I am switching because of iCloud. I don't know what services that you are referring to as reliable. But I have had nothing but issues.
And this is coming from a person who has used .Mac/.me/.icloud since 2002.
Has 3 iphones, a couple of itouchs, and lots of ipods. The only thing that seems to work right is iTunes and music in the cloud. The rest of it is pretty much crap. HTML 5 is great but I fee like Apple is abusing it and we have reverted back to 1997 when the web had all kinds of things to make your trasition from paper to the screen more visiually freindly. Someone might want to tell them that it is 2012 and having leather on the screen does not make anything more functional or eligant its just ugly. Just look at the iCloud version of the notes app. There is almost 2" of the list covered with a leather looking corner. And the highighting is with a red circle.......
I must have gotten lucky the last time around with the mobile me transition because for the most part I had no issues. But when you pay for something for so long and then it just to go away with no real solution like getting your calendars and tasks to show up on your non upgradeable snow leopard. I finally got mail to work, but the amount of searching for the solution was not cool. Why not just release a control panel for the new service. That way even if somethings will not work, at least you would not have to pull your hair out trying to get your email.
And I don't know but this seems to have carried over from mobile me. Duplicate contacts. Especially ones that have not been changed in years. How is it possible to end up with 23 for Apple alone. Anyway, restarting the sync helps for a while and we will see if it holds this time, but it is pretty annoying.
And as for why I would like to use Mail on snow leopard as opposed to the web client, I have been using mail for enough years and have lots of rules. And since icloud the rules doen't sync between clients anymore, and don't show up in the rules on the web interface? Who let this crap go is what I want to know. It might be easier to take if they would show us the road map and at least let us know if some of this is coming back.
As for the phones. I just picked up a Gnex unlocked. So far it's great and everything is working really well. Transition was easier than I though it would be. NFC is pretty cool. Using at the grocery store, and Home Depot to pay. And as a old time palm user, I hope more things get the NFC beam to share function.
So your hiccup with iCloud is more or less that you don't like how it's presented? Fine, we are all entitled to our personal preference over how our technology LOOKS. If you like the design of Android, then EXCELLENT, use Android ... why are you on these forums again? I'm not running around the Android forums talking about how ugly it is.
I have never had any problems with iCloud syncing. Google sync on the other hand, couldn't even keep my contact pictures synced properly. Not to mention it would shrink or delete the contact photos to my Android ICS phone.
Pretty basic features that Google has issues with,
for contacts alone:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3888102?start=0&tstart=0
http://blog.oxplot.com/2012/06/syncing-high-resolution-contact-photos.html
Apple pokes fun at all of it's competition. Not only in the "I'm A Mac" commercials, but also in their keynotes. If you've ever paid attention you'll realise that in EVERY keynote they always put figures up about how Android is down and iOS is up, or how RIM is down and Apple are up etc (and I'll add that sources are strangely missing a lot of the time).
But then when Samsung throws out one ad as seen here, everyone says Samsung are pathetic.
It's disturbing how some people just can't look at things objectively without Apple's influence. But then again I am on Macrumors where I doubt most people can think for themselves without their feelings for Apple getting in the way.
What's happening here is simply Samsung fighting fire with fire. Get over it. It's a phone.
Apple puts out STATISTICS and FACTS. Putting sales out there for the public to see isn't really wrong.
That said, I NEVER commended Apple, or any company, for it's small campaign of petty advertising. It's immature and annoying for everyone involved. However, it should be very clear that Samsung took no initiative to even include Apple's equivalent features, while listing pointless ones of their own (i.e. Tilt to zoom, pinch to zoom, ect.). That just CRIES desperate on Samsung's behalf.
So your only defense is iCloud... really? Come on. Anything else? G-mail is very reliable, thank you very much and does the same things iCloud can do. Except "Find my iPhone" but that's because they don't have iPhones LOL (Oh by the way, I have an iPhone but I'm going to switch to Android)
This Ad literally made my day. I'm sorry to all out there offended but Apple did the exact same thing with the Mac vs Pc Ads they ran a long time ago. Calm your horses y'all.
iCloud syncs contacts way more reliably for me at least (see above for common other problems).
Calendars are the same on both platforms, pretty basic functionality.
Gmail doesn't offer native push email services on OSX and is a PITA to set up on iOS. Please, don't tell me to use my browser, my mail client works perfectly.
Google doesn't seem to offer notes or reminders, at all.
iTunes Match is FAR better, more reliable and seamless than Google Play, hands down. Even Fandroids admit it.
Please, point out an aspect of mobile cloud services, where Google KICKS Apple's ass.
Seriously? Do you have any idea how extensive and powerful the Google cloud solutions are?
iCloud is like a bicycle to the Google 911 GT3.
Also, before you call me a Android phanboy, I have an original iPhone, 3Gs, 4s, MacBook Pro (2011), iPod touch as well as Apple stock.
Your statement is as ignorant and misleading as the Samsung ad.
Apple is still playing catch-up when it comes to cloud services. Google and Amazon have a HUGE headstart and even MS is ahead of Apple in some areas (like cloud based Application offerings)
That's quite an arrogant statement with no proof to back it up.
Like I said above, please explain to me
WHICH cloud services of Google's, are
so powerful to the typical smartphone user.
I'm trying to use my smartphone for work and personal use, not launch a NASA space ship using cloud services
Point is, at least for OSX and iOS users (this isn't an Android forum), Google's cloud services are sub par to iCloud in every way imaginable.
