Does oreo really improves the Android experience that much I must have it?. No. If it did I would of kept my pixel XL which I got for free vs buying my note 8 in full. If what you said was actually true the pixel phones would sell a lot more no matter how limited it is in sale channels.
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Other I don't think Android users understand exactly why we love our iPhones
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Google don’t market it well enough as to why. If phone sales were everything then the iPhone is the only phone worth buying.
Here in UK you can only get pixel on EE
Neither Samsung or google sell that many phones in comparison to Apple.
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Each to their own. I kind of like the notch now. Never been an issue for me personally.
And I am sure it would be the best Android option out there. I don't use Google services for personal reasons, but it would be the only option I'd look at it if Apple ever failed me in the areas I deem valuable.
Not many moons ago Samsung was considered the laughing stock of Android so what changed? First and foremost, Samsung started spending billions on marketing.
10.2 billion in 2016 which I assume went even higher last year.
https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-spent-staggering-102-billion-marketing-last-year
Yeah that and making their device look more premium..you often see many adverts from Samsung here and it’s why you see so many here in UK.
That's a fair point that I didn't really think about. Android updates are so minimal that it really doesn't matter. You don't get anything from updating.
Well they May have been considered the laughing stock but they were still selling more than all the other OEM’s combined. Also many of the purists still winge on about Samsung’s software.
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Samsung are the biggest selling phone manufacturer in the world. Even if they are selling more low end devices they still sell about 60-80 million notes and S series phones a year.
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I doubt the S8/note 8 has even received Oreo yet let alone 3 year old phones.
Sold my note 8 in December and it was still on the August security patch....
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Wouldn’t even say Samsung flagships get it quickly. It’s at least 6 months later.
I mean more when you buy the brand new Samsung each other it normally comes with the latest update
Samsung flagships I don’t think sell anywhere close to that. As far as I remember they only sold around 10 million S8 and S8 plus combined. Note 8 was even smaller sales amount.
A note 8 with August security patch with who? I think my Note 8 on Verizon came with September. It gotten an update every month for the security updates with Verizon
The S8 just started getting it after they stopped it early February
For as much as Samsung spends on marketing and since you can get them @ sales pricing before they are even shipping newly announced phones (let alone the sales dumps in 6 months time), you'd figure they'd sell more but, nope..
Seller the most doesn't equal to being better, remember that.For as much as Samsung spends on marketing and since you can get them @ sales pricing before they are even shipping, you'd figure they'd sell more but, nope..
Also that graphic is comparing all iPhones sold since probably 2007 agaisn't the S8's and Notes
Never said it did... I said I was surprised they don't sell more than they do all things considered.
I wouldn't say Android is unreliable. More so that every manufacturer tweaks it and rarely if ever provide updates or patches. So, there is no uniformity. If Google took full control of Android from the beginning. It would be a better, regularly patched uniform experience. Let the people customize the OS. Snap the manufacturers in line.
Could you imagine the mess Windows would be. If Dell, HP, Lenovo &c all had their own customized setup. That you had to wait for them to package their own Windows build with security patches and upgrades from MS.
In reference to your posts to that forum member, selling doesn’t necessarily equal to being the best, but we all know the iPhone has a very strong history of making devices that last, durable and are continually supported for approximately five years. There is a reason the iPhone has the strongest resale market over Android devices.
O2 in the UK.
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The S series sells about 40-50 million during the year and note about 20 million. This report was in August and the S8/S8 Plus had already sold 20 million.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/bgr.com/2017/08/03/samsung-galaxy-s8-sales-july-2017-20-million/amp/
For as much as Samsung spends on marketing and since you can get them @ sales pricing before they are even shipping newly announced phones (let alone the sales dumps in 6 months time), you'd figure they'd sell more but, nope..
Curious. Doesn't match this for 2017:
Unfortunately that's not what I see when navigating through these forums, all I see are issues, bugs and performance hits to devices less than 1 year old. That argument is so overused that it's false.
Been to any Samsung forums? Pixel forums? LG forums?
Of course most of what you are going to see on an Internet forum is people posting about issues, that should be common knowledge and the iPhone is no different.
Overall though I think iPhone are far more stable and reliable -v- any Samsung on the planet.
Now your stalking me and reading my post history? Very amusing. So because I posted my observation, I’m a sexist? That’s a good one. Sounds like you’re triggered and looking for ways to belittle me. All this effort you’re putting into a simple post I made about my workplace. Get over it and move on.
I would have agreed with you until iOS 11.
I would have added iOS 7 but Android was having some issues itself during that time.
You do realize a tech forum is a place to Congregate over issues and problems with devices? You can’t formulate how much of a problem a device is experiencing Just based reading on here. Tech forums are a vocal monitory, not the majority.. Everything I said about the iPhone having five years of updates and a strong used resale market is entirely accurate over Android. Fact. You interjecting what I said is false is merely opposing my post without any logical support proving otherwise.
You're embarrassing yourself.. I know plenty of tech people with iPhones. One has a pHD in computer science and teaches at a major So. Cal university. I suppose he is a low tech person in your opinion as well?
Please do share your technical skill level with us all since you've chosen to make such absurd statements..
He/she is a master of widgets and app launchers.