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Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike
Date	2016-07-13 15:08 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<130720161508010883%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
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In article <nm62l2$ivi$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Aardvarks
<aardvarks@a.b.c.com> wrote:

> I'm not anti Apple any more than I'm anti Linux or anti Windows or anti
> Android.

bullshit.

> They're all *different*.

if you stopped there, that'd be fine.

the problem is that you only rant about apple. you never rant about
linux, windows or android. 

you keep yapping how apple users 'just give up' because they 'can't do
it' (which is of course complete bullshit).

> There are plenty of things I like about Linux, for example, but also plenty
> of things I don't like (e.g., I hate Canonical Unity, for example, because
> they tried to put a layer on top of Linux to help people find stuff that is
> an abomination IMHO).
> 
> There are plenty of things I like about Windows for example, but also
> plenty of things I hate (e.g., I hate Windows 8 where they tried to put a
> layer on top of Windows to help people find stuff that is an abomination
> IMHO).

it's not a layer and not an abomination. 

> There are plenty of things I like about Android, but the entire file system
> is a mess. On Android, you can easily browse the file system, and it just
> drives you nuts. For example they have a /mnt/sdcard0/Camera folder for
> storing pictures and then a separate /mnt/sdcard0/Pictures folder which
> actually doesn't store "pictures" (in the camera sense anyway), but
> screenshots. 

that's exactly why going beyond the limitations of the file system is
important and it's not just apple either.

> There are plenty of things I like about iOS too - but the entire ecosystem
> is designed from the top down to be the most restrictive of the bunch (for
> example, you can transfer videos from Linux to the iOS file space of VLC at
> will over a USB cable, but you can't do the same thing to the native video
> apps). 

nonsense. it's very easy to transfer anything to/from ios devices, but
any time anyone explains various ways, you reject them and go on a rant
about bluetooth.

> What prompted this thread was nospam saying that it's "nonsense" that
> people can do more stuff on Android than they can on iOS.

i never said any such thing. stop lying.

> That's *not* nonsense.
> You can do a *lot* more on Android than you can on iOS.

wrong. 

as you aid above
> They're all *different*.

there are things that each platform can do that the other cannot. 

pick the best tool for the job.

> I'm sure there are things you can do on iOS that you can't do on Android
> too (e.g., almost everything within the walled garden).

there are, but you refuse to acknowledge any of it.

> I can't name anything useful that you can do on iOS that is *outside* the
> walled garden that you can't do (usually easier or better) on Android
> though.

useful is subjective.

the things that you keep yapping about that android can do that ios
can't, such as bluetooth file transfer, are *not* useful to anyone
(other than you) because better methods exist for all platforms (not
just apple).

> Maybe you do?

i do.

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Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-12 21:46 +0000
  Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Elias <elias@nowherenohow.com> - 2016-07-12 17:34 -0500
    Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-07-13 13:45 +1200
      Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-07-13 09:00 +0100
        Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-07-14 10:05 +1200
      Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-13 09:15 +0100
        Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-13 04:51 -0400
          Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 18:52 +0000
            Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-13 15:08 -0400
              Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-07-13 20:28 +0100
              Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 22:29 +0000
            Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2016-07-14 08:50 +0200
              Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-14 21:18 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-14 18:16 -0400
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-15 02:06 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2016-07-15 09:00 +0200
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-15 18:09 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-07-15 13:09 -0700
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-16 04:21 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-16 04:26 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 23:05 -0700
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-16 10:06 +0100
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-16 08:11 -0400
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-16 18:31 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike PAS <abc@doremi.net> - 2016-07-15 09:38 -0400
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-15 09:59 -0400
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-15 18:14 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-15 18:14 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-15 18:10 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-16 04:09 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2016-07-15 10:39 +0200
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-15 18:18 +0000
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-15 15:25 -0400
                Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-16 04:35 +0000
  Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 01:55 -0400
    Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 06:38 +0000
      Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 06:46 +0000
        Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 04:33 -0400
          Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 18:24 +0000
            Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-13 14:41 -0400
        Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-13 04:51 -0400
          Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 18:54 +0000
      Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 04:31 -0400
        Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 18:17 +0000
    Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike PAS <abc@doremi.net> - 2016-07-13 10:33 -0400
  Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-07-13 08:58 +0100
    Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 18:10 +0000
  Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-07-13 18:22 +1000
  Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-07-13 11:35 +0100
  Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2016-07-13 14:41 +0200
    Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-13 22:20 +0000
      Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-13 18:30 -0400
  Re: Question for Apple apologists & Android enthusiasts alike BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2016-07-13 17:35 -0500

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