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I can’t say I agree, but I do think that cutting flash out entirely is the wrong idea. It is just too early. I personally block all flash plugins while browsing and have for years and it is totally fine for what I do on the net. It really just matters what folks do while browsing which determines how much one needs flash. For me it runs like garbage and makes even my brand new i5 MacBook pro with 8gb of ram look like a crippled 10 yr old laptop if I have too much going on. I know that is probably some to do with apple and maybe not giving adobe some access but adobe has never had flash fine tuned on any pc. It is a buggy, processor intensive, and archaic program and is mostly just used for millions of ads. To me if I have to turn it off to get where I am going then that is the complete opposite of a work of art. Do some flash devs do amazing things with it? Sure they do but that is few and far between.

Just don’t buy it. They will continue to drive android to the ground until we all stop buying these horrible skins. I’m hoping that google sells Motorola so we can be done with blur and that horrible company for good. They are the bane of android and are the opposite of what it stands for.

I own both the galaxy nexus and the iPhone 4s and yes there is a difference but I wouldnt say it’s drastic. I think the reason you see it more is that the iPhone has by far the best display on the market. This is the same as looking at any phone. The ony display that is as good is the super LCD 2 on the one x. That is a great display. I do prefer the display on my iPhone 4s to the galaxy nexus but te display on the nexus is excellent and still one of the top three on the market in my opinion. There are trade offs but the super AMOLED makes up for it in deep true blacks and brighter colors. The display is gorgeous and I’m more than happy with it, and i care deeply for high pixel density displays and have waited a long time for this innovation. I think the hd super AMOLED pentile is the first and ony pentile I can actually stand. The last one that didn bother me was te nexus one and even then I wanted more and I came from the iPhone 3G and 3GS.

It’s not superior it is the same screen but actually will be more noticeable due to the fact that the gs3 has a larger display and because of that will have less pixel density. When Samsung bragged about the screen and tighter pixels they was talking about the difference between te gs3 and gs2 which will def be better.

It’s the software that makes the difference it always has and always will.

Thats because of windows. I have it installed on my 2011 MacBook pro and 2011 11 inch MacBook air and I had to use it a lot for my programming and database course. I get much better battery life on OS x then windows. Not to mention windows looks horrible. Too Brite and aero – y (can’t think of another word for it) I like metro ui a lot on windows phone 7 but aero is horrible on windows 7. Windows 8 does look a little better but mostly just when using metro and you have to always switch back. It is kind of annoying having to switch between the two for different work flows. I prefer Mac OS x way over windows and would 100% dump windows if I didn’t need it sometimes for school.

Aren’t you kind of being fanboish youRself by not buying apple products just because of some (a very small number) of very pompous apple users? I myself have seen it for every platform of you think apple users are any worse than say windows or android users then you are very wrong. I myself have a mixture of all products. Ive always preferred apple MacBooks I have both a 2011 pro and 2011 11 inch air, I have an iPhone 4s, galaxy nexus, and HTC trophy. I had a xoom and transformer prime which I dumped for the new iPad, an Xbox 360 for console and a ps vita for portable. The point is I use what I feel meets my needs and is the best product for my money. If I was to not buy a certain brand then I would be severely missing out on some great tech and innovation.

I have always loved HTC hardware in fact it has been by far my fav Android OEM since the best device ever, the HTC Nexus One, but this phone is awful. It looks great from the front and the One X is probably the best looking phone on the market (with the iPhone and Galaxy Nexus of course). The back of this phone is just ugly as all hell. Why would they do that?

You can play plenty of games on a MacBook dont be so dramatic

If I was in the market for a sub $300 tablet then I would def rather have an original iPad than a Kindle Fire or Nook. I mean they are all nice, but you get a lot more value out of an iPad than the other two.

The Verge is a tech site that delivers tech news. the Galaxy S 3 has been one of the most hyped phones to date. Why can’t you seem to undertsand that is why there are so many posts. also the reason apple has a lot of news is they are the industry leader and make a bunch of great products. Hey I know go ahead and drop your email and phone number in a reply and I’ll make sure I get it to the verge guys so they can ask you what you want to read about everyday before they start writing, k. /s

Thank god the Galaxy Nexus isn’t a “normal Samsung smartphone”

I know it. Why hasn’t someone (android or iOS or even 3rd party like swifttkey) thought about tht keyboard yet? I really want that in a keyboard it looks great. It’s nice to see BB actually innovate. I still think its much to late, but still competition is good for all of us.

Sense is still much better than TouchWiz and especially Blur. I will stick with my Galaxy Nexus and iPhone 4S but HTC has made most the right moves with the One line. Ill be watching for a Verizon One phone (and no not the Incredible although the first wAs one of the best android phones ever made, but since then Verizon and HTC seem to want to handicap the Incredible line something I just don’t understand, it’s almost as if they are trying to make every phone be just under the horrible atrocity that is the Motorola Razr lineup).

I know what you mean. I left ios years ago in favor of android because it had a closed file system. I just returned to ios with the iPad and Dropbox alone has completely filled the holes that kept ios from growing. IOS is so useful now because of Dropbox and its APIs that I got me a iPhone 4s as my secondary phone that I carry along side of my galaxy nexus. Apple is messing with something they shouldn’t. Dropbox has done a lot for the platform. If that goes away I won’t hesitate to leave again no matter how much I love my iPad and new iPhone. It just isn’t the same without being able to bring in your files and makes it much more of a pc than a multimedia cosumtion device.

The last month I have had this iPad has completely changed how I do my college work. I take notes with Notability (what a great application probably the best I have ever used and an absolute must for anyone that wants to use the iPad for school and notes), I use GoodReader for my text books and PDFs (also a must have application for school I carry all my books on one little iPad instead of a backpack full of books), I use iTunes U all the time for classes both for learning as a hobby and for classes I take where I need an extra little help and a different view, I use Evernote and Skitch for everything (don’t need an introduction), and use dropbox for everything file related. You take away Dropbox and its valuable APIs from this equation and all of these apps lose their appeal. Dropbox is the link the iPad needs.

I know that this article is only stating apple is having a problem with people upgrading their accounts without theme getting a piece of the pie, but it’s still scary none the less. The iPad has turned into my best friend I use it for everything and my poor 6 month old MacBook pro has which I used to take to class with me everyday just sits at home.

Can I score a link to that wallpaper? That is great very clean!

I don’t understand why one would take the time to write something like this. You know when you buy a skinned device that it is locked down. It might run an open OS, but the device itself is locked down. This is why a Nexus device will always be better than an OEM skinned device. When you buy a phone knowing that it has a skin why would you then rant about it not being completely open? HTC and others are in it for money they are a company and are driven by revenue. They dont make money from end users like us they make money from wireless providers. This happens and yet you expect these OEMs to cater to the end user especially when that means running custom ROMs where they cannot make revenue and then on top of that people that dont know what they are doing think they ruin their phone (or actually do ruin their phone) and take zero responsibility and call either the wireless provider or the OEM directly lying about what happened and then the phone has to be replaced and your surprised that they take measures to stop this?

Not being able to flash custom kernals is pretty big yet you say you can do anything else that any other phone on Android can do? That makes no sense.

I enjoyed reading your well written post and I agree with your statements. It is funny how we as humans will make something fact in our minds and then stand up for our decision in a product as if our lives depend on it, and all for a purchase that may or may not have been the best decision at just a small meaningless point in time. The point is next week a better device will be out and you will again start the ritual over in your mind of waiting, planning, purchasing, defending to the death, envying, and then doing it all over again.

You are right though brand loyalty limits choice and isn’t that one of the main weapons we use when attempting to cut down the competition and it’s customers that have purchased their products? It really all is very meaningless. If you have a product that meets your needs, you enjoy using, and performs admirably in your eyes why should put time in shaming others that may have made a different decision, but feel exactly the same?

Well, like I said great post I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and feel for your cause.

Na he is right to go with the Nexus. The One X has Sense and ICS (Vanilla ICS) is the star of the phone.

I disagree. The display on the Nexus is great and it is hard to tell the difference between the two. The iPhone is the better display though, but I would not recommend any skinned device over the Nexus. I would rather deal with a few less sub pixels than an OEM skin and I think most would agree. ICS is the star of the show when it comes to the Galaxy Nexus and it is head and shoulders above any Android phone on the market past and future until another Nexus device is released.

I guess it depends on which apps you use, but there are alot of apps you will only find on iOS that are excellent. They def have the attention of all the devs out there. On smartphone I do see what you mean though, Now on tablets there is no competition. Anything running Andr0id is not even in the same ball game as the iPAd.

its ok, but I will continue to use Dropbox only because it is integrated with so many applications and such.

marketing term or not the display on the iPhone 4S is nicer than the display on the Galaxy Nexus. I own both and I love the screen on my Galaxy Nexus, but the retina display on the iPhone has much better color reproduction and it is clearer when reading than the Nexus. I cant really see the problems with the pentile as the pixel density is so fine and yes the pixel density between the two phones is very little, but the quality is a completely different thing all together and people can see that.

this is actually a great idea and I wish I would have thought of it. You already know what you are getting with iOS give Android a spin. The Galaxy Nexus is a great phone and what makes it shine is the OS not the hardware (although the display is excellent). You wont find the experience you will get on the Nexus anywhere else on any Android phone as you have to deal with horrible skins. I would rather have Matias Duarte designing my OS than leave it up to some group of devs at HTC, Samsung, or especially Motorola.

You cant go wrong with either device they are both great and in my opinion the best on the market.

I’ll try and quickly give you a run down. I own both phones (on Verizon) and I feel that they are the best on the market. You really can’t go wrong with either one.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus – This is the only Android phone on the market I would consider at the moment, but that doesn’t mean that what I like is what everyone will. I personally don’t want anything to do with skinned Android devices as I have been burned to many times since picking up the Nexus One (best phone ever made IMHO) and now the Galaxy Nexus.

It’s a great device and is fast. The screen is one of the best on the market and really makes this devide shine. Not only is it up to par with the iPhone retina display, but it has a much larger 4.65 inch screen at 1280×720 display resolution. Android has finally become beautiful and ICS is great. It offers many more options than does iOS and paired with Android Beam and Google Wallet this device really seems future proof (well, if any phone on the market could be especially an Android one). The screen tech has been pushed to a point where I think it will level off and if any other manufacture does go better it would be really hard to tell. I mean the display is absolutely jaw dropping. Blacks are completely black and colors pop. The only problem with it is if you keep it at the auto brightness it looks really gray. Kick it up to bought half way and or install CyanogenMod 9 and it will really pop. I dont know if CM has done any tweaks to the display, but it sure seems they have.

Android is great and open you will be doing things with your phone you never thought could be done. It will one day get 4G LTE, but Sprints has a lot to prove before I would trust their LTE rollout especially after losing the partner they just did. Not only that, but their LTE will be at a much higher mhz than the 700 that Verizon and ATT do which means it might not have as great as building penetration. One good thing though is that it cant get much worse than the 3G connection they have now. The curved display is great and I love how it feels in the hand. It is light and thin and I cant explain it, but the device is absolutely a great looking device and the entire front is black. You cant tell where the screen ends until turning it on and with the Super AMOLED HD display it really pops. For once I am really liking a Samsung designed phone.

I have been really happy with it and have not had to many bad things to say, but the speaker on the phone is almost unusable. I mean it it is so quite it is to hard to use without headphones. The camera is horrible. I am not a huge fan of cameras on phones and prefer my DSLR, but this one isnt even good for little pictures here and there beyond just something to quickly post to twitter or Google+.

Apple iPhone 4S – I just got this phone after getting my new iPad and falling back in love with iOS after not owning one since the iPhone 3Gs (I had both the original iPhone and 3G before that). They have really done a lot with the OS, but I wont go to much into that as you are already using it.

What I will say is that the 4S is the best built device I have ever used. The build quality really is jaw dropping and it is a joy to use. The display is best in class, but it is a little small. The apps are much better than you will find on Android and no matter what anyone says Android is not getting any closer as you wont find apps like Infinity Blade 1 and 2, #sworcery, and Machinarium. The applications really make this device.

My favorite application and one that I really discounted when it was announced is Siri. It really is a gamechanger and I felt that for so long that what Android had was just as good, but I was wrong. The voice actions (or whatever they are called) on the Galaxy Nexus are nice, but Siri is in a league of it’s own. There is a reason that Google is not standing around and is rumored to be working on project Majel. They know that what they have will never compete with Siri. It really makes the device and I cant wait to see what Apple does with it.

Since using the iPhone 4S for the past 2 weeks and the new iPad since launch it really is hard to go back to the Galaxy Nexus. I mean it is fast, really fast and the most intuitive Android device that I have used, but it is no where as fluid as iOS. I mean you really notice it when using both of the devices side by side. I have both and carry both with me everyday. Right now the Galaxy Nexus is my main device and I have an unlimited 4G LTE Data package with it. The iPhone 4s took the place of my HTC Trophy, but to be honest when I am at home for the weekend and I am walking out the door I have been reaching for my iPhone 4S. That may be because it is newer and that may change, but as of now my Galaxy Nexus has mainly been used just for the mobile hotspot for my iPad as of the last couple weeks. I mean i wont be dumping it anytime soon as I love LTE too much and the larger screen, but then again I never saw me ever replacing my Galaxy Nexus with any device this year and have been 100% happy with it.

I know I said above that I am not a huge fan of cameras on smartphones, but the iPhone 4S has completely changed my mind. I am so very pleased with this camera and I now leave my little Nokia point and click that I carry in my bag when I am too lazy to use my DSLR. This camera is bar none the best one I have used on a phone and even most point and clicks. It is really great and I now use it a lot.

FINAL VERDICT:
If my long post hasnt helped well I’ll give you my opinion. Like I said it is a lot harder for me to drop 4G and a bigger screen than it is to drop Android (I cant believe I just said that as just a few weeks ago and for the past couple years I felt I would always use Android). However, if there is a phone to do it then it would be the iPhone 4S. I feel that the apps, camera, build quality, and Siri really make up for the missing LTE and larger screen. Really since I have an iPad now I dont use my smartphone as much as I used to so I wouldnt miss just carrying the iPhone and its smaller screen. It does its job very well and without problems. Paired with apps you wont find on another platform I would say the iPhone 4S has my vote for best phone on the market right now. Still, I have a hard time telling you that this would be my choice. I know that sounds awkward, but I guess it just matters to what you want in a phone. I guess since you are on Sprint and cant use LTE anyways I would say go with the 4S, but if you were on Verizon I would say the Nexus because LTE is that big of a game changer.

Chill out man if you don’t like it then just don’t read it or watch it.

Sell It and get ya a galaxy nexus or iPhone 4s. They are in my humbe opinion the only phones on the market worth getting right now (i know I have both of them) and luckily they are both on sprint.

You cant always look at price and if you do then you are missing out on premium products. It is much like cars. You can buy Honda or toyota and they will be fine, but there’s a reason millions of people pay premium for a BMW, Acura, Cadillac etc. The whole price argument when comparing products is a joke. All you have to do is look at the MacBook Pro or Air lineup to see what I’m talking about. They are premium. Made up of glass and aluminum. Not to mention the multitouch trackpad functions much better than anything on the market today. People do feel that it is tough to pay the “apple tax” but when you see the resell value and what you get for that price it is well worth it. No bloat ware, great displays, top of the line multitouch trackpad, ability to run Mac OS x and windows (if you really want. I did for awhile but it runs nothing like Mac OS x at least to me).

Anyways to the OP. I have felt the same about Apple products since getting my first iPod years ago. I quickly went out and purchased a Unibody Macbook (late 2008 the 13" aluminum MacBook wasn’t a pro it was the first aluminum unibody lineup), got me an iPhone 3G, and a Mac mini. I was in love. Two years later iOS started getting long in the tooth and I have never been devoted to just one brand as I feel one really misses out on some great innovation by becoming a fanboy. So January 2010 I sold my iPhone 3Gs (I upgraded my 3G) and bought the Nexus One. I fell in love with the device and to date it is still the best phone I have ever owned. I immediately was all about android and skipped the iPhone 4 entireley although I was a huge fan of that screen and loved the build quality (I bought my wife one and I have waited years for high pixel density screens) still I loved the options android offered. Over the next couple years I got the Samsung Captivate, Motorola Droid 1 and 2, HTC Droid Incredible (AMOLED), Motorola Droid X, sold the X two weeks later (hated Motorola after the OG Droid) got another HTC Droid Incredible (SLCD), HTC Thunderbolt, HTC Trophy (still have it as I love Windows Phone 7), and my daily driver the Samsung Galaxy Nexus . I also got the Motorola Xoom in February 2011 (on launch day) and Transformer Prime in December (also on launch). I had huge hopes for Android on tablets, but quickly wanted more.

During this time I always kept a MacBook and updated my unibody in September 2011 to the i5 13" with 8gb RAM, but this was my only Apple device in years that I had purchased since my iPhone 4s. Well in February 2011 I found myself wanting the iPad 2 but went with the Xoom instead mostly because it had a higher pixel density screen (ironic I know because the display on the Xoom was the worst display I have ever used much like most of the displays they have used in 2011 and now 2012 plus the iPad had the best in class display by far). Anyways I kept chasing specs and got me a Transformer Prime as I thought that honeycomb would run much better with quad core processor. I was wrong and even with ICS this tablet left me wanting much more. I told myself that if the iPad lineup got a retina display I would jump ship. Well it did and I sold my xoom in anticipation of it and was planning on keeping the Prime just so I would have a backup as I still felt that iOS was boring. I was wrong the new iPad completely surprised me. It is my go to device for everything and I bring it with me everywhere. Being a student it is a life saver. The display is the best I have ever seen on a device and iOS was not only usable but apple has made some great changes in the pas couple years. The holes that used to be in ios are completely gone and the ones that remain like a closed file system are completely a non factor thanks to apps like Dropbox and its open APIs. The apps are head and shoulders much better than the apps on android and the OS is a million times more fluid and useful. Not to mention the tablet optimized applications completely change the tablet game. I sold my Prime the other day as I have used it 0 times sine getting my new iPad and I felt someone else could enjoy it. I not only loved the iPad but I also picked up a brand new iPhone 4s to take the place of my HTC Trophy on my second line, but I have now found myself not even using my Galaxy Nexus which as of a couple weeks ago I felt 100% sure I would not replace this year for anything. Even with the smaller screen, no 4G, and closed OS the iPhone in my opinion is still the best phone on the market tied with the GAlaxy nexus. I only recommend these two phones to people.

I am blown away by the build quality on my iPhone 4s and new iPad. They are beautiful devices and every little detail even down to the packaging just screams premium apple has really got their stuff right. You are right as more and more peoples contracts are up and dealing with the many problems that arise from android phones especially the skinned ones apple will find more and more people will get iPhones. There is a reason that apple just had their biggest quarter ever and even Half of the phones sold on Verizon last quarter were iPhones despite Verizon having arguably the best three android phones ever released all at the same time. It is amazing and it will only go up from here.

Sorry this is so long I just felt I would share my experience as of late and coming from someone that just a year ago would have said that I would never buy another iOS device again because of how nice android is. With that being said google has a huge challenge on their hands as companies like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola are driving android into the ground by releasing literally dozens of phones a year and flooding the market with horrible buggy skins filled with bloat ware. Apple is doing it right and people should give it a shot as they are really missing out on some top of the line and market quality products.