Its possible to get bored of anything, however to have the money and will to change and try something completely new is something that probably quite a few people don't want to do (especially the older they get) so they stay with whatever they started with.
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Is it possible to get bored by Android as people get bored by iOS?
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I dunno about you but I could never get bored of having a steak dinner every day.
True, with the preference on how its cooked, (Medium, rare etc) and the seasoning you can switch it up.
Stop making me hungry folks!
I once worked at a pizzeria. Ate more Pizza than the law allows and I did get tired of it for a bit
I once worked at a pizzeria. Ate more Pizza than the law allows and I did get tired of it for a bit
Yup, as long as the choice means only buy an android tablet phone, you are sane. Any thing else and you must be the iFanboy that should be killed with fire.
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Yet the iPhone and "boring" iOS hold their own. So one could just as easily say that many people also prefer not to be inundated with too many choices.
yes & yes...
Its always possible to get board.
but board, (or not), people have to face the facts... Theres more iphone than there is android.
Much as i'd like to belive i'm over them too...
Widgets seem to fit right in with mobile devices as opposed to a PC. Widgets allow me to get some info without opening an app. Widgets also allow me to directly control some system settings from my home screen instead of going through various layers of menus in the settings. I find these control widgets to be most useful.
I sometime use my phone when lying down on my side. Normally, this would cause the screen to rotate. I have a widget on my home screen that toggles auto-rotate on and off and indicates whether it is on or off.
I also have a widget that controls the sound profile. From the home screen, I can tap once to turn off notification sounds, but leave the ringer and alarm on when I go to sleep. I can tap the widget again to turn these sounds back to normal or make them louder for when I go out.
Haha what. You don't get inundated with "too many choices". You simply get a default way to make things work with Android and then if you want something else, you can get that too. It's not as if you buy an Android phone and you have to complete a wizard where you choose out of 50 dialers, 50 SMS clients, 50 browsers, etc to get the phone to work.
Besides, there's no such thing as too much choice.
Both OS options come locked out of the box. If you root your Android or JB your iOS device, the differences become far fewer in terms of software. You're left with software quality/hardware/service provider.
Phones I've owned since the iPhone came out:
iPhone 1 (4GB/8GB/16GB models)
Motorola Q2
HTC (forget name, WinMo, global phone with Verizon)
HTC Ozone
Droid Eris
Droid Incredible
Motorola Backflip
Droid 2 Global
Droid X
Thunderbolt
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
Samsung Note (only 1 week, returned quickly)
Tablets:
iPad 1 16GB
Xoom
ThinkPad Slate Tablet
iPad 2
In my opinion, today's devices are on a pretty level playing field. Neither side feels gimped compared to the other, both offer the same things with the one exception being a few pen enabled devices on the Android side.
For me it really comes down to OS and app quality. Android is still lacking in both for my tastes but I keep going back to see how it is progressing and I have to say ICS is leaps and bounds ahead of where 2.X was when I started with Android devices.
p.s. Some people feel the need to have swappable batteries and flash memory and then you're left with only Android. However, in all the time I've advocated for both - I've never needed or used either, even with my Thunderbolt which was the quickest draining phone I've owned.
So I don't even consider them issues today. I do buy the max storage devices and never the min anymore though.
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To the technical user: Correct.
To the average user: Incorrect.
Many people get annoyed by choice. If there was one main example of average Joe to Technical Joe I'd have to say Linux vs any other OS.
Phones I've owned since the iPhone came out:
iPhone 1 (4GB/8GB/16GB models)
Motorola Q2
HTC (forget name, WinMo, global phone with Verizon)
HTC Ozone
Droid Eris
Droid Incredible
Motorola Backflip
Droid 2 Global
Droid X
Thunderbolt
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
Samsung Note (only 1 week, returned quickly)
Tablets:
iPad 1 16GB
Xoom
ThinkPad Slate Tablet
iPad 2
In my opinion, today's devices are on a pretty level playing field. Neither side feels gimped compared to the other, both offer the same things with the one exception being a few pen enabled devices on the Android side.
For me it really comes down to OS and app quality. Android is still lacking in both for my tastes but I keep going back to see how it is progressing and I have to say ICS is leaps and bounds ahead of where 2.X was when I started with Android devices.
p.s. Some people feel the need to have swappable batteries and flash memory and then you're left with only Android. However, in all the time I've advocated for both - I've never needed or used either, even with my Thunderbolt which was the quickest draining phone I've owned.
So I don't even consider them issues today. I do buy the max storage devices and never the min anymore though.
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To the technical user: Correct.
To the average user: Incorrect.
Many people get annoyed by choice. If there was one main example of average Joe to Technical Joe I'd have to say Linux vs any other OS.
Choice goes only as far as the individual takes it. Nobody on any OS is inundated by choice unless they want to be. Even if you chose Linux as your OS, you could simply choose to use Ubuntu and have all the choices made for you, like with iOS.
Actually my point was all the distros available is a huge choice. Compared to OS X (one option) and Windows (down to 1 in Windows 8, only a few options for Windows 7 if you're a home user).
I think you underestimate how little people want to have to think when buying and using electronics.
I agree, as long it doesn't mean "thou shalt only buy android" or "thou shalt only buy an iPhone" etc.
Precisely. People may plan a bit when they buy a computer, but not because they absolutely want to. Most people don't put *any* thought into buying a cell phone- they either buy what a friend or family member recommends, or they take whatever pitch the sales person throws at them. And they expect that device to function properly with no fuss.
Then why isn't iOS the top selling smartphone platform while the Android smartphone platform is?
Surely if your statement were true, iOS would have nearly a monopoly in the capacitive touchscreen smartphone business, as that platform has invariably the least amount of thinking required for it to function for people.
Many Android options are free with contract. Also many people only do web browsing and email on their phones which is platform independent. On top of that, if I don't want to think when I go to buy the phone, I say to the rep "I need to browse the web, email and text - give me the best phone you have." and the rep offers whatever he likes, whatever the store is pushing the rep to sell, or some other random decision process happens in the rep's mind.
No this is patently false. When I go to the store with my 10 year old I don't tell him to choose from every flavor of ice cream there is. That is a fruitless endeavor. I narrow down the choices so as not to overwhelm him. He gets to choose from 3 flavors maximum.
Everyone has a point at which more choices just leads to analysis paralysis. The choice is king maxim is false.
Still doesn't explain why the iPhone sells more than any other phone out there. If there was indeed no such thing as too much choice then the iPhone wouldn't trump the smartphone industry
There is not a single model of Android that sells more than the iPhone. Android is carrier driven which is why their tablet initiative is all but still born. The majority of consumers will choose simplicity over complexity.
Is this serious or an insult toward iOS users comparing them to children with not completely developed brains?
If it IS in fact serious, are you confused by the large selection of ice cream or just your 10 year old?
Choosing simplicity when it comes along with functionality is the sign of intelligence. There's nothing particularly intelligent about bringing in too much complexity into ones life.
In fact it's rumored that some of our more gifted inhabitants of this Earth even eschewed romantic relationships in pursuit of their goals (Tesla, Sir Isaac Netwon, etc)
But more to the point the "more choice is better" meme is patently false. Everyone has a limit in how many choices they can juggle for a given subject.
A 10 year old just happens to have a smaller one than an adult.
Your colon probably would.
Go into any AT&T store, just to pick a carrier. Sit and watch people come in looking for a phone. Pay attention to the people who aren't sure what they want and who then proceed to ask a sales rep what they recommend. That sales rep is almost always going to push an Android phone, not an iPhone. Now, I don't really know why that is, I'm sure like anything in life it's because of a variety of factors, but it's my experience (mainly because I'm one of these suckers who prefers walking into a brick and mortar store to get things done).
And speaking of choice, the main reason I got rid of my Nexus 7 was the terrible selection of apps. If anything, I had a distinct lack of choices.
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