Android continues to own Apple - Now half a million activations a day

One of my friends works for a company called Sitel. She specifically works in the HTC division.

She can take her sim card out of her inspire, and put it in her Flyer to get 4g service on her tablet. Though you can't make calls from it using the phone number attached to the sim card. You can still use skype.

I knew they were 4g capable, but I didn't know you could use it with the sim card from your phone.

Nice feature.

 

LOL, HTC has blown past Apple in the US.

Apple people are running out of straws to grasp at.

 

Apparently the new iPhone is having some battery life issues.

If only there were a way to compensate for this...perhaps a new "removable" type of battery that you could swap out? Hmm...

 

Indeed battery issues are troubling. Apple will end of replacing the phone though typically, nothing to pay out of pocket for the consumer.

 

I ignored the thread until it was time to change my cell phone. I recently got a Samsung Galaxy Mini. It's a great little Android Phone. I also have a 4G iPod Touch. If the iPhone functions anything like the iPod, then Apple has Android beat on quality and usability. That being said, a fair comparison would be phones of equivalent quality and cost. I didn't buy the iPhone because the cost of the phone and the cost of the airtime on the GSM provider was 3x what I am paying for the lesser AWS network is not justifiable. Anyhow, I can turn my phone into a hotspot and do network thingees on my iPod, so nothing is missed.

I can't seem to synch Outlook as easy with the Galaxy, but I am sure that there is an "app for that"®.

 

Well...except time and convenience...

 

That's true, but I always thought there was an understanding of things like this possibly happening in any new technology.

 

Yup. That's basically the reason Android sales are so good. They meet more price points for more customers.

 

When you want to comment on effective solutions to a particular technical issue involving Android and Macs, you might want to actually try doing it first. If you don't use Macs, what makes you think you're in a position to comment on the experience Mac users have syncing with android phones?

iTunes on the Mac is significantly better than iTunes on Windows, because of applescript & automator if nothing else. I get that iTunes sucks on Windows, but it's an entirely different beast on the Mac.

I mentioned tow different applications because you suggested using doubletwist to sync music between a Mac and an android phone. Doubletwist is an iTunes-alike music application. It's not a way to sync your iTunes library with your android phone, it's a way to sync your doubletwist library with your android phone. You have to import your library into doubletwist to make it work, and you have to keep importing it whenever you add new songs.

What? Syncing prevents you from having duplicates! That's the whole point. Syncing makes way more sense than expecting people to manually maintain records on the phone.

And not having a good central syncing option is one of my primary problems with Android. They don't even have something as good as the old Palm Desktop/HotSync, and that wouldn't take much to surpass.

It's not a mac-specific thing. The Android interfaces with google apps, the Mac interfaces with google apps. Both are just accessing a web service. That's not an example of syncing, and frankly not my primary complaint. That solution works well enough for solutions with low data requirements like calendars, contacts, and email. It doesn't work well for movies, music, books, etc. Maybe it will someday if the cloud service expands a lot more.

Which is annoying.

You're right. I should have said "possible to do in a sane way." The Android sync option on Macs are a joke. It's easier to just drag and drop the files than it is to use them, and that defeats the purpose of syncing.

None of which are available for Macs.

Because you're a photographer who cares about quality and has a workflow built around Mac-only applications and scripts? That's my main reason. I really don't want to manage my photo portfolio by hand or using Picasa. Picasa sucks compared to Aperture. Even if I was on Windows, I'd use Lightroom instead.

It's convenient being able to show an updated selection of your latest work to customers. Right now I use an iPad for that, and after having tried to mess with Android syncing on the Mac, I'd never even consider getting an Android tablet to replace it. For that exact reason.

Could I write an application to solve this problem? Yes, I could. Is it worth my time? No. iPads aren't that expensive.

 

Sales of high end Android phones have also been good. Most people I know with Android phone do not own the cheap ones.

 

I recently purshased an andrôid phone and must say that price wize there is no doubt that this system is much cheaper as the iOS.
I think that the Iphone will loose his market share in the comming years