understood that either. Most of my friends are technology illiterate and could not get virus if they tried.
I was not. The phone got a virus by itself, just because the bluetooth was on and the option to download only from the app store was disabled.
Do not just quote a little piece of post to try to make post wrong, read my FULL post. I said Google play has more apps than AppStore on paper but if you remove scam, virus and low-quality apps from Play Store, it has only 1/4 apps of appstore. Read FULL post then comment.
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No that is not what you posted. Do you understand what you even typed? Can you even remember what you typed, before answering with the above you should have gone back and read (and understood) what you posted.
Here is your full post, perhaps you don't understand what you typed.
Have you got that?
No matter, it is still wrong. Period.
Oops sorry I realised I forgot typink ''Good''
. I have iPhone 4S and Galaxy S4 and I can clearly see most GOOD apps are AppStore-only. Some iOS apps are avabile on google play but developers removes some features. Simple example: Vine App. iOS version of Vine is much better. It is more smooth, has some more features etc. Google Play Store's apps are usually junk. Google don't care about quality of Android Apps.
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Oops sorry I realised I forgot typink ''Good''
Dropbox, Google apps and most of the mainstream apps that are essential to your everyday use are better on android.
So who cares about which store got more junks. What's more important is those essential apps which we depended on everyday are much better on android.
Talking about junk I bet there are many folds more fart apps in the app store than Google play.
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No, I am not talking about Apps that makes no sense. I am talking about spam Apps, virus Apps, inapportie apps etc. When I visit Play store I can even see p0rnographic apps. My cousin is iPhone user and He wanted to browse Play Store. He saw lots of that kind of apps and said something like ''That's why I got an iPhone''. I mean most good apps are only avabile on AppStore. When a developer decides to wrtie an App, he writes it for AppStore first, then after a couple months he rewrites app for Android and removes some features. If you remove junk and low-quality apps from play store, it has less apps. Check this article: http://google.about.com/od/androidtipscategory/qt/Avoiding-Android-Spam.htm
This is exactly what I think about my GS4, it looks much better at the first day, it has some features like Air Gestures, Smart Scroll, Air View etc. It looked so good. Then I realised that you don't use that features. They are useless. Touchwiz is ugly, Android is laggy, play store is simply horrible, build quality is really bad, screen is oversaturated and phone is bloated by Samsung's bloatware. I think only logical alternative to iPhone is HTC One. HTC One's build quality is good (to be honest not as good as iPhone but it's still really good), speakers are really good and Sense interface is beautiful but screen get ''washed-out'' sometimes, charging batterry takes too much time, it runs Android so you have to use Android Apps. Oh... I wish Apple adds a bigger screen and better battery on next iPhone
When did those apps show up when you just browse? Maybe you specifically search for them.
I browse thru play store by category and I don't see any of those so called virus or spam apps.
How many apps do you really need? Even if you eliminate all the junks in both stores there are still way too many apps.
But appstore is missing many apps (in many application areas) due to the limitation of the ios. Automation, personalization, system and hardware apps are virtually non existence in app store. E.g. launcher, widget, live wallpaper , automation apps like auto send birthday Sms email, nfc BT wifi direct apps, call recording etc etc.
I have so many everyday useful apps which can never be found in app store.
Ok, so there are some junk apps in the Play Store. But that's such a non-point in the Android vs iOS discussion. iOS has its fair share of junk apps too, and no sensible user would let themselves be fooled by any of those petty little attempts at micro-scamming or whatever, anyway.
What's more important is that iOS apps are generally more tweaked when it comes to design and UI functionality. Not so much the really big must-have apps like Flipboard or Evernote, but in general its more common to come across smaller, more niche apps that look and work surprisingly good on iOS, whereas they would look not so good on Android. Another strength for iOS is that the App Store has far more and better music production apps than anything available on Android.
Whereas Android apps are often more versatile, because they let you share easier between apps, use the file system with total freedom, interact with PC:s, etc - combined with the fact that there are larger screen phones to use them on.
Design/reliability/smoothess vs. versatility/customization - that's where the real value of the discussion lies. Throwing out these tired old generalizations about malicious/bad apps spamming up the Play Store only leads the discussion in a totally meaningless direction. It's getting really old.
Search an ordinary app (like facebook) then look second or third page you will see lots of that kind of Apps. I agree with you when it comes to freedom. iOS has lots of limitations beacuse Apple wants protect their users from viruses, spams etc. But If you really want freedom you can easily jailbreak an iPhone. I like freedom of Android but there are more cons then pros to buy an Android phone to me.
Yes, I agree but I still think there are more cons than pros of buying Android but if you really want to buy an Android phone, do not buy Samsung. Sony and HTC phones are MUCH better. Samsung spends tons of money to make Galaxy Devices look better. Apple spends 1 billion $ for marketing and Samsung spends 13 billion $. They paid students to make comments about bashing HTC one on social media (Such as Youtube, Facebook and Twitter), they paid for technology news portals to make news about Samsung products and bash Apple Products. Samsung is a liar, bad and evil company
. Anyway I think that is the end of discussion 
No offense but you are not seeing any graphics improvements because of 64bit. The developer may have added more effects for the new phone but it has nothing to do with the change to 64bit.
This is the best stuff this guy has come up with yet.
An OS doesn't need to be written for specific hardware... that's what drivers are for.
An OS is compiled against an architecture and sure, optimisations can be made and the open source kernel allows this to be done by an OEM.
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Dude, what happened to you?!?! I had you blocked for months because of your total pro-iPhone troll posts and now you have a GS4??? And your posts are all reasonable, moderate and balanced!
Good for you! Welcome!!
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What complete and absolute rubbish.
Could it be the bounce back and natural scrolling effect of iOS that you prefer? I know Android feels a bit more robotic and I think most longtime iOS users notice this immediately when switching over to Android.
Do that in appstore and you also get lots of results. Are those all spams and scam apps as well?
I think you discredit genuine apps and developers with your totally unfounded bias statement.
Yes, I agree but I still think there are more cons than pros of buying Android but if you really want to buy an Android phone, do not buy Samsung. Sony and HTC phones are MUCH better. Samsung spends tons of money to make Galaxy Devices look better. Apple spends 1 billion $ for marketing and Samsung spends 13 billion $. They paid students to make comments about bashing HTC one on social media (Such as Youtube, Facebook and Twitter), they paid for technology news portals to make news about Samsung products and bash Apple Products. Samsung is a liar, bad and evil company
You are so naive to think apple is any better.
And where did you get samsung spend 13 times more money on marketing than apple? Nonsense.
The guy is trolling hard, just don't respond to him. Eventually his type will go away.
I am not joking. Yes, it is possible to get viruses from Bluetooth if you are using an Android device. Some viruses just send themselves to other devices, and if Bluetooth is enabled, and installation from sources other than the app store is enabled as well, then you may get a virus. It's not something out of this world, and it has been reported several times. I don't know why you still think this is a joke.
Ok, then... find us *ONE* credible source to back up your claims. It such a spectacularly bad security hole that media sources would have picked up on it.
Totally false, an application can not be installed without user interaction.
And if it so easy, can you post just a link to that?
And, by the way there is no single virus for Android
This is exactly what I think about my GS4, it looks much better at the first day, it has some features like Air Gestures, Smart Scroll, Air View etc. It looked so good. Then I realised that you don't use that features. They are useless. Touchwiz is ugly, Android is laggy, play store is simply horrible, build quality is really bad, screen is oversaturated and phone is bloated by Samsung's bloatware. I think only logical alternative to iPhone is HTC One. HTC One's build quality is good (to be honest not as good as iPhone but it's still really good), speakers are really good and Sense interface is beautiful but screen get ''washed-out'' sometimes, charging batterry takes too much time, it runs Android so you have to use Android Apps. Oh... I wish Apple adds a bigger screen and better battery on next iPhone
Although you say you have had a SGS4……..You haven't really, have you? Your posts are made up of outdated hearsay. Why not go use a flagship Android phone and then come back and give us your thoughts rather than some nonsense that you have read on the web.
This is exactly what I think about my GS4, it looks much better at the first day, it has some features like Air Gestures, Smart Scroll, Air View etc. It looked so good. Then I realised that you don't use that features. They are useless. Touchwiz is ugly, Android is laggy, play store is simply horrible, build quality is really bad, screen is oversaturated and phone is bloated by Samsung's bloatware. I think only logical alternative to iPhone is HTC One. HTC One's build quality is good (to be honest not as good as iPhone but it's still really good), speakers are really good and Sense interface is beautiful but screen get ''washed-out'' sometimes, charging batterry takes too much time, it runs Android so you have to use Android Apps. Oh... I wish Apple adds a bigger screen and better battery on next iPhone
"You don't use the features" - I like the way you feel you can speak for everyone. Personally I agree that a lot of the features aren't much use to me, though I do use air gesture and smart stay, and occasionally multi window. And I'm sure other people make good use of the other features.
I also disagree that touchwiz is ugly and don't think it lags too much. A lot of it is a matter of personal opinion and choice, although you seem to be putting your opinion across as fact.
It's just the whole feel of using it I like. I've only been on iOS for a year and was on Android for 4 years before that so if anything I'm more familiar with Android. I enjoyed my time using it and am in no way anti it in any way, but my general feeling since moving is that I am now using something that feels more refined. I wouldn't rule out a return to Android in the future and after playing with a friends S4 last night, I liked what I saw. I just prefer at this point, the simplicity and fluid nature of iOS.