Re: Taking full control of the platform : Samsung to quit Android ?
Originally Posted by
howarmat all of googles "nexus" devices sell in poor numbers when compared to Samsungs and maybe some of HTCs too. its not that they arent great device because honestly the nexus line is spectacular. But many people just prefer to actually get a skinned device and the added features from those skins. I suspect its also because google doesnt advertise for their phones much. The carriers do some but not alot. You see lots of "Droid" advertising from VZW and tons of samsung galaxy and note adverts. Google has hit it big with the 2 nexus tablets but the phones just dont have the magic to the general population like it does to the dev population
This. For long time HTC Sense was the king of skinning, but I am really impressed with new Touchwiz (considering the first thing I used to do was download a alternate launcher, root and freeze TW, for me to say that is amazing lol).
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Re: Taking full control of the platform : Samsung to quit Android ?
Originally Posted by
qbnkelt I certainly hope you're right. I love my Android Galaxy phones. And I can't wait for the Note 3....will be a difficult decision, Note 3 or SGIV.
Right now we have the note 2 for $49 (free with a credit) and I can add a line for $20 n month with my discount.
Don't think it's not tempting.
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Taking full control of the platform : Samsung to quit Android ?
Samsung makes everything, if there is a profit they make it.
Fridges, ovens, tvs, coffemakers, microwaves, android phones, bada phones, windows phones, **** theyd probably make a iphone if they could.
This type of company succeeds rapidly by engaging new environments.
As long as its profitable they make it.
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Re: Taking full control of the platform : Samsung to quit Android ?
Samsung suck. True, they are making phones for every platform.
But their software is not optimized, it's frustrating. Poor coding, like spaghetti codes.
And they won't release source codes, so no community to optimize their code like cyanogenmod. So I'm stuck with samsung.
They rather ship a new hardware that is powerful than to update their software.
Fanbois are correct. Software > hardware
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Re: Taking full control of the platform : Samsung to quit Android ?
Originally Posted by
brmiller1976 To be fair, Best Buy seems to specialize in making the demo goods unusable.
The Surfaces there have those annoying theft detection devices attached to the keyboard hinge, so you cannot actually use the Surface the way it was configured to be used.
The Nook tablets there have a twist tie gripping them right down the middle of the screen -- where the gesture area is -- so you cannot actually use the Nook!
The PCs have some weird software on it that prevents access to the desktop and things like the Windows Experience Index without typing in a password.
The PlayBooks are usually broken or not on, and the demo phones are either dummy units or aren't charged (so you cannot actually take 'em for a spin).
They really need to work on their product presentation. Or the OEMs who sell there need to get things looking good, like Apple did in their "store within a store" section at BB.
The reason for that is that employees can't be everywhere at once, and in our store which is not BB and smaller in comparison as a company we have had demo laptops popped off the security display and walked out the door while we were tied up with customers. Heck, our sgs3 demo was removed from an alarm and steel bracket leaving only the backplate with the security attached (to this day I don't know how they did it without snapping the phone in half). If society weren't such selfish, thieving bastards we could have live demos out the way they should be. Unfortunately thanks to some maladjusted asshats, you have to deal with security. And unfortunately that security has to be obtrusive to try to avoid things like a SGS3 osmosing itself out of a steel bracket.
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Re: Taking full control of the platform : Samsung to quit Android ?
Originally Posted by
brmiller1976 Google can fork it, and still call it Android. As long as it runs existing Android apps, it's "Android," even if it is proprietary and has apps that only a new version can run.
I expect that the "X Phone" will be just such an offshoot. Google is furious at Samsung and HTC for making Android handsets that don't use the standard Android UI, and I expect they'll punish 'em with an "advanced phone" that does stuff that generic Android doesn't. Android is already fragmented to ****, and Google's recent YouTube and Maps shenanigans with Microsoft show that Google doesn't care about ruining user experience if it thinks it can benefit by slamming a competitor.
It's Google's fault for not setting like development rules on manufacturers. And not controlling the carriers also.
Manufacturers suck on software development. They keep releasing new hardware with software not optimized, giving a negative impact on android.
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Taking full control of the platform : Samsung to quit Android ?
there is no way samsung will quit android. both complement each other very well and have such a strong foothold in the smartphone market.
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