That's you. So many others still use Siri.
Should someone still purchase a car after a disappointing 30min test drive? Or would you tell them the ride gets better with new tires, new exhaust, etc?
There is a world of difference from going from a car which basically drives the same and operates the same than comparing two completely different operating systems. Yes the phones do the SAME things, but they do them in such a completely different way that if you were going to use the car analogy you might as well compare someone going from an auto transmission vehicle with no new electronics or bluetooth, to going to a fully loaded vehicle complete with GPS, Bluetooth, Onstar, manual transmission, parking assist, etc etc. Then telling someone to get in the car, test it out for half an hour and see what they think. Of course they are not going to be comfortable or necessarily like it until they learn how to use all of the features!!
Give me a break. For most of those posting in this thread the issue is there is no way that the OP or anyone else for that matter who is not familiar with Android could make an intelligent decision about a new phone in 2 hours period. Any decision at that point would be completely a gut reaction based on initial impressions. If you were coming from an iPhone all you would be thinking about was the differences and being frustrated that things didn't work the same, thus the OP's comment about it taking twice as long to get things done. And his comment that the phone is "ginormous". Most people were like me who at first were like "this thing is huge!" But after a week or so got used to it and then when we looked at an iPhone again it looked tiny and washed out. I actually would like to come back to the iPhone but not if it's taller and not wider.
When I went from my iPhone to the Galaxy S II, it took me days to get familiar with things and had to relearn how to do a lot of things. At first I though maybe I had made a mistake, but now I'm quite comfortable with it.
It would be like going from a PC to a Mac and setting it up at 3PM and then deciding at 5PM that a Mac isn't for you.
I agree.
What would be the appropiate amount of time to judge a phone?
My opinion on this is the amount of time from the exact point that you have it configured to your preferences. ie: keyboard, apps that you like, settings on the device, emails imported. Basically once it is set up so that you don't have to make any adjustments to it and can then just use and explore the device for a couple of days without tweaking.
I think this thread sums up perfectly the problem with the MacRumors community today.
It seems that whenever anybody states that they either dislike Android or think it is inferior to iOS, people immediately starting lashing out at them. Not just on here, but on the comments section of any YouTube video at all. If the iPhone obliterates the competition in one particular test but loses in the rest, there is guaranteed to be a stream of comments stating that the video is biased, even with the pro-Android finish.
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I think the issue here is the amount of time that the OP claimed he TRIED and WANTED to make or like the device, which didn't even include setting the device up in such a manner that he/she would feel comfortable with.
We all respect people who try new things and give them a fair shot, but to complain about things like the keyboard and not even TRY some of the others out there to me is a specific indication of someone who jumped into something without doing his homework first. Yeah I do kind of judge on that. I could have respected the OP's thread a bit more had he said something along the lines of: "tried it for a couple of days", "tried several of the keyboards available" but basically what it came across as is that he fired it up, and expected it to behave the same as iOS right out of the box.
