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Apple are bound to get more hate given their stature though. EA get the same for games but to be fair both companies offer a pay more get less outlook.
Examples being the obvious one up first: iPhone 6 is beaten on specs by every other major phone on the market. Anything in the same spec range as the iPhone costs less. EA example. Sims 4 has less features than the Sims 3 but costs are more and is touted about as a new game. I don't care how awesome it sells because the majority of hate is generated from the pay more get less scenario. For their original and existing fan base this is fine but for anyone buying a new smartphone they don't really offer much incentive for you to choose their product when they can have something more for less money. That's my annoyance at Apple. As for other products not receiving hate when something goes wrong. Check out the reaction people had when their galaxy s4 batteries swelled or how the microphone on the new HTC One M8 is constantly having problems including my own. |
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I've got to admit some of these are funny. Especially the Dali Edition.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-rages-on.html |
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Don't worry, Apple says bent iPhones are rare. Maybe that'll mean they'll be valuable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29371113 |
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Samsung's marketing machine did a fantastic job of keeping quiet the fact that the S4 also bends....although I guess nobody decided it was a problem until it happened to Apple.
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Maybe that's because it's acceptable for a Samsung? :D
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Maybe at this point they'll concede that their phones are getting either too thin for the material used.. or that the phones are too thin period.
I have an enormous house brick sized thick phone (Sony Z3 compact) at 8.6mm and that feels too thin, it won't bend though as it's not made of tin foil I mean aluminium... Apple are getting slated for their el crappo battery capacity now, with experts asking why the battery capacity is so low, in order to have phones so thin that they now bend on top of crappy battery life. GSMArena who are normally quite pro apple, gave it a real slating in their comprehensive review. I'll give you a small taste, you can read the whole thing below. Quote:
I think finally, the world is waking up to the fact that with Jobs gone Apple is just another overpriced, feature lagging hyped product, now there ARE better products out there, in short the kool-aid has worn off, and you know what? it's long overdue. Oh yes, they also royally screwed up their IOS 8 update too to add insult to injury lol |
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Not really, it's still lagging a good 10hrs Endurance behind all the other (older) flagships)
My not sound like much, but considering they're all averaging 70 hrs, that's fairly marked. All info available from here : http://www.gsmarena.com/ Select your make & model from the sidebar, then go through the reviews. S5: 72 hrs Endurance (Apr) LG G3: 69 hrs Endurance (Jun) HTC one M8: 71 hrs Endurance (Mar) These are all from the Spring launches so slightly older tech... ----- iPhone 6: 61 hrs Endurance (Sept) Sony Z3: 85 hrs Endurance (Sept) Sony Z3 Compact: 101 hrs Endurance (Sept) Equivalent sized screen, slightly smaller body due to more efficient use of bezels The only one I'll give you as 'beating' is this. Moto X 2014: 48 hrs Endurance (Sept) So well done, you beat one flagship out of 6 (and 3 of those were last seasons tech) go Apple! |
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The iPhone 6 hasn't got battery life to write home about but neither does it seem especially poor either. It's just average. The iPhone 6 Plus seems to have great battery life. You could look at the performance table on that site and the iPhone outperforms almost all of those flagships: http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone...iew-1141p5.php None of this matters too much to people anyway. People like the advice because of the look and feel of the hardware and software and if you like iOS then this seems like a solid upgrade. Especially when developers start making use of the additional features like handoff. I never understand why people have just animosity for a product. You don't have to buy an iPhone but clearly there are a lot of people who whom this device is well suited. The reviews aren't slating Apple either despite your assertion that they are. The GSMArena one is cautiously positive, Ars Technica is mostly positive, AnandTech is also quite positive. Overall the iPhone has been well received. Personally as an Android user and a former iPhone user I am always interested to see what Apple does. They always have nice feeling hardware and smooth software. iOS is still better than Android in terms of usage and UI as far as I am concerned and their hardware is often interesting, especially their dedicated chipsets. They've moved to 64 bit already and the gradual approach to this is interesting. As is stuff like Touch ID and Apple Pay. |
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I'm sure this has been discusssed before but for those that dont know, if you are the owner of an iPhone 5, check to see if yours is part of the battery replacement program as there are a few with dodgy batteries. Mine is one of them.
https://www.apple.com/uk/support/iphone5-battery/ |
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