Re: Is Apple acknowledging that many users want an active stylus on their phones?

From	Arlen Holder <arlenholder@nospam.net>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject	Re: Is Apple acknowledging that many users want an active stylus on their phones?
Date	2018-08-20 17:14 +0000
Organization	NOYB
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On 20 Aug 2018 09:53:43 GMT, abcdef wrote:

> What makes Google God? 

The Apple Apologists make Google God whenever they have no logical
argument, and when Google MARKETING does the same thing as does Apple
MARKETING!

> Who gives a damn about their vision? 

If people buy into the Google MARKETING bullshit or the Apple MARKETING
bullshit - then it will be important.

But if people make intelligent choices, and shun the Google MARKETING
bullshit, then Google's phones are meaningless to most of us since we can
find a better deal elsewhere.

> I've had
> Google products and they ain't all that great. I DID miss the SD card on
> my Nexus 7. And the Pixelbook? Talk about being overpriced...

Yup. I've bought as gift phones the Moto-G from Google and the Nexus 5 from
Google, but I swore them off forever. They're as restrictive as Apple
products. Who wants that? Nobody.

I bought them because they were inexpensive compared to the competition,
but, in the end, the restrictions of no SD card, non-removable battery were
too much, even for me.

The only way I'd take a phone sans an SD card slot or removable battery is
if someone gives it to me for free.

> Fortunately Google ain't God and the competition can do a better job at
> a better price.

Yup. A few months ago I bought at Costco a handful of $130 8-core LG Stylo
3 Plus phones for T-Mobile networks which have a removable battery, 2TB sd
card slot, FM radio, and headphone jack.

Who needs the Orwellian restrictions of Google or Apple MARKETING when you
can find deals like that around.

> Even the grandkids el-cheapo Digiland (US$39) tablet has both a
> headphone jack and SD capability. (Especially thank God for the peace
> and quiet provided by those headphones...)

A headphone jack is basic functionality.
Only the Apple Apologists disagree with that logical statement.

> Why would anybody give a rats ass about what somebody who created
> Android thinks a modern phone should be? Do you worship Bill Gates too??
> Buy any overpriced Microsoft stuff recently?

What the Apple Apologists do is blame Android for Apple's faults.
They do it constantly. 
It's part of their psyche to blame Android for all of Apple's decisions!
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/18ARDsEOPzM>

> Both my Motorola and HTC phones have/had headphone holes.

I bought a handful of the $130 LG Stylo 3 Plus phones, where *all* have
standard common headphone jack functionality.

Sure, Apple & Google won't be able to upsell $160 contraptions - where -
I'm ok with that logic.

> Can I get a digital headphone set for the grandkids for 5 bucks?

The ill-formed logic of the Apple Apologist *never* takes into account
logical adult-made price performance considerations such as that one! :)

PS: My local library has a basket full of the earbuds so that anyone in the
library can just plug in and listen without bothering everyone else.

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