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Re: did this group die?

From Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject Re: did this group die?
Date 2024-11-03 09:55 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2024-11-03 09:44, Nick Cine wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:14:10 -0000 (UTC), Andrews wrote:
> 
>> Tom Elam wrote on Sun, 3 Nov 2024 08:18:59 -0500 :
>>
>>> As a former long-time Android phone and tablet user and defender I can
>>> postulate too. Android feature roll-outs and OS versions happened
>>> slowly, if at all, and were very uneven across device brands. I never
>>> got more than one OS version update on the many HTC, Moto and Samsung
>>> devices I owned. I had to upgrade to get the latest, and even then new
>>> phones often did not have the latest OS installed.]
>>
>> FACTS. Not propaganda please.
>>
>> You are wrong. More to the point, your data is old. It's no longer valid.
>> You're five to ten years behind in all your data - so you're just wrong.
>>
>> If you used Android only two or three years ago, you won't recognize
>> Android of today because that's how much has changed in a short time.
>>
>> a. The iPhone has far more bugs than Android now (and far more exploits!).
>> b. The iPhone has far shorter operating system support than Android now.
>> c. With respect to fragmentation, even that is very old data.
>>
>> More Samsung devices alone are sold than iPhones are, where the
>> "fragmentation" you decry doesn't exist if you stick with Pixels &
>> Samsungs.
>>
>> To complain that other brands provide valuable choices isn't really a fair
>> complaint because you don't get ANY of those choices with Apple.
>>
>> And Apple's puny five years of promised supprot pales in comparison to the
>> Samsung and Pixel promise of seven years of full hotfix support.
>>
>> Remember, of all common consumer operating systems, Apple is the only one
>> with support so bad they only fully support a single release at a time.
>>
>> Those are facts. Modern facts. Not facts from ten years ago.
>> Those are facts from today.
>>
>> You're welcome to form a strong opinion based on old data, but just say
>> that your data doesn't take into account the reality of today's devices.
>>
>>> I have had to replace a battery on my iPhone 14. That was because I
>>> tried wireless charging in the car that overheated the phone. The
>>> replacement was easy. I took it to the local Apple Store and they had it
>>> back to me in 2 hours.
>>
>> That's absurd. My Android debuted around the time of the iPhone 12, and
>> it's still going strong. But it has a modern-sized battery.
>>
>> No iPhone in the world has a batter as big as the one in my free phone.
>> That's the main reason iPhone batteries need to be replaced more often.
>>
>> Last we checked Apple replaces almost fifteen million batteries in the USA
>> alone per year. Think about that. It's huge. Apple batteries are crap.
>>
>> Not a single iPhone battery is even close in capacity to that of my free
>> Android phone (which only retailed for about two hundred dollars MSRP).
>>
>>> That was 6 months ago and battery life is still
>>> 100%. The cost? $0. AppleCare+ took care of it.
>>
>> Remember I said that the Apple trolls are ignorant? Remember?
>> Guess what? How did you get that AppleCare+ without paying for it?
>>
>>> No questions asked.
>>
>> I have a question for you.
>>
>> Since almost nobody on Android pays for any extra warranty, why do most
>> Apple iPhone owners pay for AppleCare+ when it's never needed?
>>
>> Think about that.
>>
>> Apple owners are so terrified of the horrendous repair costs, that they'll
>> pay any amount of subscription fees just to not have to worry about them.
>>   
>>> have owned iPhones and iPads since the iPhone 6s era. That's the only
>>> battery replaced spanning 8 years and 6s, SE and 14 Pro versions.
>>
>> The Apple iPads actually have decently sized batteries as it's only the
>> iPhone that uses comically cheap chintzy batteries in terms of capacity.
>>
>> Every time you replace a battery (and millions are replaced every year!),
>> Apple is laughing at you AppleCare+ owners all the way to the bank.
>>
>>> I'll never go back. There is no Android Store 15 minutes away. My phone
>>> and tablet get annual OS updates on the day they are released, and
>>> regular feature and security updates too that.
>>
>> The one thing you're right about is that there is no such thing as an
>> "Android Store", which nobody on Android needs - but iPhone owners do.
>>
>> I have plenty of Apple devices and when I take them to the Genius Bar, the
>> "Genius" at the Apple Store asks me what a Decibel is when I tell him that
>> I teste the iPhone side-by-side with my free Samsung & the Wi-Fi stinks.
>>
>> These "Genius" Bar employees don't know how things work in the real world
>> as you can't test Wi-Fi without knowing what a Decibel means.
>>
>> All the Genius Bar employees do is test the phone for basic stuff (like
>> water penetration) and recommend a new iPhone if it fails their tests.
>>
>> Remember, Apple lost the lawsuits for exactly that reason.
>>
>> Even Apple didn't tell its Genius Bar employees that they purposefully
>> lowered the life of the iPhone (which they paid a criminal fine for!).
>>
>> Still... the free Apple Store Genius Bar (and free classes) are a nice
>> touch because Apple knows owners are petrified by the complexity of tech.
> 
> But how much does that Apple Care added warranty cost anyways?

Do you notice the number of assertions that Andrew/Arlen makes that he 
declares are "facts"?

"almost nobody on Android pays for any extra warranty"

Etc.

:-)

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Re: did this group die? Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-01 16:42 +0000
  Re: did this group die? Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2024-11-02 16:27 -0400
    Re: did this group die? sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> - 2024-11-02 15:37 -0700
      Re: did this group die? Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-11-02 22:20 -0400
        Re: did this group die? *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> - 2024-11-03 02:26 +0000
          Re: did this group die? Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-03 03:36 +0000
      Re: did this group die? Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2024-11-03 08:18 -0500
        Re: did this group die? Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-03 15:14 +0000
          Re: did this group die? Nick Cine <nickcine@is.invalid> - 2024-11-03 10:44 -0700
            Re: did this group die? Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2024-11-03 09:55 -0800
          Re: did this group die? Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2024-11-04 08:42 -0500
            Re: did this group die? Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-04 16:14 +0000
          Re: did this group die? Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com> - 2024-11-04 13:07 -0500
      Re: did this group die? Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-04 16:29 +0000
  Re: did this group die? rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2024-11-04 17:03 +0000
    Re: did this group die? Andrews <andrews@spam.net> - 2024-11-04 17:24 +0000
    Re: did this group die? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2024-11-04 15:01 -0500

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