I am now grateful to Apple, because if they hadn't made such a POS phone, my wife wouldn't want to head out today and exchange the clunky 5 for the S3. Of course, Samsung deserves credit for making such an awesome phone to begin with, that we even have this option.
My wife loved her iPhone 4, but sold it 2 months ago in anticipation of getting the 5. So, I had my old Galaxy S2 laying around and she began using that. I bought the S3 via pre-ordered, so she has seen what I have done with it since June. In other words, she knows the S3 is good, its light and has an easy to read screen. The S2 was just her entry into Android. Not the best phone but I installed ICS on it, so it had all the features.
Flash forward to a few days back and we pre-order the iphone 5 for her and it comes in the mail via FedEX. Box is in perfect condition, so no abuse occurred during shipment. We open everything up, unbox the phone and first thing we notice is an oil or liquid stain burned into the back plate. Then a knick on the side plate. And then a couple of scratches. She is pissed, but figures she will have it all covered anyway, so she can live with those issues.
She proceeds to set the phone up without using her iMac and itunes, but then decided she wants to move all the photos from the S2 over to the iphone. So she plugs in the S2, clicks and drags all the photos to a folder on the desktop, no problem. Plugs the iphone into the iMac and drags all the photos to itunes from the desktop and just like that, entire phone gets reset to factory settings. That sucked, but not a big deal, since there wasnt much on the phone yet. She applies her last backup from a couple's months back and rest of the installation goes smoothly.
So now she has the phone set up and apps loaded and begins using her iPhone for the next 24 hours. We both find lag in scrolling down long lists with graphics, touch sensitivity is not as good as the iphone 4 and no where close to the S3 and she is now making comments about trying to read on such a tiny screen and that she misses the 'back' button. I told you so, is the phrasing my mind is thinking of, but instead ask her what she wants to do? She says she wants an S3. I said, let's go to at&t. And we lived happily ever after. So scratch one iphone sale and add another to Samsung's S3 tally.
Thank you Apple for showing the world why you have chosen to litigate over innovate. I would have as well, if I knew I was putting out a junk iphone. Maps was kind of the icing on the cake. I hope Apple loses a ton of customers and it stock price plummets. They need that chip knocked off their shoulder.
My wife loved her iPhone 4, but sold it 2 months ago in anticipation of getting the 5. So, I had my old Galaxy S2 laying around and she began using that. I bought the S3 via pre-ordered, so she has seen what I have done with it since June. In other words, she knows the S3 is good, its light and has an easy to read screen. The S2 was just her entry into Android. Not the best phone but I installed ICS on it, so it had all the features.
Flash forward to a few days back and we pre-order the iphone 5 for her and it comes in the mail via FedEX. Box is in perfect condition, so no abuse occurred during shipment. We open everything up, unbox the phone and first thing we notice is an oil or liquid stain burned into the back plate. Then a knick on the side plate. And then a couple of scratches. She is pissed, but figures she will have it all covered anyway, so she can live with those issues.
She proceeds to set the phone up without using her iMac and itunes, but then decided she wants to move all the photos from the S2 over to the iphone. So she plugs in the S2, clicks and drags all the photos to a folder on the desktop, no problem. Plugs the iphone into the iMac and drags all the photos to itunes from the desktop and just like that, entire phone gets reset to factory settings. That sucked, but not a big deal, since there wasnt much on the phone yet. She applies her last backup from a couple's months back and rest of the installation goes smoothly.
So now she has the phone set up and apps loaded and begins using her iPhone for the next 24 hours. We both find lag in scrolling down long lists with graphics, touch sensitivity is not as good as the iphone 4 and no where close to the S3 and she is now making comments about trying to read on such a tiny screen and that she misses the 'back' button. I told you so, is the phrasing my mind is thinking of, but instead ask her what she wants to do? She says she wants an S3. I said, let's go to at&t. And we lived happily ever after. So scratch one iphone sale and add another to Samsung's S3 tally.
Thank you Apple for showing the world why you have chosen to litigate over innovate. I would have as well, if I knew I was putting out a junk iphone. Maps was kind of the icing on the cake. I hope Apple loses a ton of customers and it stock price plummets. They need that chip knocked off their shoulder.
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